Change Gnome Desktop Icons

So you use gnome and want to add or remove the default desktop icons. You want to add or remove the Desktop, home folder or trash Icon, or you don't want the mounted volume icon to appear on your desktop and hamper its beauty. Changing them is very easy.

Hit ALT+F2
Type gconf-editor

Go to /apps/nautilus/desktop/



There you will find the following options:

computer_icon_visible
home_icon_visible
network_icon_visible
trash_icon_visible
volumes_visible

Toggle them according to your choice.
The last one is the option for showing the mounted volume icons on desktop.

Top 10 Reasons Not to Use Ubuntu

By Brian Proffitt on October 31, 2007 10:34 AM
Top 10 Reasons Not to Use Ubuntu

Amsn music plugin

Just like Windows Live Messenger you can display current playing song in Amsn too. It supports most music players.

First download the small plugin here.

Then unzip it.
Put them in either

• /usr/share/amsn/plugins (for all users)
  
• /home/YOUR_USER_NAME/.amsn/plugins (for you only)

Go to Account on main menu, select plugins.
You should see "Music"
Click configure.

Restart in not required.

Fedora 9 out now.

As everyone is shouting Fedora 9 is out.



Release Note

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Free Media Program

Windows VS BIOS a Linux Addict

Its been nearly a year since I replace my Windows XP with Ubuntu and from that point I have never used Windows. Last week I have been to one of my relatives and he had a windows PC. I was using it (yes windows) for nearly an hour for checking mails, photos,playing music and so on. Then due to some technical problem I had to restart the PC and go to BIOS. I spent nearly five minutes there in BIOS. Later I realized that I enjoyed those five minutes of BIOS lot more than that I enjoyed using Windows.

P.S. I am a Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE)

DBMS Normalization Steps

Input Relation	Transformation	Output relation
All relations	Eliminate variable lenght records Remove multiattribute lines in Table	1NF
1NF relation	Remove dependency of non-key attribute on part of a multiattribute key	2NF
2NF	Remove dependency of non-key attributes on other non-key attributes	3NF
3NF	Remove dependency of an attribute of a multiattribute key on an attribute of another(overlapping)multiattribute key	BCNF
BCNF	Remove more than one independent multivalued ependency from relation by splitting relation	4NF
4NF	Add one relation relating attributes with multivalued dependeny to the two relatins with multivalued dependency	5NF

Source:SMU

How to setup network bridge

I have written following tutorial based on my system(Debian). It may work with little or no modification in your system too.

First of all what is a network bridge?
According to www.linux-foundation.org

A bridge is a way to connect two Ethernet segments together in a protocol independent way.

I assume if you are reading this then you must know lot more than this.

So how do we create a bridge then? In windows it is very simple, just select the interfaces, right-click them and select create bridge.

In Linux, you need to do it following:

Edit your /etc/network/interfaces file
vi /etc/network/interfaces

Add the following codes
iface br0 inet static
address 172.16.5.1
netmask 255.255.255.224
gateway 172.16.5.5
bridge_ports eth0 eth1

OR

iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth0 eth1

Save and exit.
Go to Terminal.
sudo ifup br0

Doing so will produce the following error

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
br0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
br0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up br0.


This is because you haven't installed the package bridge-utils
In terminal type sudo apt-get install bridge-utils

Bingo! you are done.

If you want the bridge to be up automatically then you can add auto br0 in the /etc/network/interfaces file somewhere near the above added lines.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Launched

Openoffice.org 3.0 is launched.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta is ready for testing

Download

The official site says A Start Centre is added,new fresh-looking icons, and a new zoom control in the status bar.



Another major feature

OpenOffice.org 3.0 will support the upcoming OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 standard, and is capable of opening files created with MS-Office 2007 or MS-Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.). This is in addition to read and write support for the MS-Office binary file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt, etc.).

It can be also run on MAC OS X without X11.

Puppy Linux 4.00

Do you have old computer lying around in your store. Want to give life to it. Have you heard of puppy Linux?

Puppy really is small, the live-CD typically being 85MB, yet there really is a complete set of GUI applications. Being so small, Puppy usually loads completely into RAM, which accounts for the incredible speed.

Hardware Requirements
CPU : Pentium 166MMX
RAM : 128 MB physical RAM for releases since version 1.0.2 or failing that a Linux swap file and/or swap partition is required for all included applications to run; 64 MB for releases previous to 1.0.2
Hard Drive : None
CDROM : 20x and up

http://puppylinux.com/

Try it for yourself.

Media Player for your Linux

VLC media player

The cross-platform media player and streaming server.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Audacious

Audacious is a fork of beep-media-player 0.9.7.1.
First off, the fork has no political reasons, it is based entirely on technical merit. It's based on a few issues:

* BMP classic had a number of deficiencies relating to Unicode.
* BMP classic is no longer actively maintained by the development team.
* We had our own ideas about how a player should be designed, which we wanted to try in a production environment.
* Beep lacked functionality that is useful for people who do streaming, such as the songchange plugin from XMMS.

Therefore, a fork seemed most logical as a choice for accomplishing our goals. The BMP team has done very good work, but their ideas for a next-generation beep do not align with ours.

http://audacious-media-player.org

Exaile

Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support via a plugin.

In addition, Exaile also includes a built-in SHOUTcast directory browser, tabbed playlists (so you can have more than one playlist open at a time), blacklisting of tracks (so they don't get scanned into your library), downloading of guitar tablature from fretplay.com, and submitting played tracks on your iPod to Last.fm.

http://www.exaile.org/


Xine

xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available - and some of the most uncommon formats, too.

http://xinehq.de/

Save by Title in Firefox

One major difference between IE and FF is the way they name file while saving the web page. IE saves by the title while FF saves by the title only if in URL there is no page name. In rest of the case FF saves by the page name. But people find lot convenient by saving by title name. To do so in FF you can add addon. Just search for the addon title save and install it and the next time you save the page it will be saved by the name of the title.

Wine 0.9.61 Released

Check it out here.

What is wine?

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.

Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.