Free eBook: The Art & Science of CSS

SitePoint’s giving away their famous eBook “The Art $ Science of CSS” free of charge for 14 days. Do download simply follow Sitepoint on twiter for a DM with the download link or drop them an email to get the download link by mail instead. The giveaway ends in 8 days so hurry. Source: SitePoint | Abinesh

2008-11-23 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

GParted LiveCD for all your partitioning needs

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....

2008-11-18 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Photos from foss.my 2008

I’ve finally managed to upload my pics from foss.my 2008. Check em out, not the best of quality but they’ll work. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannyportal/sets/72157609213966387/detail/

2008-11-16 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Installing Adobe AIR and twhirl on Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid

Dropped my TwitterFox for twhirl today. Runs flawlessly on Ubuntu 8.10. Installation was a breeze, here’s the walkthrough. Download Adobe AIR Beta from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html Install Adobe AIR danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ ls<br /> adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin<br /> danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ chmod +x adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin<br /> danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ ./adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin<br /> danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ Download twhirl from http://www.twhirl.org/project/twhirl Double click the twhirl file to start the installation. The installer will install twhirl to /opt/twhirl/ . That’s it! you now have twhirl installed. ...

2008-11-13 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

How to turn off the beep in Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid

Hate the damn beep? Let’s get rid of it!! Run “lsmod” and look for pcspkr. If you find it then run “rmmod pcspkr”. Also, make sure to add this line to your "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist" file to make the change is persistent accross reboots. #Remove beeping speaker<br /> blacklist pcspkr Output; [root@dingo ~]# lsmod | grep pcspkr<br /> [root@dingo ~]# echo "blacklist pcspkr" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist<br /> [root@dingo ~]# sudo rmmod pcspkr

2008-11-13 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan