Setting a static IP in Ubuntu is useful for a lot of things. You may want to forward ports from your router to serve web pages, use SSH from outside your local network or set up some sort of media server.
These instructions have been tested and confirmed with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but should be fine on other versions.
dd is a low level copy/convert program used to copy content byte for byte. Personally I have used this during disk cloning, which often involves a lot of data.
From the moment you press enter on your dd command, you have no feedback whatsoever until the command succeeds or fails. Which often leads to this feeling…
Duplicated UUID’s can be a big problem on your machine. But luckily it is easy to change the UUID of a Linux partition and can be done in roughly 1-2 minutes!
The UUID of a Linux partition is the Universally Unique IDentifier of that partition. I would say with a fair bit of confidence that in this and most scenarios, the Linux partition UUID has more of a local machine scope.
Ignoring broken packages in Ubuntu or any other distribution of Linux using Aptitude package manager would usually be a bad thing and it’s not recommended. Maintaining a system of broken packages kind of defeats the object.
BUT, I recently came across a situation where I had to install a 32bit version of Chrome on my 64bit Ubuntu.
DNS Servers are like phone books, they translate the the readable name of www.google.com to the IP of 173.194.41.131. In short, the quicker your DNS servers, the quicker the initial lookup/connection to the website…. check out namebench to find the fastest DNS servers for you!
I recently updated my home machine to Ubuntu 12.04 and found MySQL 5.5 installed as default. As happy as I was to have the latest stable MySQL server, I was a bit gutted to find that LOAD DATA LOCAL was disabled as default, due to security issues. These issues may be valid but this is my local environment and I’ve got projects that require it so thought I’d waste utilize some free time fixing it.
Install LAMP Server – Ubuntu: The command we’re all after….
Install LAMP Server on Ubuntu?
A few complex packages but all (bar linux!) can be installed with one command and then following the on-screen instructions:
(NOTE: All the commands here need to be typed into a terminal, open one by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T.)
This is a problem that could come across quite often. How to replace text in multiple files at once?
If you are running a UNIX system you are lucky: with a simple BASH script you can achieve this.
I recently posted an answer on askubuntu regarding the LightDM resolution settings. I thought it would be best to bring it over here and maybe explain things a bit better.
Dual monitor settings in Ubuntu are clumsy at best. I have tried set ups on numerous machines and I find the most reliable method is to change the monitors.xml file. For more information on monitors.xml, check out the Ubuntu Wiki on Resolutions.