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 &#8221;Desktop <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/usability" title="Usability" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability">usability&#8221; 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.

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Top 10 most ridiculous Windows Vista error messages – priceless though!!!

2010-02-10 0 min read Linux
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Windows Vista is always in the news on the blogosphere about how effective it performs. No matter what version of Vista you may be running, it’s

possible that you may have already seen these error messages more than once and may well probably be fed up with them!

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Installing Sofware on Linux, easier and finding alternates.

2010-02-03 1 min read Linux

There are already some great blogs on this, why write another one. Let me just point you to the best one <a href="http://http://blogs.computerworld.com/installing_linux_software_101_for_windows_users" target="_blank">here.

Here are sites that will help you find the alternative to your favourite Windows programs:

  1. <a href="http://www.osalt.com/" target="_blank">http://www.osalt.com/

  2. <a href="http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software" target="_blank">http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software

  3. <a href="http://www.linuxalt.com/" target="_blank">http://www.linuxalt.com/

Perl script to create csv files with a pattern – Generic script.

2010-01-19 1 min read Learning Linux Perl

I was having a really bad day and needed a quick solution to create some csv files. And this I needed to do for multiple data kinds and patterns, so I created this small script to do the job for me…

#Number of rows required in the output.

$rows = 100;

#The config and the output file

open (CF_FILE, &#8221;<Config.test&#8221;);
open (OUT_FILE, &#8221;>test.csv&#8221;);

#—————————————————————————
# No need to change anything below this.
#—————————————————————————

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5 Sites To Find Free Alternatives To Popular Software

2009-11-21 1 min read Linux Uncategorized

And sometimes there are software you find irksome and think things could have been better. In any case, I always like to try out a few alternative software choices before I settle with any particular application mainly for two reasons: One, you would never know how good or bad the one you are using is until you try some alternatives and two: a bit of choice and competition can only be for the good of us users! Your motivation might be different: perhaps you want to find a free software that does the same task as the paid software you are using or maybe your favorite Windows application is not available on Mac or Linux.

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Tag2Find – Tag Your Windows Files with Web-like Tags

2009-10-05 2 min read Uncategorized

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Tagging is something your pipsqueak pigtailed sister did with you when you were in your tweens. That kind of ceaseless trailing was pesky. The Web 2.0 version though saves us a lot of bother.

Tagging is commonplace around blogs and websites. We all agree that it’s a speedy way to scour out a web resource; nearly single click in its utility. We are so used to it that we perhaps miss it as a feature in Windows.

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