How to Install Firefox using tarHow to Install Firefox using tar.bz file? Manual instllation on Ubuntu LInux

1.Download firefox-5.0.1.tar.bz2 file.
2.Extract the File(just right click and select Extract here)
3. Move the folder to your Home folder(/home).  Just cut and paste inside your  home folder.

VirtualBox 4.1 Final for Linux Released

VirtualBox 4.1 final is released for Linux. It is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

* Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see the manual for more information): full clones can be created through the GUI and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage
* GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks
* GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks
* GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only; bug #7822)
* VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB
* Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see the manual for more information
* Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode anymore)
* Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be queried separately by the frontends
* Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately distributable virtual network implementations
* Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
* New Networking Mode UDP Tunnel: allows to interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently, see the manual for more information
* Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available with VBoxManage
* Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for Solaris 11 build 159 and ab
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About VirtualBox

VirtualBox is the most popular virtualization software, now owned by Oracle after it bought Sun Microsystems. It works on all major 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and supports a large number of guest operating systems.

Oracle VM VirtualBox allows users to create "virtual machines" in their host operating system so that they can install any guest OS, facilitating the development, cross-platform running and testing of multi-tier applications on a single computer.

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Banner Text Effect in Linux using Terminal? Ubuntu Tricks

Hi , this is funny Linux trick. if you give string, it will give banner text effect depending on the string.

[Fixed]No init found try passing init= bootarg | Ubuntu Inside Windows Booting Problem

I installed in ubuntu inside Windows XP.  It works perfectly for 2 months.  Recently I met with this problem:

mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /dev on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: no such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
No init fount. Try passing init= bootarg.

How to Clear/Flush DNS cache in Linux/Windows/Mac Os?

If a website newly registered in internet world, it may not be loaded in your computer.  For example, you register for example.com yesterday, still you may not see your web page. This is problem of DNS cache.  Your local DNS cache is old one so it won't know the newely available domain names.  Sometime you may update the NS records of your domain to point to new hosting service.

In these case you have to clear or flush cache in your computer.