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, July 7th, 2008
Admin's Note: This is a guest post by Aditya. Though this post was drafted on 1st July, my work commitments and rather bad memory prevented this post being published. Due apologies.
I know that a title is a bit harsh but I am afraid it is true.
First lets get into some ...
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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?
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "So Why is ACPI Such A ...
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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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Friday, June 20th, 2008
After a long, long wait for SUSE maniacs like me, its finally here: Presenting the latest version of openSUSE, openSUSE 11.0
The new version features a slick shiny new installer, updated KDE 4.0.4, GNOME 2.22, Kernel version 2.6.25. If you’re still hesitant to jump to KDE4.0, you can use KDE 3.5.9 ...
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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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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Moblin is an open source initiative bringing developers together all over the world to create rich media and internet experience based on Linux operating systems for Intel Atom processors.
Moblin event will be conducted in Hyderabad on June 26th, 2008 and in Chennai on June 27th, 2008.
Register for the event, or ...
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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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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
I'd posted previously on How to install Fedora 8 on USB pen drive. Now that Fedora 9 is out, Kevin Purdy over at Lifehacker has post how-to do the same for Fedora 9.
A quick excerpt:
Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Debian and other debian-based distros like Ubuntu have, by default, has the root account disabled as a security measure.(thanks to Subbu and PICCORO for the clarification)
To re-enable the root account, just open the command prompt, and type
sudo passwd root
You'll get the following set of messages:
sathya@sathya-laptop:~$ sudo passwd root
Enter new UNIX ...
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