Now I Know That Technical Thing Too

Booting is a process when a computer system initializes itself and loads the operating system(OS). So what happens during a boot process on a Linux machine ( this post is relevant to Ubuntu, however most systems would do similar steps ) ? When you push the power on button, the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) loads from the ROM present on the motherboard BIOS It launches the Power On Self test (POST) which involves starting the hardware specifically the screen and the keyboard and testing of the RAM i.e. main memory   Boot Loader Once the POST completes, the boot loader takes over. The boot loader is present on the hard disk and for Linux systems the common ones are GRUB and ISOLINUX . Depending on the type of system i.e BIOS/MBR or EFI /UEFI the location of the boot loader varies. For the former it is present at the boot sector and for the latter it is in EFI partition Common boot loaders for Linux are GRUB and ISOLINUX.The boot loader is  responsible for l...

The option for changing the default profile is not present in konsole (atleast not in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). It is really irritating to switch profiles whenever I open a new tab. However, we can change it via the config file. The config file is usually present in the home folder /home/username/.kde/share/config/konsolerc It will look something like this, [$Version] update_info=konsole.upd:2.9.0-global-options [Colors] CurrentPalette=Forty Colors [Desktop Entry] DefaultProfile=NewDawn.profile [Favorite Profiles] Favorites=/home/username/.kde/share/apps/konsole/Shell.profile,/home/username/.kde/share/apps/konsole/NewDawn.profile [MainWindow] Height 900=901 State=AAAA/wAAAAD9AAAAAAAABf8AAANQAAAABAAAAAQAAAAIAAAACPwAAAAA ToolBarsMovable=Disabled Width 1600=1601 You can see in Favorite Profiles, I have added a profile named NewDawn apart from the default one named as Shell. My default profile was Shell.profile which I changed to NewDawn.profile by changing Defaul...