Order Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) CDs for FREE!
Great news for Ubuntu lovers, the ShipIt site of Ubuntu have started accepting advanced order for Ubuntu 7.04 code named as “Feisty Fawn”. You can also order Kubuntu and Edubuntu CDs. Ubuntu 7.04, the...
View ArticleDual-booter’s Dilemma
Do you dual-boot Windows and Linux on your computer? Then you may have faced this issue: you have a working copy of both Windows and Linux, but one fine day, when you reinstall Windows, you can no...
View ArticleLinux/Fedora 7 and ATI Graphics Card.. eh ?
Hello windows users!, and hello fellow Linux (in particular Fedora 7) users 😉 Yeah, I just installed Fedora 7 on my new Sony Vaio laptop, and it works great. I still have to figure out few new things,...
View ArticleHumanized Enso.. Err.. ?
For those who are a fan of yakuake terminal on GNU/Linux systems, Humanized has something serious to offer for windows platform with Enso. Although the program seems fairly simple it works wonders for...
View ArticleHow to make your Linux applications use proxy
Hi, If you are frustrated by Linux and your college’s network, which is windows based or sysadmins can help you with windows only, and sysadmins for a request call, replies as “use Windows”. If you are...
View ArticleNTLM authentication proxies
continuing from the last post. If your network is all Windows based, then using the tricks mentioned in the previous post are of no use to you. That’s because Windows servers use NTLM authentication....
View ArticleMake a Live USB disk for any Linux distribution
How many of you feel frustrated having to burn a CD/DVD every time you want to try on a new OS? Well UNetbootin helps create bootable USB drives, which you can use either as a live CD or as an...
View ArticleHow to make your Linux applications use proxy
How to make linux use proxy servers. Good when you don't have control over your network
View ArticleLinux on the Desktop still unpolished
This week, I installed Linux Mint for my girlfriend after her Windows installation crashed. The idea was to temporarily use Linux until the new (and bigger) harddrive that we ordered would arrive....
View ArticleBypassing the DELL unrecognized adapter issue
Dell is notoriously infamous for selling adapters that tend to go bad after few years of heavy usage. In the last 3 years of my laptop use, I’ve already had to change my adapter thrice due to an...
View ArticleWorking together on text and source code with Gobby and infinoted
Work together on source code, just like Google Docs, but now with syntax highlighting and using your own server. You instantanuously see what others are doing, you can chat with them, and you can...
View ArticleInstalling transmission and dnsmasq on a NAS
Introduction In our student’s dorm, we want to share files. We also have one shared internet connection using ADSL. The download speed is OK, but the uplink is weak. Many students like to use...
View ArticleHorizontal Scrolling for MySQL queries in Linux
Everyone who works with databases on a linux terminal faces this issue at some point in time — executing select * on a table with too many columns. And in linux since there is no horizontal scrolling,...
View ArticleBest free productivity Android Apps for S3
Now that you just got yourself one of the best smartphones around the Samsung Galaxy SIII it is time to start installing apps on it. Galaxy S III already comes pre-installed with apps like. Google...
View ArticleInstalling Haiku directly to a disk partition
Introduction Haiku is something like Windows or Linux: an Operating System (OS). Some geeks like to play with alternative operating systems; it you are one of such geeks, you might want to give Haiku a...
View ArticleHow to add a custom filetype to Linux
In this example, we will add support for MHTML / MHT files. Note that the MIME type for MHTML is not well agreed upon. Used MIME types include: multipart/related application/x-mimearchive...
View ArticleF.lux or no F.lux and Linux!
I’ve been using a program called F.lux or Flux for over a year now. The program is based on the research that blue light keeps you awake and alert. Not something that you’d want at night. So this...
View Articlenofail and nobootwait mount options in fstab prevent boot problems
Problem description: You (re)boot your computer, e.g. a headless server. The boot process can halt or exit to rescue mode when an external disk is unavailable or when an internal but non-critical disk...
View ArticleInstallation notes for Postfix, SASL and Unbound on RHEL 6
Today I finished installing and configuring a filtering mailserver that does virus- and spamfiltering. In fact, it only does filtering, and then passes the mail on to internal mail servers. I hit a few...
View ArticleWatch Cricket World Cup 2015 online
Disclaimer – This post is purely for academic and curiosity’s sake. This is most likely not legal and should be approached appropriately. This howto guide is going to be quite technical and I don’t...
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