10 Keyboard Techniques To Create Cool Symbols

2010-04-03 3 min read Linux

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Thumbnail3.png" alt="Thumbnail" align="bottom" />All of us use the keyboard to create symbols daily. Look at the thumbnail. That’s a simple symbol created with just four keys.

Symbols existed even before the alphabets. Over the years they have been part of folklore, myths and legends. Some have stayed on as indelible marks. Some, like the swastika, are better forgotten. Symbols have remained potent. If you doubt their visual power, then look no further than logos. People shell out millions for a three-pointed star on a sleek hood or a prancing horse. Puzzled? The first one is the Mercedes logo and the latter is Ferrari’s.

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Whats Orange And Sounds Like A Parrot?

2010-04-01 1 min read Linux

Could not resist posting this 🙂

What&#8217;s orange and sounds like a parrot?

A carrot!

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GNOME 2.28 released

2010-04-01 1 min read Linux

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GNOME 2.28 is released now, just a week after the release of the release candidate. This release includes several bugfixes & enhancements for included components.

URL: <a HREF="http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=125905">http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=125905

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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Gnome 3.0 – the beginning of workflow era

2010-03-31 1 min read GNOME

There is  a nice article <a href="http://d0od.blogspot.com/2009/09/gnome-3-quick-visual-tour.html">here. This talks about gnome 3.0 with screenshot. Definately worth looking at. And if you want to see the plan then you can head over <a href="http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero"> here.