Enable Desktop Effect in Fedora 13
This post is specific to enabling 3d (desktop effects) in fedora 13 running on Nvidia graphics. I struggled to enable the desktop effect in Fedora 13. But eventually I managed to enable the desktop effects using the following steps. Note: This is a 3 steps process. Please follow all the steps to enable desktop effects in Fedora 13 1. Install Nvidia drivers ( if you have 4Gb of RAM or more you will probably have...

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Enna is a powerful light weight media center for Linux
Linux has no dearth of media centers. XBMC and Boxee are the 2 very popular ones. Enna is another media player solution for Linux and is surprisingly light weight and fast with wonderful features. Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia...

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Fix Big and Ugly Plymouth in Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}
Once you install proprietary Nvidia and ATI drivers in your Ubuntu 10.04 and boot your machine next time all you see is an big and ugly Ubuntu Plymouth logo. Though it really doesn't too much to have that ugly Plymouth, but if you are a stickler for perfection like me then you would want to fix it to get the following nice looking Plymouth. Following is a way to fix this: 1. Open a terminal Window and type the...

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How to install qBittorrent in Ubuntu 10.04
Torrent applications have become almost an integral part of every operating system and user desktop. There are plenty of choices of torrent client for Ubuntu and one of them is qBittorrent. qBittorrent 2 is a multi-platform Bittorrent client developed in C++/Qt4 by Christophe Dumez, a Ph.D student in the University of technology of Belfort-Montbeliard. This software is still under active development and it becomes ...

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How to install Firefox 3.6 stable release on Ubuntu 9.10 using PPA
The purpose of this post is to give the users the flavor of Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). We will only focus on using the PPA repository for Karmic Koala. We will see how to upgrade to Firefox 3.6 which was already released a few months back. Open the terminal window and type the following command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable Next we need to update the software...

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Upgrading packages/softwares in OpenSuse 11.2
Upgrades are very important for any operating system. It keeps running things smoothly and ensures the security of your machine. Let's see how to upgrade packages and softwares in OpenSuse 11.2. This is pretty simple to achieve. Go to Computer > Install Software Select the tab that reads Upgrades. Click the first package and click CTRL+A to select all the packages. Click Upgrade Click Apply to begin...

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How to install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Cairo Dock is a docking application for Linux. It's quite awesome and makes a wonderful addition to your Linux's look and feel. Let's see how to install this lovely utility in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). But before we get into the details of installing it. Let's see how it looks like on Ubuntu 10.04. Let's get on with the installation. Open a terminal window and add the following line and copy paste the following...

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Fix color issues in videos on Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}
Have you have suffered from color issues on videos in Ubuntu 10.04. Say for example you start playing a video and you see high amounts of blue tinge while playing a video. I ran into this problem today and it wasn't too much of difficulty to fix it back to normal. The issue at hand looks something like this: Let's see how to fix this on the default movie player Totem Movie Player on Ubuntu 10.04 and also VLC ...

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Install IceCat 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10
IceCat is a GPL version of Mozilla Firefox. Which means it's totally free and does not have the non-free Firefox art work. Another reason to have IceCat on your machine is because you can have another browser to open side by side Firefox which has the same features as that of Firefox. You can install IceCat on your Karmic machine using the following command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnuzilla-team/ppa Once you...

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Installing Opera 10.10 in Isadora {Linux Mint 9}
Opera is one of my favorite browsers as it comes as a full package with support for email (POP and IMAP), IRC chat client, RSS feedreader. You can also extend its functionality using widgets. Installing Opera 10.10 on Linux Mint is pretty easy. Let's see how to install it: 1. Open Synaptic Package Manager by going to Menu > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager 2. Search for ...

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How to get transparent matrix style terminal in Ubuntu (Jaunty jackalope): How-to

Jul 3rd

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 2,414 views

Share This is almost like a time waster but you can flaunt of your Linux better by having a matrix terminal. If I were to explain what terminal is, I’d say it’s a non-gui version of accessing and using your Ubuntu. Amazingly powerful, yet simple terminal is heart of any Linux distribution. You can access