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If you ever used Ubuntu, you’ll notice how a normal user can browse Nautilus or run programs with full root access by running ‘gksu’. You can also do the same in openSUSE by running ‘gnomesu’. I couldn’t do the same for Fedora until now.
Today, I’ll show you how a normal user can browse nautilus or execute programs in Fedora with full root access.
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If a local user isn’t allowed to run commands with sudo, he or she must always enter the administrator or superuser password before executing privileged commands. To allow a user run commands in openSUSE without the superuser password, you must add the user to the sudo allowed list.
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Font Manager is a nice application that is helps you install, disable and manage fonts in Ubuntu Desktop easily. It is suitable for most desktop users who need an easy-to-use interface to manage fonts in Ubuntu. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to install Font Manager in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.
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At times, you do feel like locking down a particular user account in Windows, but actually doing it is the challenging part. If you feel that someone on your computer is not doing what they supposed to be doing, you can use SteadyState from Microsoft and lock-down that user account and allow them to do only what they need to do on the computer.
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If you have children and you want to restrict what they do on the computer or where they go online, then consider configuring Parental Controls in Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Parental Controls panel, part of User Accounts Control applets centralizes all the key settings to control an individual account setup in Windows Vista or Windows 7.
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When was the last time you backup your computer? Believe it or not, there’s one thing that’s true with computers and it is, they sometimes crash without warnings. When that happens, you will certainly lose some information important to you, and that’s sucks.
Instead of waiting for the inevitable, you can sign up for a free 2GB online storage to backup your important data automatically so the day your computer crashes, you can at least retrieve your important data. This process, once setup, will automatically backup your critical data in the background without any interaction from you.
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This brief tutorial is specifically for folks who want to share their home computer with their little ones (kids) but don’t want to be bothered with frequent password requests.
I don’t know about you, but I once had a 4 year old who wouldn’t stop asking for my passwords every time he wanted to use the home PC. I had to stop what I was doing just to attend to this little one needs every time.
So I decided to think of solutions that would allow him to log in to the PC without me entering password every time while still protecting our home computer from the bad guys.
I could’ve removed my passwords and leave the PC without passwords or created his account and leave the password field blank. The first option, removing my passwords was not the best option available for security reasons. The second option, creating his account and leaving the password field blank was still not the best solution.
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It is inevitable, someday, your computer will crash or fail you one way or another and not having some kind of process in place to recover your data or prevent such incident, will lose important files or folders that contain your precious photos and/or data. So how would you make sure your precious pictures are well-secured in the event your computer fails you? Is your data being backed-up daily or weekly? Will you be able to recover all or even most of your pictures currently stored on your computer when your PC dies? — If you answered No to those questions then I’d recommend that you put in place a process or plan so that the day your computer crashes, you can at least retrieve your precious photos and make your life a little easier.
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