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Archive for December, 2009
Gnome-shell: the future desktop environment
Dec 7th
Desktop environments give the users a very rich, cool interface with their computer. Gnome is one of the best desktop environments that is made available to the users since its release version.
1. Gnome had its developments in various releases, and most recently the stable release of gnome 2.28.so whats up now, More >
The World’s Largest JPEG Image
Dec 3rd
Today, I’ve got a nice story for you about the world’s largest JPEG image. This image is being kept on magnetic tape in a research laboratory in Palo Alto, California. The image measures 2,147,483,647 pixels wide by 2,147,483,647 pixels tall, and contains nothing but the color black.
Pixels are the smallest More >
Sharing your downloaded Ubuntu Software!
Dec 2nd
APTonCD is a piece of software that backups all your downloaded software from internet.
1. Download APTonCD using Synaptic and install it. Use this to make a ISO image from downloaded packages.
2. Then you can mount this ISO image and it will just work as the package CD.
3. To mount an ISO More >
Installing nVidia Graphic Card Driver in Ubuntu
Dec 2nd
Note: This is not for the older versions of Ubuntu.
1. Go to Nvidia site and download the driver for your model.
2. Save the driver somewhere on your file system, that may be your home folder or /opt.
3. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and go to terminal. Enter terminal as root.
4. Then to end xserver, More >
