Archive for June, 2008
[How-to] Styled Subs in Linux
This is a guest post by Aditya.
Most anime watchers who download anime must be knowing what styled subs are but for those who don’t know styled subs are special type of subtitles which have different fonts. The picture below demonstrates why exactly styled subs are needed.
Here’s a picture to show a particular video with [...]
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So Why is ACPI Such A Problem in Linux?
Anyone who’s worked on Linux must’ve come across a fair share of ACPI-related problems - lockups, standby problems etc. Some of the “solutions” is to disable ACPI support by passing the noacpi parameter during boot-up. So why is ACPI so problematic under Linux?
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Creating Your Own YUM Repository
This is a guest post by Kunal Gautam. This article is aimed at RHEL and Fedora users.
If you’ve been using Linux for a while, then you’d know how much of a pain it is to install a software which runs into dependency problems. One way of getting around this is to use a repository.
What is [...]
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Presenting openSUSE 11.0
After a long, long wait for SUSE maniacs like me, its finally here: Presenting the latest version of openSUSE, openSUSE 11.0
The new version features a slick shiny new installer, updated KDE 4.0.4, GNOME 2.22, Kernel version 2.6.25. If you’re still hesitant to jump to KDE4.0, you can use KDE 3.5.9 which comes with the DVD [...]
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[How To] Chat With Your Facebook Buddies Using Pidgin
Recently, Facebook introduced Facebook chat - which allows you to chat with your Facebook friends in realtime similar to IM, as compared to post-message-on-wall-and-wait-for-replies kinda communication that Facebook users endured so far. A slight problem would be that to use this feature, users need to be logged in and be on Facebook’s site.
Not any more. [...]
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Final To Be Released On June 17
Mozilla has announced that the next version of Mozilla Firefox, quite possibly one of the best browser out there, Mozilla Firefox 3 will be available for download on June 17. After 34 months of being under development, 5 betas, and 3 Release Candidates, Firefox is ready for release.
Firefox 3 features an extensively revamped location bar, [...]
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New Official openSUSE Forums Go Live
The official openSUSE forums has been established and went live yesterday on June 9th, 2008, providing better support for openSUSE community. The Forums merges 3 existing openSUSE forums, suseforums.net, my personal favourite suselinuxsupport.de and the openSUSE support forums at forums.novell.com.
You could use single sign-on login with your Novell/openSUSE account. Your account at existing forums - [...]
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Moblin Event In Hyderabad and Chennai, India and YourMove Contest Details
Moblin is an open source initiative bringing developers together all over the world to create rich media and internet experience based on Linux operating systems for Intel Atom processors.
Moblin event will be conducted in Hyderabad on June 26th, 2008 and in Chennai on June 27th, 2008.
Register for the event, or for the Webinar.
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The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes
The creator of the Linux kernel, and some of his choice quotes
“Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.”
“Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”
“My name is Linus, and I am your God.”
“See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to [...]
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How To: Access ext2/ext3 Formatted Linux Partitions in Windows
This is another one of those tips I always wanted to post, but kept forgetting So here goes.
Unlike Linux which can mount and access Windows’ FAT, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS filesystems, Windows is incapable of even acknowledging and detecting a Linux filesystem. Fear not, here are 3 softwares which can help in detecting your [...]
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