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Minting a freind to Linux 2008-02-21 02:22:00 My friend was looking out for a middle range Laptop and he finally settled for Acer Aspire 4520. In India it comes for around RS 29,000.Specs are ModelAcer Aspire 4520 ProcessorAthlon 64 X2 Processor - TK-53 (1.7GHz, 512kB L2 Cache combined) Chipset Nvidia nForce 610M chipset Memory1GB DDR2 (667 MHz) Optical DriveDVD Super Multi Double Layer: RAM R/W 2X, CD/DVD Read 8X/24X, CD-R 24X, CD-RW 10X, DVD-R 4X, DVD-RW 2X, DVD+R 4X, DVD+ RW 2.4X Video GraphicsNvidia GeForce 7000M onboard graphics capable of up to 256MB VRAM (shared) Monitor14.1-inch WideScreen Acer CrystalBrite LCD (glossy display) capable of 1280×800 resolution In-Built SpeakersBuilt-in High Definition Audio compliant audio chip, Built-in speaker and microphone Connectivity10/100/1000 Network Card, 56k Modem, 802.11 Read more:Linux
I know what CAPTCHA Means 2008-01-29 23:54:00 Woohooo. I was always disturbed when while posting to a Forum or to Digg , I got the error saying something like CAPTCHA. It always appeared to me like it way saying "Caught You" doing something wrong. OK !! Imight have entered wrong letter, probably wrong case ( lowercase or uppercase), but for that the CAPTCHA error was really annoying. Now that there are reports that CAPTCHA is broken, I got to know its real meaning. CAPTCHA, which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, is a technique adopted by Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft (News - Alert) among other service providers to prevent automated software programs from posing as humans and signing up for new accounts.It presents text that is easy for humans to comprehend but difficult for automat Read more:Means
Amazing Interview with Owner of Tuxmachines.org 2008-01-29 22:04:00 Guys from Seopher did an interview with Srlinuxx, the owner of Tuxmachines.org.I know the interview happened in April 2007, however, it is still relevant even after 10 months, its still fresh and its still as inspiring. I'll take a few experts from itSoepher : I like seeing how many reads each item has - LinuxToday does that and I find it comforting, especially when my content is up there! So do you run the site full time?Srlinuxx : Well, I guess you could say I work on it full time. More than full time. I can't even add up the hours I put into it, not to mention the articles I write. I update it quite often. I keep my eye open for articles every waking hour and actively hunt every coupla hours. I'm working from the time I get up 'til the time I go to bed on it. Even when I'm sleeping, I g Read more:Amazing
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Tweak PCLinuxOS 2008 Minime into Full blown distribution 2008-01-28 09:40:00 Textar and the ripper gang released the Minime version of PClinuxOS 2008 on 7th January 2008.The PCLinuxOS Minime Wiki says thatThe aim was to make a MiniMe iso that is a very basic KDE desktop cd without additional applications. It is designed for advanced users or for users who wish to learn how to customize their system with the applications and support files they want to use.The release announcement saysHere is a little MiniMe 2008 (296mb) you can play with and customize the way you want. Comes with 2.6.22.15 kernel, Alsa 1.0.15 and a very basic KDE 3.5.8 desktop. This is a minimal LiveCD that is bootable, plus it can be installed. Add in your own background, window decoration, localizations, preferred applications and supporting libraries to fully trick out your desktop. In addition Read more:Tweak
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KDE4 System Settings 2008-01-14 02:32:00 In KDE4 they have changed the KControlCenter and named it SystemSettings
.I found it to be easy to navigate and very intuitive.Lets start the visual review.The start page looks very similar to KControl of KDE3. Lets start with Look and Feel section.Appearance :: Configure Theme, Colors, Style Desktop: Configure Cool desktop Effects and Screen Saver Notification : System Notifications and BellSplash ScreenWindow Behavior : Titlebar Actions, Windows Actions, Focus, Moving Actions etc.Second Section is the personal SettingsAbout Me. Configure user detailsAccessibility. Improve accessibility for differently abled peopleDefault ApplicationRegional and Language SettingsGoing over to Network and Connectivity SectionNetwork Settings: Set Connection preferences, proxy etc.Setting for Samb
