I’ve been looking around for good introductory material to commands which are common to Linux and Unix. I came across Unix Tutorial for Beginners. It’s not as detailed as other books or tutorials but for someone with little time or patience to study basic things. this seemed easy to read and understand.
Good points:
It is […]
A Hong Kong magazine was reported to have tested TV tuners for the Asus EEE. The drivers are for My Cinema U3100 Mini DVB-T and DMB-TH tuners. The article about the TV tuners was talking about how it worked:
…HDTV channels broadcasting in this format won’t play on Eee. Other channels sent over in […]
Even HP has a new line of laptop for school kids. The laptop is called Mini-Note, which makes sense for something as small as a machine measuring 8.9 inches diagonally. It sounds like HP is following the footsteps of the OLPC and Asus. Like the Asus EEE, it has no optical drive […]
I wish I had this app in college. It’s called Referencer and for good reason!
Features include the following:
Links to the actual location of the document online, via the metadata of the document
Import bibliography from BibTex. Reference Manager and EndNote.
Tagging to your heart’s content!
Retrieval of metadata over the internet if the document has arXiv or […]
Nautilus as a file manager is quite nifty especially when you know how to use the address bar. Killer tech tips has some Nautilus URIs to share with us:
computer:///
Shows Computer, lists the disk partitions
network:///
Shows the network locations
fonts:///
Lists the fonts installed on the system
burn:///
Opens the CD Writing Window
themes:///
Lists the themes available for the Gnome Desktop
system-settings:///
Gives […]
There is a way to get updates of your team’s commits via Twitter. Just download the python-twyt package and you can use a command line client called twyt which will let other people be updated.
According to Andy Price’s blog post:
Sally the software maintainer wants to let her development team keep track of repository commits […]
After almost a month, there are 47 votes on the poll and survey says…
It sucks and could make Linux look really bad.
It’s not a big problem. It’s Wal-Mart’s loss.
I expected that. Linux isn’t ready for mainstream yet.
I don’t care.
They’re still selling the PCs online.
F*ck the Wal-Mart. Go buy elsewhere!
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Looks like some […]
I’ve been wondering why my friends told me to use the ext3 filesystem when I installed Linux. At the time, I didn’t really understand. Why should I choose ext3? And why should you?
ext3 is stable
ext3 is sufficient for most desktop computing needs
ext3 is well-supported
I think that by default, most installaions of distributions […]
Have you been finding it a hassle to open docx files from your co-workers and/or clients? Ubuntu Geek helps us with this: Use the ODF Converter!
There’s a .deb package which you could download and install on your Debian-powered machines. Also, there’s an RPM file for SUSE.
Though the Novell RPM file is said […]
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