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Linux Mint 12 uses the same installation program as Ubuntu and other distributions derived from Ubuntu. That means you can use a disk partitioning guide written for Linux Mint 11 for Linux Mint 12. So, if you are looking for a disk partitioning guide for Linux Mint 12, this tutorial should be all you need.
By default, the installation program for Ubuntu 11.10 creates two partitions; one for the root file system, and the other for Swap. And this is true whether you use the Ubuntu Desktop or Ubuntu Desktop Alternate Installer. The latter has support for LVM, RAID and disk encryption. So, what, or how many partitions are recommended [...]
A significant percentage of iPhone owners likely use their expensive toy a lot more than they do their traditional computer(s), which means it probably holds more of their personal and sensitive data than their PC. A small, but rich target for hackers? You bet! What should you do then? Protect it like you would a [...]
Unlike Ubuntu 11.04, which came with one guest account that you could only access from an active session by default, and which you can disable by un-installing a single package, Ubuntu 11.10 comes with two Guest Sessions enabled; one from the login screen and the other from an active user session. But the Guest Sessions [...]
If you intend to participate in a peaceful display of being pissed off about something, and you are bringing your cell phone along, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a guide for you and your friends. Whether it’s the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests, Occupy [insert your city], or any of the popular uprisings in [...]
Ubuntu 11.10 is the latest stable release of the popular Linux distribution. While it is new, the installer did not change; it is still the same as the one on Ubuntu 11.04, the previous stable release. So if you are looking for a tutorial on how to dual-boot it and Windows 7, you might want [...]
Ubuntu 11.10, the latest stable release of the popular Linux distribution, has just been released. Some screenshots have already been posted here. If you are new to Linux and need some hand-holding creating custom partitions for your new installation (of Ubuntu 11.10), the first thing you should know is that the installer in this new [...]
A new Android phishing scheme posing as an unofficial Netflix app has been discovered outside of the official Android Market. The app asks for users’ Netflix usernames and passwords and sends them to a phishing server. The app was not posted to the Android Market, so the risk for most users is quite low. The [...]
When you download an app on your phone, do you read the permissions? Do you know what permissions are? We recently asked our Facebook fans (a pretty security savvy group of people) this question and 46% of the 838 survey respondents said “no.” When downloading apps, users are often in a hurry to install and [...]
If you have a smartphone, which should be almost everybody reading this, and you have not set a password or pin to protect the data stored on it, the folks from Lookout, a security outfit based in San Francisco, California USA, have published the steps that you may take to guard access to the data [...]
Within the past four months, a couple of very close friends lost their smartphones. The phones were not stolen, just misplaced – in a public space my friends could not recall where. Worst part is, neither phone was backed up, which meant that my friends had to start their mobile life from scratch. Considering the [...]
Linux Mint 11 LXDE, a recently released edition of Linux Mint, is one of a handful of distributions that does not come with a screen resolution switcher installed. Several are in the repository, but they are not installed. This short tutorial will show you how to install and use them. You do not have to [...]
Kaptan is the “welcome” application of Pardus, a Linux desktop distribution developed and maintained by the Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), an arm of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). It is a user-friendly, point-and-click application designed to help you configure some basic settings of the Pardus desktop, [...]
Autologin, auto-login or automatic login is one of those features of an operating system that I normally do not recommend. And the reason is obvious: If you can autologin, so can anyone with physical access to your computer. Another reason is, with time, there is a tendency that you will forget your password, assuming you [...]
