Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 214 views
The first tip is regarding password protecting GRUB entries or if you want more then lock the whole GRUB menu. Second tip is regarding what partitions you would like to mount and what you like to remain unmounted and hence protecting your important data from any kind of misuse. OK ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008 187 views
Objective:
To troubleshoot my LAMP installation and local Wordpress install not working (just showing a blank page).
How to rename multiple files the most efficient way in Linux. yes its CLI way.
A little in-depth view to above problems:
Ok so I followed the Arch Wiki to install Wordpress in a jiffy. Yeah just ...
Posted in Linux, asdf | 2 Comments »
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 2,539 views
Converting an audio or video file from one format to another format is a question that every newbie asks about.
Problem:
How do I convert flv files downloaded from Youtube ?
How do I convert rm to mp3 ?
How do I extract audio from a video ?
How do I convert that friggin quicktime ...
Posted in Arch Linux, Linux, Linux Software | 7 Comments »
Monday, July 28th, 2008 420 views
Updated on: 31 July, 2008 at 4:06 PM IST
Scrot is used to take screenshots of your desktop. Few things that you can do are:
Install it:
sudo apt-get install scrot
(Debian or Ubuntu users)
Features and Usage:
pacman -S scrot
(Arch Linux users, be sure to su before this command)
Whole desktop screenshot
scrot
Select a region on desktop
scrot ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008 251 views
So what's so good about Linux ? Why does an average Joe even need Linux ? Joe routinely browse web, listen to music, watch videos and play some games. Yeah sometimes do editing, writing and designing too. So why he care about Linux ?
I was a hardcore Windows user too. ...
Posted in Linux | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 261 views
Just open /etc/profile file and see.
some sections taken from SuSe profile
What do you say ?
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Monday, July 14th, 2008 259 views
We all live in together here. My Linux box doesn't care about if its a virus or two. For that matter viruses go bovine when inside my box. They are in aplomb harmony with other applications. Look I even gave an interface lift to one of the viruses downloaded from ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008 10,099 views
Updated on: 31 July, 2008 at 4:28 PM IST
NOTE: This walk-through is still in progress and certain amendments are being done.
So there is this new linux that everyone is talking about. My friends at Digit Forum said that this one is a killer at speed and performance. Its much more ...
Posted in Arch Linux, Linux | 9 Comments »
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 191 views
What to do if your system is not responding and gone into eternal freeze. You might be tempted to press the restart button on the CPU cabinet or will turn off the UPS.
The easiest trick is to directly communicate with the Kernel via /proc filesystem.
Press Alt + SysRq/Prt Scr key ...
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 358 views
The geekier way is to do things with command line (Terminal). sudo dpkg-xserver-xorg --reconfigure, yeah thats one of the commands to do things manually.
But an average Joe who is determined to try out Linux will find it rather cumbersome to do it the geeks way. So here is something to ...
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | 3 Comments »