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How to configure BSNL EVDO on Linux

Written on June 11th, 2010 at 19:11 pm by chia

BSNL EVDO was India's first 3G wireless broadband service. I have been a fan of EV-DO for a long time. BSNL by default doesn't have any support for linux. In this howto, I will show two ways to configure BSNL EVDO USB modem on your Linux system - a Graphical method using Network Manager and other using wvdial.

Backup your MySQL databases automatically using Automysqlbackup

Written on April 17th, 2010 at 00:37 am by chia

When I started managing a server, due to small database I always took manual backups, scarcely though. And because of my laziness in doing so, my fellow author, shredder12 constantly bugged me to do so. So, I started with weird entries in cron until I find this awesome script.

IE9 preview ties the fight between H.264 and Ogg Theora

Written on March 18th, 2010 at 00:59 am by chia

With the ongoing fight about the codec technology to be used for the built-in video feature of HTML5, the decision of Microsoft for IE9 was looked upon as the major decider to bridge this major technology divide. But in IE9's preview this Tuesday, their decision to adopt H.264 technology proved to be heart breaker for Ogg Theora and open-source fan camp.

VLC 1.1.0 is going to be the Fastest of all

Written on March 16th, 2010 at 02:38 am by shredder12

Everytime I read something about VLC 1.1.0, I always find something new about it, making it better and better. You would have read my previous posts about its amazing new features along with some cool facts. This time Jean-Baptiste Kempf, one of the developer, showed in his blog, how VLC 1.1.0, codenamed the luggage, is going to be faster than all of the previous versions. 

Some VLC 1.1.0 Facts

Written on March 13th, 2010 at 20:27 pm by shredder12

With VLC 1.1.0 on its way, one of its developers, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, decided to share some cool facts about this new release. And since we have always kept you updated with most of the news about VLC, I thought it would be good to share these facts with all you linuxers.

Convert any software packages to formats recognized by your distro using Alien

Written on June 8th, 2010 at 16:44 pm by shredder12

Alien is a program that is used to inter convert software packages from different distributions e.g  a deb to rpm, deb to solaris pkg packages etc. Although most of the popular softwares will be available as a package in your linux distribution too but if that's not the case then you can use alien to convert a package available in some other file format to the one used by your distro.

Linux Mint 8 "Helena" Xfce released

Written on April 3rd, 2010 at 08:15 am by shredder12

The Xfce version of Linux Mint 8 Community Edition has released. Linux Mint 8 is based upon Ubuntu 9.10 thus making this Xfce release based on Xubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala. With Linux Kernel 2.6.31, Xfce 4.6.1 "Helena" Xfce CE comes with a lot of improvements and the latest open source softwares. Check them out.

Firefox 3.0 comes to an end

Written on March 17th, 2010 at 17:07 pm by shredder12

The great era of Firefox 3.0 finally comes to an end with Mozilla calling off further updates for the release. "There will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x", said mozilla. The final update, according to mozilla, will be Firefox 3.0.19, due March 30.

Manage your ssh tunnel redirects graphically using Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager

Written on March 15th, 2010 at 02:08 am by shredder12

gSTM provides you with a graphical front-end to manage various ssh tunnels easily. This tool is ofcourse useful for people who have to deal with ssh tunnels all the time but even if you don't use tunnels frequently or you can hardly remember the ssh flags while creating one, this tool might be able to help you out with quick creation of any type of tunnel redirects you want.

How to enable Facebook Chat in Pidgin

Written on March 11th, 2010 at 02:08 am by shredder12

I am an Instant messaging addict. Its the fastest way I can contact with most of my friends and work mates. Many of my facebook friends are not available on gtalk and I never wanted a separate tab for facbeook chat. The only solution I liked was to somehow integrate FB chat in Pidgin. I used the Facebook chat plugin but that didn't work for me. Thanks to FB developers who added XMPP/Jabber support for Facebook chat and now we can easily enable FB chat in Pidgin.

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