Linux - Part 10

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Moving again, this time to VPS from ServerFreak

posted on January 24, 2009 in Site News with 3 Comments

I’m moving to a new hosting provider. Yup, again and this time for a good reason. Hosting with Fivio has been good and since it was sponsored I have nothing to complain about. Been looking at VPS for a few months now and finally decided to make the leap.I’ve also been working on a few [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

How to install Dropbox in Ubuntu 8.10

posted on January 5, 2009 in HowTo, Linux, Software, Ubuntu with 6 Comments

Dropbox is my favorite online storage solution. Here’s how to install it on Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid 1. Add the Dropbox repository for Ubuntu package source file. I use /etc/apt/source.list.d/dropbox.list file. deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main Either manually add the lines above to the /etc/apt/source.list.d/dropbox.list file or run the commands below to do [...]

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