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If you insert a CD, a DVD or a portable music player in Ubuntu, the odds are high that Ubuntu starts playing music or video files automatically. Read how to disable this.

In Ubuntu, software programs are called packages. Most packages are stored in software archives ("repositories") and are available for installation over the internet. Before you can install packages from a repository, you must add this repository to your software sources. Four important repositories are Main (officially supported software), Restricted (supported software that is not available under a completely free license), Universe (community-maintained, i.e. not officially supported software) and Multiverse (software that is "not free"). This howto describes how to add these repositories.

Read Hat has created some wonderful font types. These can be downloaded and installed for free. Read how to install these in Ubuntu.

Change the site that you see first when you start Firefox.

Align a table in a MS Word document left, center or right.

Install the graphical user interface (GUI) in Ubuntu (or Kubuntu or Xubuntu), for example when there is no GUI because you installed the server edition, because you damaged the GUI somehow or because you want to install the GNOME desktop in a version of Ubuntu that uses another desktop by default.

Adapt an OpenOffice.org component to your needs by selecting the toolbars that you see on top of your screen.

Stop OpenOffice.org Writer's AutoCorrect from wrongly correcting a specific spelling.

Open an exising spreadsheet with OpenOffice.org. This works in any kind of OpenOffice.org component, if it is a component other than Calc, Calc will start.

Make a Bronx cocktail. This is basically a Martini cocktail with orange juice. The Bronx cocktail was extremely popular in the years after the repeal of the Prohibition.

Here is a recipe of Planter's Punch. This is a historical, rum-based punch. Here is the recipe from the New York times in 1903.

Let's make a Negroni cocktail. This is a great aperitif made of gin, vermouth and bitter.

Clean your hard drive in order to free up your hard disk space.

Safari is a browser by Apple. It is currently only available for Mac and PC, but with WINE it can also be installed on Ubuntu Linux. Read how to install Safari in Ubuntu with WINE.

Ubuntu has a nice login and logout sounds, but in case your work in a library: here is how to disable it!

Use Alien to install an .rpm file in Ubuntu.

In Ubuntu Hardy Heron, you can no longer install fonts by copying them in the fonts:/// directory. If you try this, you'll receive an error warning 'Could not display:"fonts:///". Nautilus cannot handle fonts: locations.' Here is a solution.

The Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar usually contains a number of your favorite sites. Read how to add, remove and edit this listing.

Insert a table in an MS Word document.

Resize or rotate a mass of pictures at once with the Nautilus file browser.

Put a docked toolbar in an other place. A docked toolbar is a toolbar that has a fixed position. This howto describes how to change that position.

Disable Word Completion in OpenOffice.org Writer if you prefer not to use it.

Move to another sheet in OpenOffice.org Calc.

Let's build a Harvey Wallbanger. This is a layered cocktail made with vodka, Galliano and orange juice.

Let's make a Salty Dog. This cocktail contains vodka or gin and grapefruit juice. It is usually served in a glass with a salted rim. There is also a version without the salted rim that is called the Greyhound cocktail.

Let's shake a Rose cocktail. This cherry-flavored cocktail is made of vermouth and kirsch and cherry brand.

Splitting the window in OpenOffice.org Calc allows you to view two or four portions of a sheet at once. The split screen technique is particularly handy if you want to compare different sections of a large sheet. Read how to split the window in OpenOffice.org Calc.

Shut down your computer from Ubuntu's command line Terminal.

Opera 9.24 is a cross platform browser. This describes how to install it on Ubuntu.

No noise and no mercy in the library! For librarians and other people working in quiet areas, read here how to turn off the system beep in Ubuntu.