Ubuntu 17.10

This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to easily change WordPress admin user email address and password from its database server. Whether you’re using MySQL or MariaDB server, this tutorial should help you. Changing WordPress admin user password and email address can be done from WordPress admin dashboard easily. However, when you’re locked […]

This post is part of our new series called Daily Ubuntu Tips where we show students and new users how to do basic tasks on Ubuntu. This series is geared towards newbies who want to learn how to manage Ubuntu systems. The first post in the in this series is how to change Ubuntu computer […]

Part Two of this series can be found here This is a new series we’re starting on this blog called Setting up WordPress on Ubuntu. This series will show new users and students how to prepare Ubuntu for WordPress as well as installing and managing WordPress on Ubuntu. This is the first post in the […]

If you’re reading this post and want to learn how to install Ubuntu Desktop on your machines, please continue below. This post shows students and new users how to download and install Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) desktop version. Ubuntu is a free opensource operating system that runs on your desktop / laptop or in the […]

On Ubuntu logon screen, there you’ll find user(s) who have access to logon to the machine. By default Ubuntu identifies these users by their usernames with a blank image space. The image space is the default assigned to all  user accounts. Ubuntu allows users to set their own image on their account on the logon […]

This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to setup Ubuntu to login automatically without typing a username or password. This post is specifically geared towards users who have just started using Ubuntu or trying to switch from other operating systems like Windows or Mac OS. When auto login is enabled, the next time […]

Regularly deleting trash and removing unwanted temporary files from your computer helps improve its performance and can also free up more space on your hard drive. Although it can be done manually, it’s better to just set it and forget it so that you don’t have to keep being reminded of clearing out the trash […]

You can create multiple user accounts on Ubuntu desktop with each user having separate files and their own settings. Having multiple accounts provide security privacy for each user. Each user keep their files and data separate from others and only if you know they user’s password will access be given to the account. User can […]

This tutorial shows students and new users how to find their Ubuntu 17.10 computer IP addresses. An IP address is like a phone number for your computer. It’s unique and assigned only to your computer. IP addresses can be static – the one you type in yourself, or dynamic – addresses received from a computer […]

Ubuntu minimal server is a version that comes with the bare minimal to get Ubuntu going. No desktop interface and other packages that come with a full Ubuntu disc or ISO. The Minimal server ISO will download packages from online archives at installation. Downloading packages at install time reduces the size of the ISO image as […]