If you want to see the message when you open the terminal or after you are login in tty1-6, just put this line at the end of ~/.bashrc file (open it from terminal with gedit ~/.bashrc):

If you want to see the message after you are login in GUI, do the following:


Create a new file name_and_date.sh:


Put next 2 lines inside:

Save the file and close it.

Make the file exacutable:

Search in Dash for Startup Applications, open it and click Add.

Under name type "Show my name and date" or something you will recognise.

Under command type: /home/$USER/bin/name_and_date.sh (change $USER with your user name).

Under comment (if you want), type a brief description.

UNIX understands several control-key commands, commands you enter by holding down the control key (Ctrl) while striking a second key.




CTRL + U - cut text from cursor position to the beginning of the command line

CTRL + S - freezes the screen and stops any display on the screen from continuing

CTRL + Q - un-freezes the screen and lets screen display continue

CTRL + C - interrupts a running program

CTRL + \ - same as CTRL - C but stronger (used when terminal doesn't respond)

CTRL + Z - suspends a running program (use the fg command to continue the program)

CTRL + H - deletes last character typed

CTRL + W - deletes last word typed

CTRL + U - deletes last line typed

CTRL + R - searches text from history

CTRL + D - ends text input for many UNIX programs, including mail and write.

CTRL + Y - paste the string in buffer/clipboard

Nemo is a complete fork of Nautilus 3.4 and its goal is to extend the Cinnamon user experience to desktop and file management.

It has many features:

    * Compact view
    * All desktop icons,  these are missing in nautilus 3.6 vervion
    * Open terminal and open as root
    * Copy or move files shows percentage and details while file operation
       progress
    * Better search
    * It has a cute and nice bookmark management
    * It has UP, FORWARD, BACK and REFRESH buttons
    * Proper status bar
    * Better widgets

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. Its a closed source editor. The first version of sublime was released in five years ago. It is very extensibility and cross platformability, this means you can use this on ubuntu on the desktop, OS X on the laptop, Windows at work and have the same theme, plugin, and keybinding across all platforms.

Features of sublime text 2

      * Autosave
      * Bookmark within files
      * Multi-panel editing
      * Ability to select multiple sections of code
      * It has a Minimap. It show the full source code
      * It has native support for 27 programming languages included,
         with additional available
      * It has a custom key for binding
      * Brace matching, autocomplete
      * Support for macros and python-based plugins
      * RegEx-based find and replace
      * Fully customizable syntax highlighting

Install Sublime text 2 on Ubuntu/Linux Mint

uTorrent is a lightweight and efficient BitTorrent client, currently there is only command-line version of Utorrent for Ubuntu. uTorrent work as a web server in Linux. You can access uTorrent from your browser after you started uTorrent using command in Terminal.

Install uTorrent Client on Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint 

Now Mozilla Firefox 22 is a high performance web application. Which support web applications, 3D gaming, Video calls and file sharing. It does not need any other softwares or plugins to maintain applications. Now Mozilla has a  new feature, WebRTC(Web Real-Time Communication). Which allows developers to create web apps with built-in video and audio calls, as well as file sharing without the need for any plugins or third-party software. With these additions, Firefox is better equipped than ever to challenge Chrome for the web app and gaming performance crown.

Features of Mozilla Firefox 22

    * WebRTC
    * Display scaling options for high-resolution displays (Windows only as of now)
    * Mac OS X:Download progress in dock application icon
    * Changed the HTML5 audio/video playback rate
    * Social service manager implemented in Add-ons manager
    * asm.js optimizations enabled for major performance improvements
    * Asynchronous canvas updated
    * plain text files display with word-wrap
    * for user security, object is no longer accessible from web content
    * pointer lock API used outside of fullscreen
    * CSS3 firefox implemented and enabled by default
    * Added new web notifications
    * Added clipboardData API for javascript access to a user's clipboard
    * Built-in font inspector

Install Firefox 22 in Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Open Terminal(Alt + Ctrl + T) and paste the following commands

GUI for Uncomplicated Firewall, which is shortly called GUFW, the name states, Graphical User Interface for Uncomplicated Firewall. It already provides a simple code and interfaces, it uses the UFW Python modules directly, for prevent code duplication, avoid unnecessary code and it provide a extra layer of execution. It is mainly designed for Ubuntu, and is also available for Debian based distribution and Arch Linux. It is the easy way to manage the Ubuntu Firewall.
New Features:

 * Defualt incoming policy
 * Allow/deny Incoming rules
 * IPv6
 * Enable or Disable firewall
 * Configure firewall default settings
 * Add, Edit  and Remove rules
 * Settings for some Iptables module
 * Filtering by interface
 * Reset command
 * Per rule logging
 * Reject incoming rules

In Ubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu 13.10, displaying Username on Unity panel has disabled by default.

To add your Username on the Unity Panel, Open a Terminal (Alt + Ctrl + T) and paste the following commands.


If you want to remove the Username from the panel, do the following in Terminal.

Enjoy..

Skype allows people to communicate with each other by messaging, voice calling and video calling over internet. Skype also provides services for phone calls on the telephone networks. Everybody can call on Skype network free of charge there is no limit of call, on the other side Skype charge users for calling to land-line and mobile phones. Skype becomes popular among users for its additional features, like file sharing, screen sharing, video conferencing. Now we are going to install it on Ubuntu.

First you have to enable the Canonical repository.

Open Terminal(Alt + Ctrl + T) and paste the following command to enable the repository.

You can also use this commands in Linux Mint to enable the repository and you are able to install Skype in it.


Update the repository.


Finally after all the updates, paste the following command to install Skype.


You have successfully installed Skype 4.2 in your system.


Select Dash -> type "skype" on the space of search -> Click the icon of Skype to start the Skype.