Today I am testing Sun Virtual Box. I want to install windows xp on Fedora but I don't like installing Operating Systems from DVDs or CDs. I thought I should create an ISO Image from the Windows CD. Here is the simple command to create an ISO from the CD ROM.

Simple!

Yesterday I was searching for Open Source Project Management softwares and found OpenProj.

To my surprise it is very much like Microsoft Project. I don't know how good it is, I will try it. In the mean time I have to try other Open Source PM Tools.

By default the Windows from all the Desktops are displayed in all the KDE Desktops. You can disable this feature by following the below mentioned step.

1. Go to Control Center > Desktop > Taskbar
2. Under Taskbar section uncheck the checkbox "Show windows from all desktops"

Secure your computer using IP Tables. Click on the link below. It has a nice tutorial on IP Tables.

http://www.itech7.com/Security/Secure-your-Linux-Box-using-IPTables-Fire...

You have added new entry in your /etc/fstab file to mount a drive or partition. To mount those new partitions you would normally reboot your PC. There is a simple way which will Re-Mount the drives in your /etc/fstab file. Run as root.

To display date/time, hostname and current directory use the following command in your BASH prompt and press enter. After pressing enter your BASH prompt will look like this. I used this command on Cygwin running on Window XP. The hostname and current directory will be different in your case.

For all those newbies in the world of Linux here is a very useful linux command.

pwd will print the current working directory in the konsole.