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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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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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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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
It's the season of Linux distribution releases! Ubuntu was released about 3 weeks ago, and now it's time for Fedora 9, aka "Sulphur". So What's new?
PackageKit
Much Like Ubuntu's Add/Remove Programs, Fedora gets a similar one, known as "PacakgeKit".PackageKit is a cross-distribution package management solution that has a complete yum ...
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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
Project Neon is the codename for a nightly build service for Amarok 2.
Neon is intended to be used by everyone who wants to help us find bugs, keep track of development, join development or just wants to live on the bleeding edge. It is not intended to be used instead ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Ever since being introduced to Twitter by Preshit, I've been addicted to twitter. While I prefer tweeting via IM or Twitter's homepage, Few of you would love to use a twitter client. Here's a list of some twitter clients for Linux
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Comprehensive List of Twitter Clients For Linux", ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Quite a lot of people have been waiting for the latest release of Ubuntu, version 8.04 dubbed the "Hardy Heron" - primarily because it's a LTS release. So how does the Hardy Heron stack up? I decided to jump into the Hardy Heron brigade and have a look. Is it ...
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