You may find several instructions to autostart synergyc during login and after login. I had a hard time using them. Additionally I found the instructions to be redundant and based on incomplete inderstanding of how gdm works. The following is the simplest set of instructions you can find anywhere to autostart synergyc on Fedora / CentOS / RHEL etc.

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Now you have an easy-to-use tool for installing Ubuntu linux into your PCs without disturbing your Windows installation. One of the latest releases by Ubuntu, Wubi can do it for you. With Wubi you can install or uninstall Ubuntu on Windows. This application will enable installation of Linux on the Windows partitions, and that even in a single folder. That implies you don't need partitioning for installation. Wubi can run as a Windows application. The installation can be accomplished without re-partitioning of the drive and there is no risk for wiping out of existing data. What's more, Wubi is free to download. So let's get on with the installation to make the mutt's nuts out of a dual-OS PC.

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Annoyed with heap of file which are consuming space in your trash bin and you can not do a thing about it? Every time you try to delete it from there, permissions violation errors generate. So what do you do? Will you keep it there ignoring anything? Well, I haave a solution for you.

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Don't call yourself an avid gamer if you've still not battled the Linux games. Often the dabblers ask whether they get as cool games for Linux as for Windows. Well, I don't bother even if Windows tries to scare me with Age of Empires III. I'll tell them about hundreds of Linux games  which are free to modify. So you can take a great game and make it even better. Anyway why should I waste my time and money on proprietary games when there are heaps of electrifying Linux games all for free. These are free to download and doesn't require the Wine to run.  Full article (214 words) »

File managers essentially manage your file systems. They provide you with an interface through which you can easily organize and manage the files. It is through these file managers that you create, open,edit, view , search the files on your hard drive. There are diverse file managers that you can use to manage your files in Linux. If you are looking for the top quality free file managers for LINUX, here yo go.

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Root login is perhaps one of the very few vulnerabilities that Linux operating system faces. A person can hack into your system as a root user easily and can play with security settings. This guide will show you how to disable it so you can still login as root but just not directly, reducing the security issue.

This will force a hacker to have to go through a double security checks where he will have to give 2 separate passwords to gain root access. What happens is you'll first need to login as your admin user in SSH, then switch to the super user with the su command to get root. It also forces the use of SSH protocol 2, which is a newer and more secure SSH protocol. This almost nullifies any chance of unauthorized access to your root account.

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All you have to do is run this simple one line command:

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm && yum -y install vlc python-vlc mozilla-vlc

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You probably know how you can format a Linux partition:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda

This formats the partition with ext3 file system. However did you know how to extract maximum space out of this partition, especially if it a large partition?

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Linux Bandwidth monitoring tools and this (better explanations) - Instead of apt-get use yum install for RedHat based systems like Fedora, CentOS and obviously RedHat.

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Have you ever searched scp manual for ways to append a file using it? scp is an excellent command to rapidly copy files and directories to / from a remote location. Unfortunately it is of no help when you just want to append a file over ssh connection. Here is a simple solution to append a file over ssh connection in either direction: Full article (104 words) »