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• Mashing Twitter and FSO

  
  Random Rants of a n00b — Authority: 100
  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 ...
  2 days ago

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

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 522
  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 days ago

• Boot Chromium OS from USB

  
  Tech Spikes — Authority: 429
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Desktop search engines for Linux

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 522
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Christmas Ubuntu Theme: for Christmas Times

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 522
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Single Command to Reinstall Ubuntu

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 522
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• A Single Command that Re-installs Ubuntu

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 471
  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, ...
  6 days ago

• Download National Geographic’s Wallpapers with a Command-Line Script

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 471
  Lovers of kick-ass wallpapers can grab a whole bunch National Geographic’s professional background photos without even visiting the website. You can download National Geographic’s wallpapers one-by-one from the website or use this simple script to a get a whole-them-all in one move. Web Upd8 offers two scripts ...
  1 week ago

• Tutorial Spotlight: Upgrade to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) from Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10)

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 522
  All you geeks out there, who have 3-4 boxes sitting around running different distros, here is an easy way to upgrade to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 from Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10. Please note that Lucid Lynx is in alpha, so do it at your own risk . Step 1: Open a terminal window on your Koala and type this: 1: ...
  1 week ago

• How to burn an image file to USB in Ubuntu Linux?

  
  Reflections of my thoughts... — Authority: 112
  This is a quick tip. In Windows, we’ve lot of free and paid alternatives to write an image file to USB device(e.g ImgBurn , Win32DiskImager ). Let me explain my requirement. If I get a bootable ISO image file of an operating system like Ubuntu or moblin how would you do that if you’re in a Linux environment? ...
  1 week ago

• GnoMenu 2.0 Released – Now works on Debian and Suse Linux

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 471
  GnoMenu applications menu hits version 2.0. This new version now works on Debian and Suse Linux desktops. It comes with lots of bug fixes, speed improvements, and new features. GnoMenu 2.0 has two kick-ass features. It can now be launched from AWN and, you can access your Firefox, Opera, Chromium bookmarks, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• GnoMenu gets ‘wrapped up’ in Avant Window Navigator (AWN) 0.4 Beta

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 471
  GnoMenu , eye-candy Applications Menu will have version 2.0 out soon, maybe on the 15th of this month and Avant Window Navigator, my favorite dock will soon be releasing version 0.4 with support for non composited Linux desktops. Right now you can get version 0.3.9.1 also considered as AWN 0.4 beta from PPA for ...
  3 weeks ago

• lppasswd: Unable to open passwd file: Permission denied

  
  Planet Malaysia — Authority: 107
  The lppasswd command used to adds, changes, or deletes passwords in the CUPS digest password file which refer to /etc/cups/passwd.md5. In order to create a new CUPS administrator user, enter a command: lppasswd -g sys -a username . I’m having a problem creating a new user with error message: “lppasswd: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Multiple Boot Partition Tips

  
  Silent's Spot — Authority: 112
  Yesterday, I had a chance to install ubuntu 9.10 ‘karmic koala’ on my laptop. Having read several online reviews made me rethink my strategy. Previously, whenever there’s new ubuntu release, I will always do fresh install. Now, several minor but annoying bug appeared in reviews where I had similar hardware . ...
  4 weeks ago

• Linux LiveCD Saves Windows Admin Jobs

  
  OpenSUSE Linux Rants — Authority: 126
  Ophcrack is the Linux LiveCD that you reach for when you forget your admin password on your Win32 (incl. XP and Vista) box. From the Ophcrack Sourceforge page : “Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, ...
  4 weeks ago

• grub and knetworkmanager problems in Kubuntu Karmic

  
  Shantanu's Technophilic Musings — Authority: 92
  Blog | Tech Blog | Secure Coding | Twitter | RSS Feed | Get Email Updates I generally move from LTS to LTS releases of Ubuntu but reluctantly had to update my system to Karmic when my old HDD gave in. I also thought of trying out Kubuntu (KDE based) this time as I had heard that its doing a lot of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pimping Linux with Gigolo

  
  OpenSUSE Linux Rants — Authority: 126
  As many know, one of my BIGGEST gripes with Gnome and/or GTK-based apps is their inability to NATIVELY support remote filesystem access, like Konqueror does by default, and Kate does by default, and many of the other applications built for KDE do by default. As mentioned in a previous post: “ kio-slave – ...
  4 weeks ago

• Create an Awesome Command Line Calculator [Terminal Tip]

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 811
  When you spend as much time at the terminal as I do, having a calculator at your fingertips can be a really useful feature, and the Command-Line Fu web site tells us how to create one easily. To create the calculator, you can just enter this function on the command line to test out how it works, or add it into our ...
  5 weeks ago

• How to solve a bug in Imagewriter (write a.img file on a USB device)

  
  Computer Borders — Authority: 115
  This week in our Linux Page (in Spanish) we posted a brief suggestion about a problem (better a bug) we found when you used Imagewriter . In fact we tried to write an image on a USB key but it stopped different times reporting in “Details”, as last information /dev/sdh successfully unmounted ; where sdh was ...
  5 weeks ago

• Technology: PC Tips : How to Convert a Computer Into a File Server

  
  Online Computer Science Degree 360 — Authority: 134
  Converting a computer into a file server involves first establishing a static IP address to prevent disconnection and then mapping a network drive to the server computer. Convert a computer into a file server with tips from an experienced computer programmer in this free video on computer help. Expert: Dave Andrews ...
  5 weeks ago

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