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Tech Tip: Update Hardware Clock from Command Line

In every system, there are two clocks which comes into action while setting the time, one is hardware clock and the other is linux (OS) clock. The hardware clock determines the system clock on system boot. While the system is running, changes to one of these doesn’t affect the other. Normally you can follow any procedure, like first update one …

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Upgrading Ubuntu to 9.10 karmic Koala

If you are looking for upgrading your ubuntu to the latest release – Karmic Koala then this you could use this document as a reference.

Prequisites:

  • Ubuntu follows step by step up-gradation means you can only upgrade to 9.10 from 9.04 and if you have 8.10 and you want to upgrade to 9.10 then you need to first upgrade to

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Rotating background/wallpaper in ubuntu using Drapes

Everyone of us must be having a big collection of wallpapers and would like to use it on your desktop/laptop. but how can you make sure that you can use all your wallpapers.

Here is what i did when i installed ubuntu and tried to work it out.

Drapes is the package which we will use to achieve our goal.…

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