Archive for the ‘GNU/Linux’ Category

Gnome 2.14 preview

A Look at GNOME 2.14 Search & search Gnome power management Ekiga (GnomeMeeting) I’ll be waiting for G2.14… dude!

How to create a patch

$ diff -u old_file.c new_file.c > file.c.patch The patch will look something like this… Index: contrib.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/cocoon-2.1/src/documentation/xdocs/contrib.xml,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -r1.7 contrib.xml — contrib.xml 30 Apr 2002 07:44:52 -0000 1.7 +++ contrib.xml 26 May 2002 04:08:23 -0000 The + & – signs mean lines to be deleted are preceded with [...]

Sound suppot on FC4 (Dell Latitude D610) & MP3 support for Amarok

Sound in FC4 It was a matter of just one click & we were banging our heads against the wall from past one night… (Gnome) Applications > Sound & Video > Volume Control > Prefrences > check “External Amplifier” & also enable it from the main window. MP3 playback in Amarok rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/livna-release-4-0.lvn.5.4.noarch.rpm yum [...]

Installing mplayer on FC4

FC4 is kindof devoid of video support. Me & my friend Darshan tried for almost a night to install mplayer on FC4 using separately downloaded rpm’s… but nothing worked! Then i found this sweet guide – thanks to google http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.html I’ll have mplayer up & running in next 20 minutes… it takes few seconds to [...]

Old memories…

This pic was clicked almost 1 year back during the last Linux Asia. I dont know if i would be able to get back to LA2006 this time as at the same time, i’ll be joining Red Hat.

Monkeying around with Greasemonkey

Get the greasemonkey firefox extension from here & user scripts form this blog Happy Gmailing

Quick update – KDE 4 screenshots

I’ll go to any length… to make my system look this cooler! More screenshots here & here. E N J O Y

Using Linux can be seriously productive…

Had i been using Zindows, it would have taken me ages to do this… Calculate the total speed with which i’m downloading stuff (read as OpenSuse 10.0)… thanks to subinterfaces on Linux

On to my second BID = USD 100

I’ve almost completed my first BID. There are still some problems in the Hot_or_Not module, but that it the bug in the module itself. I’m trying my best to solve it at my end, but am not sure if it will be solved… wish good luck to Andy Oh, BTW, this is the forum thread [...]

KDE 4 to Support Apple Dashboard Widgets

Slashdotted here Ryan writes to tell us Applexnet is reporting that Zack Rusin, a lead developer of KDE, has confirmed that KDE 4 will be able to run and display Dashboard widgets similar to Mac OS X 10.4. From the article: “Basically, this means that a layer (similar in some ways to layers in Adobe [...]