Linux

Validating English Word Pronunciations

June 30, 2008

I find myself pronouncing a lot of English words differently from what my friends do. One of the reasons for this is the fact that English just happens to be one of the 5 languages that I speak. A couple of these word pronunciations also lead to a healthy debate with neither party accepting defeat [...]

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How To: Activate or Deactivate a Service on Linux

June 13, 2008

A service is a long running executable which does require any user intervention and is configured to start when the operating system is booted. On Windows, the services are managed via services.msc and you can also communicate with a NT service using the SC tool. On Linux the services can be controlled via the chkconfig [...]

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Source Control in Eclipse IDE

June 18, 2007

Source Control also known as Revision control or source code management (SCM) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. Source Control is most commonly used in software development to manage ongoing development of documents like application source code or design documents or any electronic information which is worked on by [...]

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Linux Command Line Tips

June 10, 2007

PixelBeat has nice compilation of some of the commonly used Linux terminal commands. The commands are also categorized and should help in finding the right command/command usage for the task at had. Link: http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html Also note the comment in the above page: Examples marked with • are valid/safe to paste without modification into a terminal, [...]

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Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn

May 27, 2007

I was a die hard fan of Suse Linux and was hesitant to try other Linux distributions. Suse 10.1 worked flawlessly on my laptop and I was able to even get the Xgl working on my ATI Radeon X700 graphics card. Post on SuseSuse 10.1Xgl Working on SuseXGL on Suse – Photoset The other Linux [...]

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vi/vim Graphical Cheat Sheet

January 28, 2007

Every time I try to edit a file in Unix using vi, I end up corrupting the file rather than “editing” it. To get out of the mess I resort to q! command which helps me to exit from editor without saving the modifications. Incidentally this command (q!) happens to be one of the most [...]

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Unix – Make Directory Tree in a Swipe

January 22, 2007

If I wanted to created a directory tree say /first/second/third this is how I used to do it, till now. $ cd /$ mkdir first$ cd first$ mkdir second$ cd second$ mkdir third$ cd third Today I learnt that you could do this in a single swipe using the -p option! mkdir -p first/second/third And [...]

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Keyboard shortcuts for Bash

January 4, 2007

The default shell on most Linux operating systems is Bash. And as with every other application (which I use extensively) the first thing I do is to search/use Keyboard shortcuts. First I checked the Bash Reference Manual, however there was no mention of any keyboard shortcut in that manual. A search in Google lead me [...]

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Linux vs Windows

December 15, 2006

Sorry if you are mislead by the title. Check this image. (Click for the enlarged image) Also this happens to be my new wallpaper on SuSE. I found this image in one of the Novell’s CoolSolution Article. I just couldn’t stop laughing for some time Notice that stare given by the Penguin Now for the [...]

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Xgl working on Suse

December 8, 2006

I finally got Xgl working on SuSE. I struggled for 2 days to set this up and finally a comment left by a reader(Mahesh) on my earlier post helped me to resolve the problem ! So what was the problem ? Compiz was not installed properly ! Gnome Control Center showed the Desktop Effects tool (confirming [...]

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