Howto'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.

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 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 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 make your Ubuntu 9.10 an Ubuntu Electronics Remix

Written on January 24th, 2010 at 16:56 pm by shredder12

The project, Ubuntu Electronics Remix, received a huge response from the followers and because of a lot of downloads of the ISO, the monthly bandwidth was exhausted. They are trying to set up a torrent and mirrors to help their users. But in the meanwhile, if you are already using Ubuntu 9.10 you can make your own Ubuntu Electronics Remix. Let me show you how to do that.

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.

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 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 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".

How to install Firefox 3.6 in OpenSuse, Fedora and Ubuntu

Written on January 24th, 2010 at 00:52 am by shredder12

If you have not been sleeping for the last 2 days, you would know that Firefox 3.6 is out now. Because of its new amazing features and customizable capabilities, I am sure all of you would want to try it out badly. So, in this howto I will tell you how to install it in most of the popular Linux distros.

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