Jan 11, 2009 | General, linux, Product Info, Technical
From few days, I was bugged with the same old Gnome and its sluggish speed on Ubuntu. Wanted something faster or fastest X11Desktop Environment. As Linmaya and others commented in our habba discussions, LXDE has been great so far today. Its easy to install on Ubuntu...
Jan 10, 2009 | linux, Product Info, Technical, XEN
Distro to give a try. What amazed me with this distro is the amount of localization done. New software. It comes with KDE 4.2 which is good. Localization support out of box. You can see Sampada.net Kannada website working out of box in konqueror. Also, don’t...
Jan 9, 2009 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical
The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter that uses ffmpeg to convert between popular desktop formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI, Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv) and...
Jan 8, 2009 | Events, linux, Product Info, Technical
At MacWorld 2009 Apple announced a few new changes to iTunes: First, DRM-Free music. All of it within a few months. Second, three prices: $0.69, $0.99, and $1.29. Third, 3G downloads from the iTunes store direct to iPhone 3Gs. Noah brings you the scoop live from San...
Jan 7, 2009 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
The basis of using ssh without typing your password is public key based authentication. You need to generate a pair of public/private keys for this. 1. Firstly, generate your public/private keys using ssh-keygen #ssh-keygen -t rsa You must use the -t option to specify...
Jan 6, 2009 | Books, Events, Movies, Technical
Take Down – Movie based on Kevin Mitnick, America’s Most Wanted Computer Outlaw’s capture. Book: Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America’s Most Wanted Computer Outlaw-By the Man Who Did It. by Tsutomu Shimomura (Author),...
Jan 1, 2009 | linux, Product Info, Technical
LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Kubuntu including a 10′ UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. It is stable, easy to use, and requires no knowledge of Linux and only...
Dec 31, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
Some of us find it easy to work as root access instead of sudo. To permanently enable root access to your Debian/Gnome desktops edit the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file. In [seurity] section Allow root by setting the value to True. Once you’re done with it, you need to...
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