My experience with OpenSource & My Hobbies

1. sudo lshw -C network | grep -i serial     lshw     - Command used to list the details of all available hardware in a system.     -C...

There are many ways to find the filesystem of a partition in linux (provided the partition mounted) Following are the command line tools r...

1.  Download the adobe-flash player from -> https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ 2.  Select ".tar.gz for other linux" then cl...

1. Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file as sudo(or root) user         $sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config 2. Modify the "PermitRootLogin...

I am user of BOSS GNU/Linux version 5.0(code name: anokha) since a few years and i am content with it.  It's been about a year that t...

This post specific to Debian based linux 3 main steps: 1. Add website entries in the /etc/hosts file 2. Setup a webserver in local mach...

Steps to install drivers for SAMSUNG SCX-4521-NS multifunction printer 1. Download the driver file for linux from the ...

In Debian based linux(deb package management system) Linux "/etc/apt/sources.list" is the file which tells your linux box where ...

1. download the source from the repository   $apt-get source    Ex. $apt-get source scimsource  This command will fetch the source code...

Screenshot of gpicker      After a long time again tried to create web page with HTML5 & CSS3.  As the work progressed as usual end...

As of now some of the Linux distros don't come up with the gtk-3.0 libraries and development files by default.   Though Gnome applicati...

Nowadays many of keyboards comes with multimedia keys like play/pause, next & previous button, volume up, down etc...  Almost all the...

Some times we do accidentally change the some settings of the libreoffice and endup with 1. weird/awakward views of our documents 2. prob...

 As our qwerty keyboard can't accommodate all the available characters, symbols we end up with the keyboard(layout) that have the main ...

dpkg - > is a debian package manager command dpkg -l - > will list all the packages with their status installed/deinstalled/remove...

Some times the debian package version which is installed in your linux box (say  foo-package-x.y.xy  ) is different from what version you r...

skype:  is a VoIP based software application which is mainly used for peer to peer phone/video call, instant messaging over internet conn...

 Some time wireless/wi-fi is not working in BOSS GNU/Linux[or any debian based linux like ubuntu etc].  The reason 1.  The exact firmware...

In some scenarios its needed to lock a user to login into his own account.  This can be achieved by many ways. 1.  GUI way  1.1 Go to Sy...

This blog post explains you how to install fedora16 (verne) in virtualbox.  Even though i do explain the things in terms of BOSS GNU/Linux ...