Articles

Differences between /tmp and /var/tmp

Written on March 12th, 2010 at 04:13 am by shredder12

While reading an article today, I came across a pretty basic thing which I had never thought of before. Have you ever wondered what could possibly be the difference between /tmp and /var/tmp. Its not rocket science but there is still a fair chance that most of you linuxers might not be aware of this basic fact (just like me ).

Some cool features in Fedora 13, Goddard

Written on March 11th, 2010 at 04:11 am by chia

Recently, I have been a little out of touch with Fedora news. With the release of Fedora 13 alpha, I finally got a chance to get back to work. Went through the list of new additions in Fedora 13 alpha and as expected, Goddard has some really cool new features. I have jotted down some of my favourites in this article.

What should be the colours of Gnome-Terminal?

Written on March 8th, 2010 at 05:51 am by shredder12

While clearing out the big pile of emails today, I came across this huge discussion on ubuntu-dev -discuss list about the colours of gnome-terminal. Honestly, I never thought this could be a point of discussion at all , but I was wrong. This article is just a brief summary of that discussion. This might not look of any use but its always good(and a little fun) to know other's opinion about such issues.

Linux Nvidia drivers might also have the GPU fan speed issue

Written on March 6th, 2010 at 22:05 pm by shredder12

Just read a mail from Alberto Milone, where he mentions the warning issued by NVIDIA that the drivers 195.36.08 and 195.36.03 might be affected by the same GPU fan speed issues which were detected earlier in the windows drivers. You might not face any troubles with it but there have been a few reports so its better to be careful. The problem might take a while to resolve, so its better to take the measures suggested by Nvidia and Alberto Milone(for Ubuntu). Here I have discussed those measures.

Ubuntu 10.10 to be released on 28th October

Written on March 5th, 2010 at 05:06 am by shredder12

With around 5 weeks left for the release of Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, the release date of the next version, Ubuntu 10.10, is already available, 28th October 2010. The code name of Ubuntu 10.10 is yet to be announced. As usual, this release will go through 4 alpha, 1 beta and 1 RC before the final release. More information regarding its schedule is available here.

Unite Media Player, A Widget for Opera

Written on March 4th, 2010 at 19:39 pm by shredder12

There is now a Media Player widget available for Opera Browser, its Unite Media Player. The applications aims to provide a lot of simplicity to the user.  You can directly browser yours or your friend's music and play it right from their devices. No need of uploads/downloads or third party stuff, the music will be streamed from anywhere for you.

Ubuntu rebrands for a Fresh New Look, now with the new "Light" theme

Written on March 4th, 2010 at 02:46 am by shredder12

If you have been using Ubuntu for the past few years or at least more than one version, you would have noticed the default "human" theme. This was probably motivated from Ubuntu's tagline "Linux for Human Beings" and so most of the theming reflected humanity. Now, after 6 years of glory, they have decided to rebrand Ubuntu to a new and better theme "Light". They have prepared a number of examples to show what they really mean by this new "Light" theme, check it out you sure don't want to miss this.

Ubuntu-Manual Project has a website now

Written on March 2nd, 2010 at 19:02 pm by shredder12

All of you would be aware of the Ubuntu Manual project which aims to provide anything you need to know after installing Ubuntu. And you will be glad to know that this project has it own nice looking website now, http://ubuntu-manual.org. As of now, there is not much on the website except a countdown to the day of manual's release.

How To's

How to enable Facebook Chat in Pidgin

Written on March 11th, 2010 at 02:08 am by shredder12

I am an Instant messaging addict. Its the fastest way I can contact with most of my friends and work mates. Many of my facebook friends are not available on gtalk and I never wanted a separate tab for facbeook chat. The only solution I liked was to somehow integrate FB chat in Pidgin. I used the Facebook chat plugin but that didn't work for me. Thanks to FB developers who added XMPP/Jabber support for Facebook chat and now we can easily enable FB chat in Pidgin.

Developing with HTML5

Written on March 7th, 2010 at 17:13 pm by chia

HTML4 has served us for more than 10 years now and there hasn't been any major update in it, there is XHTML that has done a little more by making code more strict, if at all you are concerned with HTML compliance. Work on HTML5 was started in 2004 by a group called WHATWG founded by Apple, Mozilla and Opera. Most new browsers are now supporting new HTML5 tags. In this article, we will have a look at some HTML5 features which will make your web development easier and organized.

Howto: Use logrotate to manage log files

Written on February 20th, 2010 at 17:02 pm by shredder12

Logrotate is a great utility to manage and adminster log files in a system. It provides you with a lot of options, namely, automatic rotation, compression and mailing of log files. Each log file can be rotated hourly, daily, weekly or monthly. In this article, I will show you how to manage your log files using logrotate.

How to add/remove User accounts in Linux?

Written on February 19th, 2010 at 04:15 am by chia

Most of us need to work with creating/managing user accounts on a regular basis. System Administrators have to deal with this stuff on a regular basis. In this howto i will go through the basics of creating and deleting user accounts on a Linux-based system.

How to install a Software in Ubuntu from a PPA

Written on February 15th, 2010 at 01:24 am by shredder12

Whenever a new version or a new software is released it is not directly available in the Main or Universe repos of Ubuntu. They are most likely to be available in Ubuntu's next release. But most of the latest software releases are available as PPAs (Personal package archives) in Launchpad. Using those personal repositories you can install the latest releases of any software in your Ubuntu. Let me show you the general method to do that.

How to install Thunderbird 3.0 or above in Ubuntu

Written on February 3rd, 2010 at 19:05 pm by shredder12

I am a great fan of Thunderbird. I use it to handle all my mails. Since, I have Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala installed I was using Thunderbird 2.0 by default. A few days back, I thought, why not use the latest version. May be I loved its codename, shredder , but if you are a Thunderbird user then you should upgrade to this release. It has so many new features.

How to make gnome-dictionary work offline

Written on January 29th, 2010 at 00:10 am by shredder12

So, I guess I was wrong about gnome-dictionary, it can be configured to work offline . All you have to do to make it work is, install the server packages, some dictionaries, a little tweaking in the configuration and there is your gnome-dictionary working in offline mode. It might not provide all the features of stardict but it does the job.

How to install Emerillon Map Viewer in Ubuntu and Fedora

Written on January 26th, 2010 at 21:53 pm by shredder12

Emerillon Map Viewer doesn't have a stable release yet. So, it is not included in the main repos of many distros. But you can download and install the development packages. Although its always advised to install a stable release but the release 0.1.1 seemed pretty stable. So, if you want to give it a try then, in this small howto, we will see how to install Emerillon on Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" and Fedora 12 "Constantine".

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