Compiz magic

                                  The Compiz Fusion project tries to bring us all the latest 3D technologies, such as Cube reflection, paint fire on your desktop and a lot of new eye candy animations. Compiz Fusion aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to render each individual...

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How to add Network Monitor applet to your taskbar in Ubuntu

                        Netspeed applet is a network monitor applet that describes your network traffic by showing the uplink and downlink rate graphically... Its simply helps you to identify weather there is network traffic or not instead of refereshing your browser frequently.. The figure below shows the Netspeed applet Adding Netspeed applet to your panel Right click on the panel...

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How to find the open ports when you get connected

This post is all about the open ports created in your system. This ports are mainly tcp or udp ports.  Ports below 1024 are reserved for common services, and only root can use them. Standard port numbers can be found in /etc/services.  Take your terminal and type  in as follows to see them $sudo gedit /etc/services The maximum number of ports is 65k, so you have more than enough Internet ports for all your services. Here are some useful utilities. Netstat is a command that will list...

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Quick tips : Ubuntu / Linux

The simplest way to install the packages  If you feels the package installation as a head ache in Ubuntu Linux, just try http://www.appnr.com . It has a wide categorized collection of packages with short description, what you need is only a mouse to begin installation. Separate /home partition when you install Linux Try to make separate partition for the /home when you install linux, and show this partion as the home for any linux that you install later in your system. It has the advantage...

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Quick tips : Internet

Tip1 : Use firefox / chrome to surf the web Firefox and chrome are the fastest browsers to surf the web. A little amount of coniguration can further increase the speed of firefox. Click on the link to see how http://1024bitez.blogspot.com/2009/06/fire-fox.html Tip 2 : Search in webpages of other languages If you can't find out the right page or your search keyword, Use the google's language translator tool to widen your search over diffrent languages. Google will show you the result in...

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Quick tip : Laptops

Tip 1: wifi/bluetooth switches in laptopsIf you have partiular switch for wifi bluetooth in you laptop then put it always in the ON state physically. They are not so sturdy and are easily prone to complaint. So frequently using these switches will decrease its lifespan. Better check out your Oparting systen services to enable/disable this services instead of always looking for the switches Tip 2 :When you buy a laptop When you are going to buy a laptop give the irst preference to Processor, Motherboard...

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Make your keyboard blinking to represent network traffic using tleds in Ubuntu

tleds is debian based appliation that is used to indicate the netwotk traffic using your keyboard LEDs. As you know the led lights in the keyboard for indicating scroll lock, numlock have no other purpose other than just glowing to indicate this features are active. These remain off during most of the time. So let's use these LED's to indicate the network traffic of your system. You can make them blinking when you send/recieve packets into network or internet. This can be done by just downloading...

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Internet access and package installation behind a proxy server in Ubuntu

When there is a proxy server in between your system and server you have to specify the proxy address in all the applications that is intended to access internet such as firefox, bittorrent... Proxy servers are mainly deployed for subnets, for example a network inside a college is connected to internet using a proxy server (not technically, since there are gateways,routers...) to sensor and restrict the students internet activities, protect from unauthorized access...  If you have to run any...

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Changing the entries in boot loader of Ubuntu

This post will show you how you can change the order, color, text etc that are shown in the boot loader (grub) of your Ubuntu linux. The configuration files that are needed to boot your Ubuntu linux are residing in the  menu.lst file in boot folder Let use the terminal to edit those entries easily 1.  Take the gnome terminal and type in the followin command to back up the menu.lst file $sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst  /etc/grub/menu.lst.bak 2.  Open the file in  gedit text...

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Configuring the new GRUB 2

As you know GRUB is the software used by debian operating systems like Ubuntu… for loading and transferring control to the operating system kernel during the initial boot. The new version grub2 has many differences from the previous versions of grub in many aspects of configuring and tweaking. GRUB 2 will be installed by default on new installations of Ubuntu (Karmic).While the main grub boot loader file continues to reside in the /boot/grub folder, it is no longer called as menu.lst in GRUB 2....

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Things to care when you buy a laptop from Kerala

Probably laptop is a an avoidable tech think when you live in a todays professional technical life. The laptop market is making a noticable growth in a recent period. The giants among the field are Sony, Apple etc.. Hp is also a good option at this range. U may get greatly appealing, light weight systems if you have enough money to pay  an amount for greater than 50k rupees. Dell, Thoshiba makes the middle part of the laptop industry by providing computeras with reasonable configuration at...

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How to connect Windows XP to Ubuntu over LAN cable

                 This post is all about connecting Ubuntu and Windows system using a LAN cable for sharing data between them . . . A LAN cable is a preferable mechanism for sharing files in a good speed in the range of Mbps. Connection requirements :         LAN cable         Ubuntu linux with Samba (or any other file sharing application)    ...

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How to connect Airtel GPRS in Ubuntu linux

The gprs internet is a good option when you are looking for an affordable internet connection and limited budget... You dont need to think about the wires... (coz it probably makes you weired). Here check out how airtel's gprs can be accessed in your desktop or laptop Follow the steps to connect. 1. Connect the phone using the data cable to the computer. Choose the COM port    mode or phone mode in your phone. In Nokia it is called 'nokia mode' 2. On selecting the phone mode the 'New...

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How to connect Aircel GPRS in Ubuntu Linux

Older versions of the Ubuntu linux has very less support for USB modems. This was the major problem that prevents you from connecting the mobile broadband internet facility provided by means of gprs.Linux versions were back in automatically detecting the USB modems in the mobile phones… But the new 9.04 version of Ubuntu linux (some previous versions also ) comes up with many facilities to overcome this problems… Let me get into the matter… Here i am sharing my experiences when i tried to connect...

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