A friend needed to re-size his Windows NT OS partition from the default 4GB to 8GB. The easiest way to do this is with Linux, specifically with the GParted LiveCD.
GParted is a Gnome based partition editor which uses the libparted library from the popular GNU Parted package to do all it’s fancy partitioning stuff.
Current supported file systems are ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiser-4, reiserfs, ufs and xfs. GParted lets you detect, read, create, grow, shrink, move ,copy, check and label your partitions. However, not all the features will work across all file systems. See table below.
Where to get the LiveCD? SourgeForge of course!
Source: GParted
VLC media player 0.9.2
The best media player in my book, VLC has a new version out. Like WL it’s my player of choice on both my Linux and Windows machines.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/1732418[/vimeo]
Read the changelog while you download the installer.
Dropbox
Dropbox has finally come out of beta and is now available to everyone. With the public launched the company also introduced their open source Linux client which integrates seamlessly with nautilus and with a bit of work, KDE too. Get dropbox now. There is also a dedicated client for the iPhone.
I guess with Dropbox and Internet connectivity one could forget about their USB thumb drives now.
Source: Dropbox Blog
Google released it’s own web browser “Google Chrome” yesterday.
Why the need for a new browser? Google felt that the browser has not evolved too much since the old days and to support today’s web applications browsers will need to be re-engineered.
Google decided to wipe the slate clean and start over with Google Chrome though it’s open source project “Chromium”.
To start, It’s open source under a permissive BSD license. Developers will get the best from the project and vice versa.
Unlike other browsers, Chrome is multi-processed. Each tab runs in it’s own memory space. While one tab is processing other tabs no longer need to wait. If java scripts get too heavy you only need to kill the tab in question. Also, there is a task manager built in to show you the processes running in each tab, allowing you to kill them if needed.
The user interface has also been slimmed down tremendously. No more clutter and no unnecessary information is is visible. The smart address bar does it all.
Currently Google Chrome is only available for Windows. A Linux version is on its way.
Take it for a spin
Source: Chromium || LifeHacker ||
I am facing the same annoying beep issue which I experienced on my Linux notebook before on my XP machine now.
Most users don’ t fancy having sounds turned on their OS. In XP turning off your sound schemes will turn off all notification sounds but then all beeps get channeled to your pc speaker instead thus begins the annoyance. I read somewhere that MS claims that this is a bug with the motherboards, ya right!!
Fortunately the fix was simple. I downloaded TweakUI from MS and unchecked the “Beep On Errors” from the general options area.
