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Have you been annoyed by not being able to move your dialogs in Mint 13 Cinnamon? This simple tutorial will show you how to disable the “attach_modal_dialogs” setting.

I have only recently discovered Netflix and signed up without thinking there may be issues playing back the streaming media on Linux.

If you have an android device that is not recognised when trying to access it via USB, this tutorial should help you.

This is a tutorial on how to set up SVN with Apache, create users accounts and also disable anonymous viewing of the project from a web browser.

This is tutorial on how to set up an Ubuntu server with apache, mysql, proftpd, webmin, setting up a user account and adding it to the sudoers list.

I like KDE and prefer it to Gnome but when I was a Gnome user I got used to the Gnome desktop switching.

MPlayer has some features that you may not have noticed if you only use it to watch your videos or if you use a different video player.

There may be times when the name of a required file is unknown but you may remember some of the content of a file. A search can be performed in a Linux terminal that will display a list of files that contains the text you remember.

If you have ever had to or needed to copy or move a website, wget is quite handy. Wget is open source, available on Linux, OSX and Windows and is very easy to use. A whole website can be downloaded with one simple command.

There may be times that you may want a bash terminal or other Linux application but you are stuck in Windows. There are some ways around this so you can still access your Linux applications while using Microsoft Windows.

With the introduction of Mono a while back, A large number of Windows only applications are being ported to Linux. The problem with C# at the moment in regards to GUI tool kits are the number of GUI tool kit bindings available and the cross platform ability.

The file system in Linux can be intimidating coming from other operating systems like Microsoft Windows. At first glance it may seem that there is no organisation to the files, but there is a method to this madness. After spending some more time with the file system in Linux, it will seem a lot more secure and organised.

Screen provides virtual terminals that can continue running even when the the user has logged off or disconnected from the session. New sessions can be created at any time and can have different programs running in them.

Proftpd is a modular FTP server that runs on Linux. One of the proftpd modules is for MySQL and enables users to be stored in the database instead of the system. Users can have a different home directories as they are set per user in the database, different quotas can be set for users as well.

Music composition and audio editing software can be quite expensive. There are professional open source alternatives to expensive commercial applications.

After the Apache web server has been set up with mono, the next thing to do is check if it works. I have a simple project that I put on the web server to check if it is working. This article will show how to create a similar ASP web application in a few minutes.