Earlier distros of Linux does not have the automount daemon (autofs). Users would have to mount USB drives themselves. Mounting the ‘drive’ actually means mounting the File System contained within the drive. Here’s how to go about :
First, make a directory in /mnt/ where the USB drive can be mounted to. This can be [...]

If you did not partition the existing windows hard drive for Ubuntu and disconnected the one with Windows installed during the installation and installed ubuntu on a separate hard disk, you will run into this boot problem of XP not showing up in the Linux boot loader (GRUB) and will have to add the Windows [...]

GCC stands for GNU compiler collection. There are precompiled versions / binaries of the GCC for windows available here.
Gcc for Windows (gcw) is yet another attempt to port gcc to Win32 platform. The major difference from MinGw and Cygwin is maximum possible acceptance of Microsoft Visual C++ source code and intended binary compatibility with [...]

Found this simple Vi tutorial for the Vim text editor [Ubuntu/Linux] quite useful..
It covers everything from the basics like inserting text for noobs to advanced file manipulations using vi and customizations. You could also check out the developer, Bram Moolenaar’s vim home page, where you can also find a lot of other vim sites and [...]

GNOME 2.20 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment. GNOME’s focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalization and accessibility support.
Based on Free and Open Source Software, GNOME provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern computing environment, as well as [...]

Conduit allows the user to take their emails, files, bookmarks, and any other type of personal information and synchronize that data with another computer, an online service, or even another electronic device.

Conduit manages the synchronization and conversion of data into other formats. For example, conduit allows you to;

Synchronize your tomboy notes to a [...]