2009 January - Part 3

Archive for January, 2009

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 toÂ the “AdobeAIRInstaller.bin”file to start the installer. danesh@python:~/Desktop$ chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin 3. ExecuteÂ the “AdobeAIRInstaller.bin” file to start the installer. danesh@python:~/Desktop$ ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Related: How to install twhirl

How to install GScrot – Screenshot Tool

posted on January 17, 2009 in HowTo, Linux, Open Source, Software, Ubuntu with 2 Comments

Update [Â Feb 16 2009 ] – GScrot has been renamed to Shutter. GScrot is a popular screen-shot tool for Linux. GScrot is currently at version 0.64. It runs best on GNOME and has a good feature list. Capture a website, whole desktop, individual window or a custom selection. Support for delayed screen-shots. Plug-ins for [...]

Deluge 1.1.0 released

posted on January 16, 2009 in BitTorrent, Linux, Open Source, Software with 2 Comments

Deluge 1.1.0 is out. Some of the major changes in the release; Labels. Proxy support. Authentication for the daemon. Per-tracker filtering. Magnet uri/hash. Improved file tabs with file/folder renaming functions. QOS support. For the full change list go to the changelog. Download here.

Design Coding Rap by The Poetic Prophet

posted on January 15, 2009 in Cool Stuff, Internet with 0 Comments

Need a few pointers in web design? This is the first time web design and SEO got served to me in the form of Rap. Thanks to Alan. The video’s are by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper). Watch and enjoy. Design Coding

How to find the number of physical CPUs in Linux

posted on January 14, 2009 in HowTo, Linux with 1 Comment

With multicore CPUs it’s easy for newbies to get confused when faced with questions like; 1. How many physical CPUs does the server have? 2. How many cores on each CPU? Duo/Quad In Linux it’s actually quite easy to get this info. You could go through the /var/log/dmesg file or the /proc/cpuinfo file. For this [...]

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