KDE 4.0 Final packages released. 2008-01-10 23:52:00 I have installed KDE 4 on OpenSUSE 10.3, you may read the detail in my previous Article. Today morning, I fired up YAST and found that there was an update available. The KDE4 packages now have version 4.0.X instead of the previous 3.97.X. If its available in YAST that means that KDE team has released the KDE 4.0 final source and OpenSUSE team is quick enough to package them.I found the package kdebase4 having a version number 4.0-1.3 against the previous 3.97.2-4.5. Same goes for most of KDE 4 packages.Now I am here in India and its already January 11, 2008, however, in NewYork it will still take more than 4 hours before the clock ticks 0:00.A strange thing I noticed is that the following KDE PIM packages are marked to be deleted. ::libkdepim4libakonadi1kdepim4kdepim4-wizardskde4-kornkde Read more:Final
Installing Latest Banshee 2008-01-10 23:24:00 Banshee is a music management and playback application for GNOME. Over the course of the year a variety of high quality, highly polished, and all around “swell” Mono GNOME Desktop applications have been popping up. As with many of these apps, Banshee has a beautiful user interface and is well architected.It featuresImport MusicOrganize MusicPlay & ShareRip CDsSync with IPod and most popular Music devicesPlay Last.fm playlistsPlay podcastsThe latest version ( 0.13.2) got released on January 8, 2008 and I was pleased to see the packages in Arch Linux. A simple pacman -S banshee revealed the fo;;owing packages will be installed. pacman -S bansheeresolving dependencies... done.looking for inter-conflicts... done.Targets: libgdiplus-1.2.6-1 mono-1.2.6-1 gtk-sharp-2-2.10.2-1
Disabling touchpad at will 2008-01-10 23:23:00 I code a lot and also write some blogs, during writing sometimes my thumb or palm touches the touchpad and results in mouse pointer moving to another window or at a different place within the same window. While coding in "vi" editor in konsole, sometimes I have even accidentally closed the konsole terminal resulting in me loosing all the unsaved work. Now I do not want to permanently disable the touchpad of my Laptop, but was looking to find a solution where I can disable and enable it at will. I found a great article on gentoo wiki where they use ksynaptics or gsynaptics to accomplish this.I followed their manual config and found it to be much simpler and easier than the GUI versions. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Add the Option "SHMConfig" "on" to the Section "InputDevice" where the dri
KD 4.0 Desktop blossoms 2008-01-09 11:09:00 I have installed KDE 4.0 RC on OpenSUSE 10.3. I was just checking the installed version and found that we have an updated version (3.97.2-4.4) of kdebase4 and almost all kde4 packages in YAST. A simple YAST update took me to a much better looking KDE desktop.The new KDE 3.97 is beautiful, more stable and a little slow. Now I have a NVIDIA 6200 with propriety drivers and Compiz Fusion works very well with KDE3. KDE4 comes with its own desktop effects. Though as of now I am not able to use them, but will soon find a way. For the time being I am loving my current desktop. KDE4 now comes with a few desktop wallpapers, I really liked the KDE4 black wallpaper. Next was the time to configure some plasmoidsKDE4 took up all the desktop icons from my KDE3 desktop and displays them as plasmoids. Henc Read more:Desktop
Konqueror in KDE 4.0 RC2 2008-01-07 20:33:00 Konqueror has the distinction of being the default file manager as well as the default web browser of KDE 3.xx. It supports basic file management on local UNIX filesystems, from simple cut/copy and paste operations to advanced remote and local network file browsing. It has support for KIO slaves and has the KParts object through which it can embed components like media player, KWord etc. As a web browser it is HTML 4.01 compliant, supporting Java applets, JavaScript, CSS 1, CSS 2.1, as well as Netscape plugins (for example, Flash or RealVideo plugins).Konqueror is a also universal viewing application, capable of embedding read-only viewing components in itself to view documents without ever launching another application.Its like the center of my KDE desktop, hence when KDE devs decided to
Installing Flash Plugin in Firefox on Ubuntu Gutsy 2008-01-02 20:52:00 Ubuntu 7.10 includes a modified version of Firefox
2.0.0.8 which hassome unique new improvements that increase integration with the Ubuntuplatform. In Ubuntu 7.10, Firefox now has a Flash
