Create a Fedora Bootable USB Pen/Flash Drive Easily using liveusb-creator

LiveCDs are a great way to try out (new) Linux distros on your system. Unfortunately CDs get scratched pretty easily, and can turn into a coaster pretty soon. With prices of USB pen drives at rock bottom, they’re probably the best way to try out LiveCDs. Generally its not that easy to make a bootable [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Create a Fedora Bootable USB Pen/Flash Drive Easily using liveusb-creator", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/17/create-a-fedora-bootable-usb-penflash-drive-easily-using-liveusb-creator/" });

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Mono 2.0 Live CD is available for Download

The second version of Mono, the Open Source implemention of .NET was released earlier this week. Close on the heels of this release, the folks at openSUSE have spun-off a LiveCD consisting of Mono 2.0, MonoDevelop 1.0, Banshee 1.2.1, F-Spot 0.5.0.1, GNOME Do 0.6.0, Tomboy 0.12.0,Tasque 0.1.6, Various ASP.NET Applications, Mono Debugger, and more. So if you want to dabble into Mono 2.0 without having the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mono 2.0 Live CD is available for Download", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/15/mono-20-live-cd-is-available-for-download/" });

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Amarok 2.0 Beta 2 Released And a look at what Amarok 2.0 might bring in

Couple of days ago, the second beta to the second version of the immensely popular and fantastic audio player Amarok was released by the Amarok team. The second beta brings in some drastic changes, the main one being SQLite no longer being the default backend, and PostgreSQL support being dropped, in favour of a single backend, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Amarok 2.0 Beta 2 Released And a look at what Amarok 2.0 might bring in", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/14/amarok-20-beta-2-released-and-a-look-at-what-amarok-20-might-bring-in/" });

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[How To] Display Windows exe icons in Gnome

Many people would like to use windows’ softwares in linux and would also like to run games in linux using wine. Many softwares and games work pretty well and are fully functional using wine. However, people may find it difficult to digest the fact that exe icons do not get displayed. If the exe [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Display Windows exe icons in Gnome", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/12/how-to-display-exe-icons-in-gnome/" });

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[How To] Solution for sudo: must be setuid root problem

I had encountered this problem on sudo/gksu not working few months earlier. Whenever I had to open an application with gksu it did not open at all !  I was wondering what did i do. I dint know whether  i meddled with something or is it any other configuration that created the problem. If I type sudo in terminal [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Solution for sudo: must be setuid root problem", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/10/how-to-solution-for-sudo-must-be-setuid-root-problem/" });

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[How To]Making Ubuntu(and other Linux) look like Mac OS X and Some Tips on AWN dock

This is just a casual how to for people who love customisation. As of today the most wanted OS look and feel are that of  Windows Vista and MAC OS X. Have a look at this post Damien has written on MakeTechEasier, will help you get that OS X look.               [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To]Making Ubuntu(and other Linux) look like Mac OS X and Some Tips on AWN dock", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/09/how-to-change-linux-distros-especially-ubuntu-to-look-like-mac-os-x/" });

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[How To]Setup a BSNL DataOne BroadBand connection or a DSL Connection in Linux

This is yet another of the posts was lying in my drafts, decided to dust it off and publish it! Remember that all these assumes that your router is connected to the LAN port, if it’s connected to the USB port, then disconnect it and connect to the LAN port. If you dont have a LAN [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To]Setup a BSNL DataOne BroadBand connection or a DSL Connection in Linux", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/10/how-tosetup-a-bsnl-dataone-broadband-connection-or-a-dsl-connection-in-linux/" });

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[How To] Opening and Reading CHM [Compiled HTML Files] In Linux

In my stash of ebooks, quite a few of them are in chm (compiled HTML) file format. Being HTML files I though they’d open in Mozilla Firefox browser. Unfortunately that didn’t work, so I started looking for CHM viewers. I didn’t have to look far, a quick search on Google gave me couple of programs. KChmViewer: [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Opening and Reading CHM [Compiled HTML Files] In Linux", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/08/how-to-opening-and-reading-chm-compiled-html-files-in-linux/" });

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[How To] Automount Hard Drive Partitions Everytime You Login to Ubuntu Linux

Hello people, This is Bharath Ram. I wanted to share with you an information I just found. This indeed solved my problem so I thought it would solve yours too. In ubuntu (and may be in other distros) every time you login you never get your drives auto mounted (don’t you?). This is a real pest especially [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Automount Hard Drive Partitions Everytime You Login to Ubuntu Linux", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/08/how-to-automount-hard-drive-partitions-everytime-you-login-in-linux/" });

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Installation of mail server squirrel mail server

Hi, I am new in linux, I want to install mail server.

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Bloacking all external access and allwoing few websites and few external ips

Hi I am very new to linux. I need some help from the experts to get rid of this issue.At my office I use Linux iptables.I want to add rules to block all the external access (All the services http,ftp,etc) to the internal users and allow few external ...

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[How To] Removing Transparency In Games without disabling/switching off Compiz

Admin’s Note: This solution was emailed to me by Bharath, as he was facing this problem and found a solution to this. If you want to drop a tip or a hack, just send me an email via the contact-me form and I might just publish it Sometimes when playing native games in Linux they [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Removing Transparency In Games without disabling/switching off Compiz", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/04/how-to-removing-transparency-in-games-without-disablingswitching-off-compiz/" });

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Booting into Linux in 5 seconds Flat!

At the recently held Linux Plumbers’ Conference, 2 Linux developers,  Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok, demonstrated a Linux system booting in five seconds flat. To demonstrate this, they used an Asus EEE PC using a modified Fedora and modified Moblin. In-fact the bootup was so fast that the they actually had to hold the EEE PC, as [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Booting into Linux in 5 seconds Flat!", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/03/booting-into-linux-in-5-seconds-flat/" });

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How To Deploy A Linux LiveCD on Windows Without Burning A CD

Linux LiveCDs can be rapidly deployed in Windows without restarting the computer or burning a CD based on the free MobaLiveCD Windows software. It is very lightweight (only 1.6 MB) for an operating system emulation environment and is based on QEmu. In ...

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[How-To]Mounting LVM partitions from a command prompt or a Root Shell

Today as I booted into my openSUSE box, for reasons unknown to me, my LVM partitions failed to mount. fsck didn’t help, and and LVM based container system meant that I couldn’t use the standard mount /dev/sdxx style of mounting as well. With my /home and / configured as a LVM, the root (/) [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To]Mounting LVM partitions from a command prompt or a Root Shell", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/01/how-tomounting-lvm-partitions-from-a-command-prompt-or-a-root-shell/" });

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