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You may purchased a new hard disk drive and replace your current hard disk drive on your machine. Now, with a USB connector cable, you tried to access your previous hard disk drive, like an external drive, to find that there are some folders with security settings preventing you from accessing them! What should you do?

Fear not, as there is a way via the command line using Windows Command Prompt (CMD) to access these secured folders.

(Learn how you can access secured files and folders via command prompt...)

Using command line to download or upload files, from and to a web server can be really helpful. Without the need of Graphical User Interface (GUI), the power of using command line is equally good, if not better. Apparently, there is minimal resource requirement, yet the requirement to fulfill the task remains adequate.

Below, I will introduce how to simply use command line; that is using "ftp" and "sftp" commands in Linux to carry out file transfer operations.

(click here to read more on how to use command lines for FTP and SFTP...)

Previously, I have written about creating a start-up Hamachi service script for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. This time, with a little modification to the script, I will illustrate how to create a similar start-up script for Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

Hamachi, a powerful VPN service that allows user to communicate securely from a remote network over an Internet connection, is also known as LogMeIn Hamachi, after taken over by another company. It is available in various operating systems; that is, Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. However, automatic start-up is not the default option during installation. Here, I will illustrate how you can do so in Ubuntu Hardy Heron (which is also applicable to most other Linux distributions).

I assume that you are able to successfully install Hamachi as a user basis. If not, you can find out from the README instruction when you download the installation script.

(configure your automatic start-up script for Ubuntu...)

Ubuntu has just officially released the latest version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) yesterday!

As the new version can be downloaded off from the website for users who want a fresh, new installation, current Ubuntu users may not want to do so. However, it is relatively easy to perform an distribution upgrade using the instruction listed here, but there is also an alternative solution, via the command line upgrade.

However, do note that command line upgrade is not recommended and it may result in apt crashing and manual problem fixing.

(find out more on how to upgrade your version of Ubuntu...)

In a couple of days' time, Ubuntu 8.04 will be officially released to the public. This version is codenamed Hardy Heron. Since last year's release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I have briefly spoken about its new feature of Desktop Effects being a default installation. Over the past 12 months, the development has seen the feature stabilised with further enhancement brought to you in this new release.

The Desktop Effect feature is, however, not automatically installed in the new version. Hence, in order to obtain that special feel of Wobbling Windows, Cube Switching, Flame Effect and others, you will need to activate these features using the following instructions. To activate Desktop Effects in Ubuntu Hardy Heron, simply follow the instructions below:

(click here to find out how to activate Desktop Effects...)

Supplying additional information to your website can be a nice statistics display. One of them is to make use of PHP to display the site uptime up to date.

It is quite easy to do so if you know a little bit about programming or (PHP programming).

(learn to use PHP to calculates site uptime...)

You can easily retrieve or reset your password for admin access to your PHPLinkDirectory (phpLD) site, with a simple phpMyAdmin SQL editing. In order to do that you must be able to access the phpMyAdmin panel.

(see more step-by-step instruction to recover your password...)

With Linux becoming popular among new users, especially with the integration of Ubuntu into the sales of new Dell Personal Computers, it is no doubt that Linux is gearing towards a more graphical user interface (GUI) type of operating system, just like what Microsoft Windows has provided. The days of the command line is soon to be lost if users do not make use of them.

A simple tutorial to illustrate the use of command lines to locate Wireless access points is introduced in this article. If you are new to using command line or someone who is interested in configuring Wireless connections using Linux, then you should read on.

(find out how to use command line to locate Wireless Access Points...)