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Have you ever experienced forgetting the Windows login password? If you have, or may often experience it, so here are ways to overcome these problems by using the Ubuntu Linux operating system. The first step we need to do is create a Live CD or Live USB stick with Ubuntu Linux OS. OS Ubuntu Live [...]

Windows 7′s XP Mode, part of the Windows Virtual PC, allows you to run a separate version of XP inside the newer OS. The Virtual PC comes as a free but very large download (after all, it contains a complete copy of XP) that works in the Professional and Ultimate editions of Windows 7. If [...]

Canonical has released Ubuntu 10:10 for netbooks, desktops and servers. And reportedly for version netbook, Ubuntu will be equipped with touch screen feature with a new look called Unity. Reporting from HotHardware, this Unity view was specifically designed for netbooks. With this, Unity over simplify the options on the display in Ubuntu become the icons [...]

Besides its success on the desktop, Ubuntu has become a popular server distribution as well. With the release of Hardy Heron 8.04, Canonical is making this release a Long Term Support (LTS) version, with 5 years support on servers. Many hosting companies offering dedicted and virtual private servers (VPS) offer Ubuntu as an option. That [...]

Nmap (Network Mapper) is a security scanner originally written by Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich) used to discover hosts and services on a computer network, thus creating a “map” of the network. Nmap runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, HP-UX and BSD variants (including Mac OS X), and also on AmigaOS [...]

The latest version of Ubuntu (10.04 Lucid) comes with a plymouth theme that allows more cool and animated screen to be displayed during boot up. While this is a great improvement, it also means that all the previous method of setting your own boot screen and login screen is no longer valid. For those who [...]