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.

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!

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Carolyn’s note: <CRLF> just means hit return. In case you can’t see that little period between the <CRLF>s, what you do to end composing your email is to hit enter, type a period, then hit enter again. Anyhow, try typing: This is a test. . 250 Requested mail action okay, completed quit 221 <techbroker.com> Service [...]

The simplest use of telnet is to log into a remote computer. Give the command: C:/>telnet targetcomputer.com (substituting the name of the computer you want to telnet into for targetcomputer.com) If this computer is set up to let people log into accounts, you may get the message: login: Type your user name here, making sure [...]

The Magic of DOS In this guide you will learn how to telnet, forge email, and use nslookup with Windows XP. The key to doing amazing things with XP is as simple as D O S. Yes, that’s right, DOS as in MS-DOS, as in MicroSoft Disk Operating System. Windows XP (as well as NT [...]

On April 6, 2008, A new version of gOS, called gOS 2.9 “Space” was launched, this version is intended for the gPCmini, and especially geared towards MySpace users and is based on Compiz fusion, Gnome, and the Avant Window Navigator dock manager, but it also uses E17 code. It has a Dock with a “stack” [...]

The objective is to have a gnome terminal running as the desktop background, right above the actual background image, that won’t be displayed by the statusbar or ticker. It should look something like this: Full transparency or Semi-transparent with shadows (using Xgl) Ok, lets get started… 1) Download devilspie Code: sudo apt-get install devilspie 2) [...]

If you want to restore Windows Bootloader and for some reason cannot use the windows installation cd, there is a simple way to do it: NOTE: make sure you have internet working. 1) Boot with Ubuntu Live CD or Linux Mint Live CD 2) On the terminal: sudo apt-get install ms-sys then ms-sys –mbr /dev/hdX [...]

If you want to remove those nasty ads from the pages which waste lot of time and bandwidth then here is something for you I believe it will help you a lot. How it works: It’s possible to set up a name server as authoritative for any domain you choose, allowing you to specify the [...]

I always wanted to try Linux, and taste the pride in using this open source operating system. I tried Fedora and Elive before but had a tough time finding the drivers for my laptop, so i had to give up. Yesterday my friend Keshav showed me few videos of Ubuntu . They were too cool, [...]