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’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.

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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Linux Malware – Proof that Linux is not as secure as we all think

2010-03-26 1 min read Linux

<a href="http://www.foogazi.com/2009/12/01/linux-malware-proof-that-linux-is-not-as-secure-as-we-all-think/comment-page-1/#comment-48243">Linux Malware – Proof that Linux is not as secure as we all think<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2010/03/18/windows-vs-linux-web-hosting/">Windows Vs Linux Web Hosting (lockergnome.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2010/03/19/linux-foundation-and-swpats/">Linux is Not Against Software Patents (and Why Linus Torvalds Should Speak Up) (boycottnovell.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://blog.blacknight.com/awstats-now-available-on-linux.html">Awstats Now Available On Linux! (blacknight.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/aa7b20f2-237e-4b76-80ab-f0a2a5dbd7df/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b29.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

Linux find command – Find file and directories faster and easier

2010-03-16 1 min read Linux

This command is very powerfull when used with combination of filters and pipes and RE.

I will give some example:

find . -type f –» List all files
find . -type f -exec rm {} <a class=“zem_slink” title=“Path (computing)” href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29" rel=“wikipedia”>\; –» Delete all files
find . -type d -exec rm {} \; –» Will through some common errors 🙂
find . -name "name" –> find files containing name in the filename
find . -atime 12 –> Find files accessed 12 days ago
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Ubuntu Sucks Like a Shopvac and Other Linux Rants

2010-03-16 1 min read Linux

Almost 100 articles and blogs on the topic of “ubuntu sucks” were published in the past month alone, and about as many were published that unequivocally state Windows is better than Ubuntu.<table border="0">

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But upon closer examination, I found that a substantial portion of these negative reactions to Ubuntu stem from unrealistic comparisons.

Almost all of the hurdles people seem to have when switching from Windows to Ubuntu appear to be errors in judgment and assessment, rather than actual problems with the OS.

OpenDNS and Proxies: Putting it All Together on Ubuntu Karmic

2010-03-16 0 min read Linux

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I’ve been running <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ubuntu" title="Ubuntu (operating system)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu as my laptop <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/operating_system" title="Operating system" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system">operating system for quite some time (year or more) and find it to be quite wonderful. However, recently I had some nasty times getting everything to work with OpenDNS.

The easy thing to do is change /etc/<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/resolv_conf" title="Resolv.conf" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolv.conf">resolv.conf to contain the OpenDNS entries. However, this was complicated by my use of <a href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/">polipo (web cache), <a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd/">pdnsd (<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/name_server" title="Name server" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_server">DNS cache), and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolvconf">resolvconf (a resolv.conf file manager) – not to mention the use of <a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ddclient">ddclient to update the dynamic <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/internet_protocol" title="Internet Protocol" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol">IP on the laptop, and the Gnome <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/">NetworkManager.

KDE For Windows – An Overview

2010-03-13 0 min read Linux

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<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/kde" title="KDE" rel="homepage" href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE is turning out to be a fabulous Desktop. The latest version – KDE 4.4.0 aka Caikaku is choke full of features which gives the term ”Desktop <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/usability" title="Usability" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability">usability” a new meaning all together. What makes KDE all the more appealing is the plethora of well designed <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/application_software" title="Application software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software">applications that come bundled with it.