Quick update on speeding up X windows with gnome look.

I have tried various options and now I am trying one more option. The option is to use the LXDE desktop. The LXDE desktop is a lightweight X Desktop. The look and feel are quite similar to the Gnome desktop with the added advantage of LXDE being very light.

It really light and low on CPU and memory usage so even if you have a High end Desktop but lot of applications running then really worth giving it a try and if you have a low end machine then definitely you should use LXDE.

Microsoft Updates Linux Code

Microsoft releases enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to the Linux community in 2009.

Microsoft has released enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to

<a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Microsoft-Updates-Linux-Code-741438/?kc=EWKNLLIN04062010STR1" target="_blank">Read more.

wine-doors – door to wine with applications like photoshop and lots of windows games.

wine is the project to natively support the Windows application on the Linux platform. But people who have tried to use it know that there are lot of dependencies on the Windows programs which cannot be resolved so easily :). There is a project called <a href="http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/" target="_blank">wine-doors. Here is the screen shot of wine-doors. When you start wine doors for the first time, the application will install the necessary dependency and not only that when you are installing any of the other applications then too it will install all the other required dependencies and its like working with windows without affecting the stability of your OS 🙂

Adding date to Photographs.

This is one of the common things that I want to do when I want to print the photos and its truely boring job to do given the fact that the Date Photo taken is already in the image taken by the Digital Photos. So finally I wrote a simple script to do this. Here it is for anyone who might be interested:

(Note you will need the program called anotate, written by me, posted earlier and exiftool)<pre style="padding-left: 30px;">

My project in sourceforge.net gnomedesktopwal

My project is accepted in sourceforge.net and I have a stable version released today in sourceforge.

The link for the project is :
<a class="aligncenter" href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomedesktopwal/" target="_blank">Gnome Desktop Wallpaper changer

This is a simple command line application to change the desktop wallpaper in gnome. This version has the capability to recurse directories and put the images in the directory as wallpaper. <a name="more">

Python program to download youtube video

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez

# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a
# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
&#8221;Software&#8221;),
# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without
limitation
# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute,
sublicense,
# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

using paragraph seperator in vi – the easy way

imap aa 80i-io

Just put this in the vimrc or in a vi session with a : in normal mode.

Explanation:

This will map the key &#8221;aa&#8221; to the sequence which will add &#8221;-&#8221; 80 times in the current line and then go to new line in insert mode. This is quite simple so any changes required should be simple enough to make.