image from www.liberiangeek.net To disable GDM on ubuntu and use only the text based login, follow the steps below: Edit /etc/default/grub Comment out GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” Add the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”text” Save Grub and update grub using sudo update-grub2 Below is a snapshot of grub conf with GDM disabled on start-up Reference: http://askubuntu.com/questions/76543/how-do-i-disable-gdm-and-graphical-user-selection Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Joomla is one of the CMS that I like and testing it for vulnerability would be fun using OWAP’s joomscan. Just in case you wanted it on your system you can download it at sourceforge Joomscan is a vulnerability scanner for websites using joomla CMS. To install it on ubuntu you can extract it on a directory that you like like the /opt directory. After extracting make it executable and the db text file which is needed for the update:

  Skip the sad story I am a great fan of ubuntu and I have been installing and uninstalling 10.04 LTS to 10.10 to 11.04 to 11.10 and go back again to 10.04 LTS or shift to Linux Mint and caused me a lot of time and a lot of data loss.  One of the biggest problem that I had since upgrading to higher versions of ubuntu or Mint was the display.  After the upgrade I needed to add i915.nomodeset=0

  Days after the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,  I had no plans to upgrade my ubuntu 10.04 LTS but after doing some experiments I ended up upgrading to 12.04 and glad that I had a backup of my projects and database.  I made a fresh install of precise pangolin yesterday and so far the things I say are: BTW: I am using acer aspire 4736 running 4GB of memory, 320GB HDD & Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics

On my ubuntu (10.04 LTS) powered laptop, I am using firestarter as a GUI for my firewall. It is very easy to use and very easy to configure. Though its synonymous to the default firewall installed with later versions of ubuntu which is the “GUFW (Firewall Configuration)” which allows the user to configure ufw firewall and is already integrated with gnome. Since firestarter is not integrated with gnome and it has been a repetitive task for me that every time

I am a loyal user of Thunderbird and ubuntu 10.04 is by default using evolution for its mail client. So what I did was uninstalled all the packages related to evolution using synaptic manager. I did a complete removal of the packages and restarted my laptop. After uninstalling I was no longer able to login with my account even if I correctly entered my credentials. I used ubuntu recovery option on grub menu and went to the console, I checked

Here is a quick look of the first ubuntu powered TV. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post