Archive for the ‘GlugT’ Category

Merging multiple PDF files in Linux

I always had trouble maintaining multiple PDF’s of same genre. A simple command – pdftk will do the trick of merging them together into a single PDF file. pdftk is present in Ubuntu repository itself.
Using the command is also very simple.
pdftk input1.pdf input2.pdf … cat output output.pdf
so if a.pdf, b.pdf so on are [...]

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The command liner !

Probably one of the features that amazes me in Linux are the power and cuteness of the command line applications ! Right now but for watching videos, working with images , I have found ways to do stuff entirely on the terminal. Whats better ?? Its fast – really fast and completly productive. Let me [...]

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Pengufest ‘08

Too much happened during Pengufest ‘08. Lots of fun and lots of kelaas aka damages !  I cannot thank enough all the people who were a part of pengufest and the list is whole of GLUG-T! I really loved working with you guys and it was a wonderful learning experience for me conducting an event [...]

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Dial up in Ubuntu 7.10 – Gutsy Gibbon

WOW ! ! Dial up is working in linux FOR me ! Well this might not be news for many , but yeah its a big one for me ! Without this i had been disconnected for more than one semester hols .
What did i do for making the dial-up work ??
Simple – Installed Ubuntu [...]

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MGL – Meet GNU Linux 2007

Meet Gnu Linux is a small course which introduces Gnu/Linux to newbiesorganised by thirs years students of Nit trichy to anyone interested in and arund trichy. After two Successful editions of MGL (as of i know), first one coordinated by Alagu and second one by Hari, this year I am going to coordinate it. But [...]

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