Add a Single User mode entry in Grub bootloader.

All you need to do is add 'single' to the end of any bootloader entry to make it single user. So what you need to do is edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst, copy one of the entries, and all 'single' to the end.

gksudo kate /boot/grub/menu.lst …
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OpenOffice Remove mis-spelled words

beleive or believe? If you mistakenly add a word to Firefox's custom dictionary, the word is added to

~/.mozilla/firefox/[unique-alphanumeric-string].default/persdict.dat

just edit the file and remove your mistaken 'custom' word.

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Command line scp from linux(+BSD) to windows.

i traveling and wanted to copy over my logs to find out what was happening on my server. didn't want to install a client like filezilla or another GUI. Using the command line SCP utility, you can grab remote files securely over SSH. You can grab the executable from http …

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