DOSBox – A DOS Emulator for Linux
Today’s gaming industry is growing wildly. With the advent of MEMS Systems – all those Accelerometers, Gyroscopes and the likes – the gaming today is taking a more natural interface than ever before. Now you can just swing the remote and hit a ball, tilt your phone and the car just skids across the screen. [...]
Setting Up WiFi Connection Using WiCD
Often times Linux users find themselves wanting more from the network manager, especially laptop users on the move find it difficult to manage all the different networks they have access to. WiCD is one of the best tools for people wanting more. It’s gtk based network configuration tool, especially meant for wireless networks written in [...]
Magic SysRq Key
It doesn’t happen quite often but when it does – it’s a pain in the… Nevermind that, I am of course talking about system freezes on Linux. Freezes are rare but if you are like us and install, use and test beta versions of software or operating systems themselves, there is a significant chance you [...]
Using wget like a pro
Wget is a great tool to download files using Linux. There are certain… errr… occasions (Yeah, that’s it. You are right) when people want to download entire directories from websites and they are too lazy to go into each directory and download separate files. Fear not my friends, wget is here. You can use wget [...]
How to install and run Dreamweaver CS4 in Ubuntu
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is one of the favorite tool of trade for many web designers and web programmers. Being a WYSIWYG editor, it offers a luxury that no other editor does and performs equally good. Since Dreamweaver CS4 is a windows based app, most users who move on to linux find it hard to make [...]
Batch convert images using ImageMagick
ImageMagick provides one of the best command line image processing tools for Linux. With a support for almost a hundred different formats, ImageMagick can be used to compose, edit, process images in batch and also add text, draw various objects, superimpose them – there’s no end to the capabilities of ImageMagick. We will be going [...]
How to Automount NTFS Drives in Ubuntu
The best thing about Ubuntu linux is it’s ability to read and write data on a Windows based NTFS partitions. This has been defaulted ever since the release of Ubuntu 8.04 with inbuilt support for NTFS read and write. And if you have Ubuntu installed as a multiboot along with a windows installation, it is [...]
How to remove Gnome Keyring password in Ubuntu 10.04
Gnome Keyring is a small utility to authorize applications before opening them. But sometimes it feels really annoying when it starts to prompt to enter keyring password every time when you open some application. So this small tutorial teaches you eliminate the need of entering keyring password over and over again. This method will work [...]
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is out!
Finally after a long wait and 5 days of delay, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (LTS) is released officially by Canonical today. It was scheduled to be released on April 24th but was delayed due to some bug issues. However it has been fixed and is available for download. About 45 minutes before it’s official release, [...]
Command scheduling with cron
Have you ever missed an appointment because you were so absorbed in some thing that you totally lost the track of time? It’s a good thing if you were doing nuclear research at that time you probably didn’t want your link to be broken, but for most of us, missing appointments is a bad thing. [...]
