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How To: Access ext2/ext3 Formatted Linux Partitions in Windows
2008-06-01 18:08:00 This is another one of those tips I always wanted to post, but kept forgetting So here goes. Unlike Linux which can mount and access Windows ’ FAT, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS filesystems, Windows is incapable of even acknowledging and detecting a Linux filesystem. Fear not, here are 3 softwares which can help in detecting ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How To: Access ext2/ext3 Formatted Linux Partitions in Windows", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/06/01/how-to- access-ext2ext3-formatted-linux-partition s-in-windows/" }); More About: How-To
Firefox 3 Download Day - Pledge And Set a New Guiness World Record!
2008-05-29 14:18:00 Enjoy a Better Web Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it?s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Firefox 3 Download Day - Pledge And Set a New Guiness World Record!", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/29/firefox -3-download-day-pledge-and-set-a-new-guin ess-world-record/" }); More About: World Record , General
Fedora 9 on a USB Pen Drive
2008-05-29 13:55:00 I’d posted previously on How to install Fedora 8 on USB pen drive. Now that Fedora 9 is out, Kevin Purdy over at Lifehacker has post how-to do the same for Fedora 9. A quick excerpt: Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fedora 9 on a USB Pen Drive ", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/29/fedora- 9-on-a-usb-pen-drive/" }); More About: How-To
Enabling And Disabling Root Account in Debian/Ubuntu
2008-05-27 06:30:00 Debian and other debian-based distros like Ubuntu have, by default, root account disabled as a security measure. To re-enable the root account, just open the command prompt, and type sudo passwd root You’ll get the following set of messages: sathya@sathya-laptop:~$ sudo passwd root Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully sathya@sathya-laptop:~$ To disable root access, just type sudo passwd ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Enabling And Disabling Root Account in Debian/Ubuntu", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/27/enablin g-and-disabling-root-account-in-debianubu ntu/" }); More About: How-To , Debian
Oracle Offers Free Linux DVDs - Oracle Unbreakable Linux
2008-05-19 12:21:00 Oracle joins the list of vendors offering free media consisting of Linux distributions - a list which includes Canonical which ships Ubuntu and Fedora under their Free Media Program. Oracle is now giving its Linux distribution, named Oracle Unbreakable Linux -Â a 2 DVD set. For support you’ll have to pay extra. Send your request ... More About: Oracle , Dvds , Offers
An Easy Way to Transfer Data From A Linux Based Virtual Machine to Windows
2008-05-18 08:32:00 In my previous post, I’d mentioned about Virtualization - what it is, how useful it is to test new softwares, distros etc. Now while working in your virtual machine, you’d obviously save some data - do some wordprocessing, or compatibility testing of your programs, just to name some, all this would mean that the ... More About: Windows , Linux , Machine , Data , Transfer
Fedora Free Media Program
2008-05-14 11:00:00 While having a look around Fedora ’s site, I came across the Free Media Program . Fedora Free Media Program is a volunteer initiative under Fedora Distribution Project that aims to distribute Fedora Media (DVDs) for free to individuals who couldn’t afford to buy or download. Local Fedora Ambassadors or Contributors are invited to participate. Unlike Canonical which ...
