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 10, 2008 | Current Affairs, History, Science, Technical
What happened billions of years ago? Man is now trying to find an answer for the same. It took 14 years for him to prepare for this moment. Deep under the earth scientists from 80+ countries are going to launch worlds extensive physics experiment in history to...
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 7, 2008 | QuickFix, Technical
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...
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