Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Lolcat from Facebook

I use elinks most of the times (Mostly along with Firefox). Elinks is real good as in speed and coolness. Even facebook thinks elinks is damn cool . Check out the screen shot below, which shows what happened when I tried to open facebook in elinks.

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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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Google Summer of Code !

Well , this is something I am looking forward to get into. More than anything it gives the soc tag name which is so good to start  with if someone is looking forward for an open source career. I am putting few applications in Gnome , KDE and Joomla and Ogre.
Whats more interesting and exciting [...]

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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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What else Does Linux Have other than a cool name ???

“Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I should use Linux over BSD?”
“No. That’s it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to [...]

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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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GNU/Linux Stickers :)

These are two awesome GNU/Linux free stickers collections ! They are just so cute and nice. I am going to get a laptop just to paste them only
Volume 1
Volume 2
and the actual site i got it from is this

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Meet GNU Linux ‘07

Meet GNU/Linux ‘07 is a small course introducing Linux to Beginners organized by third year students of GLUG-T, GNU Linux User Group Trichy. After two successful versions of MGL coordinated by Alagu and Hari in 05,06 respectively, I am coordinating the event this year. Already First batch is over and Second batch is [...]

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Nice fonts in Linux

How to add nice cool, clean fonts in Linux!! its so simple !! Get all the true type fonts from net (or better take it from the fonts folder from your windows ) and copy them to /usr/share/fonts/default probably with a prefix so that you can remove them later in case of [...]

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