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If you are running a kernel module that was written before the kernel 2.6.17 was released, you might see code using the tasklist rcu(tasklis...Read more »

Not Linux related, but I wanted to share a nice HTML5 demonstration put together to showcase Google Chrome abilities on the field. I was qu...Read more »

After finding out you can read epub ebooks with Okular, I checked the list of supported formats (as of KDE 4.2): PDF PS Tiff CHM DjVu Image...Read more »

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If you get the error png_info has no member called trans while compiling directfb the following workaround might help The name of the values...Read more »

Today I want to talk about a specialist Linux distro which has saved me from pretty nasty situations more than once, Parted Magic 5.3. I be...Read more »

A popular request is to block certain content types from being served to clients. Squid currently can not do " content inspection ...Read more »

I just discovered by accident that Okular - at least in version 4.5 - has the power to display ebooks. And it does it quite nicely, too.Read more »

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To enable 5:1 surround sound system for your Ubuntu, go to terminal and open the file ( /etc/pulse/daemon.conf ) using your editor and chang...Read more »

If you are an N900 owner then you know one of the largest drawbacks to the device is the somewhat disappointing battery life. With heavy usa...Read more »

Summer is winding down and fall semesters are starting all around the country. My girlfriend started classes this week and one of her onlin...Read more »

Projects die without dedicated people to manage them and having funding for an FOSS project allows for those dedicated people to spend more ...Read more »

OutGuess is a universal steganographic tool that allows the insertion of hidden information into the redundant bits of data sources. The nat...Read more »

Ever looked at your N900 and think "You know what this needs? It needs to be bigger!" Yea... I didn't think so. I felt the sam...Read more »

But don't get too excited yet. It does not seem to be as fast as hoped in many cases and there are no Ubuntu packages yet except for the...Read more »

Ubuntu Multimedia Support Script will add Medibuntu repository and clipgrab ppa and will install the complete multimedia support. It will in...Read more »

This one has taken me quite a while to find out, with bits of information here and there. Two steps only: Blacklist rt2800usb in your /etc/m...Read more »

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Like many current Linux users, I once used Windows exclusively. Luckily, I learnt that there are alternatives that are just as good, if not...Read more »

Three easy steps: 1. mplayer dvd:// -vf cropdetect -ss 1200 2. mencoder -alang en -oac copy -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=23:trellis=1:ratetol=...Read more »

Android and Ubuntu are arguably the two largest Linux success stories to date. Ubuntu with its soaring success over other Linux-based desk...Read more »

After doing lots of google and various trials , I was finally able to get the reason for the above problem. Note: The same error can occur f...Read more »

Some people will tell you fragmentation is one of the main things that is holding back Linux from desktop adoption. Not having a unified nam...Read more »

Something I hate more than anything else in the world is a software lock on hardware I own. If I bought something I should have the right to...Read more »

Very easy once you know the command: xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1 for screen 1, xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 0 for screen 0, etc. Check this page for mor...Read more »

Install squid using your distro package management system or using source. Make sure squid is compiled with --enable-basic-auth-helpers=DB ...Read more »

Looping in Scripts Let us say that we want to create 100 files, by the name file1,file2,file3...,file100. We could execute the command ...Read more »

Ubuntu is clearly the most popular Linux distro right now, a position that far from changing, seems to be getting more accentuated with ever...Read more »

If, like me, you suffered from a number of stability issues when installing Ubuntu 10.04, the time to give it another go may be about now. ...Read more »

"If you don't like Windows so much then don't use it!" This is something I have been told more than once (sometimes in not...Read more »

If you have installed ubuntu in your system and it has a Atheros network controller ,your network card will not be detected. If you don'...Read more »

When a command in the package script returns error for some reason and the script exits with error, the package management system aborts the...Read more »

Spurred on by looking at Kongoni GNU/Linux I found myself curious and decided to investigate what, if indeed there is any, the difference is...Read more »

This is just a reposting of the 'A week or two with Kongoni GNU/Linux' article published on Tuxmachines 18/07/2010. I wanted to tak...Read more »

Screenie a small tool to allow you to compose a fancy and stylish screen-shots. It is cross-platform ( for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X ) an...Read more »

Kernels 2.6.16 and newer provide a mechanism to have the kernel drop the page cache and/or inode and dentry caches on command, which can hel...Read more »

If you're using Windows and want to make it faster, follow these steps below: 1. Defragment the hard three times a day 2. Remove the ant...Read more »

bmon is a portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator. It supports various input methods for different architectures. Various output mode...Read more »

Why go lean when you can go leaner? Ok, there are smaller, leaner distributions out there like Tiny Core or these two if you prefer a syst...Read more »

Using Chrome I noticed a lot of CPU usage with some open web pages. This is much better when using Opera. Also Chrome seems to constantly w...Read more »

Each Ubuntu release is named in two ways. The official name is the year and month combined, separated by a period. The release made in April...Read more »

Netactview is a graphical network connections viewer for Linux, similar in functionality with Netstat. It includes features like process inf...Read more »

The wait is finally over: KDE SC 4.5.0 finally came to my PCLinuxOS 2010 tablet today as part of a distribution upgrade. There are loads of...Read more »