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By IsharaComix at 2008-10-14 21:42
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I tried putting up a blog earlier, but for some reason it didn't work. So I'll try again, just because Linux makes me want to start typing. This isn't one of those technical blogs I've been seeing in the bloglist, it's just a rambling blog for the heck of it.
I came to college with nothing more than 27 hours of AP credits and a dream to work at RedHat as an intern. Ever since I started, I've been downloading a Linux distro just about every week. I decided that getting QEMU would be a good way for me to test linux distros without wrecking my hardware, and it was.
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By rbkumaran at 2008-10-14 16:56
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flimp is a generic graphical frontend to the many excellent command line image manipulation tools available. It allows you to create pipelines of commands that read from standard input and write to standard output. One can view and compare the result of each stage of the pipeline. flimp leaves the input image file untouched; the pipeline is saved in a text file.
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By dr_agon at 2008-10-14 09:02
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applies to: linux, udev, permissions, device node, virtualbox
To allow raw host disk access by guest machine on VirtualBox the user must have read-write permission to all partitions which are to be accessed. You can do this by something like
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sudo chmod a+rw /dev/sda7
but executing it every time you need to boot virtual machine is annoying. You may want to set the permissions at boot time.
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By rbkumaran at 2008-10-13 17:06
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QVideoConverter is a simple video converter to convert Video files or DVDs to Divx Videos. QVideoConverter is a simple frontend GUI for mencoder which converts the videos to DivX format. QVideoConverter can auto detect the the Real Video Area and can Normalize video. QVideoConverter allows you to set the Bitrate, file size (MB), Framerate and Video resolution.
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By dr_agon at 2008-10-13 16:46
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applies to: KMail, Evolution, Perl, POP3, mail client
Unfortunatelly my favourite mail client (Kmail) cannot leave messages on the POP3 server while retrieving them and delete them later, eg. when they are moved to 'Trash" folder (like Thunderbird). The same applies to Evolution. Of course I know there are IMAP servers, but that's not the solution I like most. I also did not want to periodically erase all messages left on POP3 server. I did not find any reasonable solution, so I made it myself. It is available as DeleteFromPOP3 project at Sourceforge.net(tm).
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By dr_agon at 2008-10-13 15:55
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applies to: linux, cvs, diff
I spent some time wondering why cvs diff does not show the local files which differ from the most recent revision. It turned out that this is simply the default behavior, as described in man page:
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The default action is to compare your working files with the revisions they were based on
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To see differences with other revision, you must use -D or -r option.
For example to compare with newest revisions:
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cvs diff --brief -D now
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By sridhar11 at 2008-10-12 12:12
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Many people are put off using Ubuntu because of installation issues. Not that installation is difficult, of course, but for the true non-technical user, it’s equivalent to scaling Mount Everest.
This guide is for them. It’s a step-by-step guide to installing Ubuntu for complete and utter beginners. If you have a relative, or friend, who would like to try Ubuntu, but who is frankly scared of the prospect, then send them a link to this posting! It assumes zero prior knowledge.
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By sridhar11 at 2008-10-12 12:11
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Xubuntu is a complete GNU/Linux based operating system with an Ubuntu base. It is lighter on system requirements and tends to be more efficient than Ubuntu with GNOME or KDE, since it uses the Xfce Desktop environment, which makes it ideal for old or low-end machines, thin-client networks, or for those who would like to get more performance out of their hardware.
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By rbkumaran at 2008-10-11 17:18
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Byzanz is a free opensource GNOME based Command-Line utility to capture desktop recording software for linux. This should probably be the coolest command-line utility that I have seen in recent days. Byzanz records your desktop session to an animated GIF. You can record your entire screen, a single window, an arbitrary region or even follow the cursor.
Read @ susegeek.com
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By bhupendra at 2008-10-11 10:08
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All distros(operating systems of which there are more than 100) come in two flavors; Gnome and KDE. The major difference is in the aesthetics; in the look and feel. Most people say Gnome is more professional than KDE but it is a matter of personal preference, But then everybody knows Mackintosh is by far the better os than windows pc(Microsoft). Yet windows machines dominate the markets. You can have both Gnome & KDE installed together and switch back and forth whenever you feel like it. The links below give a detailed explanation with screen shots.
www.psychocats.net/Ubuntu/kdegnome
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