IRC is a great way to chat with people all around the world. It’s been around forever and unlike the newer social media services, it isn’t controlled by any one company. As awesome as IRC is, there are a couple of drawbacks. First, if an Internet connection goes down, your connection will be lost. It’s … Read more
Sometimes, when you install a new Linux distro in your PC and you didn’t set the boot flag correctly, you will often end up with a unbootable machine with the following error message (as shown in the left image). This happened to me while I were installing the Ubuntu 12.10 on my PC. The installation … Read more
Lightweight Linux distro usually comes in the file size ranging from 20MB to 50MB and they are best suited to use on a old computer. Recently, I come across this tiny Linux distro that weighs only 12MB and it boots up really fast. I am referring to Tiny Core Linux. Weighing at 12 MB, Tiny … Read more
There are plenty of reasons to draft writing in plain text, one reason being that text editors (generally) run light compared to other document applications such as word processors, and are mostly distraction-free. But many text editors hide some other clever tricks that can make them useful in different ways. In this article, we’ll use … Read more
There are a number of ways you can log into one computer to run software from another: ssh for purely command-line work, X11 forwarding for launching GUI applications on the remote machine, VNC for a remote view of your desktop, RDP if you’re stuck (temporarily) in Windows. Nomachine is known for their NX system, which … Read more
When you first create a virtual machine in your Virtualbox, it will always prompt you to create a new virtual hard disk. While creating the hard disk, most people will opt for the default storage space (20GB). However, if you are using it as frequent as me, you will find that the 20GB of storage … Read more
We have previously discussed how you can use AndroMouse to turn your Android phone into a wireless mouse for your computer. In this tutorial, we will show you how to set it up in Ubuntu. The tutorial was performed with Galaxy S2 and Ubuntu 12.04 but it should be valid with any Android Phone and … Read more
If you haven’t noticed, if you’re looking for a Linux distribution, you’re spoiled for choice. Sites like DistroWatch list hundreds of different Linux distros on the site. But where did they all come from? Since Linux is just a kernel, as Richard Stallman is fond of pointing out, it’s not really that useful by itself, … Read more
Google is (or was, depending on who you ask) a favorite among free software lovers because of their tendency to “don’t be evil.” Whether you feel that way or not, the company still offers some pretty great services, easily accessible via a web browser (and particularly good if accessed via Google’s own Chrome). Maybe I’m … Read more
After Bash and Korn, today we shall discover the very popular Zsh shell. In fact, Zsh is so popular that a lot of people has left Bash for him. The main reason behind its popularity is due to an incredible interactivity with the user, and a very comprehensive and powerful auto-completion functionality. History The first … Read more