installation utilitythat will allow users to install Flash from Ubuntu's softwarerepository. It also gives users the ability to choose between Adobe'sclosed-source Flash implementation or the new open-source Gnash pluginthat replicates much of the functionality found in Flash. The Flashinstaller will only install Flash for the current user, so each usercan individually choose whether to use Gnash or Adobe's Flash player. It works like this, if we come across a site which requires Flash, then firefox gives an information about missing plugin and gives an option to install it. On selecting to install we get Read more:Plugin
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Ubuntu for Dell 6200 Laptop 2008-01-01 21:05:00 Canonical ships the (K)Ubuntu
CDs and I received mine as a New year gift. I was really excited and decided to try it immediately. My wife has a Dell 6200 Laptop
and I tested the LiveCD on it.I popped in the Live CD and it booted into a nice looking desktop. Ubuntu gave me a warning about the Laptop battery, .I checked it and was amazed. It read "Your battery has very low capacity (5%), which means that it may be old or broken. Since last month my wife is complaining about the battery problem, the battery lasts only 15 minutes. Since this problem started after the flight from Delhi, which had a bumpy Landing, I think the battery might be broken. Its amazing that the user friendly "Windows XP" could not issue such a warning, neither did PCLOS. Kubuntu or OpenSUSE, however, Ubuntu was prompt
Failed Attempt with Mepis 2007-12-29 23:03:00 Simply Mepis 7.0 got released on December 23rd. The release announcement proclaims it to be a holiday present and surely it looks like one. A quick look at the packages reveal a detailed list containing 2.6.22.14 kernel, Xorg 7.1.0, KDE 3.5.8, OpenOffice 2.3.0, Firefox2.0.0.11, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, Digikam 0.9.2, Sun Java 6.00, Amarok1.4.7, mplayer 1.0.rc1, fuse driver 2.7.0, ntfs-3g 1.710, madwifi-ngAtheros driver 0.9.3.2, wpa-supplicant 0.6.0, ALSA sound drivers1.0.15, libglib2.0 2.14.0, libgtk2.0 2.10.13, and QT 4.3.1-1.Some of the additional packages in the MEPIS 7.0 pool include:acroread 7.0.9-0, icaclient 10.6-1, evolution 2.10.3, NVIDIA driver100.14.19-1, NVIDIA legacy drivers 1.0.9639 and 1.0.7185, AMD fglrxdriver 8.43.2-1, libgnome2 2.18.0, compiz 0.6.3, and compiz-fusion0.6.0.Aft
Ubuntu Community Page on iPhone 2007-12-27 20:58:00 Ubuntu has perhaps the strongest community and the community is its greatest strength. The community members go out of their way and try to make things simpler for other users. Check out this webpage regarding using iPhone
/iPod Touch with Ubuntu. I specially liked the small directions which makes life simpler like, Auto mounting tips and integration with Amarok.Waiting for iPhone to become legally available in India so that I can also use the "Most hyped gadget of 2007".Powered by ScribeFire. Read more:Ubuntu
KDE 4.0 install on OpenSUSE 2007-12-27 20:42:00 I have previously install
ed KDE 4.0 RC2 on Kubuntu. It involved adding deb -members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then installing a few KDE4 based packages. To be true, I was not able to do that using Adept, the Kubuntu package manager. I had to go to command line and then the install went fine. OpenSUSE, however, changes the entire perspective of installing applications. Their revolutionary 1-Click install performs the job very well here too. All we need to do is to goto KDE4 page on OpenSUSE website and click this button . There are a few alternative install too; like the basic install and the KDE4 build dependency for developers who want to install KDE4 from source. After clicking the KDE4 Desktop install button, YAST2 takes care of the install and does its jo
Holiday gift for OpenSUSE entusiasts 2007-12-23 22:46:00 I just love OpenSUSE, I think it is one of the best distributions for a Linux user ( Novice or expert). For people like me an ideal holiday gift would be an OpenSUSE branded T-Shirt or a bag so that I can flaunt my association with the Green Linux Distro.The OpenSUSE Shop, presents an excellent place to get all OpenSUSE stuff. Check otu some of cool T-Shirts and Mugs. I specially liked their offering for babies -- teach them open source from toddler age. Happy holiday shopping. Powered by ScribeFire. Read more:Holiday
