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Volume2 a must have for anybody with Windows

Are you tired of that standard volume bar included with Windows? Maybe you want to have an on screen display that shows the volume? I purchased a new Logitech keyboard and loved the on screen display for when I changed the volume, but I wanted it to work anytime I changed the volume not just when using that specific keyboard. In comes Volume2 to the rescue!

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Can’t remove an OpenVZ container? How to unmount OpenVZ container and remove it.

When you start using OpenVZ you will come to find that there are a lot of very useful command line tools…here’s a couple people commonly forget:

CID = Container ID

Enable or Disable remote desktop on linux gnome

I found this somewhere online and found it very useful. If you ever need to enable or disable remote desktop via a remote connection like ssh here’s how to do it below. This is useful if you do not have physical access to a machine which is very common.

To enable remote desktop use this command:
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How to remove user/account from cPanel backups (cpbackup)

Sometimes you may be required to remove a user from cPanel backups due to inode usage or directory size, in order to do that you can use the web interface to exclude those users in WHM, but i prefer to do everything through the backend, and for those of you who maybe want to write a shell script or something, you may need this as well.


There are two files you can use to remove a user or exclude specific directories from cPanels backup (cpbackup), those two files are:

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