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, […]