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Enter password to unlock your login keyring

If you get this irritating pop-up all the time, go to programs and type “Password” a program utility called “Password and keys” will be displayed. Right click on the displayed item called “Login”. This will ask for the old and new password. If you have not changed your user password, just enter the 


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Find and delete files

find . -type f -iname “file(s)-to-delete” -exec rm -f {} ; The -iname makes it case insensitive, otherwise use -name. Of course you can also move them to say /tmp rather than deleting find . -type f -iname “file(s)-to-delete” -exec mv {} /tmp/ ;

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Change to Fedora 17

Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04 server only to find that the samba server was horribly slow. I replaced it with Fedora 15 and it runs like a train. Yes, I know 15 is an old version but for a production site you don’t want the latest bugs. Also, howtoforge has a stunningly good article on how to 


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Window 8? Think again!

Planning to buy a computer with a Windows 8 sticker, think again! Microsoft has said that Windows 8 will ship with a so-called UEFI Secure Boot, a replacement of the old BIOS. This will hurt Linux distributions that don’t have the resources to sign everything to meet Microsoft’s unilaterally imposed 


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Strip HTML code

Use the sed terminal command with an input file called say test.html sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' input.html if you want to save the output just do the following sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' input.html > output.txt

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