Just days wait to a great operating system.

2010-03-22 1 min read Fedora Linux

Was thinking about writing this for some time now.. but guess someone already did that <a href="http://www.junauza.com/2009/05/fedora-11-leonidas-is-almost-ready-to.html" target="_blank">here.

To get the list of features you can check out this <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList" target="_blank">page.

Here is a brief from the page:<table border="0">A simple, modular system service to manage devices and designed to partially replace

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. Users gain a graphical disk management application called

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More windows Microsoft like openoffice and keet it working.

2010-03-22 2 min read Fedora Linux

Some people say that <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOffice doesn&#8217;t completely suit their requirement as compared to the Microsoft Office. Though most of the times I do not have that problem 🙂 But there are still couple of things that do not work with OO seamlessly and thus if you want better OO (with respect to working with MS files more seamlessly) here&#8217;s something worth a try.

You can try the <a href="http://go-oo.org/" target="_blank">go-oo OO.

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Useless Linux Terminal Commands

2010-03-21 1 min read Bash Linux

Useless Linux Terminal Commands Not long ago, I have listed here some useful Linux terminal commands and those that I described as deadly. This time, I decided to gather some commands that I think have no practical use. I know it sounds interesting but you may disagree with me on some of the commands that I&#8217;ll list here as you may find a few of them useful. We can however agree to disagree as long as you explain to us why or how you find them handy.

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Cool OpenOffice.org Easter Eggs

2010-03-21 0 min read Linux
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Since it&#8217;s almost <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/easter" title="Easter" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter">Easter Sunday, I will be sharing with you several cool <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_%28media%29">virtual Easter eggs hidden inside some of our favorite <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/application_software" title="Application software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software">software applications. Today, we will take a look at some Easter eggs inside <a href="http://www.junauza.com/2009/05/8-essential-openoffice-extensions.html">OpenOffice.org so get ready to have fun or be amused.

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Quick tip to change parameters in different files

2010-03-16 1 min read Linux
for i in *.cfg; do mv $i $i.bak;sed \’s/a/b/\’ $i.bak > $i; done

The above command is very useful to change certain regular expressions in couple of files in one directory. This can be used in variety of ways to achieve a lot of things which would normally take some time to do manually.

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