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Installing Ubuntu 10.10 on a Windows 7 System (Dual booting) with Radeon X300/X550/X1050 SERIES Grap

Posted 10-29-2010 at 01:16 PM by allu john sudhakar

Ubuntu Linux, just like most Linux distributions, will happily co-exist on a hard disk with just about any version of Windows. This is a concept known as dual-booting. Essentially, when you power up your PC you will be presented with a menu which provides the option to boot either Ubuntu Linux or Windows. Obviously you can only run one operating system at a time, but it is worth noting that the files on the Windows partition of your disk drive will be available to you from Ubuntu Linux regardless...

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squid server

Posted 10-28-2010 at 12:19 PM by varun kala

How can we setup squid server with 2 NIC cards??

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How to replace letters with carriage returns on VIM

Posted 10-27-2010 at 12:35 PM by xri
Updated 10-27-2010 at 12:38 PM by xri (To add categories)

Tags administration, unix, vim, words

Problem:
A text file coms with a list comes with the items separated by commas, like:

Quote:

a,b,c....

We need them in column form, like:

Quote:

a
b
c

Solution:
:%s/,/{[Ctrl+v], then [Enter]}/g

Notes:

The % before s, indicates that the range where the replacement is to take place is the whole document.
Ctrl and v are pressed simultaneously, and then the character we mean vim to use (in this case Return).
The g at the end of the

...

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Embracing distro diversity

Posted 10-27-2010 at 12:29 AM by xri

Tags distros, diversity

When using a particular distro, I've tried to stick to it, under the belief that my learning process would be easier without different directions to solve one problem. Therefore, my distro of choice (and that has been changing over time) has usually been the "best distro" at the time.
However, much later than other users (apparently), I've come to the realization that there seems to be a certan set of distros better suited for a particular job, and with some basic knowledge of Linux...

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Android Phone Application

Posted 10-26-2010 at 09:35 AM by radiodee1

I have a game on android market that I wrote as an open source project. It's still under production, but there's a barcode on the site below that will allow one to download the app if you have an android phone.

http://android-awesomeguy.blogspot.com/

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