The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server components , by abstracting these components from the software that manages them. Modern mother boards are compatible with this standard. For a lay user it means that the BIOS settings can be watched from your [...]
Some time you will find CD images with .img extensions. IMG files are raw-data copies of optical media and are primarily used to store CDs with odd properties,such as sectors which need to have read errors when read. Conversion to ISO format removes this information,as ISO format does not support this. You can manipulate such [...]
A QR Code (it stands for “Quick Response”) is a mobile phone readable barcode.simply encode a URL into the QR Code and then point a mobile phone (or other camera-enabled mobile) at it. If the device has had QR Code decoding software installed on it, it will fire up its browser and go straight to [...]
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. Follow the steps below to setup an an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. 1. Login as root: sudo su 2 Installing MySQL 5 First we will install MySQL 5: apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client You will be asked to [...]
Xrandr (X Rezise and Rotare) is a command line utility available in your Linux system for reseting and resizing your screen resolution. So, if there is any issues with your display, no problem you can fix it from a Terminal. First You have to find the possible resolutions with xrandr -q $ xrandr -q Screen [...]
World’s Cheapest Android, named Akash, produced in India. Students from India have a reason to celebrate the highly anticipated “Sakshat Tablet” was successfully launched in India on Wednesday. The tablet is called “Akash” and was jointly developed by India in collaboration with the Datawind, and can easily be obtained for ($ 45) 2,200/- in [...]
Ping is used to check if a machine is up. Most of the hackers do use ping to find a online machine. By blocking ping, you can reduce the chance of getting your machine hacked. You can disable ping by adding following line to /etc/init.d/networking (network init script) echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all to re-enable echo 0 [...]
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot comes with Unity preinstalled. Unity is a shell interface for the Gnome Desktop Environment developed by Canonical for its Ubuntu Operating System. On Ubuntu 11.10 it’s pretty easy to install Gnome Shell and Gnome Shell classic, the one with a panel at top and one at the bottom. To install Gnome [...]
Restricted Extras The Ubuntu Restricted Extras will install Adobe Flash Player, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (sun-java-jre) with Firefox plug-ins (icedtea), a set of Microsoft Fonts (msttcorefonts), multimedia codecs (w32codecs or w64codecs), mp3-compatible encoding (lame), FFMpeg, extra Gstreamer codecs, the package for DVD decoding (libdvdread4, but see below for info on libdvdcss2), the unrar archiver, odbc, [...]
Skype is a free video calling service available for Mac OSX, Linux, and Windows. It’s a pretty simple piece of software with elaborate functionality. Install Skype in your Ubuntu 11.10 Terminal way 1. Open a terminal (ctrl + alt +T) 2. Type sudo apt-get install skype to install skype 3. Type skype to launch Skype [...]
