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Author: Dipin Krishna

General Aug 27, 2009 1 min read

Internet Explorer 6 in linux ( ubuntu 9.04)

Internet Explorer 6 can function under Wine, albeit imperfectly. For most purposes, Firefox can be used (with the User Agent Switcher plugin) to mimic Internet Explorer, but for…

General Aug 27, 2009 2 min read

Eye Candy Applications: your os will look great

Eye Candy Applications refer to the decoration of the graphical user interface. These can be add-on icons, themes, wallpapers, 3-D effects, etc. Gnome Eye-Candy Resources Gnome Look has…

General Aug 26, 2009 2 min read

alias: replace your lengthy commands with shorter ones

Create an alias, aliases allow a string to be substituted for a word when it is used as the first word of a simple command. Syntax alias [-p]…

General Aug 26, 2009 1 min read

Synaptic Package Manager: a GUI method for installing programs/packages

While "apt-get" and "aptitude" are fast ways of installing programs/packages, you can also use the Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Manager), a GUI method for…

terminal Aug 26, 2009 1 min read

Aptitude: a terminal-based package manager

Aptitude is a terminal-based package manager that can be used instead of apt-get. Aptitude marks packages that are automatically installed and removes them when no packages depend on…

General Aug 25, 2009 1 min read

SSH login without password

For this you required to generate your own personal set of private/public pair. ssh-keygen is used to generate that key pair for you. On the user’s home directory,…