If you’re like me, you do a lot of uploading to pastebin services. Although the task isn’t terribly difficult, sometimes you’re in a hurry and you just wish there was a much faster way. With the help of a little application called Nautilus-pastebin your pastebin uploads are only a right-click away. In this article I [...]

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Recently I covered folder sharing in KDE 4.4 (Read my article “Easy folder sharing in KDE 4.4“). I thought I should offer the same article for the GNOME desktop. Although the tasks are fairly similar, there are subtle differences that could trip up the new users. But since this process removes the the challenge of [...]

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How many times have you come across a .tar, .tgz, or .bz2 file in Linux and had no idea what to do with it? Or what it was? Most users of computers know what the .zip file is. Simple, it’s a compressed file. And to uncompress you generally double click it or right click and [...]

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Have you ever attempted to do something with a file on a Linux machine and been given the error “permission denied”? For some people this isn’t a problem, either su to the root user or use the sudo command to help you along. For some users, however, this can be very frustrating. Why? When you [...]

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GNOME’s file manager, Nautilus, (as you would expect) is much more than just a plain file manager. There are so many configuration options and ways to extend the default GNOME file manager. One way to extend Nautilus is by adding actions. A Nautilus action is a way to add new features that can do pretty [...]

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In the Linux operating system, a hidden file is any file that begins with a “.”. When a file is hidden it can not been seen with the bare ls command or an un-configured file manager. In most cases you won’t need to see those hidden files as much of them are configuration files/directories for [...]

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If you are new to Linux than most likely you are going to have to get to know a new file manager. Coming from Windows you will have known the Explorer file manager. If you are migrating to a GNOME desktop you will need to get to know the Nautilus file manager. This is a [...]

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The ability to burn CDs is one of those issues that often perplexes many new users (to any operating system). For Windows users it’s about finding software to do the job. For OS X users it’s about knowing where to add a burnlist. For Linux users it’s just knowing that your operating system can in [...]

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