I was looking to split my Debian desktop screen, tile my windows the way I want. Here is how I got it done.

Launch Windows Manager, click on Keyboard-Tab,

Scroll down via the 'Action' column to the "Tile Window" settings.

To set the "ShortCut setting", double click on each Action and Press your shortcut key-combination.

Window Manager(before)

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Windows Manager (after)

Note: Control+Super+Left....where Super is the Windows-Key

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Here is my desktop view: firefox on the left and chrome on

After installing a Guest-OS, I tried to increase the screen-resolution(using the arrow key at the lower-right corner of the virtual-box guest OS screen)... to fit into my host. Here is a screenshot of the error I got:

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A little googling around and I found a nifty command that solved the issue:

Log into the Guest-OS, and as root, use this:

command: apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms

Blogdesk is my tool of choice for updating my many blogs. Today, I get the error below:

An error occured while uploading the Post.
Error uploading images
XML Parser has reported a WININET.dll error, description is:12029 - A connection with the server could not be established.

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A little troubleshooting: I found out that I had browser proxy settings configured in Internet Explorer. Removing this and using IEs default setting partially solved the problem.

Other information I found online

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Download Cisco Packet Tracer into a directory. Packet tracer6.3 for both Windows & Linux is available here: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~kotfid/packettracer/

Unpack the file into a directory of your choice.
command: tar -zxvf PacketTracer63_linux.tar.gz

'cd' into the directory(cpt63 - for example)

command: chmod +x /cpt63

command: ./install

First prompt: do you accept the terms of the EULA? (Y/N)
- type 'Yes' and then press Enter-key

Another prompt will appea regarding the location to install

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A very easy way to get your virtual machine environment up and running is via pre-configured images. VirtualBox supports images of a hard disk.

OSBOXES provides freely downloadable images of almost all linux distros, which can be easily imported into VirtualBox.

1) Download your preferred OSBOX image from here:
https://www.osboxes.org/virtualbox-images/

In this tutorial, I downloaded Ubuntu Server 16.04.5(32-bit) from here: https://www.osboxes.org/ubuntu-server/

2) Unpack the image file: a

I just installed Google Earth on my Debian desktop.

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PROCEDURE

1) download google earth for i386 and place in a directory of your choice:
command: wget https://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb

2) unpack and install
command: dpkg -i google-earth-stable*.deb

Selecting previously unselected package google-earth-pro-stable.
(Reading database ... 244286 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb

install firefox with weasel in debian

 

Install firefox without removing Iceweasel:

download firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/#download-fx
uncompress it: tar -xjf firefox-39.0.tar.bz2
move the uncompressed folder to a directory of your choice.
create a launcher to "firefox"
thus you have Firefox and Iceweasel running at the same time.

In this tutorial, I'll try to explain how to setup an Ubuntu 16.04 server as a DHCP server. In simple terms, your ubuntu server can provide / lease out IP-addresses to other clients(computers in your LAN).

1) Initial setup:
I am newly setting up this server, so I have to setup my IP-address, hostname, FQDN, etc. These are explained in this tutorial: Ubuntu Server-16: how to properly set hostname, domain name and FQDN

2) Install dhcp-server package: sudo apt-get install isc-dhcp-server

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I am setting up a new Linux Server, and the following are the commands I used to upgrade the 16.04 Xenial to 17.10 Artful

After Ubuntu 16.04 installation, setting up the interface cards for internet access, etc.

before the upgrade:

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In root mode, and at terminal:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Make sure you have update-manager-core package installed:

apt-get install update-manager-core

Next, lets edit the config file below. I use nano. Use your favorite command line text

So your linux hard disk is full and you are wondering how to know where the files that have filled your disk are.

Welcome Ncdu!!!

Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.

Head on to the NCurses Disk Usage website

Installation:

  • I installed it via Synaptic Package Mangager
  • apt-get install ncdu

Usage:

  • type ncdu on terminal

Its so cool, it pastes your hard disk usage right on your face. It is fast and I think I just find another must have tool for my Debian