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COMPILING IN UBUNTU If you are a moderately experienced Linux user you might have come across the word “ compiling”. Compiling is done to install a software from the source. You can get most of the software from the software-center and other repositories. You need to compile only if the version in your software-center is old and hasn't been updated even though your system supports it. Now, let's learn how to compile things from the source. 1. PREPARING YOUR SYSTEM FOR BUILDING PACKAGES: In order to compile we need some tools. By default, Ubuntu doesn't come with these tools. So we need to install these tools. Let's do this the easy way. Open a terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+T or search for it in the dash. Now type the following in the terminal: sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall And since you may want to get code from some projects with no released version, you should install appropriate version management software. So, type the following in...

Alert me when a Wi-Fi network is detected In this post I will tell you how to get alerted whenever a Wi-Fi network is detected. First you have to copy the following script and save in an empty document. #!/bin/bash #wifidetect - Alert when new wireless #Licensed under the standard MIT license: #Copyright 2013 Radu Rădeanu (http://askubuntu.com/users/147044/). #Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: #The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. #THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRAN...