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[Today Only!] Download your Copy of Crossover for FREE!
Codeweavers’ CrossOver software, which allows you to run Windows programs on your Linux and Mac machines, has a Lame Duck offer in which for today ONLY they’ve put up unlocked builds of Codeweavers’ CrossOver for Mac and Linux, and are allowing you to download them FREE OF COST.
Make the best use of this opportunity, [...]
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 list [...]
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 – [...]
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!
New Circular Application Menu Makes Its Appearance: Presenting The Circular Application Menu
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 the Pie Menu.
Images depicting the [...]
Linux Hater? Here Comes Windows Hater!
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 want to install the brand [...]
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?
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 [...]
Firefox 3 Download Day – Pledge And Set a New Guiness World Record!
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 on your face, although that [...]
An IRC client in 40 lines of shell script
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 data *before* rather than *after* [...]
