Windows

This video is a response to a new Ubuntu user who needed help with printing from his Ubuntu machine to a printer connected to a Vista computer. You'll need Samba for this to work.

This video will show you how to use Ubuntu and Linux applications in Windows using Portable Ubuntu Remix.

Portable Ubuntu Remix is an Ubuntu system that runs as a Windows application. You can put it in a USB drive and take you persistent Ubuntu and apps with you anywhere.

Link: http://portableubuntu.demonccc.com.ar/

This video will show you how to make Ubuntu look like Windows 7.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1378125

We will be work with Ubuntu 9.10, which comes with grub2 (referred to here as just grub), the boot loader program we will be working with. Using its Live CD, use GParted to make your partition table. It is advisable that you use a ext3 format for all your linux partitions, at least for the ones that will primarily be using Ubuntu. When setting up a partition table, try to keep your OSs on the SATA hard drive as the ATA HDDs (HDD = hard drive) can be slower at reading, writing, and loading data. Feel free to put things anywhere you like, with the following constraints.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1365226

This is a small collection of mostly random "gotchas" I encountered when migrating other people to *buntu for various reasons. Most of these assume WUBI will not be used to run *buntu at full speed.

I do not take responsibility if your computer dies as a result of my ineptitude. But should it fry, please post! I'll correct tips.

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/microsoft_hidden_malware_cos...

A couple of stories have hit the headlines this year concerning the huge cost that some UK Local Governments incurred when dealing with malware attack on their Windows machines. If you missed them, Manchester City Council had a single USB infected with the infamous Conficker worm and it cost them — brace yourself — £1.5m ($2.4m) of which £1.2m (US$1.9m) was spent on IT, of which a staggering £600,000 (US$980k) went on consultancy fees including money to Microsoft.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1253252

This guide aims to help those people who are interested in configuring their Ubuntu boxes to login using an account from a Windows Domain. This is particularly important to integrate Ubuntu computers in large Windows networks. I have got this to work using a Windows 2003 Server with an Ubuntu Server 9.04.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1231257

To mount windows partition as home directory

ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG!
These things add security hole in the system. Don't apply this in multiuser environments.
This howto only for personal use.

(tested in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty)

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1198406

This tutorial is meant to help all those who installed Wubi in Vista but did not get "Ubuntu" option in boot menu.

First you need to download and install EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/when_windows_7_ships_without...

A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced that Windows 7 would not ship with Internet Explorer 8 within the European Union. This is to comply with EU demands following the anti-trust case some time back. On the immediate face of this seem like good news for users of other browsers — but is it?