Mplayer is arguably the most powerful media player for Linux, but unlike VLC , it lacks an intuitive and powerful configuration GUI (though...

Ubuntu by default has the hibernation option disabled , even if the system is installed with enough swap space. Before enabling it, first ...

A small but annoying bug in Ubuntu causes the sound volume to be unmuted and reset to 100% after a reboot or logout. This can be fixed by...

To convert a putty - generated PPK key  to the OpenSSH format, you can use puttygen : puttygen MY_PPK_KEY.ppk -O private-openssh -o MY_Op...

To share a USB mobile broadband connection between the host and guest OSs with VMware Player, simply set the guest OS network interface to u...

When testing a connection, you'll probably want to check if a particular port is reachable on the destination host. Telnet is fine enou...

VmWare allows you to specify how the guest system handles swapping to the host disk. Much like Linux's swappiness value, you can sugges...