This article shows how you can copy files and folders from your local machine to remote server. Also, how you can copy files and folders from the remote server to your local machine.
We will use SCP protocol for this purpose. SCP stands for Secure Copy Protocol. It’s a means of securely transferring computer files. Files can be transferred between local host and remote host, or between two remote hosts.

Here are some linux commands (pactl and amixer) to increase and decrease volume. You can also use these commands to set keyboard shortcut to increase and decrease volume.
pactl

You can convert any video file to audio format (extract audio from video) with the help of FFmpeg tool.
FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library.

Problem:
I am using Xubuntu (lightweight version of Ubuntu) and I am unable to type in local language using iBus (an input method (IM) framework for multilingual input in Unix-like operating systems).
iBus is already installed. When I go to its ‘Preferences‘ and then click the ‘Input Method‘ tab, I could only see ‘Chinese‘ language option in the dropdown list of ‘Select an input method‘. I am from Nepal, so I would like to see Nepali/Devnagari language option there.

SMPlayer is a free and open source media player for Windows and Linux. It is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer.
SMPlayer is a very good alternative to VLC media player. It is faster than VLC and can play almost all video and audio formats. You don’t need to download and install any external codecs.

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 13.04. It went successfully. After I restarted my computer, I get a black screen at the time of login. Hence, I am unable to insert my login to my computer. However, I was able to login in recovery mode.
I googled for solutions. Used the keywords like “login screen goes black ubuntu 13.04”, “monitor turns off at login ubuntu 13.04”, “login screen turns off ubuntu 13.04”, etc. After spending some hours searching and implementing some solutions regarding this issue, I finally came to …

VI is a display oriented interactive text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. It is available by default on all UNIX systems. It is supplied with all Linux distributions.
Here is a simple and quick VI command tutorial.

CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) is a Microsoft proprietary online help format, that consists of a collection of HTML pages and an index.
CHM files are not recognized by Linux and they cannot be open using any default application.

CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) is a Microsoft proprietary online help format, that consists of a collection of HTML pages and an index.
CHM files are not recognized by Linux and they cannot be open using any default application.

Zip is the most common archiving format. It is avialable on all operative systems such as Linux, Windows and Mac. However, it does not offer the best level of compression as compared to tar.gz and tar.bz2.
Tar is very common archiving format in Linux. Tar.gz is better than tar compression. And, tar.bz2 is the the best among all in the level of compression. It also utilizes the least CPU.

Here are some linux commands to change the permission of files and folders/directories.
chmod is used change the file system mode / permission of files and folders.

Here are step-by-step commands about installing apache, php, mysql, and phpmyadmin on ubuntu.
1) Open Terminal
– Press:
CTRL + ALT + T

PHPEclipse is a PHP development plugin for the Eclipse IDE Framework. And, XDebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities.
I am using Ubuntu Operating System. This article provides a step-by-step guide on installing and setting up XDebug in PHP Eclipse in Ubuntu.

There are different ways to get RAM size, Hard disk size, processor size, etc. in Ubuntu. Here are some:-
1. From System -> Administration -> System Monitor

Change current logged in user’s password
Go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal, then run the command below:-
passwd