Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Friday, September 5th, 2008
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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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
It seems the past year has been the season of re-invention of menus. The traditional KDE style menu was majorly redesigned and revamped to give the Slab aka Kickoff menu.
The next style of menus comes from Cole Anste, who's put forward and implemented his version of Don Hopkin's version of ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
A lot of you out there must've read Linux Hater's Blog, a blog with (some valid) rants about what's wrong about Linux. John M Anderson ponders over what made him shift from Windows to Linux and here's some of his choice quotes
You just bought built a brand new computer and ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
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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Monday, June 9th, 2008
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 ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Enjoy a Better Web
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
While hanging out in #IndiaTwits, Shyam aka codelust brought to my attention of this post in Kragen hacks Mailing list.
So I'm installing an OS on my laptop, and for whatever reason, the Debian Etch install disk thought it would be a good idea to initialize the whole disk to random ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
In order to optimize the YaST partitioner module for openSUSE users the user experience team decided to conduct a small survey to figure out how you deal with hard disk configuration. The survey contains some basic questions and its results will directly influence the redesign for the partitioner module.
The survey ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
It gives me great pleasure to announce that my good friend, Kunal Gautam has launched a blog on Linux, "Linux For All - Making Linux usable for all from newbies to techies". Kunal is a gem of a person, is well versed in all the latest techonologic trends and I'm ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Via - TechThrob
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