Fedora 9 Released
2008-05-14 08:50:00 It’s the season of Linux distribution releases! Ubuntu was released about 3 weeks ago, and now it’s time for Fedora 9, aka “Sulphur”. So What’s new? PackageKit Much Like Ubuntu’s Add/Remove Programs, Fedora gets a similar one, known as “PacakgeKit”.PackageKit is a cross-distribution package management solution that has a complete yum backend. It has been designed ... More About: Released
An IRC client in 40 lines of shell script
2008-05-13 09:03:00 While hanging out in #IndiaTwits, Shyam aka codelust brought to my attention of this post in Kragen hacks Mailing list. So I’m installing an OS on my laptop, and for whatever reason, the Debian Etch install disk thought it would be a good idea to initialize the whole disk to random data *before* rather than *after* ... More About: Script , Shell , Lines , Client
openSUSE Hard Disk Configuration Survey
2008-05-07 07:30:00 In order to optimize the YaST partitioner module for openSUSE users the user experience team decided to conduct a small survey to figure out how you deal with hard disk configuration. The survey contains some basic questions and its results will directly influence the redesign for the partitioner module. The survey will be online until ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "openSUSE Hard Disk Configuration Survey ", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/07/opensus e-hard-disk-configuration-survey/" }); More About: Hard Disk
Presenting Project Neon - Amarok 2 Nightly Build Service
2008-05-07 07:24:00 Project Neon is the codename for a nightly build service for Amarok 2. Neon is intended to be used by everyone who wants to help us find bugs, keep track of development, join development or just wants to live on the bleeding edge. It is not intended to be used instead of a stable and ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Presenting Project Neon - Amarok 2 Nightly Build Service ", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/07/present ing-project-neon-amarok-2-nightly-build-s ervice/" }); More About: News , Project
Bring Back Deleted Files Using lsof
2008-05-07 07:17:00 Found this article while going random browsing, the original article is from Linux.com with JC Lima reccreates it, with example. Definitely worth reading At first it did not make a lot of sense since unless you have the file open, this will not work. How likely are you to have the files you just deleted ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bring Back Deleted Files Using lsof", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/07/bring-b ack-deleted-files-using-lsof/" }); More About: How-To
Linux For All Is Inaugurated
2008-05-04 09:58:00 It gives me great pleasure to announce that my good friend, Kunal Gautam has launched a blog on Linux , “Linux For All - Making Linux usable for all from newbies to techies“. Kunal is a gem of a person, is well versed in all the latest techonologic trends and I’m proud to say that ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Linux For All Is Inaugurated", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/04/linux-f or-all-is-inaugurated/" });
KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 Preview
2008-05-03 22:44:00 KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 was just released, and it looks very promising indeed! Here’s what bastion of PolishLinux had to say: Desktop First thing worth noticing is the new looks of KRunner. Unfortunately, on the current stage, it behaves in an unpredictable manner. In some cases after typing one letter I had to wait a few ... More About: Preview
A Comprehensive List of Twitter Clients For Linux
2008-05-03 10:09:00 Ever since being introduced to Twitter by Preshit, I’ve been addicted to twitter. While I prefer tweeting via IM or Twitter’s homepage, Few of you would love to use a twitter client. Here’s a list of some twitter clients for Linux For those who are using KDE4, there’s a plasmoid KDETwitter - it just displays ... More About: List , Clients , Comprehensive
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Chronicles - A Look At Installation and First Glanc
2008-05-01 16:06:00 Quite a lot of people have been waiting for the latest release of Ubuntu , version 8.04 dubbed the “Hardy Heron” - primarily because it’s a LTS release. So how does the Hardy Heron stack up? I decided to jump into the Hardy Heron brigade and have a look. Is it worth the upgrade? Read on ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Chronicles - A Look At Installation and First Glance", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/01/ubuntu- 804-hardy-heron-chronicles-a-look-at-inst allation-and-first-glance/" }); More About: News , Reviews , Wubi
Test OpenSUSE 11.0: feature by feature
2008-04-29 06:43:00 Now that the first beta is out for openSUSE 11.0, you can start to dig in and really start banging on the release to catch bugs before the release candidates and final release. If you?re wondering where to start, Holger Sickenberg has put together an excellent resouce to help guide testing. Holger has compiled a ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Test OpenSUSE 11.0: feature by feature", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/04/29/test-op ensuse-110-feature-by-feature/" }); More About: Feature
Announcing OpenSUSE 11 Beta 1
