November, 2009 - Archive

HOWTO: Remote Wake-up of Ubuntu Linux Machine

Recently I faced a problem of transferring files between my Laptop and Media Center Machine at home. My setup is like this: I use to store all my media files (Photos, Videos, Audio collections of family) in Media Center Machine which is powered by Ubuntu 9.10. My laptop which also runs on Ubuntu 9.10 is meant for development and study purpose only. I use to transfer big ISO files and media files (downloaded from camera to laptop) to Media Center Machine. Before doing this I have to power on Medi...
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Built and ran Chromium OS on VirtualBox

Google's intention to store the world's data in its own server results in another linux variant which is called Chrome OS. It is based on Chromium Open Source OS actively developed by Google. Yesterday it was open sourced at very very premature level for communities contribution. Today I have successfully downloaded, built and installed Google Chromium OS on VirtualBox. It is just Chrome browser for end user as of now (may be always). Google has designed it with linux kernel and Debian packag...
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