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Few Useful Tips to Help you in day to Day Computer Work
2007-05-07 20:25:00
Few Useful Tips to Help you in day to Day Computer Work Protecting your Computer (i) Before opening your CPU Box ground yourself by wearing anti-static wristband or by touching unpainted metal surface of power supply(CPU should be off) this way you can ground yourself of any static charge you are carrying. (ii) Close all open drive bays , expansion slots and other opening in CPU to

13 Things to do on a New Mandriva Free 2007 Linux Installation
2007-05-01 18:39:00
13 Things to do on a New Mandriva Free 2007 Linux Installation Mandriva linux is one of the more user friendly linux distributions available ,Right from it's earlier days when it was called Mandrake Linux (Later they changed name to Mandriva after Mandrake acquired another popular linux distribution ) and Desktop Linux was still infancy , Mandriva Linux has been very user friendly and unlike
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Puppy Linux : A Linux distribution that runs completely on RAM
2007-04-09 05:04:00
Puppy Linux : A Linux distribution that runs completely on RAM Over years size of software along with processing power of computers have increased considerably , i still remember the first Linux distribution i used was Red Hat Linux 5.2 came on a single CD , now RHEL or Fedora comes on a DVD or 5-6 Cd's , even Windows has grown tremendously in size , memory requirement have zoomed the latest
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A Casual guide to some commonly used Linux Commands
2007-04-05 04:56:00
A CASUAL GUIDE TO SOME COMMONLY USED LINUX COMMANDS (Part 1) Through this document i try to explain some of the commonly used commands under linux and their basic use In this first part of series we cover ls,cat,arch,bzip2,gzip,tar,pwd,more,mpg12 3 1. cat : ( concatenate) This command can be used for diplaying content of a file on the console, combining two files into a single file , or
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13 Applications to Install on Ubuntu running on Slow Computer
2007-03-22 20:27:00
Recently i managed to install ubuntu on my laptop(IBM Thinkpad Cel 1.4Ghz 256 MB RAM) , which was a very fast machine when i purchased it three and half years back , however things in computers change very fast and now it was a slow moving machine for todays resource hungry applications . Now Ubuntu did work well on this machine however things weren't as zippy as they should be Open Office
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Nostalgia : Running Windows 3.11 On Ubuntu
2007-03-16 04:24:00
Nostalgia : Running Windows 3.11 On Ubuntu Microsoft Windows 3.11 Released back in 1992-1994 was one of the most popular version of Microsoft Windows Operating System family that made Windows a brand on desktop computers and established supremacy of Microsoft on Desktops. At that time it faced competition from IBM OS/2 and other gui frontends like GEOS and VisiOS and of course Apple however
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software Review : Songbird - Impressive media player
2007-03-13 14:03:00
Software Review : Songbird -Impressive Media Player For Linux and Windows I like listening most of my music on Ipod or my phone , i use laptop mainly for browsing Internet , programming and some other casual work . However since i purchased new set of speaker for my laptop so i decided to play some of my collection on my laptop at least when i am working on it and my search began for best
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Thunar : Versatile and Impressive replacement for Nautilus file manager
2007-03-08 06:34:00
Thunar : Versatile and Impressive replacement for Nautilus file manager Thunar is a file manager that is shipped by default with XFCE and is a integral part of XFCE desktop environment . Thunar is developed by Benedikt Meurer and has been named after the god Thor of Norse mythology . It is similar to Nautilus but uses much less resource as compared to Nautilus , and in fact one of the goals
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Making animated movie of your Linux/Ubuntu desktop...
2007-03-05 17:01:00
Making animated movie of your Linux /Ubuntu desktop I have a number of friends who are new to using computers and as usual use windows, recently Windows Vista was launched and a lot of them were really impressed with the snazzy graphics vista offered and were willing to switch from Windows XP to Vista paying a awful amount of money (considering Linux is free) just for Aero looks that vista
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PLAYING CLASSIC GAMES UNDER UBUNTU
2007-03-01 22:14:00
Computing has evolved over the years the computers are becoming more and more powerful and the best example of this is how games have evolved over the years from 2D Side-Scrollers to present day ultra realistic 3D games . Todays gaming console possess as much processing powers as yesteryears supercomputers . However many of us do still remember the "Alley Cat"(DOS) and "Mario"(NES) and "
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13 Things to do immediately after installing Ubuntu
2007-02-24 09:48:00
In this article i describe some of the things to do immediately after installing ubuntu on your machine . Since most of the people reading this would be shifting from Windows to Linux with a system dual booting so i would focus more on making transition easy from Windows to Linux. 1. Enabling/Adding Extra Repositories Ubuntu comes by default with only some of the repositories enabled because
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Using Archives on Linux
2007-02-20 09:09:00
USING ARCHIVES ON LINUX Archi ves like tar,gzip,bzip2,rar,zip pack in a number of files in a single archive and further compresses them using various algorithms thus making the files occupy much less space as compared to original files. Linux provides a number of options for compressing the file , in the article we look at various options available under Linux and using them describing the
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DreamLinux 2.2 : Review - A Nice Linux based OS based on XFCE
2007-02-17 08:43:00
DREAMLINUX : not quite a dream but still good Number of Linux distributions just keeps on increasing, every now and then a new distro pops up claiming to be different from other but most of them are remarkably similar in features . However Dream linux was one distro I was highly impressed with to start with the distribution was based on XFCE as it's default desktop environment which was a very
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Eleven Really usefull Linux Tips
2007-02-16 17:43:00
ELEVEN USEFULL LINUX TIPS THAT MIGHT HELP YOU 1. Making linux files and folder unalterable : - Suppose one has a folder/file 'linux' and you want to make it unalterable so that it does not get deleted mistakenly. This can be done with the following command chattr -R +i [Replace this with the folder address , in this case it is /home/ambuj/linux] After completeing the step the folder
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Get Yourself Ubuntu Stickers
2007-02-15 18:11:00
Well do you take pride in running Ubuntu on your computers . If yes it's time to flaunt it get your self free Ubuntu Stick ers and flaunt that you use Ubuntu Linux on your Computer. Get it here
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installing Ubuntu on old computers
2007-02-07 10:00:00
Installing Ubuntu 6.10 on old computers low on Ram I had been using Linux on my thinkpad for over 2 years now , it isnt a piece of marvel just a modest configuration Pentium M 1.4 GHz , 256 MB Ram and a 40 GB HDD with a slow cdrom drive(hey my original DVD drive got damaged had to use the cheap stuff from market),i had used all sort of Linux distributions from from Fedora Core's to Kubuntu to
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A CASUAL GUIDE TO SOME COMMONLY USED LINUX COMMA...
