Show and hide the GRUB Menu on Ubuntu
Posted by Admin on 1st January 2007
When your Ubuntu Machine boots, you can see GRUB loading. please wait… Press Esc to enter the menu…
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How to Reboot Your Debian,Ubuntu System only if all else fails
Posted by Admin on 25th December 2006
Staring at a crashed Gnome session, CTRL-ALT-BKSPC does nothing. ALT-CTRL-F1 won’t bring you to a terminal where you could cd to /etc/init.d and restart gdm.
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Playing encrypted DVDs in Ubuntu
Posted by Admin on 23rd December 2006
The movie players provided in Ubuntu can play back unencrypted DVDs. However, many commercial DVDs are encrypted with a weak algorithm called Content Scrambling System (CSS).You can enable playback of encrypted DVDs with MPlayer, xine and Totem-xine by installing libdvdcss2.
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