How to backup your data when your windows crashed?? It happens to me,i have some blue screen error on my Desktop PC and my windows is not loading.I tried detaching and attaching my hard disks and RAM but still the same blue screen. OMG..My PC has my collection of over 250GBs of games and movie..!!What [...]

There, you got all the inspirations from the web and your friends and have now Linux proudly running on your system. (Linux is the kernel, ya ya I know you got it). Your friend approaches you to help him get rid of the virus in his USB drive. And you are proud you are of help in terminating viruses with ease, thanks to Linux’s security. And he asks you to do a favor. To rename the USB drive label to his name, from the name “disk”.

For those of you coming from windows backgrounds, the way the linux filesystem is laid out may seem confusing at first glance…. but that is where this article comes in !

The first thing you should know when working with linux, is that everything is treated as either a file or directory. Yeap thats right, even hardware is considered a file by linux, and, speaking of hardware… all your hardware devices are located in the /dev directory, but more on that later.

In windows XP, you would most probably use DVD/CD burning software such as Nero or DeepBurner to make iso images, and software like alcohol 120% or daemon tools to mount the images.

In linux, you can use the commandline to both make and mount iso images.

Although linux-based operating systems are considerably safer when compared to Windows and Mac OSX, there are still steps that you can take to ensure that your linux box stays safe and protected. In this post I will illustrate a few techniques you can use to keep your machine locked down tight.

Most people look at Distros like Ubuntu and Fedora and Slackware and call them “Linux”. When these distros boot up and get into a GUI environment, people call the GUI linux as well.

But…..That is not true!

This tutorial will teach you how to create a bootable windows XP/ubuntu(any linux) pen drive and install XP/ubuntu(any linux) using this bootable pen drive. Why would anyone want to install Windows XP from a pen drive?? May be their CD drive isn’t working properly like mine, or They don’t want to waste money on a [...]

Are you thinking of trying out Linux? Fed up of everyday battles with Virus and Antivirus? Wanna give this open sourced free software a try? Well then this post is exclusively for you.An insight into what you shall find here. Which one to select? What more do I need? What should I know? What about [...]

New linux users must have noticed this. There are antivirus available in the repos. You might question, “But wasn’t I promised that linux is virus free? That was an important reason for me to switch from Windows to Linux.” Well the hard truth is Linux does have it’s own category of viruses. But, the part [...]

I am more inclined towards website development rather than coding. Of course I will be practicing coding in a few days. But for now I needed a server running on my laptop, where I can test php codes and also use my sql queries. By the way I am running my laptop on Ubuntu. So [...]

How to remove one of the OS from linux boot loader(grub) and access it covertly… Cool Hack…

You don’t need any software to download you tube videos in Linux… Just follow these steps and enjoy the flvs

(Ubuntu feisty vs PCLinuxOS 2007) Hello guys… I am one of Linux enthusiast like you people, and have used almost all major Linux distros in past.Currently I triple boot Windows XP/Ubuntu Feisty /PCLinuxOS 2007.I am very impressed with PCLOS 2k7, even more than i was with Ubuntu. So i though why not write something which [...]

You can display any web page free of any browser baggage using this simple hack.

So Finally Here’s the Complete Tutorial for your alternative sify client for linux which has been tested on both debian and rpm based systems…

I’m writing this post from Ubuntu8.04 aka Hardy Heron. Graphics in Hardy are awesome,cool, breezy,hot (The fire effect ) . Hardy was supposed to be released on 24th morning so i sticked to my browser refreshing their home page. It was released at 1830 hrs IST, I started downloading immediately. Initially  i got good download [...]