In the latest versions of Ubuntu, they tend to have the default theme set to have the close, minimise and maximise options on the left hand side of the screen. To change this simply go to the gconf-editor (Alt + F2 – “gconf-editor“) Then change apps->metacity->general->button_layout to have the colon at the front instead of [...]

If you are having probalems with your fresh install of Fedora 13 and it says soemthing about first boot. Then give this ago it disables the first boot script “chkconfig –levels 35 firstboot off“, although I did have to manualy create my user account “useradd username” and then set the password “passwd username” See ya [...]

I changed my user name on one of my Linux computers that was fine “usermod -l login-name old-name“. I though that was that. Then when I rebooted I found that it was no over! I was unable to login because my home directory was under a diffrent name 0_o “DOOOOOOMM” I instantly thought. Well fear [...]

Its never there when you want it, but all ways there when you don’t. Right click open location in terminal, this is a very useful feature and saves loads of time. To install it in Ubuntu and probably any other distribution that uses nautilus, install the package “nautilus-open-terminal” sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal su -c ‘yum [...]