Archive for September, 2008
Get your copy of Sun OpenSolaris For Free
In my previous posts, I’d mentioned about Canonical’s Ship It program, which sends Ubuntu disc for free to your door step, Fedora’s Free Media program, which ships Fedora media wherever you it shipped. .I’d also mentioned Oracle sending their Oracle Unbreakable Linux for free(though to date I haven’t received them).
Now, Sun Microsystems joins the [...]
File Associations:Changing/Removing/Adding default applications for particular filetypes in openSUSE 11 & KDE 4.1
Consider this situation. You have multiple programs installed for a particular file type. Now double clicking it opens an application, but you want it to open in another application.
For example, you want your images to open in showFoto instead of Gwenview, so how do you go about doing this? Let me show you how to [...]
[How-To]Installing Adobe AIR and AIR Applications on your Linux System
Recently, Adobe had released the beta version of Adobe Integrated Runtime, more commonly known as AIR, for Linux. While this is indeed good news, unfortunately it isn’t available via repositories, meaning you’ll have to download the binaries, set the permissions and install it by launching via command prompt. While this seems pretty complicated, its not [...]
[How-To] Fix Nautilus File Manager Title Bar(Window Decorator) disappearing when Emerald is enabled
Most of the how-to’s and fixes posted here, are generally my experiences and I post them on how I went about fixing it. This particular how-to was mentioned to me by my very good friend, Bharath, who had this annoying problem of the title bars of every window crashing and disappearing when Emerald is chosen as [...]
My First Ubiquity Command: Lincr It!
By now, you must’ve heard of Ubiquity. If not, well read on!
Ubiquity is an add-on to Mozilla’s extremely popular Firefox browser. Ubiquity allows you to do things - say search for something, get the latest weather updates, book reviews, so on and so forth, just by typing the commands into the Ubiquity input box - [...]
How Do Different Distros fare against each other in terms of performance ?
The guys at Phoronix have written made an intresting article, comparing the performance of the Asus EEE-PC 901 with its Intel Atom processor
Here’s some quotes from the article
Late last month we published our preview of the ASUS Eee PC 901 and we shared our plans for a number of benchmarks using this netbook with Intel’s [...]
A Handy Wallpaper Displaying Most Common Linux Commands
In the past I’ve done couple of posts explaining few of the common commands. A handy one-glance reference guide is always nice, and that’s exactly what Sindhu has posted.
Have a look:
Thanks, Sindhu
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WordPress Rolls Out 2.6.2 - Its A Mandatory This Time - And How
The good people over at WordPress released WordPress 2.6.2 today. And unlike the previous 2.6.1 release, this release is a mandatory release, to fix a loophole which occurs if your blog has registrations open.
From the horse’s mouth:
If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible [...]
[How To]Automatically Backing Up And Upgrading Your WordPress Installation And WordPress Database
WordPress follows the Open Source policy of release early, release often. While this is a pretty good thing - you get fast releases to security exploits and loads of new features - but updating can be a rather problem, especially so if its something as important as your site’s CMS.
Fortunately Keith D’Souza has written a [...]
DropBox client now available for Linux!
Dropbox - the awesome online file-storage, and syncing utility finally gets a Linux client! The developers have been promising a Linux client since day one and though it took them a while to get it - it’s finally here!
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