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Full Circle Magazine Issue 21

posted on February 13, 2009 in eBooks, Linux, Open Source, Ubuntu with 0 Comments  

The latest issue of “Full Circle Magazine is out. Issue 21. What I found interesting in this issue; Output formatting with grep, awk, sed, cat, cut Web developement C programming Video resizing Ubuntu USB boot Torrent tools Download the magazine or read it online. Source: Full Circle Magazine

What does dirname(__FILE__) and basename(dirname(__FILE__)) do?

posted on February 6, 2009 in HowTo, Open Source, php with 4 Comments  

Was helping a friend fix his php script today. He was not too sure about what “dirname(__FILE__)” did. dirname() is a PHP function which returns the directory name of a file. For example if file abc.txt was in “/tmp/abc.txt” then the dirname() function would return “/tmp” . Example Usage; <?php $file = “/tmp/abc.txt”; $path = [...]

PDFreaders.org, open standard PDF

posted on February 3, 2009 in eBooks, Open Source with 0 Comments  

PDFreaders.org is the latest project from “The Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)“. PDF have become a standard when it comes to distributing documents today. From eBooks to magazines and brochures, nothing is spared from going PDF. The fellowship is out to promote open standards for the PDF format. Open standard allows everyone [...]

Free eBook : Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

posted on January 30, 2009 in eBooks, Linux, Open Source, Ubuntu with 0 Comments  

Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference by Keir Thomas. Here’s a good book for Ubuntu users and those thinking of switching over to Ubuntu. The book’s 194 pages long and covers; Installing Ubuntu Configuring Ubuntu Getting to grips with the desktop Users and the filesystem Hands-on at the command-line Software management Securing the system The printed [...]

How to install Adobe AIR 1.5 on Ubuntu 8.10

posted on January 19, 2009 in HowTo, Linux, Open Source, Software, Ubuntu with 2 Comments  

1. Download Adobe AIR 1.5 at http://get.adobe.com/air/ or use the direct Link . 2. Assign execute rights to  the “AdobeAIRInstaller.bin”file to start the installer. danesh@python:~/Desktop$ chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin 3. Execute  the “AdobeAIRInstaller.bin” file to start the installer. danesh@python:~/Desktop$ ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Related: How to install twhirl

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