Posts Tagged ‘ Linux ’

Generate Hardware Information on Linux!!!

You can generate a nice report (HTML or XML format) of your laptop/desktop hardware information by executing this command: lshw -html > sysinfo.html You may need to install it first… For Debian and Ubuntu users installation is simple.. sudo aptitude install lshw You can find the detailed information about lshw from the following page: http://www.ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter [ READ MORE ]

Howto : Twitter from Command Line…

This is a tutorial explaining how to post to Twitter using command-line in Linux, without needing to even open up your web browser…. First, install the curl package: sudo apt-get install curl Next, create a script anywhere in your $PATH, for example tweet.sh inside ~/bin, where ~ is your home directory (make sure ~/bin is included in your [ READ MORE ]

Commandline Fu!!!

I’m a great fan of Linux command-line, basically because of its amazing versatility… I love to find new ways to do things from the command line, so do not have to leave the comfort of my keyboard…. Recently, I found a site that let’s me learn awesome command line tricks.. Its called commandlinefu.com [ READ MORE ]

Howto Reinstall Grub!!!

It being a very common problem and sooner or latter a Linux user tends to face it when installing Windows after Linux… The master boot records from the memory are lost and they are writed for windows only systems…. So here is the way to write Master boot records or rather installing grub again so that LINUX [ READ MORE ]

‘Googlle’ opens technology certification ’school’ in India!!!

Read the title again….. ‘GOOGLLE‘ The website for the new school, found here, is as bogus as it gets. Not only does it rip off Google’s logo, but it even uses the same favicon, all whilst having dead links to various web pages. According to TechCrunch, Googlle offers two different certifications: the “GCPA – Googlle Certified [ READ MORE ]

Finally Google Chrome for Mac & Linux!!!

Google released its Chrome Browser for Mac and Linux yesterday… Chrome for Mac/Linux beta doesn’t have all of the features available to Chrome on Windows, and if you’ve been using the dev builds of Chrome before this, you probably won’t notice any significant changes. Got a chance to play around with it on Ubuntu yesterday night… [ READ MORE ]

How To Become A Hacker???

What does the word ‘HACKER’ mean? I am not worried about the English dictionary meaning of the word, but what does it really mean to you? Go ahead and read this really wonderful & very famous article from Eric. S. Raymond How To Become Hacker. [ READ MORE ]

Fedora 12 ‘Constantine’ has been released!!!

The final release of Fedora’s 12th edition, code-named Constantine, is available for download, after a two-week slippage in its release schedule. The new RedHat community Linux distro includes power management features pulled from RHEL 5, improved support for netbooks, and a much-improved NetworkManager. [ READ MORE ]

Coming This Week – Google Chrome OS???

Looks like Santa(Google ) is gonna give us an early Christmas gift this year… If rumors are believed Google is set to release Chrome OS in the coming week.. The Chrome OS news comes courtesy of Techcrunch which cites that it was obtained from a reliable source. An early version of the OS was [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft Patents Sudo!!!

This news is unbelievable and quite confusing….  It appears that Microsoft would like everyone in the world to pay them a toll at least, even if they don’t want to use Microsoft’s software. It has just patented sudo, well its a personalized version of it. Apparently you can patent any command provided it is a [ READ MORE ]