Difference between unix and linux.

2010-04-01 1 min read Linux

Find the article <a href="http://docs.hp.com/en/5971-3502/5971-3502.pdf">here.<div class="question"> <div style="margin: -5px 0pt 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(244, 247, 222); position: relative; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; background-position: 0px -8px;" id="question_title"> <table style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

What is the difference between Linux and Unix

There is only one reason left why Windows exists

2010-04-01 0 min read Linux
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: small;">156 minutes of pain compared with 26 minutes of success. That&#8217;s the difference between a Windows installation and a Linux installation. After two and a half hours fiddling with a Windows install on my Toshiba laptop, it became pretty obvious what is one major reason why Windows remains a viable operating system.

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using gigolo for all your network mounting needs

2010-04-01 0 min read Fedora GNOME Linux
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Have you ever thought that there should be one central location or application to connect to all you required servers with whichever <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/protocol" title="Protocol (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_%28computing%29">protocol. If you did, the you wishes are granted.

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monkeystudio IDE on Fedora 12.. IDE of choice

2010-03-30 2 min read Learning Linux

<a href="http://www.monkeystudio.org/" target="_blank">Monkey IDE is a Free <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cross-platform" title="Cross-platform" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-platform">crossplatform <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/qt" title="Qt (framework)" rel="homepage" href="http://qt.nokia.com/">Qt 4 IDE

MonkeyStudio is a crossplatform <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment">Integrated Development Environment ( IDE ) aiming to become a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/rapid_application_development" title="Rapid application development" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development">Rapid Application Development ( RAD ) environment. MonkeyStudio runs everywhere Qt 4.4.0 ( minimum required to build it ) is available as a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/library" title="Library (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_%28computing%29">shared library. It is extensible via a great and powerful <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/plugin" title="Plug-in (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_%28computing%29">plugin system which help make it do nearly anything you want and support virtually any kind of project type for which a plugin exists or is created. The primary goal of MonkeyStudio was to manage Qt4 projects as best as possible, it directly uses .pro files and does not create intrusive or unsightly <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/configuration_file" title="Configuration file" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_file">configuration files. MonkyStudio is also a multi language <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/source_code_editor" title="Source code editor" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code_editor">code editor too ( javascript, xml, … ).

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Extract all urls from the last firefox sessionstore.js file used.

2010-03-29 0 min read Linux
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Some taken from commandlinefu. What all the below commands are doing is basically that the url: is captured from the sessionstore.js file and then just  extract the URL from the line. These are done in various ways using perl, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sed" title="Sed" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed">sed and <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk:

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vim scripts and tips

2010-03-29 1 min read Linux Vim Tips

Here are few of the links for vim that you can use. It consists of the link to vimrc, colorscheme, syntaxcomplete and zzsplash.
<a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/vimrc">http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/vimrc
<a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/almost-default.vim">http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/almost-default.vim
<a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/syntaxcomplete.vim">http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/syntaxcomplete.vim
<a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/zzsplash.vim">http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tonymec/zzsplash.vim<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2010/02/02/bash-script-to-change-the-vim-colorscheme-from-the-list-of-locally-available-schemes/">bash script to change the vim colorscheme from the list of locally available schemes (amit-agarwal.co.in) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3740684.htm">Wikia Introduces New Tools For People to Create Wiki Answer Sites on Any Topic (prweb.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/a04b9f08-df03-476c-b6d3-a1d32078cb64/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b68.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

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Change cursor and couple of other settings in window managers like fluxbox and fvwm (except gnome and KDE)

2010-03-28 2 min read Fedora Linux

First off, get cursor theme from <a href="http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xsortmode=high&page=0&xcontentmode=36" target="_blank">here. You can download the one of your choice. Now create a directory &#8221;~/.icons&#8221; if it does not exist. Extract the file you just downloaded in this directory. [If you are using GNome then you could have dropped the tar file itself in the Desktop properties window and selected the theme from there. I have since the days of RH9 not used KDE and so am not sure how to do this in KDE, sorry guys.]

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