I know, I know. Tango icons has been done to the death on websites, documents, presentations and as Desktop icons. This is due to the popularity of Tango icons itself. and thanks to the liberal Creative Commons license, everybody is free to use the icons (without paying royalty) as long as they give credits (attribution) […]
It has been a while since I make myself busy with outdoor side projects. I’ve been learning the basic principles of building practical VHF antennas for the past weeks. Here’s the result of my work, 2 Meter band Slim Jim Antenna I’ve completed a dipole and ribbon antenna for portable radio use. I might feature […]
Clonezilla is a free and open source harddisk cloning tool with partition cloning capability. Clonezilla sets itself aparts from similar similar disk cloning solutions like Symantec Ghost and PartImage as it is able to massively clone a lot of computers simultaneously with the help of a DRBL server. Clonezilla is also a flexible tool as […]
There have been talks over the ubuntuforums, regarding a user posts “sudo rm -rf /” command on “Absolute Beginner Talk” board, which results in deletion of the whole root directory of a Linux operating system (Ubuntu included). Was the user out of his line when he’s posted such command on a beginners forum? Absolutely. Exercise […]
Linux Mint – a yet another Linux distro based on Ubuntu has made a fourth release last month, Daryna. Originally started as no more than Ubuntu-distro preinstalled with proprietary multimedia codecs, Linux Mint now focussed on providing user-friendly Linux distribution complete with customizable desktop which achieved through its unique configuration tools. The latest release Daryna, […]
Here’s how to combine multiple PDF file on Ubuntu. First install ghostscript and pdftk from Ubuntu repository : apt-get install gs pdftk Then, using ghostscript, combile all the pdf files you desired into one file, using this command [code] s -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=combined_file.pdf -dBATCH file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf [/code] The command will produced the combined pdf […]