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I found no solution. I just wanted to air my frustration that CUPS completely ignores the settings I put into /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf. Hence...Read more »

curl-loader is an open-source tool written in C-language, simulating application load and application behavior of thousands and tens of tho...Read more »

A few years back, Ubuntu was my first taste of Linux. As I spent more time using it, I found there were other "flavors" available...Read more »

Sysprof is a sampling CPU profiler that uses a Linux kernel module to profile the entire system, not just a single application. Sysprof hand...Read more »

With the release of Ubuntu 9.10 late last year Canonical introduced PPA s, which is short for P ersonal P ackage A rchives. A PPA allows any...Read more »

"4g" is very hot-button advertising term with mobile Internet providers in the United States right now. Sprint, Clear, and now T-M...Read more »

Ever since trying the Alpha of Scientific Linux 6 I've been wanting to check out the finished upstream product. Good thing Red Hat offer...Read more »

I recently wrote about Linux distributive which was derived from Red Hat once Red Hat became commercial. But Fedora is not the only deriv...Read more »

After my previous post about Android saving power with Linux governor tweaking , I did some governor tweak testing on my netbook with a twea...Read more »

IBM has recently made a presentation about green data centers. Their slides sum up most things you can do on any computer to save energy: ht...Read more »

I am sure any Linux user with a minimum of experience has gone through a number of "What to do after installing distro X ?" articl...Read more »

CPUfreq is the part of the Linux kernel that changes your CPU's frequency to save power or increases it to make your system run faster. ...Read more »

The only app that worked well in my experience was CSIPSimple. And it was easily configured and feature-laden yet small (1.3 MB) and low-res...Read more »

Now that we have our driver ready ,we need user application to talk to our device using the driver that we have written. As the device only...Read more »

Did you know that the Adobe Flash Player honors a few configuration files on the user’s local file system? There are 2 such files: mm.cfg :...Read more »

Questioning the necessity for Wayland and the wiseness of the choice has become a phenomena, especially after Mark Shuttleworth annouced ...Read more »

mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimises web pages and resources on them. It does this by rewriting the r...Read more »

The Linux world has been very talkative for the last few weeks with the news that Ubuntu plans on switching from the classic X server to Wa...Read more »

Linuxaria has a great list of fun, "different" Linux games , can't wait to try out some of them. If you liked this article, yo...Read more »

I wrote several times that I have several versions of Linux installed on my laptop. If we have a team, let's make a competition! So, rac...Read more »

If you've got a droid and some time on your hand you may want to check out this list created during the Android developer challenge. If...Read more »

Learning flash cards with your mobile phone would be great, especially when you're on your way e.g. to work or uni. With OpenCards, the...Read more »

To properly manage a PC it is recommended to know what changes occur during the use of the operating system or when you install / remove app...Read more »

I've started using Bloggers tag to split up large posts. This means large posts will only show with a few introductionary lines on the f...Read more »

You may have noticed that I have not posted anything in the last few days. Well, what can I say? My son was born last tuesday and I have n...Read more »

Check out this article on Webupd8 . But I'm sure an easier version you can just install as a normal package will come out soon as well. ...Read more »

Listen to the good sounds of that one. I'll write up a guide on RAID in Linux when I'm less busy with school, and then put a disk in...Read more »

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

Find out what I like and dislike about the android system after a critical review on the Samsung Galaxy 3. And at the end there's a list...Read more »

These are great news, and are spreading all over the Linux world. The patch , created by Linux kernel developer Mike Galbraith, is 233 lines...Read more »

PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of your pictures in just 3 steps. First select your photos, customize the motion path and render the vide...Read more »

Two things you can do. If it's generic fuse: fusermount -u -z (mountpoint, don't tab to get the directory, you have to enter it exac...Read more »

If you hit the error "glibc Error: suffix or operands invalid for `fnstsw' chnge int to short" while compliing glibc 2.6 or a...Read more »

EasyImageSizer is a simple application to compress, resize and rename Images. EasyImageSizer can reduce file size of most Photos because it...Read more »

You may have noticed the blog has been rather quiet the last couple of weeks, this is because I have been working on a project. Last month I...Read more »

Hello to all the readers! And for those who is not a reader, but will become (hopefully) soon. I realised that this blog started functioning...Read more »

The essential requisite for analysing recordings is a system that allows you to listen to them closely and flexibly, and for this purpose th...Read more »

A little bit information is a dangerous thing. This is one of my favorite quotes. Odds are you have all met someone to whom this statement c...Read more »

Keryx provides a way to download software and updates for Ubuntu systems that have little or no connectivity to the Internet. Simply put Ke...Read more »

-There is an old but good test showing you all of mplayers software scalers and how they look in the same image, here . The numbers mean thi...Read more »

Here is the full code of the driver that we have pieced together in the previous three chapters Note: The code has been tested and found w...Read more »

Byobu is manager for GNU Screen hidden within Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. It's also available through the Debian repos. If you are running Ub...Read more »

Maybe that is too late now to write about this, but anyway... What can happen at 10:10 on 10.10.10? Of course, it can only be a new release ...Read more »

PySum is an application for calculate and verify checksums. PySum Support: * MD5 * CRC32 * SHA1 * SHA224 * SHA256 * SHA384 * SHA512 C...Read more »

I was meaning to write this yesterday and before you know, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 final is out. But that doesn't mean we can't...Read more »

Introduction to GNU Privacy Guard Almost every flavor/distro of Linux comes with a certain set of tools, one of them is a powerful tool for ...Read more »