2007-02-05 12:16:00
A CASUAL GUIDE TO SOME COMMONLY USED LINUX COMMANDS (Part 1) Through this document i try to explain some of the commonly used commands under linux and their basic use In this first part of series we cover ls,cat,arch,bzip2,gzip,tar,pwd,more,mpg12 3 1. cat : ( concatenate) This command can be used for diplaying content of a file on the console, combining two files into a single file , or
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Downloading and Converting YouTube Videos for Mobile Phones
2007-01-14 13:47:00
Viewing, Downloading, Converting YouTube Video Files Youtube is one the popular social networking website , but unlike Google Videos which include link for downloading videos Youtube provides no such link here in this article we try to look at ways of downloading videos on to hard disk , Playing them and converting them to a format suitable for them to be played on Mobile Phones . All these
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Playing Audio/Video Files under Linux
2007-01-09 06:48:00
PLAYING AUDIO/VIDEO FILES ON LINUX A large number of Linux Distributions these days including Fedora,Ubuntu,Kubuntu etc which have become quiet popular and are increasingly being accepted by the Desktop Users lack proper support for playing the popular Audio /Video Formats right out of the box mainly because of certain patent and royalty issue . The issue of no cross platform file
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Displaying Resolution Correctly on WideScreen Laptop
2006-12-29 11:54:00
Displaying Resolution Correctly on WideScreen Laptop Recently I made a switch from a IBM based 14” laptop to Compaq 15.1” Widescreen laptop. I had never experienced any type of difficulty in running fedora on my old laptop right up to Fedora Core 5. But Fixing screen Resolution on my WideScreen laptop turned out to be a very tiring effort. I wanted to set my screen resolution to 1280x800 which
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Installing Applications Under Linux
2006-08-21 12:12:00
INSTALLING APPLICATIONS UNDER LINUX(Fedora,RedHat,Debian ) Installing applications under Linux has been a major stumbling block for Linux newbies , even though the situation has improved with automatic installers (Like yum,aptitude,autopackage etc) but still applications installation under Linux is a tricky affair . So i decided to share whatever i know about installing applications under Linux
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Installing Firefox on Kubuntu 6.06
2006-07-22 18:58:00
I installed Kubuntu 6.06 today after receiving my free CD's from Shipit. The installation went pretty smoothly though I did notice that as opposed to previous release this time around one had to start Kubuntu to Install there was no option at the boot screen to only start installer.After installing when i tried browsing the internet , i was surprised that mature distribution like Kubuntu did not
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NTFS , Adobe Acrobat Reader,Real Player Fedora Core 5
2006-07-19 21:26:00
  1. Installing NTFS Support : - 1. Log in to linux in Super User mode or do so by typing "su" command at the console 2. Type "uname -rm" at the console to know the kernel version and
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Running Windows Applications Under Linux
2006-07-15 18:49:00
Rnning Windows Applications in Linux  Running Windows Applications in Linux  Running Windows Applications Under Linux(Part 1: Introduction to Wine ) Over the past few years there has been an
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FireFox: A Refreshing Change
2006-05-14 20:13:00
Mozilla Firefox - A Refresh ing Alternative to IE Part - I (Introduction) Microsoft Internet Explorer have been the dominant web browser for past few years. Initially it had competition from Netscape Navigator but the scene quickly changed with Microsoft's marketing and bundling of IE with Windows operating system and soon it became dominant web browser on desktop with Netscape Navigator having
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Review of XFCE
2006-05-02 20:21:00
First Impression:- XFCE My experience of using Linux on my Desktop goes back 6 years with kde v 1.0 at that time it was considered quiet revolutionary because it was a mojor upgrade to the FVWM or other window managers that were usually shipped with Linux distro's at that time. Though it was still lacking some of the usefull features of kde as in
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BlogEntry-19/04/06-Gaim
2006-04-19 17:36:00
GAIM : A brief intro to configuring your yahoo accounts The first time i installed my linux distro migrating from windows the very first software i wanted was my yahoo messenger . Though i knew Yahoo Messenger was available for linux but it was very old one with no fancy features not even a descent GUI , further if you
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