Google Chrome - Impressions, Links And Running it in Linux using Wine
Much like most of Google’s projects Google Chrome was launched all of a sudden yesterday. Though it was “discovered” rather “accidentally” by one a Google insider hitting the send button containing the comic-book type images of Google Chrome’s workings(excuse me, a Google guy hitting the “Send” button accidentally? Yeah,right! (Santosh agrees with me too [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
