If you messed up with bashrc file then How to reload skeleton bashrc ?

To do so follow the next steps:

1. Backup your current .bashrc file:
   cp ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.bak
2. Copy the skeleton .bashrc file over yours:
   cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/
3. Afterwards, load the new one:
   source ~/.bashrc

Ubuntu 12.04 - Not able to open software center

Try following commands -

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists

sudo apt-get update


Then try opening ubuntu software center.

Comments would be appreciated  :)

If Below error occurred

Then follow below steps 

sudo apt-get clean
cd /var/lib/apt
sudo mv lists lists.old
sudo mkdir -p lists/partial
sudo apt-get clean 
sudo apt-get update

 Courtesy:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1983220#8

installing pgsql on ubntu

sudo apt-get install php5-pgsql

Clear Recent files in ubuntu

sudo apt-get install activity-log-manager

Clear Recent files in ubuntu

sudo apt-get install activity-log-manager

Ubuntu 12.04 is not shutting down properly?

Try this

open terminal

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

In this file replace

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
 
 by

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=force"


Then restart.

See the list of drives in ubuntu with UUID

sudo blkid -c /dev/null

then mount into it

sudo mount -t type /dev/sdb1 /mnt/drive2

Install User manage group UI

sudo apt-get install gnome-system-tools

Adding apache www dir to php eclipse workspace

http://superuser.com/questions/426133/change-workspace-directory-of-eclipse-to-www

download and install FGS

1. Download from  http://www.maptools.org/dl/fgs/releases/9.5/self-installers/fgs-mapserver_extended_5.6.3-fgs_9.5-linux-i386.bin


2.

cd /home/prashant/fgs/
. setenv.sh
fgs start 

CHMOD in centos

chmod 777 folder/filename

delete specific directory by finding in folders

FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('DIR /B /AD /S *.svn*') DO RMDIR /S /Q "%%G"

Cpoty this text in a batch for windows or ina sh file on linux and just put this file into a folder in which you want to search and delete the directory.

Install Quanta on UBUNTU

sudo apt-get install quanta kompare kxsldbg cervisia

permissions

Octal digit	Text equivalent	Binary value	Meaning
0	---	000	All types of access are denied
1	--x	001	Execute access is allowed only
2	-w-	010	Write access is allowed only
3	-wx	011	Write and execute access are allowed
4	r--	100	Read access is allowed only
5	r-x	101	Read and execute access are allowed
6	rw-	110	Read and write access are allowed
7	rwx	111	Everything is allowed

644	owner: read and write permissions, group: only read permissions, others: only read permissions.
755	owner: read, write and execute permissions, group: read and execute permissions, others: read and execute permissions.

change mode of folder/file

sudo chmod 777 telephonedir

7-read
7-write
7-exexute

How to install .bin file

1. chmod a+x binFileName

2.   ./binFileName

Changing Permission of folder

user@host:/home/user$ chmod 667 filename

Ubuntu blog

http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/

CREATE FOLDER SHORTCUT

 sudo ln -s /home/username/FOLDER_NAME  /home/username/LINK_NAME