Linux And Friends

If you are stuck with a bunch of text files which contain a factual error and you urgently need to correct the same, then the obvious recourse would be to open each text file individually and search and replace the text. This process is very laborious and time consuming especially if the number of text [...]

This tutorial explains how to install Oracle Java in Fedora so that you can run Java applets in your web browser. The process is quite simple because Java has been released in an open source license.

In India, the increase in tele-density can be largely attributed to mobile phones. Anybody and everybody you come across owns a mobile phone. We Indians are fortunate to have a wide variety of choices when it comes to choosing the cell phone carrier. And there are a hand full to choose from, such as – [...]

A few days back, while rummaging through my trunk, I laid my hands on a rare book. The book is “Punch Digest”. It is an out of print joke book which specialized in tasteful humor. It contains over a hundred pages of funny jokes and cartoons that is sure to break you into peals of [...]

Two days back while configuring and fine tuning Fedora 15 on my machine, I tried to install one of my favorite plugins in GIMP namely “Save for Web” plugin. To my dismay though, there was no complied version for Fedora. So I had to download the source code of the plugin, compile, and install it. [...]

This is a tip to automatically start any program of your choice while logging into your GNOME 3 desktop. Create an ordinary file in your ~/.config/autostart directory. If the ~/.config/autostart directory is not present, you will have to create it.