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I found a great article from UbuntuGeek on how to turn Microsoft Windows 7 theme to an Ubuntu theme. The result is amazing! You can read the rest of the article here: How To Make Windows 7 look like Ubuntu 
Probably most of you have heard about the latest Ubuntu release - Intrepid Ibex, with all of its nifty features, including :The new Network Manager 0.7 (which supports 3G broadband connection)Support guest login supportEncrypted private directory support (via encryptfs)The only thing that might need a little bit polishing is Cruft Remover tool, which happily classify ...
I've decided to share my PHP Detector library to the public which I've coded somewhere around 2006. The library does wonders in detecting IP address geo-location, operating system and the type of browser used based on its user-agent information. The ip address->geo-location information is provided for free from ShowIP fakap webservice.The library is handy for for creating web …
Regarding the previous post Solving Pidgin Yahoo Messenger Connection Problem , the temporary solution may not work anymore as Yahoo already upgraded their server to accept newer authentication mode.The good news is, users can download the latest Pidgin release (2.5.7) in order to keep connected with Yahoo Messenger. For Ubuntu users, Pidgin ...
Important announcement!Those who are still using Ubuntu 7.10 (Feisty Fawn) are advised to upgrade their distribution to later releases as it approaches end-of-life support, this October.What is end-of-life ?End of life means that the time where a product is no longer supported by its vendor. In case of Ubuntu 7.10 (Feisty Fawn), it will no ...
It is always a good idea to create a limited guest user account when you are sharing the computer with multiple users. This is to prevent accidental (or intentional) tampering of system configuration which can prevent your Ubuntu Linux operating system from running properly.Here’s how to setup a limited guest account for your ...
Some people has their own reasons for banning certain IP Address from accessing their websites. Some because they want to single out an individual or certain organisation from browing their websites and some one to protect their website from excessing crawling from bad bots or any other form of bot attacks.Whatever the reasons are, you can ban IP Address from accessing your …
That’s right! Apple makes more than 50% profit from iPhone alone. In reality, the phone only cost somewhere around USD245 only. So where the rest of the cost come from? Over-hype ads.Read the estimate cost breakdown of Apple iPhone component : iPhone Only Costs $250 to Make; Rest of Price is Fanboy TaxBy the way, I find it awkward for not being able to 3rd party …
There were a couple of people that I met recently complained to me that their Ubuntu only detects 3 gigs of RAM after they upgraded their machine to 4 GB RAM.Actually the problem does not lie with Ubuntu or any operating system in particular, rather the problem is related to 32bit operating system which only ...
Ever find yourself in need to share file over the network quickly, but find yourself lacking time to setup a proper NFS or samba share? Here’s a way to do this with the good old Python CLI.First, go to the directory that you want to share, for example ~/DesktopThen run this command python -m ...
Here are the plan I use for constructing and experimenting with Slim Jim antenna on 2 Meter VHF Amateur band. The measurement used are designed to center around 144-148 MHz radio frequency, which is used by amateur radio world wide.FYI this is the plan that I use to construct my first ham radio antenna using ...
Always experience the dreadful downtime of Streamyx default DNS? Here is the list of TMNet Streamyx Backup DNS server. It might be useful if the usual DNS server ‘mysteriously’ stopped wor …
A nice twitter client for those who are working in CLI environment. Get twitter-cmdline.A Windows alternative is also available at : Twitter Windows Command Line Client. Alternatively you can try a cURL hack to post your update to twitter from command line.btw my twitter id is ‘mypapit’. Happy twittering.
The Ubuntu project has released Hardy Heron 8.04.1, as the release number implies, it is a bugfix release which contains all the security updates and bug fixes for the last 2 months since the first release of 8.04. The release can be downloaded from Ubunty Hardy download page in the form of ISO files.Current users ...
Sometimes you can't avoid it, you might have to work with computers without GUI such as on a dedicated server or when you are working on a remote computer.Nevertheless for some reason you might find a need to communicate with other people through yahoo messenger or MSN, and when you don't have the fancy XOrg, ...
Downloading software from repositories can be a long and daunting task especially when you are downloading from a repository server which is far from your location. It even can turn out to be an annoying experience when your downloads keeps timing out because of the bad connection between you and the mirror server. Thus it ...
Dang seems my 6 years old PC (my Ubuntu PC) is starting to show its age, so I decided to set some budget aside to get a new computer for my workstation. I’m going to use it primarily as my development computer to develop .NET, C and java applications for mobile and embedded device. My ...
Few days ago my site was hit by a bunch of really bad bots which crawl my site continuously until it overloads my web server. Now I'm publishing a way to block these so-called bad robots from ruining your website by their crazy crawling method.Assuming you are using Apache Http server, create .httaccess file and ...
I’ve a friend of mine complained about how Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distro boots slowly compared to Microsoft Windows. I told him this is because Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distro tend start services that generally safe for average users.
He then told me about how he can customise Windows XP startup process and disable the services that he don’t use. Actually …
Hey there, I’m given roughly one month to prepare training material for an in-organization Linux training workshop in my workplace. Target audience are mostly from non-IT background who wished to know more about GNU/Linux based operating system. I was given freedom to choose any Linux distro that I see fit for the workshop and for ...
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