Nov 14, 2008 | Firefox, linux, Product Info, Technical
A neat firefox plug-in for reading favorite Kannada weekly magazine Sudha online by Sunil…Here is what he says about the plugin. You might be knowing that there is a sudha weekly (www.sudhaezine.com) that gets published. In fact, I personally enjoy reading Sudha...
Nov 12, 2008 | Books, Free Software, General, linux, Technical
Free Knowledge Institute‘s SELF Project and the Open University of Catalonia have jointly produced the book “Introduction to Free Software“. It contains all that you want to know and share about Free Software. The book provides an introduction to the...
Nov 8, 2008 | General, linux, Product Info, Technical, Ubuntu
Need a cool PDA/Notebook look for your Ubuntu installation? Then try this Notebook launcher package. It fills in on top of your existing Ubuntu installlation and gives a cool look for the UI. In a terminal type: sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list This will bring up your...
Oct 31, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
Out of memory? Did you upgrade your OS recently? Then carefully have a look at ps -auwx output for memory consumption. Today I found that initscripts package owned minilogd was eating up almost 70% of the server resources on a VPS running on OpenVZ virtualization....
Oct 31, 2008 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
It’s really cute to see the new face of gparted on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. No issues with NTFS resize. In turn it’s quite fast when compared to earlier resizes which I had done on dozens of laptops. Above is the picture of Ubuntu Installation wizard...
Oct 31, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
If you’re running out of RAM, swap and if there is no more room to create a new swap partition, you’re still left with one more option. Create a swapfile. Here are the steps to follow. Determine the size of the new swap file and multiple by 1024 to...
Oct 30, 2008 | General, linux, Product Info, Technical, Ubuntu
Ubuntu 8.10 just got released. Download the ISOs or the torrent: ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso. All the Ubuntu torrents are listed here. You can also upgrade your old Ubuntu installation right away. Press Alt+F2, and type update-manager -d Now click on the Update...
Oct 30, 2008 | linux, Plesk, QuickFix, Technical
How do I repair/rebuild all Qmail configuration files and restore settings for all mailboxes? Resolution: This can be done with Plesk mchk utility: # /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mchk Synopsis: mchk [OPTION] –without-spam – restore all settings except for...
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