Archive for the ‘Tips & How-To's’ Category
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The release KDE4 brought in the new kickoff menu, the slab-style menu which was first introduced in openSUSE 10.2. The premise is simple - instead of unfolding menu after menu, the submenu opens within the menu itself. What makes the Kickoff a killer is the inclusion of search.
While I love ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Plasmoids are the little widgets that have made an appearance with KDE4. Plasmoids can basically do anything - from displaying your desktop and associated wallpaper to showing your laptop's battery level,or even display the latest comics or post a tweet to twitter. While KDE 4 comes with some plasmoids, you ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Due to weird-ass PolicyKit rules, you may not be able to mount external drives - such as USB Hard drives, Pen drives, or other mass storage drives. while the drive gets recognised, on trying to mount you'll end up with this error:
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
This is because of a ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
One of the heavily improved aspects of openSUSE 11 is the package manager and the way packages and repositories are handled. Although YaST [Yet Another Setup Tool, openSUSE's system admin/configuration tool] is no longer the slow poke that it used to be, its still no match in terms of speed ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Amarok is probably amongst the best audio player and jukebox software, bar none. This feature rich software is also very flexible and extensible. By making use of third party scripts (and writing your own, if you know, say Python or Ruby) you can enrich your experience your Amarok experience. Here’s ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
In this day modern day, most software installations can be done using repositories and package managers. However, you might face a situation of having only the source files availalble with you – you probably would want to try out bleeding edge software, which hasn’t been packaged yet, or isn’t available ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
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 ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
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 ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
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 ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
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 ...
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