openSUSE 11.3 Countdown - Get your Counter

You can help spread the word for openSUSE 11.3 before it’s released! The openSUSE project now has countdown banners that display the number...Read more »

KDE SC 4.4.5 released

Several months ago I put together a REVIEW on PCLinuxOS 2010. Those of you who read it know that I love this distro and that showed in my ...Read more »

Quick Fix for Your Multimedia Keys

If your multimedia keys give this warning in dmesg: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf7 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: U...Read more »

Poll Results: What's in your 2014 Linux Desktop?

After a few weeks open, the survey I created to find out which things people want to see implemented for the future Linux desktop is finally...Read more »

What Linux means for the Consumer - Drivers, Open Source and Support

When a consumer installs a Linux system, this has various consequences for him, which are sometimes hard to estimate at first. I've writ...Read more »

Backlight Control on MSI U110 Netbook

I've managed to get the backlight working roughly as well! All I needed to do was to load msi-laptop with the parameter force=1. The pro...Read more »

Audio Recording in Linux: An Introduction [PART 2]

Several days ago I wrote the first PART of a series of articles I am putting together on Audio/Music recording in Linux. The idea was to p...Read more »

Locking Down Linux: Is it Necessary?

One thing I love about Linux is it's ability to be modular and customizable to degrees Windows users can only dream of it. The insides ...Read more »

What is Operating System

This series of articles aim at helping the non technical people make sense of the commonly used Technical terms. Antie is a character with n...Read more »

Setting Up VAAPI Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding for Ubuntu 10.04 (example Intel Poulsbo GMA 500)

(For the more detailed  guide for Ubuntu 9.10 , which works much better for me, including suspend to ram, see here. ) This is just a really,...Read more »

‘cout’ was not declared in this scope

After installing g++ if you get the error ‘cout’ was not declared in this scope  or similar for "cin" Then the work around is to a...Read more »

Batch resize your images using mogrify

Let's say you have lots of images and want to upload them to Facebook or to your website but you have to resize or edit all the images t...Read more »

HOWTO: Use Ubuntu Software Center in Mint 9

There are a few reasons why I use Linux Mint instead of Ubuntu on my systems. That being said one of the reasons I do not list for using M...Read more »

Memory hierarchy

Memory Hierarchy Memory Hierarchy gives the relationship between the speed,size and cost with respect to the distance from the Processor. In...Read more »

How to access / mount Windows shares from Linux

Many times it required Linux users to access some share folder from Linux system, this can be achieve using mount command with CIFS. The CIF...Read more »

Preview: OpenSUSE 11.3 Release Candidate 1

Just a few days ago the OpenSUSE developers released the first release candidate of the soon to be available OpenSUSE 11.3. We are still ab...Read more »

How To Convert VMWare Image (.vmdk) to VirtualBox Image (.vdi) on Linux

First we need to install QEMU QEMU is free software written by Fabrice Bellard that implements a fast processor emulator, allowing a user to...Read more »

Zorin 3 - Distro Review

I recently came across Zorin , an Ubuntu based distro that focuses on easing a Windows user's transition to Linux by theming it's in...Read more »

Convert Linux man pages to PDF files

Anyone who are working on Linux / UNIX are aware of man pages, man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals. man is the system's ...Read more »

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Upgrade Went Fine

The upgrade went absolutely flawless for me. There was only one dubious moment: At the almost very end of the upgrade the system started cou...Read more »

Audio Recording in Linux: An Introduction [PART 1]

Today I want to start a series of articles about Music and Audio production under Linux, discussing the tools available for the working musi...Read more »

Real-time Squid proxy server log on Web Browser - SqStat

The squid is an internet proxy server that can be used within a network to distribute an internet connection to all the computers within th...Read more »

Have your IMs spoke to you with good voices

When using Pidgin, and you receive an IM, you will hear it spoken to you, even if Pidgin is buried under many windows or on another workspac...Read more »

Removing history from Places - Saved Documents

This is very simple. It works by preventing the history from being able to be stored (writable). $ rm -f ~/.recently-used.xbel $ mkdir ~/.re...Read more »

lynis - Security and System auditing tool for Linux

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix ( specialists ). It scans systems to detect software and security issues. Besides security-related infor...Read more »

Why Ubuntu is harder than Windows

I use Ubuntu on all my personal computers and I even recommend it to friends. I am starting to think maybe I shouldn't though, because i...Read more »