Category Archives: Ubuntu

Adding “Open in Terminal” to the GNOME Context Menu

Posted on June 3, 2011 by kishanthan

This feature was a fantastic that saved me a lot of time, Sometimes you might have wanted to open a folder in a terminal without cd’ing from the start in a terminal. Here is how it can be done. There … Continue reading →

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How to auto mount NTFS partition at startup in Ubuntu?

Posted on November 25, 2010 by kishanthan

Go to the following post, http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6482350&postcount=7

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Stop blinking wifi led indicator

Posted on November 24, 2010 by kishanthan

I was recently faced with this strange problem. The wifi led started to blink (blue and orange) even after a wireless connection was made. After searching and finding i got the solution for this. 1. Open a terminal and type the following: sudo … Continue reading →

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Run Apache mvn (maven2) behind proxy

Posted on November 13, 2010 by kishanthan

If you want to use maven2(mvn) behind a proxy then you have to do the following. 1. Go to settings.xml file which is located in /etc/maven2 sudo gedit /etc/maven2/settings.xml 2. Edit the file according to your proxy settings appropriate values. … Continue reading →

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