Archive for June, 2007
Making Dolphin the Default File Manager
Dolphin’s fast loading times and clean interface made me consider to have a second look at Dolphin. So here’s a way to make Dolphin the default file manager.
If you haven’t installed Dolphin yet, install it via apt-get or Adept. More info about that in my previous post.
Then, Click on K Menu -> Run Command [...]
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Arrgggg Bandwidth Cap, darn you!!
Man, I’m so pissed off with this darn 1 GB BW cap. Yup, I’m on the BSNL Home 250 Plan with a free Bandwidth of 1GB. How the hell is that reasonable?? God damn!! I can finish it off in matter of hours, somehow been managing it for a month!! And today, it’s just 17th [...]
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A Look At Dolphin
While looking at the packages available in Adept, I saw that Dolphin was available. I was a bit surprised, considering that Dolphin is still in beta stage but nonetheless decided to have a look at it
For the uninitiated, Dolphin will be the default file manager in KDE4 breaking away from the tradition of Konqueror being [...]
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Formatting USB pen drive in Linux using Terminal
Insert your USB pen drive. Let it get detected and mounted. Open Terminal. Type The Following commands
1. dmesg |tail –> here the ‘|’ key is the pipe, ie, the key before the backspace key(the upper one, so press shift)
You’ll get something like
sathya@shaman:~$ dmesg |tail
[ 9921.681164] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 9921.681174] sda: Mode Sense: 23 [...]
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5 Commands Every Linux Newbie Must Know
Although Linux had progressed far from being a command-line only OS to a full fledged totally GUI based one, sometimes, the command line is the best way to get something done. Here are 5 of the must-know commands. These commands can b quite useful and handy.
1: mount: Used for mounting Windows/Other partitions, just in [...]
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North Carolina Man fined for using Vegetable Oil As Fuel!
Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer reports,
“Bob Teixeira decided it was time to take a stand against U.S. dependence on foreign oil. So last fall the Charlotte musician and guitar instructor spent $1,200 to convert his 1981 diesel Mercedes to run on vegetable oil. He bought soybean oil in 5-gallon jugs at [...]
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openSuSE 10.3 Roadmap
As mentioned in my earlier posts, I’m a huge fan of openSuSE and am eagerly waiting for the next release, openSuSE 10.3, scheduled for October 2007.
Heres what Andreas Jaegar had to say about openSuSE 10.3 roadmap:
We are happy to announce the final roadmap for openSUSE 10.3. openSUSE
10.3 is the next release that incorporates new features from both the
community and Novell internal development. The distribution will be
build for the x86, x86-64 and Power PC platforms.
Major *planned* enhancements are:
* 1 CD install (network at install)
* Installation of a Linux system on HD directly from a Live-CD image
* UMTS support
* Enhance zypper
* Migration assistant instlux
* Integration of external repositories
* Dynamic update mirrors
* Edu Add-on CD (done largely by the community)
* GNOME 2.20
* KDE4 preview
* Reduction of boot time
* Reduced package dependencies, smaller minimal system
Most important dates of the schedule are:
Wed, May 16 openSUSE 10.3 Alpha4 release
Thu, Jun 14 openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5 release
Thu, Jul 19 openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 release
Thu, Aug 9 openSUSE 10.3 Beta1 release
Thu, Aug 23 openSUSE 10.3 Beta2 release
Thu, Sep 6 openSUSE 10.3 Beta3 release
Thu, Sep 20 openSUSE 10.3 Release Candidate 1 release
Thu, Sep 27 openSUSE 10.3 Goldmaster release (internal)
Thu, Oct 4 openSUSE 10.3 public release
The detailed schedule - including internal test releases - is available
at: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/10.3
Michael and Andreas
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Vista + Linux/Ubuntu Dual Boot
One of the most teething problems involving Vista is that because of the way Microsoft have changed the booting process, the traditional boot.ini method no longer works. After scouring over the Internet and helping a friend over this, here a simple approach to dual booting.
In this scenario, I’ve considered that Ubuntu Feisty Fawn was installed [...]
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Wubuntu!!
Here’s something Preshit told me about yesterday on IM, Wubuntu!! That’s Web Ubuntu! Here’s what the developers had to say about Wubuntu:
“Welcome to Wubuntu, the Ubuntu interface as a website. I started this project because I thought it was a challange to make something look like an operating system. In this case i chose Ubuntu, [...]
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Multimedia support in Linux
One of the most common complaints about Linux is that users are unable to play common media files such as mp3’s etc. This is mainly due to Copyright Restrictions, which prohibit bundling of the required codecs. The following steps indicate how to get those mp3s of yours blasting:
For *buntu Users:
Well it pretty simple, All you’ve [...]
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