Linux Tips

Some of you might face this situation. Ubuntu’s Ubiquity Installer could not detect SATA drive, although  sudo fdisk -l  lists the drive. It even appeared in gparted. It seems that the SATA drive had left over raid configuration information that was telling the installer to skip the drive (as if it was unsupported). In the following tutorial, I will show you how to get Ubuntu to detect the SATA drive, so that you could proceed and install Ubuntu. Read the full post here…

I have been using this little applet called cryptkeeper for a while now, it is a beautifully simple power user application that will help you keep your private information safe and secure. In this simple how to I will assist you in installing and using cryptkeeper. Basically Cryptkeeper is a Linux system tray applet that manages EncFS encrypted folders. Installing it is as easy as running a single command. I nstallation: Open terminal and execute command: sudo apt-get install cryptkeeper That will install all the necessary files. (Alternatively you can install it from synaptic package manager) Now log out and log back in. Once you are logged back in, you can start Cryptkeeper from the menu Applications->System Tools->Cryptkeeper. You should see an icon in your System Tray that looks like a pair of keys. This can vary a bit based on your current icon theme. This is the Cryptkeeper icon. And now H ow to use it. Click on the Cryptkeeper icon and select New encrypted