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Google Gears

Google Gears

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...
Wacom Tablet on Ubuntu Hardy

Wacom Tablet on Ubuntu Hardy

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...
Setting up a LAN inside OpenVZ Hardware Nodes

Setting up a LAN inside OpenVZ Hardware Nodes

Configuring server network is always a fun. There is a good chance of getting disconnected from the remote servers if you’re working from a remote place on a production server. I have worked on OpenVZ for quite a long time now. But I had never  got to...
Configuring PPPoE on Ubuntu for BSNL ADSL

Configuring PPPoE on Ubuntu for BSNL ADSL

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...

Rename file extension quickly

How do I quickly rename the file extensions? If you’re on Linux console, just run the following command inside the directory in which you have the files. for i in *.JPG; do mv $i `basename $i .JPG`.jpg; done; Yes, above command will rename all the files with...

Alert! Chrome hit by Carpet Worm Vulnerability

Ultimately nothing is secure and it depends on our risk taking capacity to go ahead with what we have got. Few of my friends from The Wifi-Hack have been quite busy testing Chrome and they also found few news updates from security hackers and watchers community. A new...