Problem: Low contrast VIM on SSH and Telnet If you work over SSH or telnet on VIM (VI) text editor, then you are probably experiencing a low contrast page that’s very hard on the eyes. I searched all over the net and VIM’s wiki but didn’t find a fix. Solution: Change setting in VIM’s config [...]
Overview Ever need a quick and free tool for accessing a non-responsive computer? Have you wanted an easy way to partition multiple drives with a simple graphical tool? Do you like running Linux from RAM? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you’ll want to give this nifty tool a closer look. [...]
Good news for those of us who have been using Firefox as a last resort in our Linux machines. Google has announced the beta release of the mouch-touted browser for the Linux platform. Chrome is said to be faster and lighter than Firefox. I’ve been using Chrome in pre-beta for quite some time without incident. [...]
IE Does Not Behave Like Firefox for Many PHP Variables Forget it, IE doesn’t pass on the PHP referer variable. You cannot rely on IE for the referer variable. What’s really frustrating for LAMP programmers is that we often test in Firefox and things look great, and then you jump over to a Windows machine [...]
Face it, we live in a Windows world. The Windows 7 OS has been on shelves for nearly two weeks, and according to various reports, it already has taken a 2% market share of all installed OS in the world. By comparison, Linux OS, in all its flavors and variations, holds less than a 2% [...]
It was an uneasy breakup. Kubuntu and I had parted about two months ago rather abruptly after I had installed 9.02. After a nearly four year love affair between us, I felt that I had been jaded. The new KDE 4.1 Plasma desktop was awkward and things just didn’t seem right. Numerous crashes. Not knowing [...]
Mepis 8.0 Linux is a Linux distro designed for ease of use and suitable even for beginners. Mepis is built on Debian 5.0 stable core with the 2.6.27 Linux kernel and comes in a 32bit and 64bit version. You can download from the Mepis mirror sites here. Their motto is “SimplyMEPIS just works!” We decided [...]
Google recently announced their intentions for launching Google Chrome OS (Operating System). According to their blog release, the Google Chrome Operating System will first be targetted at Netbook users. Google plans to release their code to Open Source later this year, and make it available commericially in 2010. On their official blog, Google asks for [...]
Vector Linux is a popular Linux Distro whose motto is “speed, performance, stability”. Version 6.0 was released in February 2009. Their stated goal is to “Keep it simple, keep it small and let the end user decide.” Having said that, this end user decided to see what was cooking at Vector. Xfce Desktop – GNOME [...]
Embedded Linux vendor, MontaVista demonstrated booting Linux in one second. This 1 second feat is for the kernel only, e.g. without drivers and peripherals. Most linux desktop distros take between 20-25 seconds to fully load with all peripheral systems. Still, this is a nice achievement, and shows that faster boot times are ahead. Related articles: [...]