2008-04-29 06:33:00 Last week, the openSUSE team announced the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! Some of the many enhancements and features in the new release include the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, live CDs and much more. What?s New The openSUSE 11.0 beta 1 includes quite a ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Announcing OpenSUSE 11 Beta 1", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/04/29/announc ing-opensuse-11-beta-1/" });
Countdown to Ubuntu 8.04: The Hardy Heron
2008-04-19 21:05:00 It’s that time of the year. Everyone’s excited and looking forward to it. Ofcourse it’s the release of the next LTS version of Ubuntu , Ubuntu 8.04, aka Hardy Heron. So what’re new features expected in Hardy Heron you ask? Well here are some of them Easier installation using Wubi Wubi allows users to install and ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Countdown to Ubuntu 8.04: The Hardy Heron", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/04/20/countdo wn-to-ubuntu-804-the-hardy-heron/" }); More About: News , Proof , Bullet
Compiz Fusion Gets New Effect - Presenting the Cylinder
2008-04-12 22:31:00 Unless you have been living under a stone, you should be knowing that Compiz Fusion transforms your Linux 2D desktop, with virtual desktops into a 3D one, complete with Cube plugin(amongst others) which transforms the virtual desktops into a cube. Developer Dennis Kasprzyk has finally finished his idea to implement a cylinder deformation for the cube plugin. The result is that ... More About: News , Ubuntu , How-To
Linux Gets Adobe AIR, Flex
2008-03-31 20:56:00 People had been demanding for a Linux version of Adobe AIR. Now now finally, Adobe has joined Linux Foundation and has announced the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR for Linux. The pre-release alpha version can be downloaded from Adobe Labs. Adobe Labs also updated an alpha version of Adobe Flex Builder 3 for Linux ... More About: News
Jacascript based Terminal Emulator
2008-03-28 09:55:00 Want to try out some *NIX commands? But dont want to install *NIX ? Or cab’t install *NIX ? Then This site’s for you: CB.VU CB.VU is a Unix-like virtual shell command line interface. See “info” for the full credentials. Try it out! It rocks! PS: do type weather, matrix and whereiam You’ll like it! Share This More About: Terminal , How-To
Tree View to be back in Konqueror in KDE 4.1
2008-03-26 21:21:00 Some good news for Konqueror fans like me! Peter Penz reports that Tree View will be back in action in Konqueror for KDE 4.1! According to Peter, a complete rewrite of QT4’s Interview(a model-view-controller framework for tree structures ) was the reason for Tree View to be MIA. Although they had intended to bring it ... More About: News , Dolphin , Back
Getting your Fedora 8 Multimedia Ready
2008-03-25 09:14:00 Unlike openSUSE 10.3, Fedora doesnt have the 1-click installers for easy install of codecs ,so you’ll have to rely on Terminal and Yum to get it up and running. All the below operations require Root privileges, so switch to root first by opening the Terminal and typing All commands under “code” will have to be entered at ... More About: Multimedia , Ready
Find out how much space each file is occupying
2008-03-19 12:03:00 Consider this situation. You want to know much space is available on your hard disk. No big deal, du can tell you the stats. For this open the terminal and type du -h. You will get the required details as below sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads 35M /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs 177M /home/sathya/Downloads sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs/ 35M /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs But this ... More About: Space , File , How-To , Find
Ubuntu Live Stats
2008-03-18 06:55:00 After few months of server downtime, Ubuntu Live Stats is operational again! The main idea behind this project is to reflect the enormous activity Ubuntu has on all fronts. Simply put, Ubuntu Live Stats gathers data from every source they think is interesting - ie, from forum, both English as well as other ... More About: General
Some Ubuntu Hardy Heron Media - Wallpapers, DVD Covers
2008-03-18 06:14:00 Well the new wallpaper for Ubuntu Hardy Heron is out. Have a Look. What do you guys think? Personally, I like it a lot. Really striking, much better than - somewhat bland wallpapers of the previous ones. But still, nothing quite like openSUSE’s artwork. Also, Madsrh has been working on the booklet and DVD inlay ... More About: Media , Wallpapers , Covers
KDE 4.1: Visual Changelog (rev 783000)
2008-03-12 05:59:00 Korneliusz Jarzebski, the autor polishlinux has posted a neat article on visual changes in KDE 4.1. Amongst new features include an option in the taskbar to Show tasks from the current screen only, ability to resize Kickoff menu. Kwin also gains the Coverswitch effect, which is a visual effect similar to Cover Flow ... More About: Visual
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Gets An XRandR GUI
More articles from this author:2008-03-10 06:08:00 Here’s a much needed feature, the next version of Ubuntu , Ubuntu 8.04 aka the Hardy Heron will finally feature a XRandR GUI. This feature has been implemented under Alpha 6. Basically this allows the user to change, amongst others, resolution, refresh rate, rotation(ie, to rotate the screen by X degrees) on-the-fly, using the RandR 1.2 ... More About: News 1, 2, 3 |
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