Monthly Archives: January 2007

Distrowatch in Tamil

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I have translated the static data of Distrowatch in Tamil. So now you can read your favourite Distrowatch in Tamil also. Already Hindi and Bengali versions available. Thank you, Ladislav Bodnar (Distrowatch maintainer) for accepting my translation. This translation has … Continue reading

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Wammu – A Mobile client for Linux

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I want to share my experience of connecting Mobile with Linux system. The very purpose of this is to take backup of mobile address book. I have tried gnocky (with back end as gnokii) many times without any success. Recently … Continue reading

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HOWTO: Solve OpenSUSE 10.2 Installation failure

I started OpenSUSE 10.2 installation with a lot of expectation (10.1 version was very slow on my PIII/192MB system). My built-in graphics card is not enough to run the installation in graphics mode, OpenSUSE detected the same and run the … Continue reading

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HOWTO: /dev file system in chroot-ed environment

As a a traditional UNIX system, Linux systems also followed the static device nodes in /dev directory. During the installation process, /dev directory is filled with most commonly used device files. But modern linux system is not so. While booting … Continue reading

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HOWTO: Copy & Paste between Local and Remote Desktop

This HowTo covers how to copy and paste the files/text/graphics (Clipboard) content between remote desktop session and local computer in Windows XP. Follow the following instruction in both local and remote computers. Go to Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services. Enable and start … Continue reading

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