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How To: Install and Configure Shoutcast Radio

November 20, 2007

Shoutcast is a mp3 broadcasting/streaming media server software provided by NullSoft. One can setup a server on any system, GNU/Linux / Windows/ MacOS and can stream mp3 over the network, internet/intranet. I setup shoutcast on my system a long back and found it very useful. Here is a step by step how to on how [...]

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How To: Install Javascript Plugin in Eclipse

November 9, 2007

Today, I installed Eclipse on my Fedora 7 desktop. Everything is fine, but the default Eclipse does not have a plugin for JavaScript. So , I searched a lot on Google and read a lot of reviews about some JavaScript plugins available for Eclipse. And I finally reached the JSEclipse plugin by Adobe Labs. I [...]

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How To: Install and Configure Looking Glass 3D Desktop

September 2, 2007

I saw a video from Sun MicroSystems last year, in which they showed a demo version of a 3D desktop environment. It was really awesome and was the really 3D desktop environment. A lot of 3D desktop emulators are available currently like beryl, but they are not really 3D. Because one can’t go behind the [...]

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Bug: Strange libstdc++.so.5 Problem in Fedora 7

August 22, 2007

After installing jdk-6u2 for Linux from Sun Microsystems’ site, when I ran javaws it gave strange error that libstdc++.so.5 not found and it aborted. I searched for libstdc++.so.5 and it was not there in /usr/lib/ as expected. That implied something is wrong. As I installed jdk-6u2 from rpms, it should have given dependency error for [...]

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How To: Configure Procmailrc to Reduce Spam

August 21, 2007

Last Monday in IIIT Linux Users Group (LUG) meeting, I gave a small presentation regarding how to configure .procmailrc to make very effective filters. Procmail is a mail delivery agent or mail filter which is widely used on Unix systems to process incoming mails. It is automatically invoked by the mail transport agents like Sendmail [...]

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How To: Configure Wireless with Ralink (rt2500) Level One WNC 0301 in Fedora 7

June 6, 2007

If you are searching for wireless lan configuration in Fedora Core 6, a detailed description is available here. Though Fedora 7 – Moonshine detect the Ralink rt2500 Level One WNC-0301 wireless lan card, the network doesn’t work properly with default drivers. You may be able to connect sometime, but some other time it may not [...]

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How To: Install and Configure NVIDIA Drivers and Beryl

April 27, 2007

Well, finally I realized the power of my onboard graphics card … too lazy to realize even this (it took me a year to realize this obvious fact). I downloaded the latest nVidia drivers from here and also upgrade to the kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6. You can get it from any site which provides rpms or you can [...]

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How To: Configure Wireless with Ralink (rt2500) Level One WNC-0301 in Fedora Core 6

September 26, 2006

Well … Yesterday I switched from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. The main problem was the wireless lan. As I was using ndiswrapper for wlan in FC4, I tried compiling it for FC6. But FC6 doesn’t have build packages so it didn’t work out. Then I installed the kernel-devel packages from here. Now [...]

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Hack: Mange Fluctuating Wireless

September 24, 2006

I am trying this small script with a so called gui . This helps managing my wireless in the extreme conditions. Just a shell script. Run the script as root otherwise it’ll not work. Get the script here or copy the code below. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [...]

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How To: Configure Wireless with Ralink (RT2500) Level One WNC 0301 in Fedora Core 4

May 25, 2006

Yesterday after a lot of trials with Fedora Core 5 to activate my wireless LAN card, I switched to Fedora Core 4, which looked much more stable than FC5. Actually with FC5, I mainly faced problems with gui , my mouse which is Microsoft USB mouse and my wlan card which is level one Ralink [...]

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