Some general questions

I have these questions i need an answer for:
1- How can i log in automatically without the system asked me for username and password? It is my machine and there is one user.

2- After i configured my nvidia card i can change screen resolution to more than 1024*768. How can i change that? I need 1280*1024.

3- How can i install .bin software like firefox, blender, Google earth, realplayer and others that are not downloaded from repository.

4- How can i save the softwares and updates downloaded from repository to use on other machine?

5- I need a proxy software like ultrasurf or hotspot shield ( windows programs ) to surf the web anonymously, is there any working under linux?

6- When i download an image or pdf file to my desktop or any folder it shows what the file is ( like thumbnail ), how can i prevent it from showing like that and to see the program icon that opens this file instead?

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Originally Posted by baistaef

I have these questions i need an answer for:
1- How can i log in automatically without the system asked me for username and password? It is my machine and there is one user.

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System, Administration, Login Window, Security tab.

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3- How can i install .bin software like firefox, blender, Google earth, realplayer and others that are not downloaded from repository.

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Google Earth and firefox are both available in the repositories. Firefox is in the Hardy Updates repository. (Synaptic, Settings, Repositories, Updates.

For Google Earth in hardy, enable the Medibuntu repository:

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sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

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Once the repository is enabled, install Google Earth (this is a metapackage, no version number required. current version 4.3):

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sudo apt-get install googleearth

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How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!: http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/
Ubuntu Guide: Hardy: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Hardy

1- System --> Administration --> Login Window --> Security --> Check "Enable Automatic Login" Select your name. That should do the trick.

2- System --> Preferences --> Screen Resolution

Other than that I am not sure how to answer your other questions. Good luck.

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6- When i download an image or pdf file to my desktop or any folder it shows what the file is ( like thumbnail ), how can i prevent it from showing like that and to see the program icon that opens this file instead?

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Open Nautilus and go to Edit > Preferences > Preview, and change show tumbnails from Local Files only to Never.

4. save the files in /var/cache/apt/ or just use aptoncd (in the repos)
5. check out squid.