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How to disable Unity overlay scrollbars in Ubuntu

10 May 2014 1 minute read 2932 visits.

How to easily restore the classing scroll bar (disable overlay scrolling) or to re-enable it if disabled under Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 LTS

20 Mar 2014 1 minute read 2902 visits.

AeroSnap is a feature of some window managers to anchor the windows to the screen edges.

14 Mar 2014 2 minute read 3018 visits.

HOW TO: Setup SAN boot for RHEL 6.x using native multipath on EMC storage

25 Nov 2015 1 minute read 1840 visits.

A short article which provides a brief description for ssh related commands

26 Feb 2013 1 minute read 2874 visits.

Using Gmail's SMTP server as Postfix relay for reliable email delivery and also for logging all outgoing mails.

15 Sep 2012 1 minute read 3254 visits.

This article provides a quick procedure on how to recover a lost root password frm virtually any version of Linux which uses the GRUB boot loader.

30 Apr 2012 1 minute read 953 visits.

Telling the server to pause for 30 seconds before attempting to mount network shares could prevent a

2 Mar 2012 1 minute read 3348 visits.

A quick procedure to change the UID and GID for a given user using the usermod and groupmod commands.

10 Dec 2011 2 minute read 3498 visits.

If like me you're not a fan of Spotlight and want to disable it completely then you can hese simple steps.

17 Oct 2011 2 minute read 3053 visits.

Puppets automated management of installed applications and libraries can be enhanced with custom package repositories such as a custom repository.