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About sherly

I am Sherly, living in the city of Alappuzha, which known as the 'Venice of the East'.

How do transfer files with FTP?

You’ll need to set up an FTP tool by entering your FTP account settings.Once your tool is set up, you can FTP files the same way you move files around on your computer! 1. Connect to your account. To get


How to diskless boot a Linux machine

Diskless booting implies that a client computer does not have any disk storage when booting an operating system. In that case, the computer can load the kernel as well as the root filesystem from a remote NFS server over network.


Installation of Xdotool on Linux

For Ubuntu, Debian or Linux Mint, you can just do: For Fedora, use yum command: For CentOS user, the package is available in EPEL repo. After enabling EPEL repo, simply use yum command as above. For Arch user, the package


How to automatically run a script when logging into Ubuntu Desktop

There are circumstances where you wish to have a script run automatically when you log in to Ubuntu Desktop. Such a script can configure various user-specific or system-wide settings on your Ubuntu system, upon user’s desktop login. In Linux, there


How to manage a wired network on Ubuntu Desktop

Ubuntu Desktop, a separate GUI program called NetworkManager is responsible for configuring network settings (e.g., wired network, wireless network, proxy settings). However, on a fresh installation of Ubuntu Desktop, your wired network is NOT managed by NetworkManager. So if you


How to Ubuntu Linux Kernel Version Command

Ubuntu Linux you can use the following commands to find out the information about the Linux kernel and Ubuntu release: 1. uname command – Display name and information about current kernel. 2. /proc/version file – Same as uname command. 3.


Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS CD / DVD ISO

Ubuntu Linux version 14.04 LTS has been released and available for download. Ubuntu Linux is a community-based Linux distribution. The latest release of Ubuntu brings the best open source technologies together on one platform, with the benefit of free updates


How to compile the Linux kernel on Debian or Ubuntu

You may want to add driver support for devices which are not recognized by the generic kernel shipped with Linux distros. You may want to optimize the kernel for your hardware, tweak performance tuning options, or turn on or off


How to take screenshot while desktop menu is open on Ubuntu

On Ubuntu Desktop, you can take a screenshot simply by pressing “Print Screen” key. By default, the key is set to trigger gnome-screenshot program to capture current desktop screen. However, if you attempt to take a screenshot while any Unity


How to convert image, audio and video formats on Ubuntu

A variety of image, audio and video files encoded in all sorts of different formats,Format Junkie is one such all-in-one media conversion tool with an extremely user-friendly GUI. Better yet, it is free software! With Format Junkie, you can convert