Best buys this season: The ELCOT Student Laptop
Posted by imdonatello as Acer, Dell, ELCOT, Product, SUSE, laptop, linux, students, ubuntu
The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu has started this year’s sale of inexpensive laptops with preloaded Linux (SUSE Linux Enterprise) for students studying in Tamil Nadu. There have been many press releases, for example, see this one. The laptop is said to be procured from Dell or Acer.
The high capacity version of the ELCOT laptop […]
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OpenID Attribute Exchange demo site
Posted by as Personal, blog, linux, network, news, php, soc
I have put up an demonstration site for my Google Summer of Code project evaluation purposes @
http://soc2008.hotdrupal.com/~anshu_p/op/
You may please post your comments/reviews at
http://drupal.org/project/openid_ax
or at
http://groups.drupal.org/node/10902
cheers
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OSS camps!
Posted by as linux, network, news, php, web
Am planning to attend the phpcamp to be held in pune on 20th September 2008 (saturday). http://phpcamp.org/
But of course if there are no dates clash with our respected placements!
“PHPCamp is a ‘ad-hoc gathering‘ for PHP community. It similar to barcamp , but more focused towards PHP based web application development. This means that anyone can […]
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Handy Key board Short cuts for GNOME and Nautilus
Posted by Sathya Narayanan as Computers, linux
Gnome Desktop Keyboard Shortcuts
Alt-F2 : Run Application Dialog
Alt-F1 : Open Applications Menu
Alt-F9 : Minimize Active Window
Alt-Tab : Rotate Current Window Focus
Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow : Move Virtual Desktop Left
Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow : Move Virtual Desktop Right
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Left Arrow : Move Current Application Left
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Right Arrow : Move Current Application Right
Ctrl+Alt+L : Lock Screen
Ctrl+Alt+Del : Log Out
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace : Restart Gnome (careful)
Nautilus […]
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Download day Announced!
Posted by imdonatello as Free and Open Source, download day, firefox, linux, mozilla, release, spread firefox
17th June 2008
That’s the official release date that has been announced for Firefox 3 on the Mozilla Developers blog! So lets get ready to implement our pledges and download the best browser out there!
EDIT: 15th June’s “The Hindu” newspapers features an article about Ubuntu and Firefox, how they rock and why they are great for […]
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ubuntu 8.04
Posted by Arvind as Open Source, hardy hernon, linux, ubuntu
Finally i recovered my computer and installed ubuntu 8.04. I wanted to recover my computer because 1) it was full of junk and 2) because most of my space was allocated to my windows partition and I wanted most of my space to be allocated to my linux partition. Well anyways enough of […]
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Lets spread Firefox!
Posted by imdonatello as Free and Open Source, download day, firefox, firefox myths, linux, spreadfirefox
Download Day 2008 will soon be unveiled and hundreds of thousands of people will prepare to download Firefox 3! The higher the number of people who download, the higher the chances of setting a Guinness World Record. Read more about it by clicking the image above.
Though, Firefox is being pushed as a great browser (and […]
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The day i lost my Gnome and got it back !!
Posted by Sathya Narayanan as Computers, Ha Ha Ha, linux
yeah u heard it right . i did lose my gnome in my fedora 8 tht had been running for the past four or five months in my laptop(Phoenix).It all started when amarok did not start properly and i decided to bring amarok back to life no matter what it takes :). I first re […]
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The command liner !
Posted by Suren as Computers, GlugT, hobby, linux, surfing
Probably one of the features that amazes me in Linux are the power and cuteness of the command line applications ! Right now but for watching videos, working with images , I have found ways to do stuff entirely on the terminal. Whats better ?? Its fast - really fast and completly productive. Let me […]
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Sulphur experience, and some more..
Posted by as NITT, Personal, linux, network
Sulphur, for the uninitiated, is the code name for the latest Fedora release, Fedora 9.
The nomenclature of the fedora releases is pretty intresting.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Names
“Name n and n+1 must share an is-a (not a has-a) relationship, but n and n+2 must not share the same is-a relationship as n and n+1.”
“Sulphur is an element that causes an […]
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