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Partition Backing Up and Restoring Tools
Partimage Partimage is an excellent tool for taking backup of any partition. But please note that when you restore, the partition size should be the same as the original partition size. If it is less, the restore will not take place and if it is more the extra space will be wasted. Also the partition…
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TV Tuner software and remote control software
XawTV and TVtime “xawtv” comes as the default tv watching program for Mepis. “xawtv” also features recording ability but I think a lot of work has to be done on this feature. But when it comes to quality and full-screen mode “tvtime” rules. TVtime is installable via apt. The Indian cable settings are: Default Television…
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Mail Clients, pop3 servers, configuration settings
Mail Clients Thunderbird and KMail are two excellent mail clients for linux users. I tried Evolution (it seems to be very popular) but it kept crashing and hence I had to stop using it. KMail was excellent except for two problems – i. the composer does not wrap text automatically and ii. Support for IMAP…
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Popular Linux Browsers
Firefox Firefox is the best browser available for linux. What makes it so good besides its advanced features is it’s wondeful plugins and extensions support. Firefox is installable via apt. Useful extensions for firefox: Flashgot: FlashGot is a free Mozilla/Firefox/Flock/Thunderbird extension (compatible with Netscape too), meant to handle single and massive (“all” and “selection”) downloads…
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Searching Techniques in Linux
Here I shall cover the various techniques that can be used for searching. Searching for files “locate” works by maintaining a database of all the files which are present on the hard disk. When a search is performed for a specific file, this information is retrieved from the database. In order to update the database…
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Instant Messaging
Instant Messaging – my favourite topic. There was a time in my graduation when I used to chat like hell and experiment with all the available messaging clients. My two cousins Sumana and Sujana and a friend Swetha used to always be the ‘bakras’ (scapegoats) bearing me :-). Times have changed now and I don’t…
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Auto-mounting partitions
The details of the partitions detected on the hard-disk is maintained in ‘/etc/fstab’ file. Simply Mepis automatically detects the available partitions and adds them as dynamic entries in /etc/fstab. If you want to make that partition entry as static, you will have to move that entry above the line “# Dynamic entries below, identified by…
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Mepis Basics
Now that I have convinced you into using Linux (I do hope I have :-)), it is time to get into action. This page is the first of the many pages which I am going to write as to how best you can customize linux to suit your needs. Now that we are all set,…
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Introduction to Linux
Why Linux? The million dollar question – Why use Linux? In my view, for three simple reasons. It is free It is more secure You don’t have the problem of viruses And my justifications for the above three reasons. Yes, I feel very guilty being a software engineer and using pirated software. You may argue…
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Love Letter By A Mathematician
My Dear Love, Yesterday, I was passing by your rectangular house in trigonometric lane. There I saw you with your cute circular face, conical nose and spherical eyes, standing in your triangular garden. Before seeing you, my heart was a null set, but when a vector of magnitude (likeness) from your eyes at a deviation…