How to Install Firefox using tarHow to Install Firefox using tar.bz file? Manual instllation on Ubuntu LInux

1.Download firefox-5.0.1.tar.bz2 file.
2.Extract the File(just right click and select Extract here)
3. Move the folder to your Home folder(/home).  Just cut and paste inside your  home folder.

4.Open the Terminal and Enter this command(this will make your system recognize the new firefox location):
sudo ln -s ~/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox5.You also need to create a symbolic link from

Banner Text Effect in Linux using Terminal? Ubuntu Tricks

Hi , this is funny Linux trick. if you give string, it will give banner text effect depending on the string.



For example:
if your string value is hackers, then it will generate the following :

Requirements:
Linux
Internet

How to Create this banner effect using Terminal?
Open the Terminal
Type 
sudo apt-get install sysvbanner
It will install the banner
Now type
banner HACKERS
Now it will

[Fixed]No init found try passing init= bootarg | Ubuntu Inside Windows Booting Problem

I installed in ubuntu inside Windows XP.  It works perfectly for 2 months.  Recently I met with this problem:
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /dev on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: no such file or directory
Target

How to Clear/Flush DNS cache in Linux/Windows/Mac Os?

If a website newly registered in internet world, it may not be loaded in your computer.  For example, you register for example.com yesterday, still you may not see your web page. This is problem of DNS cache.  Your local DNS cache is old one so it won't know the newely available domain names.  Sometime you may update the NS records of your domain to point to new hosting service.

In these case

How to change the localhost name in ubuntu Linux?

In my previous post, i have explain how to change the localhost in windows operating systems.  This post is especially for ubuntu users.

Requirements:
apache server should be installed.

Open the Terminal
type this command and press enter
sudo gedit /etc/hostshosts will be opened in notepad.
you can find this line :
127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain    localhost
Just change the localhost to