The Ultimate Blogging Client for Linux

How it all started Ever since i started a blog i had always wanted a wanted a application which would allow me do my blogging (preferably offline ) without having to use the web browser. One of the reasons for this was because i (as at then) d

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Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope on Dell XPS M1330

So Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex turned out to be a bad experience on my dell m1330. Many things that worked out of the box with Hardy heron got broken on Ibex. Things like Finger print reader, bluetooth, Graphic Display, Audio, all had one problem or the oth

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Login Graphically to A Computer in a Remote Location

The ability to login graphically into any computer from a remote location has a number of uses. In my case it allows me to create a setup where students in my school can easily login graphically into the universities computer lab and use many of the

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An easy way to Spilt or Merge PDF Files in Linux

I work as  the IT guy of a school that runs free software on all our computers. So far majority of our computing needs has been  met by free software. ( all of them if we exclude matlab and some freedom hating multimedia  codecs.) One area that has b

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Looking for an easy way to pastebin? Just pastbinit !

In case you dont know what a pastebin is, here is a brief description. Pastebin is a web application which allows its users to upload snippets of text, usually samples of source code, for public viewing. It is very popular in IRC channels where past

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How to install Scilab-5.1 on Ubuntu LInux

Introduction Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Scilab is an open source software. Since 1994 it has been distributed

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Control PulseAudio streams with gnome-pulse-applet

Back in late 2007 i started seeing  news about some revolution that was coming to  sound in Linux . I remembered reading   about it being the: next generation sound server for Linux, making all sorts of “ear-candy” possible: from dynamically changin

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How to install SGeMS on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

SGeMS is a software for 3D geostatistical modeling. It implements many of the classical geostatistics algorithms, as well as new developments made at the SCRF lab, Stanford University. SGeMS relies on the Geostatistics Template Library (GsTL) to imp

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Share You Internet wirelessly on Ubuntu

I wrote a guide earlier on how to share your internet connection on ubuntu. But the guide was  for non wireless sharing . well here is an updated version that allows you to share your internet connection wirelessly to other wireless  devices in your

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