For all the linux geeks out there, I would like to share my latest discovery which is CommandLineFu

Go in there, sort the commands by votes, fire up your terminal and practice

I want to share some experiences working with VPN from Ubuntu. I had some trouble using OpenVPN as after connecting I couldn’t access any resource referenced by a domain name.
I couldn’t find any solution to this problem but finally after trying a few things out, I have come out with a solution I want to share below.
Assuming you have OpenVPN installed and working ‘.ovpn’ configuration file (but without proper DNS resolving) follow the steps below:
1. Install resolveconf

2. Link your auto-generated resolve.conf to existing ‘/etc/resolve.conf’

3. Add the following lines to the bottom of your ‘.ovpn’ configuration file:

4. Run openvpn with the following flags (as root):

That should do it.
Enjoy

Is your Ubuntu desktop locking every time you leave it for a minute or two and its driving you nuts? I was looking for the solution to this today and finally I’ve found it. Not that I was looking so long, I have to admit I was lazy, as my Ubuntu screen was pissing me off for a long time, I’ve never had time to actually find a solution to this.
It looks like a basic and very simple option, which I thought, would be pretty easy to find in the power settings, but hell no, no luck.

For all of you lazy and not lazy people, which locking ubuntu screen drives mad, do the following:

1. As a root/sudo type in the terminal:

2. Find the key:

and uncheck it!
You can actually uncheck all of the keys under ‘lock’ just in case Ubuntu would like to piss you off next time using hibernate option, screensaver etc

For those of you who like Mac systems look and feel but still prefer linux for day to day tasks like programing in Java for example I strongly recommend following the steps described in Lifehacker’s post.
Lifehacker’s post.