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Here’s how to restart the network service on Ubuntu without restarting the OS :~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 has been released and comes with some spanking new features. It now supports Stage Videos which allows Flash to utilize your machines’s hardware acceleration features thus greatly improving performance. 10.2 also introduces support for multiple monitors. No more headaches when trying to multi-task while watching a video, this is when you can only play flash videos on one screen and not the other. Another cool feature is the support for native mouse cursors. Developers can now design and implement custom cursors for their work. I see this really useful for educational software. ...

This has to be amongst the coolest Google doodles out there. It’s to celebrate Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday. If you didn’t already know, Jules Verne’s the man behind the well known Novells Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in Eighty Days. Use the joystick control on the right to navigate the GOOGLE submarine around :D, cool ha? Source: Google

This is for all you Ubuntu loving Android users out there. It’s a cool Ubuntu countdown widget for your android. Comes in 2 sizes too, 1x1 and 2x2. ...

So you messed up the Gnome desktop and don’t know how to restore it back to it’s default settings. Here’s how with no risks. Log out and then hit “Ctrl + ALT + F1” to opening up a terminal. Delete the following directories. .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity Or run the this command. rm -rf rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity “Ctrl + ALT + F7/F8” and log in as usual. This guide is based on Ubuntu 10.10