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How to Check Broken Links of a Website using LinkChecker on Ubuntu

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Tom

LinkChecker is a free, GPL licensed website validator and it checks links in web documents or full websites directly from your desktop. It works in Windows, Mac and Linux. To install LinkChecker on Ubuntu download the following 2 files from

How to Automatically Take Screenshots in Ubuntu at Regular Interval

Posted on July 6, 2013 by Tom

It is easy to take screenshots in Ubuntu by using the “Print Screen” button on your keyboard. If you want the system to take a screenshot automatically at a regular interval, here is a quick way. Installing scrot The tool

How to Recover / Re-Install Ubuntu GRUB using Boot-Repair

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Tom

Boot Repair is the simple graphical tool used to repair, restore or reinstall the grub bootloader on Ubuntu. When you install Windows after Ubuntu your Ubuntu will not boot anymore and its grub may be wiped out. To restore it

How to View CPU Info in Ubuntu (CPU-Z Alternative For Linux)

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Tom

In Windows, there is the popular CPU-Z application that allows you to view information about your CPU and hardware. But what if you are using Linux? CPU-Z doesn’t work in Linux, so how can you obtain the same CPU info

How to Record Terminal Session in Ubuntu

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Tom

If you are a frequent terminal user, you may come across situations where you need to debug the code or copy the output of a script for future reference. For such cases, you may want to record the terminal session

How to Disable Error Reporting In Ubuntu 13.04

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Tom

The first release version of every edition has mostly been unstable. During the first few weeks after installing or upgrading to the newest version, you’ll frequently get ‘Sorry, Ubuntu xx.xx has experienced an internal error’ and wants to you to

Installing and Configuring phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 13.04

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Tom

phpMyAdmin uses PHP and Apache to manage databases. It’s the most popular database management tool. To install and use it in Ubuntu, run the commands below. It requires Apache as well as PHP so make sure those packages are installed.

How to Install PostgreSQL 9.2 on Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Server

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Tom

PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) available for many platforms including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an

Redirect users to Mobile Version or Desktop Version of Websites Based on Device using Apache mod_rewrite

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Tom

Since the massive rise of smartphones and tablets like the iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, BlackBerries, etc. you might have considered creating a mobile version of your web site. This tutorial explains how to configure Apache to serve the

How to Install Linux Kernel 3.4.0 on Ubuntu 12.04/11.10

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Tom

The first stable version of Linux Kernel 3.4 has been released few days ago. This tutorial shows how to install the linux kernel 3.4.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10. There’re two ways: installing the .deb packages and using the repositories