Reveal Firefox Passwords 2007-12-23 22:34:00 I was browsing the Firefox
settings for optimizing performance and came across the "Security tab in Firefox Preferences". I was amazed to see a button called Show_Passwords.. I decided to probe further and clicked on it, viola it showed the list of websites with my user name on it. What more it even had a button which said "Show Passwords". Clicking on it brought a dialog box which confirmed if I really wanted my passwords to be displayed. Clicking yes revealed all my usernames along with respective passwords. Now this can be handy for a home computer where if I forget my password, I can easily get it back. At the same time this poses a huge risk in Office environment, where many a times we go to get a steaming cup of coffee without locking our desktop. I know leaving the desktop unlocke Read more:Reveal
No Subject reminder in Outlook Mail 2007-12-20 02:01:00 Forgot to mention subject, while writing an official mail and feel bad later??????? Yes…. It's a concern for all…. A mail without a subject brings a bad impression on us.To avoid this, Just follow the simple steps mentioned below and see the result . Open your outlookPress Alt+F11. This opens the Visual Basic editor and then Press Ctrl+R which in turn open Project-Project 1 (left side)On the Left Pane, one can see "Microsoft Outlook
Objects" or "Project1", expand this. Now one can see the "ThisOutLookSession".Double click on "ThisOutLookSession". It will open up a code pane.Copy and Paste the following code in the right pane. (Code Pane) and save itPrivate Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)Dim strSubject As StringstrSubject = Item.SubjectIf Len(Tr
Sharp Fonts on Linux 2007-12-17 02:37:00 Linux today has very good looking fonts, however, some of the people who migrated from Windows still feel the lack of Windows Type fonts. Luckily we have two very good optionsInstall the core fonts. Usually most current distributions contain a package to install the core fonts through the package named msttcorefonts. Use Sharp Fonts
. Now which one to install is just a matter of personal taste. Powered by ScribeFire. Read more:Linux
Okular. The universal document viewer. KDE 4.0 series 2007-12-17 00:32:00 With KDE 4.0 release in sight, I plan to test some of the prominent features of KDE 4.0 and explore their functionalities.I am starting off with Okular - The universal Document Reader.With KDE 4, we will get Okular, the one stop shop for all our Documents. Okular supports the following document
types:Portable Document Format (PDF) with the Poppler backendPostScript with the libgs backendTagged Image File Format (TIFF) with the libTIFF backendMicrosoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM) with the libCHM backendDjVu with the DjVuLibre backendimagesDevice independent file format (DVI)XML Paper Specification (XPS)OpenDocument format (ODF)FictionBookComicBook Currently we might use QComicBook for reading ComicBook Archives. Plucker. Okular began as a replacement of KPDF and was part of Google Summer of Read more:series
Installing Skype 2 Beta on Kubuntu 2007-12-15 00:55:00 Skype seems to be following a tradition. They had first introduced Video chat with 2.0 Beta version for Windows. They followed the same version pattern and introduced Video chat in Linux with version 2.0 Beta for Linux, though this happen a long two years after the windows release.Whatever said, Skype 2.0 Beta has fulfilled a huge gap in the Linux world. With internet speeds reaching 100 Mbps and more, video chat is soon becoming very common and skype is the most dominant player. Skype has provided installable packages for most of the prominent distributions on their Linux beta download page.I had opened the site in Konqueror and choose Ubuntu FeistyFawn, I was expecting that Adept Package installer ( or a variant ) would open up and offer to install, however, Konqueror gave me merely the Read more:Skype
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careers morgan stanley india 2007-12-14 07:45:00 Looks like Microsoft thinks that people looking for careers
in Morgan Stanley India, should be made aware about the potential Fraud Morgan Stanley is involved in. I just typed "careers morgan stanley india" and the first result I got was pertaining to the potential December 2002 fraud which Morgan Stanley might be involved in. Check it out its funny. Google on the other hand gives an expected result for the same query.Powered by ScribeFire.
