Sep 13, 2008 | Firefox, General, linux, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
I was getting irritated while I was unable to click on the URLs found on many of the applications on my Ubuntu desktop. I remember opening such URLs on my default browser Firefox. No idea when the settings were modified.It might sound so silly issue to be documented...
Sep 11, 2008 | General, linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Science, Technical
Worlds largest physics project kicks off its operation by allowing the first light beam through its $10 billion LHC accelerator. There is an interesting news for Free and OpenSource software enthusiasts. Believe it or not Large Hadron Collider (LHC) runs on...
Sep 8, 2008 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical
Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser: -> Desktop Let web applications interact naturally with your desktop -> Database Store data locally in a fully-searchable database -> WorkerPool...
Sep 8, 2008 | Events, Festival, General, Gnu/Linux, linux, Technical
GNU/Linux Habba (held first on April 26th in Bangalore) was an experiment to introduce normal computer users to GNU/Linux. Following the overwhelming response to the event, the team of volunteers has decided to hold a similar event at Mysore on 21st September. The...
Sep 8, 2008 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
Working on Linux is more fun and working with hardware which runs on Linux is pleasure. Hpn wrote the following cartoon with his brand new Wacom tablet. Ubuntu forums has got a nice how-to for making this hardware work. It was also found that Wacom tablet works out of...
Sep 7, 2008 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Security, Technical
While working with live servers, its very important to ensure that the services which are running on them are tweaked and tuned for optimized performance. Same thing applies to MySQL, which is the back bone of many websites. One of the tools which I have been using...
Sep 6, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
Today I got a chance to test whether we could authenticate PPPoE via Ubuntu. I found that PPPoE configuration to be quite simple via frontend tool pppoeconf. I used to use wvdial command for dial-up configuration. Provide the information required by the program, it...
Sep 3, 2008 | General, linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical
Internet is in reach today. But some URL’s are way too long than what you can remember or at least easily sharable with friends. Take an example : Google Chrome Download URL (I have added some spaces to avoid CSS issue found on browser):...
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