Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 1,363 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.
In other Linux distros these magic key combination can be enabled by either of the given below tricks:
1.Execute ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 1,336 views
If you are one of those guys who keep their PC running 24x7 then you must be among the same guys who end up getting a lot of swapped out memory. It can be a pain in the ass. But what if you can just dump down everything from swap ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 258 views
How many times you have to do a sudo and then see those coarse edged root programs for administration tasks. Installing from Synaptic or editing a system file using Gedit with lifeless insipid looking windows add no value to your already dull life. But fear not, Linux has the omnipotent ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009 237 views
What it takes for a Windows virus to affect a Linux installation ?
No, a Windows virus will fail in most cases. Yeah, it needs just a little loop hole to cause nuisance for even a Linux user. But a Linux system is not that generous to concede to the terms ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008 2,070 views
Some weeks back my bro switched over to Ubuntu completely. Yes, there is no dual boot system. Later my dad wanted to edit some of the Autocad files which my bro created for home plan. But then the files were made using Autocad, obviously the format was crypted DWG one. ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008 269 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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Monday, June 23rd, 2008 176 views
Updated on: 31 July, 2008 at 5:22 PM IST
I don't like the default format in taskbar. So lets try to change the format to a custom one to your liking.
Default format is Mon Jun 23, 6:32:54 AM
Lets try to make it 25th week, Monday 23 June 2008 6:40:00 AM IST ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008 127 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 253 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 ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 1,230 views
You got a pile of flv in your hard disk and you are on Ubuntu, now only if you could convert them all to mp3. There is a short solution to this problem. And now am slowly drifting away from Windows completely (duh did I say...I played S.T.A.L.K.E.R on windows)
Problem:
How ...
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