Microsoft Magic 2007-12-13 04:06:00 Microsoft makes excellent products which many people like and many disdain. Some like the cool features of MS products, some rubbish it blatantly.Most People say that a working copy of windows itself is a miracle, while other find the "features" amusing.Lets check some of the Magic
in MS products.MAGIC #1An Indian discovered that nobody cancreate a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON".This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the wholeTeam, couldn't answer why this happened!TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDERMAGIC #2For those of you using Windows, do the following:Open an empty notepad fileType "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)Save it as whatever you want.Close it, and re-open it.is it just a really weird bug? :-??MAGIC #3This Read more:Microsoft
About US 2007-12-12 10:44:00 We are bunch of lazy guys, who love technology.Regarding us ::We are software engineer working with major Technology firms.Ankur works with Microsoft and is an ardent supporter of MS, Abhay on the other hand works for one of the biggest rival of MS, IBM, and loves Linux.Often we have a conflict with each advocating respective technologies.We will each present our cases with proper evidences, though sometimes statements can be based on our personal likings.NOTE::We are so lazy that we are not sure that we will be writing blog posts every day.UPDATE ::I am happy to announce that Ankur is the lazier of the two. Till now he has not written any post.I am sure that he is working on his masterpiece, his mind works best when sleeping :)Contacts:Ankur :: ankur@lazytechguy.comAbhay :: abhay@lazytech
Three releases with very different package managers. 2008-03-16 23:03:00 This week saw the release of three very different
distributions, two of them being Linux distribution and the third being a BSD. Yes I am talking about Frugalware, PC-BSD and Foresight Linux. The reason I call them different is because none of the above implements a widely used package
management system. PC-BSD. This is basically a rip-off and easier to install version of the highly stable and ultra fast FreeBSD (6.3) operating system. The FreeBSD devs claim that FreeBSD 7.0 is faster than latest Linux kernel versions. However, FreeBSD is not so simple and easy to setup, enters PC-BSD and makes FreeBSD as simple as a windows install. The default desktop is very much like a modern KDE based Linux desktop, a la OpenSUSE or PCLinuxOS. The main feature of PC-BSD is its software installer, the Read more:Three
OpenSUSE -- thy name is stability 2008-03-26 11:00:00 I came across a lot of sites which claimed that KDE 4 is highly unstable. I even came across a post that says that KDE 4.02 is so unstable that he had to downgrade from KDE 4.02 to 4.01. I know that KDE 4 is not as feature rich as KDE 3.X but its decently stable and under no circumstances a release version of KDE 4 performs worse than previous version as far as stability
is concerned. Most distributions shy away from KDE4 thinking it to unstable or not ready for mainstream use. Well maybe its true for some unfortunate ones who do not use OpenSUSE.OpenSUSE devs contributes a lot to KDE 4 development and are the first one to release a live CD based on latest stable KDE 4. Currently KDE offers two live CD's and they are both OpenSUSE based. The installable 1.0.2 Live-CD contains only stable
KDE4 - Kalzium 2008-03-29 02:58:00 KDE4 is the latest and greatest in Desktop Environment ( Yeah, I like to use that phrase). Its is not as user friendly or as stable as KDE 3.X but displays the promise to be the best in its class. KDE 4 has many usability and eye candy improvement over KDE 3.X and I hope to see a lot of them in KDE 4.1.Apart from those KDE 4 has also improved many KDE applications and introduced a few new ones. I am planning to start a series wherein I'll try to look at some of the non-core KDE applications. I am starting with KDE Education package and Kalzium in particular. Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database. With the merging of Eqchem with Kalzium, we can now even calculate c
Home Network Security- Part2 SNORT 2008-04-01 01:04:00 The first part of my article on Network security dealt with setting up a firewall in OpenSUSE. Continuing with the same, lets discuss the Security cameras in OpenSUSE. The Intrusion prevention system (IPS) form the security watchdogs and monitor the system for any security breach. SNORT is the most common IPS in Linux.SNORT is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system utilizing a rule-driven language, which combines the benefits of signature, protocol and anomaly based inspection methods. Snort performs protocol analysis, content searching/matching, and is commonly used to actively block or passively detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, web application attacks, SMB probes, and OS fingerprinting attempts, amongst other
Home Network Security in OpenSUSE 2008-03-31 23:16:00 As part of my job, I had to undergo a mandatory training on Network security. I went there with an odd feeling that why should I be attending a network security session. I mean I am a software developer and security is the job of some Unix System Admin. The first half an hour made me realize that it is the unsecured software, that we developers write, that makes the job of SA's difficult. The presenter gave a very simple example of buffer overflow that I almost always forget to cover. Now that he had my attention, he started describing cases where small security holes lead to big problems, notably bank frauds. He gave an analogy; Banks keep their money in heavy stainless steel vaults. However, their security measures do not end here, they also employ security camera to monitor and have arm
Firefox 3 Beta 5 on OpenSUSE 2008-04-03 13:01:00 Firefox 3 Beta 5 is released and the binaries are available for Linux, Windows and OS X. Check out the screenshot showing the latest Firefox running on OpenSUSE with KDE 4. Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others! Read more:Firefox
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