Posts in the "Linux" Category

  • Blog from your Ubuntu Desktop

    There is a small utility in Ubuntu called Gnome Blog which allows you to blog directly from your desktop. If you are running firefox on Ubuntu, click on this link to install the package or enter the following command in your terminal sudo apt-get install gnome-blog Once installed, right click on an empty area on [...]

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  • winetricks – Get libraries in Wine the easy way

    If you use a lot of windows apps using wine, here’s a script which may help you getting those elusive fonts and libraries to get the apps working in wine. “winetricks is a quick and dirty script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries sometimes needed to run programs in Wine.” To get winetricks [...]

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  • Back on Ubuntu on a Dell Vostro 1510

    I just got one from a new lot of Dell Vostro laptops at office, and spent a day setting up and configuring Ubuntu on it. Hardy Heron seems to have improved on most fronts during the fresh install and the only thing which didn’t work out of the box was the WIFI connection. I wonder [...]

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  • Goosh.org – Google Shell

    was quite amused with this  site I came across today:  Goosh.org is a browser based shell for Google created by Stefan Grothkopp. You can use this to search across Google’s various services like images, blog search, wiki, news and more. You can use the up and down arrow keys for previous commands and use the [...]

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  • Image by °Florian via Flickr Ubuntu’s latest and greatest version, Hardy Heron was released last night. Just couldn’t access the Ubuntu site just after the release. Started downloading the new release a few minutes back, all the download mirrors are either slow or crawling – have to switch to torrents to download. Get your downloads [...]

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  • Hardy Heron is just hours from getting released. Congratulations to the Ubuntu team in advance on getting this release out. Can’t wait to get a hold of this release. For those of you who’re planning on upgrading to this new version from your existing 7.10 release, here’s a set of handy instructions from ubuntu-tutorials.com to [...]

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  • Ubuntu Tweak – Let’s tweak ubuntu!

    A quick and easy way to tweak your Ubuntu settings. Ubuntu Tweak allows you to tweak your security settings, CD burning properties like overburn and Burn Proof technolog and tweaks for gnome, nautilus and more. Links: Get the 32bit version Get the AMD64 Bit version Ubuntu Tweak Project Site

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  • If you’re looking for the easiest way to install the PHP Java Bridge in Ubuntu, follow these simple steps: If you don’t have Java Installed on your machine, enable the multiverse option in your Software Sources and run sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun Download the PHP Java bridge deb [...]

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  • Gedit as a PHP IDE

    Here’s a cool article I came across showing you how to configure gedit in Ubuntu to become a IDE for PHP / web developers. Tips in this article include ways to customize your display optimially for PHP editing, plugins for performing tasks like beautifying PHP code, tidy HTML, check PHP syntax and much more. It’s [...]

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  • Connecting to a Windows PC from Ubuntu

    If you’re looking for a way to connect to a Windows Machine from Ubuntu using RDP(Remote Desktop Protocol), you can use the Terminal server client – tsclient. To install this in Ubuntu, type in the following in the terminal: sudo apt-get install tsclient Once this is installed you can start it by invoking tsclient in [...]

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