Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Want to try out some *NIX commands? But dont want to install *NIX ? Or cab't install *NIX ? Then This site's for you: CB.VU
CB.VU is a Unix-like virtual shell command line interface.
See "info" for the full credentials.
Try it out! It rocks!
PS: do type weather, matrix and whereiam You'll like ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Some good news for Konqueror fans like me! Peter Penz reports that Tree View will be back in action in Konqueror for KDE 4.1! According to Peter, a complete rewrite of QT4's Interview(a model-view-controller framework for tree structures ) was the reason for Tree View to be MIA.
Although they had ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Via - TechThrob
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Unlike openSUSE 10.3, Fedora doesnt have the 1-click installers for easy install of codecs ,so you'll have to rely on Terminal and Yum to get it up and running.
All the below operations require Root privileges, so switch to root first by opening the Terminal and typing
All commands under "code" will ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Consider this situation. You want to know much space is available on your hard disk. No big deal, du can tell you the stats. For this open the terminal and type du -h. You will get the required details as below
sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads
35M /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs
177M /home/sathya/Downloads
sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu\ ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
After few months of server downtime, Ubuntu Live Stats is operational again! The main idea behind this project is to reflect the enormous activity Ubuntu has on all fronts. Simply put, Ubuntu Live Stats gathers data from every source they think is interesting - ie, from forum, both English ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Well the new wallpaper for Ubuntu Hardy Heron is out. Have a Look. What do you guys think? Personally, I like it a lot. Really striking, much better than - somewhat bland wallpapers of the previous ones. But still, nothing quite like openSUSE's artwork.
Also, Madsrh has been working on the ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Korneliusz Jarzebski, the autor polishlinux has posted a neat article on visual changes in KDE 4.1. Amongst new features include an option in the taskbar to Show tasks from the current screen only, ability to resize Kickoff menu. Kwin also gains the Coverswitch effect, which is a visual effect ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Here's a much needed feature, the next version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04 aka the Hardy Heron will finally feature a XRandR GUI. This feature has been implemented under Alpha 6.
Basically this allows the user to change, amongst others, resolution, refresh rate, rotation(ie, to rotate the screen by X degrees) on-the-fly, ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Picture this. You're fascinated by Linux. You always wanted to try it out. Now that you want to try it out, or have tried out the LiveCD but want to know more details, where do you look for? Of course Google and the Internet is always there. But that would ...
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