After being annoyed looking at all those 404 messages when IE tries to access this website /favicon.ico, i finally decided to put one up. For those who don’t know, favicon.ico is that small (typically 16×16) icon that appeared beside the address bar. Since my blog is mostly centered around Ubuntu, I’ve chosen to put up […]
Today I want to introduce you to Photorec, one of the open source data recovery software available in Linux. Photorec was designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks,CDRom and lost photos from Digital camera memory card. Originally written to recover lost pictures (hence the name), PhotoRec now supports recovering […]
Iceweasel is a fork of one of the popular browser, Mozilla Firefox with the main aim to provide a completely free browser alternative to the latter. You might wonder why we need to fork Firefox since it is already free and open source? The answer is a bit complicated. Although Mozilla Firefox has been release […]
I think many of you who has installed Ubuntu, must hava encountered a login screen before you actually can use the Ubuntu desktop. It maybe not a big deal for those who don’t mind having to login first before using the operating system because of security reasons or if the pc is shared between multiple […]
Linux Mint is a variant of one of the most popular linux distro, Ubuntu with few differences. It emphasis on convenience for users to get non free softwares or softwares under patent without much hassle. For example, out from the box Linux Mint installs allow you to : Play MP3 files Watch Realmedia, quicktime and […]
I got bored one day and decided to try out some of the functionalities offered by the dict.org server. Dict is dictionary server protocol designed to give access to definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases. Here’s how I access dict.org server using only ‘telnet’ application available on my Ubuntu desktop. Launch a […]
gobby is a cross-platform programmers text editor which supports real-time editing with another user. Gobby features syntax highlighting for most programming languages (c, perl, python, java, ruby, etc) and has IRC-like chat interface for communicating with your partners while coding. Gobby functionality as a collaborative text-editor makes it possible to work on the same code […]
After a long wait, Sun has finally released its key Java implementations – Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE – OpenJDK), Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME – phoneME) and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE – Glassfish) under the GNU General Public License version 2.0. Maybe this news is insignificant for some, but finally […]
NetBSD Project has released NetBSD Live! 2007 based on NetBSD 4 Beta. The LiveCD comes with an array of softwares that include KDE 3.4.5 (includes KOffice), Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 (renamed Deer Park for copyright reasons), GIMP 2.2, vim 6.2.14, gcc 4.1.2 and various utilities for accesing foreign filesystems. Instead of using the normal bsd bootloader, […]
Here’s the screenshot of a GNU/Linux distro derived from Ubuntu. gNewsense is a project started by two guys from Ireland with an aim to provide users with 100% Free Software operating system. You can find out more about it at gNewSense Official Website You can see that the gNewsense theme and? repo is similar as […]
Fancy for some Ubuntu cookies anyone? One guy from Utah, United States came out with a recipe to make Ubuntu cookies from short dough and vanilla. You can get his recipe for Ubuntu cookies from his blog here. I think the these cookies would made a perfect serving for Ubuntu geeks especially when they are […]
gNewSense is a linux distribution which derived from Ubuntu. It aims to provide users with a linux distribution that consisted of 100% free software (as in freedom) and funded by the Free Software Foundation. Although at first glimpse, gNewSense 1.0 seems to be nothing more than Ubuntu with some cosmetic changes, it does have its […]
The upcoming Debian GNU/Linux (Etch) will spot several new features, one of it is the much awaited Graphical Installation mode, here’s some screenshot of the GUI installer in action : Debian Etch Boot Screen Language Selection Network Configuration via DHCP Partition Hard disk Final Screen (Installation Complete)? The GUI version of Debian-Installer is only available […]
I’m Upgrading/Optimizing my WordPress blog software, please inform me if my blog loads slowly. Meanwhile, I think i’m going to be busy for the next couple of days, doing some stuffs, but I promise will be back with some cool post for you guys. Thanks for reading anyway.