Linux And Friends

cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax. It supports FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE protocols. With cURL, you can stop a download and then at a later stage, resume from where you left off. This is a great boon for downloading large [...]

Ubuntu 8.10 named Intrepid Ibex has been released by Canonical on October 30, 2008. To upgrade from a previous version of Ubuntu to the latest namely version 8.10, you need not download and burn an ISO image of the distribution. You can do it right from within Ubuntu in just 8 steps. The following steps [...]

Nautilus is the default file manager in GNOME. It has a lot of useful features at the same time is very user friendly. This tip is for those Linux users who are using an alternate window manager or desktop such as Xfce, Openbox, Fluxbox, Blackbox and so on but would like to use Nautilus as [...]

I love to eat cakes. Who doesn’t right ? But it is even more enjoyable if you can make it in just 3 minutes. The trick lies in microwaving the cake at 1000 watts, but only for 3 minutes.

In an earlier post, I had listed 9 most heart friendly vegetarian foods. Now here are 10 other fruits and vegetables which boost our immune system.

Codeweavers is giving out a free copy of its flag ship products namely Crossover office Pro and Crossover games for the Linux and Mac platform. Crossover software allows you to install and run your favourite Windows software natively in Linux.

How do you instill interest and imagination in your kids’ minds while teaching them to solve math problems ? Here is a fun way of doing just that.

There is a time tested way of terminating hung applications or processes in Linux. That is right, you use the kill command. But to do that you need to figure out the process ID of the misbehaving process because the kill command needs the ID of the process you wish to terminate.

Ubiquity is the dream project of Mozilla foundation – the creators of the world famous web browser, Firefox. The aim of the project is to harness the web in an intelligent way such that all the useful, albeit disconnected elements on the web can be mashed up together and brought right at the finger tips [...]