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• Free DNS Benchmark Tools – Satisfy Your Need for Speed

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 458
  Recently, Google made a big splash in the world of domain name servers (DNS), when they offered their own free (open) DNS service. Shortly after Google’s announcement, I posted an article telling you How to Use Google Public DNS on Windows 7 and Windows XP . In that article, I also explain the general idea of what ...
  5 days ago

• Install VLC in Fedora 12

  
  Welcome to Openhippo !! — Authority: 109
  Its very easy to install VLC 1.0.3 or any new version of vlc in Fedora 12 ( Constantine). These are simple three steps you have to write in the Terminal of Linux. Opening the terminal :- System Tool – Terminal open it and paste the below three commands one by one.. su rootrpm -ivh ...
  5 days ago

• Add Extra Swap Space To Your Linux Box with a USB drive [Linux Hacks]

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 458
  You must have heard about a feature called “Readyboost” in Windows Vista and Windows 7, which lets you add a flash drive or USB thumb drive as an extra drive for disk cache. By using this feature system performance is significantly increased, as the newly added flash drive increases the virtual memory of your ...
  1 week ago

• Run Live Linux CD In Windows [How To]

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 458
  The best feature about most of the Linux distributions is that, they let users to try whole Operating system and all applications without installing them locally on the computer. Linux distribution CD’s that provide this feature are called Live CD. To boot a Linux distribution from a Live CD, you have to insert it ...
  1 week ago

• Run Live Linux CD In Windows [How To]

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 458
  The best feature about most of the Linux distributions is that, they let users to try whole Operating system and all applications without installing them locally on the computer. Linux distribution CD’s that provide this feature are called Live CD. To boot a Linux distribution from a Live CD, you have to insert it ...
  1 week ago

• Docky ‘Shortcut Bar’ now Stands Alone

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 427
  Docky an AWN look-alike hits the road all alone. Formerly integrated with GNOME Do, Docky is now an independent application that has maintained many of its goodies like the in-built plug-ins and hopes to bring in more. This application is still at an early alpha level but it’s worth a try as its even very stable ...
  1 week ago

• How To Easily Share Your Wireless Connection In Ubuntu 9.10

  
  MakeUseOf — Authority: 697
  Ubuntu users are adept at fishing for tutorials and how-tos. Between the  official Ubuntu help page , the  Ubuntu Forums and our very own  MakeUseOf Ubuntu Bible , almost any problem can be solved. Almost. Recently I tried setting up the laptop computer in my office to share its wireless Internet connection via ...
  1 week ago

• ssh host completion in bash with a predifined user

  
  The eternal fight between admins and computers — Authority: 91
  If you use a lot ssh from your workstation to connect to many servers using the same user (for example, err… root, or a standard user present in every of your servers) as I do, this is a must-have :) First of all, ensure you have HashKnownHosts no in your ssh_config. Then, edit your .bashrc and append these ...
  1 week ago

• KeyboardNavigation for Google Chrome Tries to keep the Mouse Away

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 427
  After installing this extension, activate it with the keyboard shortcut Alt+G and it will put a number next to every link on the web page. You can navigate by simply typing in one of those numbers next to the link. You can also open up web pages in new tabs, press g and when “Open in new foreground tab” is ...
  1 week ago

• “Kernel-panic – not syncing : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(X,X)” error in Ubuntu

  
  Sathya Says — Authority: 103
  This one seems to be a really famous problem for most folks in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. So I had it too. The problem was on the initrd file. It is a kernel related file needed for booting. So i did a simple thing. I replaced initrd.img file of my kernel version with “initrd.lz” file from the Ubuntu LiveCD and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Create Bootable USB Drive for CentOS/RedHat

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 458
  ISO2USB is a handy utility for users who want to create bootable USB drives for CentOS or RedHat 5.X. You can create the bootable CentOS or RedHat USB drive by using your install CD or ISO image file. You can then use the USB stick to perform installations on computers which do not have optical drives. ISO2USB ...
  2 weeks ago

• A line of Code that Opens Google Wave inside Thunderbird 3

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 427
  For Mac, Linux and Windows: This line of code exploits the Content Tabs feature in recently released Thunderbird 3 . The Content Tabs feature allows you to display brows-able web content in a new Thunderbird tab – with this line of code created by Joshua Cranmer (Quetzalcoatal blog) you can open Google Wave ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Chrome for Linux goes Beta

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 427
  Linux users that want to run Google Chrome on their “healthy” systems no longer have to get the unstable Google Chrome Development Build – Google has provided a less-unstable beta for Linux and Mac users. This beta doesn’t have all the features available to Chrome on Windows like the --purge-memory-button ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mashing Twitter and FSO

  
  Random Rants of a n00b — Authority: 99
  I really love Twitter and it didn’t make any sense to me to shell out a rupee for every tweet sent through my Airtel Mobile. Moreover, I am on one of those monthly booster packs which allows you to send 22000 text messages for free. I simply had to exploit this by setting up my own little ‘OC’ twitter forwarder ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to transform Ubuntu(Gnome) into Windows XP desktop

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 458
  You are using Linux desktop for advanced features and security, but do you still miss the Windows XP looks and layout? There are many options, using which, you can tinker around and experiment with themes and icons etc., until you get that perfect XP look for your Linux Box running Gnome. Well, the good news is that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Boot Chromium OS from USB

  
  Tech Spikes — Authority: 139
  We recently wrote about the open-sourcing of Google’s Chromium OS , and if you’ve been itching to try it out on your computer, we have good news for you. @ Hexxeh has built an image of Chromium OS that can be booted off a USB stick! Without further ado, visit this page . Getting Chromium OS to boot of a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Desktop search engines for Linux

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 458
  The file system management is fine in Linux, but effectively searching the file system for specific files like mp3 (.mp3) , text (.txt), movie (.avi, .divx etc.), pictures (.jpeg, .bmp, .png) or documents (.doc) is one thing that most of linux users miss from their Windows Desktop. The inbuilt search interface in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Christmas Ubuntu Theme: for Christmas Times

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 458
  Christmas is arriving and now would be the time to gear up your freshly installed Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala system with a Christmas theme for Ubuntu. As always, I am providing a wallpaper, a login screen an icon pack and a theme for the window manager. Wallpaper The wallpapers for this theme are taken from Gnome-Look ...
  3 weeks ago

• Single Command to Reinstall Ubuntu

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 458
  Did you screw up your Ubuntu install? No need to download all the packages or get our your Ubuntu CD for a new installation. A single command can help you reinstall Ubuntu and reinstall all the packages from core and reconfigure them. To reinstall or restore Ubuntu to a factory install from the command line, run the ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Single Command that Re-installs Ubuntu

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 427
  sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a this simple command can reinstall all of Ubuntu’s distribution packages and reconfigure them. If you ever find it necessary to reinstall Ubuntu, first backup your data then drop this line of code unto the command-line. It takes about an hour for the whole process to get to an end, ...
  3 weeks ago

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