Linux

Choosing Gnome as default Desktop in Ubuntu 11.04

This post describes how you can change from the Unity Desktop environment that is the default desktop environment to the Gnome Desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta. The desktop environment I like to use is the desktop named Ubuntu Classic and you can change to this desktop by going to (or searching for) System […]

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Linux

Enable wireless in Ubuntu 11.04 Beta1 on a HP 8540p

This post is a short description on how to enable the wireless interface on my HP 8540p in Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwal). A little information about the wireless interface # lspci … 44:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 35) … # lspci -n … 44:00.0 0280: 8086:4239 (rev 35) … […]

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Web

How to Remove Dashboard widgets in WordPress

This is a quick way to remove dashboard widgets in WordPress. These are some of the widgets I hide on one of my WordPress installations by adding these lines to the theme functions.php file. To hide other widgets, view the source code for the Dashboard and search for their label value. add_action(‘admin_init’, ‘rw_remove_dashboard_widgets’); function rw_remove_dashboard_widgets() […]

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Windows

Shudown Windows 2003 Server from command prompt

You can shutdown a Windows 2003 Server using the tsshutdn.exe command from a command prompt. This example restarts the server without any delay tsshutdn.exe 0 /reboot /delay:0 There are several options available to this command. This command might work on other Windows releases though not tested.

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