Categories:

- System -

- HOW TO use terminal (beginners tips&tricks)

- HOW TO extract emc images to regular bin/cue image

- HOW TO move your system partition to larger (or equal) partition on new hard drive

- HOW TO remove partition shortcuts from desktop

- HOW TO backup and restore your system partition using partimage

- HOW TO install alternate display managers (KDE, XFCE, iceWM)

- HOW TO install or uninstall nVidia drivers

- HOW TO add entry to right click menu

- HOW TO start script at boot

- HOW TO change sound card

- HOW TO mount usb stick on windows in VMware

- HOW TO increase available space of your partitions - tune2fs

- HOW TO enable universe/multiverse repositories

- HOW TO merge bin files (bin.001, bin.002...)

- HOW TO create split rar archives

- HOW TO upgrade to 7.10 Gutsy (from 7.04 Feisty)

- HOW TO set Windows as default boot menu choice after installing Ubuntu

- HOW TO convert daa image to iso image

- HOW TO replace ATI with Nvidia graphic card on Ubuntu 7.04

- Internet -

- HOW TO use Google side by side with your p2p client

- HOW TO create additional Firefox profiles

- Video -

- HOW TO record what is happening on your desktop

- HOW TO import video from your MiniDV camera

- HOW TO cut clip from an avi video

- HOW TO shrink movies from your digital camera (or general all *.avi movies)

- Audio -

- HOW TO get mp3 file from youtube

- HOW TO record online radio stations to your HDD

- HOW TO shrink your mp3 files (i use this when transfering music to my cell phone)

- HOW TO convert flac to mp3 files

- HOW TO rip audio CD's to mp3

- HOW TO merge or split mp3 files

- HOW TO record audio streams

- Pictures -

- HOW TO create panoramic photo with Hugin

- HOW TO resize whole folder of pictures in a few seconds

- Other -

- List of everyday applications

- HOW TO create ISO images and burn ISO and AUDIO CD's from terminal

- HOW TO merge avi files

- HOW TO merge couple of pdf into one

- HOW TO moutn bin/cue, iso, mds, ccd and nrg files (Feisty)

HOW TO install Ubuntu - complete guide

List of everyday used applications (in process)

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HOW TO remove partition shortcuts from desktop

If you don't like having lots of shortcuts on your desktop you can easily delete them, but partition shortcuts can't be simply deleted. Here's what you need to do to remove them. Press Alt+F2and type:

gconf-editor
Next navigate to apps->nautilus->desktop and uncheck the volume visible:



You can reach your partitions by clicking on Places->Home Folder or pressing Alt+F2 and typing:

nautilus

They will be at the left side of the window.

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