Adobe released the latest version, Flash 10 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.

The new release brings in loads of new features, and has better Linux support as well.

Download Flash Player 10 for Linux from here.
Instructions on how-to install the Flash Player can be found here

It’s been about 1 and half years since I started blogging on Linux. I started Sathya Says as a WordPress hosted blog, and soon shifted to my own domain. It’s been more than a year now, since I’ve been shifted away from WordPress hosted blog, and ever since the inception, the theme of my blog has remained the same. Recently while having a look at my blog, I decided to change the theme a bit. After searching for a bit, I decided to have this(WP-Premium) as the theme for Sathya Says.

Coming to the posts, I realize that I haven’t been posting as often as I should, unfortunately my tight work schedule leaves me with very little time [excuses, excuses I know], I certainly will try my best to keep them posts coming.

Do drop a comment if you wish to say something, or want to leave me a word of encouragement [ that helps ], or have any suggestion.

Cheers!

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The second version of Mono, the Open Source implemention of .NET was released earlier this week. Close on the heels of this release, the folks at openSUSE have spun-off a LiveCD consisting of Mono 2.0, MonoDevelop 1.0, Banshee 1.2.1, F-Spot 0.5.0.1, GNOME Do 0.6.0, Tomboy 0.12.0,Tasque 0.1.6, Various ASP.NET Applications, Mono Debugger, and more.

So if you want to dabble into Mono 2.0 without having the hassle of compiling them on your production system, just grab the Live CD.

The Live CD is available from Torrents, Novell’s FTP server and as a VMWare Appliance.

So grab it via a distribution medium or your choice, and happy coding!

Couple of days ago, the second beta to the second version of the immensely popular and fantastic audio player Amarok was released by the Amarok team.

The second beta brings in some drastic changes, the main one being SQLite no longer being the default backend, and PostgreSQL support being dropped, in favour of a single backend, that being MySQL-Embedded platform. Other notable changes include improved scripting support, the return of lyric fetching and incremental scanner support.

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Many people would like to use windows’ softwares in linux and would also like to run games in linux using wine. Many softwares and games work pretty well and are fully functional using wine. However, people may find it difficult to digest the fact that exe icons do not get displayed. If the exe icons could be made visible, then it will reduce the need to search for the exe file and will make linux and wine more user friendly.

This idea is possible in gnome desktop environment. I seriously dont know about how to accomplish this task in KDE. Please visit here and here for complete details

Please comment on the idea and also notify me if anyone knows how to do this in KDE

I had encountered this problem on sudo/gksu not working few months earlier.

Whenever I had to open an application with gksu it did not open at all !  I was wondering what did i do. I dint know whether  i meddled with something or is it any other configuration that created the problem.

If I type sudo in terminal i get “sudo: must be setuid root”

This is how I went about fixing it:-

1. Open terminal and enter as root i.e. type ‘su’ and then the root password (Please be careful while being the root). Alternatively, you can also use ur OS’s live CD to mount the root partition (the partition where you have installed your OS)
2. Next, type chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo If the command perfectly happens then as far I am able to tell sudo and gksu should work correctly.

If anyone of you are still having problems regarding this issue please post it in comments

This is yet another of the posts was lying in my drafts, decided to dust it off and publish it!

Remember that all these assumes that your router is connected to the LAN port, if it’s connected to the USB port, then disconnect it and connect to the LAN port. If you dont have a LAN card, then consider getting one. It’s cheap, costs around Rs. 200. 

Next, it’s best to have the router configured in pppoe mode. In this case you just have to switch on the router, the router and DHCP will take care of the rest. 

If you’re unsure whether your router is in PPPoE more or bridge mode, If you have used a dialer in Windows, then your router is in bridge mode. In this case, open the terminal and type 

sudo pppoeconf

Next, answer yes to all questions and enter the username and password when prompted. 
Please note that this is a one type setup. 

To connect, open the terminal and type 

pon dsl-provider

To terminate the connection type 

poff

Please note that I still recommend configuring your router to PPPoE mode for hassle-free net connection under Linux. if anyone else has or uses a different method, then do please mention them in the comments.

If you don’t want to use the terminal for connecting/disconnecting then, follow the below steps:.
Note that the one-time setup has to be done as mentioned above. Once this is done, to create an icon for launching the connection, 
Right click on the desktop and Click on Create Launcher. In the Type dropdown list, choose Application in Terminal. Give a name like, Connect to DataOne. In the command type 

pon dsl-provider

Click OK. That's it! Double click on the icon to Connect!

For Fedora, follow the below mentioned steps

Launch the terminal. Type 

adsl-setup

It will ask for

Enter your Login Name

Type

<username>@dataone

for eg: if username is SathyaSays then enter 
SathyaSays@dataone for username 
Next it will ask for

Interface

Type

/dev/eth0

<– note it is eth0(ie, the number 0, not the letter o) 

Next when prompted for 

Enter the demand value

just press enter 

Next it will ask 

Please enter the IP address of your ISP’s primary DNS server

Just type server
Next it will ask for

PASSWORD

Enter the password of your Dataone/DSL account

Next, it will ask for

USERCTRL

type yes or just press enter 
Next it will ask for

FIREWALLING

type 1
Finally it will ask for 

Do you want to start this connection at boot time?

Type

no

This is the one type setup. 
To start the connection type 
adsl-start

To terminate the connection type 
adsl-stop
To know the status of the connection type 
adsl-status

This is just a casual how to for people who love customisation. As of today the most wanted OS look and feel are that of  Windows Vista and MAC OS X. Have a look at this post Damien has written on MakeTechEasier, will help you get that OS X look.                                

The above guide is really excellent and provides the tiniest details for perfecting the customisation. I loved the above guide a lot and I hope so will you.

Finally, I would like to give you a small tip. I encountered certain problems with customising awn dock. The theme specified for the dock did not give a complete imitation of mac dock. Also, the stacks did not work for me. So, in case anyone encountering same problem please use cairo-dock instead of awn. Because, in cairo-dock the imitation of mac dock is done well, it is more customisable than awn dock and stacks applet is aslo available for cairo-dock.

In my stash of ebooks, quite a few of them are in chm (compiled HTML) file format. Being HTML files I though they’d open in Mozilla Firefox browser. Unfortunately that didn’t work, so I started looking for CHM viewers. I didn’t have to look far, a quick search on Google gave me couple of programs.

1. KChmViewer: Since I’m a KDE user I tried out this application – and it works fantastic. Really nice, and neat. Download it from http://www.kchmviewer.net/ or just search for it from your Package Manager. The latest version adds KDE4 support as well, though its still in beta
   
2. Gnochm: If you’re a Gnome fan, you can try out Gnochm as well. Download Gnochm from here.
   A screenshot: