Change Screen Resolution of Ubuntu 12.10 Server Running on Oracle Virtual Box

Hello, I was having problem of changing the resolution of the console of Ubuntu 12.10 Server (64bit) version, running on Oracle Virtualbox environment. First I installed Virtualbox guest additions using the following command. #apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso But I still couldn't change...

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Disable Guest Account on Ubuntu 12.10

I wanted to disable the "Guest" account on Ubuntu 12.10. A guest account allows anyone to use the computer without login credentials. No username or password is required.  Ubuntu has a guest account enabled by default right through to the current release, Ubuntu 12.10. To disable the guest account...

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Installing NFS Services on Ubuntu 12.10

The services required to enable NFS folder sharing are not installed by default on Ubuntu. They can easily be installed, however, by opening a terminal window and entering the following command:#sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-serverThe installation process should automatically start the NFS service....

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Ubuntu 12.10 - Wifi Network was not Deteceted

I was experiencing a problem in configuring a Toshiba laptop for wireless access. It did not identified avaialable wireless networks. First to check the available PCI devices, I used the below command "lspci". lspci is a utility for displaying information about PCI buses in the system and devices connected...

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Usefull SVN Commands

$svn help  Provides a summary of the available commands. Available subcommands:     add   blame (praise, annotate, ann)   cat   changelist (cl)   checkout (co)   cleanup   commit (ci)   copy (cp)   delete...

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IP Tables with Ubuntu

Iptables is a firewall, installed by default on all official Ubuntu distributions (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu). Default Configurations When you install Ubuntu, iptables is there, but it allows all traffic by default. List your current iptables configuration Please...

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How to enable .htaccess

In general, you should never use .htaccess files unless you don't have access to the main server configuration file. .htaccess files should be used in a case where the content providers need to make configuration changes to the server on a per-directory basis, but do not have root access on the server...

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