4311 reasons to beat Green Gecko, or How I killed Live Tux

If you're still not aware, Green Gecko is logo of openSuSE distro. My acquaintance with it was even shorter than with Mandriva . From th...Read more »

My favorite KDE Plasma desktop themes

I have noticed some interest in finding out more about how I customize my KDE desktops lately, so I thought I would put together a brief art...Read more »

Firefox 4 Beta and Greasemonkey Add-on

If you are using Firefox 4 Beta (i'm using Beta 6) and want to install Greasemonkey add-on through Tools --> Add-ons, you're out...Read more »

How To Run ASP.NET applications (mono) on Ubuntu Linux - Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications. It is an open source implementation o...Read more »

Full of Little Bugs but not Without Potential - First Impression of the OYO E-Book Reader

The new e-reader on the European block was just released and while it features a webbrowser, audio player, web store next to the book readin...Read more »

Easy Administration of Ubuntu Linux using Ubuntu Control Center - Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

Ubuntu Control Center or UCC is an application inspired by the Mandriva Control Center that aims to centralize and organize in a simple and...Read more »

What's the matter with Firefox these days?

Not long ago I was still defending Firefox as a good browser that never, or only very rarely like every few months, crashed on me. That may ...Read more »

Ubuntu 11.04 to be called as Natty NarwhalRead more »

Real-time Sunlight Earth Wallpaper for Ubuntu Linux

Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and...Read more »

Linux Mint 10 Review

Linux Mint 10, codenamed "Julia", is almost here. I have downloaded the release candidate that went live a few days back and put ...Read more »

Ubuntu 10.04 does not add the windows entry to grub menu

If you installed the Ubuntu 10.04 over your windows and did not see the grub menu list the windows entry here is a work around. First hold t...Read more »

How to Disable AppArmor in Ubuntu Linux

AppArmor is an effective and easy-to-use Linux application security system. AppArmor proactively protects the operating system and applicati...Read more »

Last Tango with Manny Tux, or Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

One of my previous posts was about Mandriva Linux Spring 2010.1. That time I booted this system from pretty old 1Gb USB flash drive. The re...Read more »

Atom Power Usage Reduced with kernel 2.6.36

As expected, the intel_idle driver includes ATM-C4 and ATM-C6 CPU power saving modes in kernel 2.6.36, even if your BIOS doesn't annou...Read more »

Cheap Plug Computer for US customers

After fiding the offer for Germany, it turned out the offer for US customers is much, much better. You get it for 32 $ (free super saver shi...Read more »

Günstiger Plug-Computer von Amazon / Cheap Plug Computer from Amazon

Amazon hat gerade ein sehr günstiges Angebot (51 € inkl. versand), aber nur bei Bestellung über diesen Link . (Amazon currently offers a che...Read more »

A Banshee scream

Back when I started writing articles in this blog, Songbird was one of the applications that I covered. In my opinion, it was the best Audi...Read more »

My Desktop Screenshot - Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

Here is the screenshot of my desktop running Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) ... How does your desktop looks like? please share ...Read more »

Disabling Fsync in Laptop_Mode

There are several libraries that help you to disable fsync temporarily so your hard disk doesn't always spin up to save your notebooks b...Read more »

You tube videos watch and download tool

Minitube is a cool utility that lets you watch as well as down load you tube videos. When you run this tool you are presented with a search ...Read more »

The Lion has Lost the Magic

For a long time Apple has been known as a company that creates new and innovative products. Now if you have stopped by my blog before you wi...Read more »

install BCM untuk broadcom wireless di ubuntu

Tidak semua laptop yang mendukung semua defice waktu kita meng install ubuntu 10.04, kebanyakan masalahnya WIFI tidak kedetek yang menggunak...Read more »

Customers are always no.1

There is nothing as rewarding as "thank you" from the customer. I had a customer recently who bought a Linux CD. That's what I...Read more »

Meeting the Puppy, or Tux in canine skin

It is time now to talk a little about the cute little puppy. Of course, I am not going to talk about animals here. We are talking about Pupp...Read more »

A look at Ubuntu Tweak 0.57

For those who don't know, Ubuntu Tweak is a simple yet powerful application to (ahem, you guessed it) tweak Ubuntu. The project is a ve...Read more »

How to disable ipv6 in Ubuntu Linux

IPV6 got many new exciting features but if you are not on an IPV6 network, I don't think there is any benefit to having this protocol e...Read more »

HOWTO: Easily Install 2.6.35 (Maverick) Kernel on Ubuntu 10.04

Ubuntu 10.10 just released and it utilizes the 2.6.35 kernel, this is a good bit newer than the 2.6.32 kernel Ubuntu 10.04 uses. While ther...Read more »

Uploading Videos to Picasaweb from Linux with GoogleCL

All you need to know really is that it works via googlecl . Once you've installed that, it's as easy as google picasa post --title &...Read more »

Powertop C6 mwait record

I know it's crazy and unfortunately I had no time to make a screenshot, but I recently had a 462 ms stay of my CPU in C6 mwait. That'...Read more »

How to move the Window Control Buttons to Right Side - Ubuntu Linux

The majority of computer users today are used to the window buttons ( minimize, maximize and close the window ) on the right-hand side of th...Read more »

E17 Basics - An FAQ

I just recently did a post detailing why you should give the E17 desktop a try . If you made the plunge and are now using E17 on your unix b...Read more »

KDE versus GNOME

Open source software is intended, among many other things, as a means to not restrict freedom. Freedom to change, tweak, use, copy and dist...Read more »

Eight Reasons to give E17 a Try

If you are new to Linux you may never have tried any desktop environments beyond Gnome and KDE . If you have been in the Linux world for aw...Read more »

Cooking the Manny Tux... Slowly...

Today's post will be brief. My first acquaintance with Mandriva was brief too. Mandriva site has a unique opportunity to download the fu...Read more »