[How-to] Fix the Buggy Intel Driver in Jaunty
So this is a short post on one pestering problem. If youre using Jaunty and find this problem then use the link that follows.
When i installed Jaunty i had problems (as usual). One of them was this. First off, videos wont play in any video player. Codecs are in place, no doubt. But the [...]
Start torrent downloads from anywhere using Dropbox and Transmission
I’ve been using Dropbox pretty extensively ever since its private beta days and just love its simplicity and ease with which I can keep all my files in sync across multiple computers. Even more awesome is its simple web interface – just upload a file and boom, the file you uploaded gets sync’d across all [...]
[How To] Chat With Your Facebook Buddies Using Pidgin
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 on Facebook’s site.
Not any more. [...]
An Easy Way to Transfer Data From A Linux Based Virtual Machine to Windows Host(And Vice Versa)
In my previous post, I’d mentioned about Virtualization – what it is, how useful it is to test new softwares, distros etc. Now while working in your virtual machine, you’d obviously save some data – do some wordprocessing, or compatibility testing of your programs, just to name some, all this would mean that the data [...]
Getting your Fedora 8 Multimedia Ready
Unlike openSUSE 10.3, Fedora doesnt have the 1-click installers for easy install of codecs ,so you’ll have to rely on Terminal and Yum to get it up and running.
All the below operations require Root privileges, so switch to root first by opening the Terminal and typing
All commands under “code” will have to be entered at [...]
Find out how much space each file is occupying
Consider this situation. You want to know much space is available on your hard disk. No big deal, du can tell you the stats. For this open the terminal and type du -h. You will get the required details as below
sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads
35M /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs
177M /home/sathya/Downloads
sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu\ debs/
35M /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs
But this isn’t [...]
Teach me Linux – A Compilation of Linux FAQs and Guides
Picture this. You’re fascinated by Linux. You always wanted to try it out. Now that you want to try it out, or have tried out the LiveCD but want to know more details, where do you look for? Of course Google and the Internet is always there. But that would require the right set of [...]
The Linux Documentation Project Archive Download
LDP is a loosely knit team of volunteers who provide documentation for many aspects of Linux. There are several forms of documentation: Guides, HOWTOs, man pages, and FAQs.You can browse it at http://tldp.org/
A member of Mangalore LUG, Dr. Neville has uploaded this and was kind enough allow me to post the links here, so all [...]
5 Commands Every Linux Newbie Must Know
Although Linux had progressed far from being a command-line only OS to a full fledged totally GUI based one, sometimes, the command line is the best way to get something done. Here are 5 of the must-know commands. These commands can b quite useful and handy.
1: mount: Used for mounting Windows/Other partitions, just in [...]
