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Linux

How To: Configure Dual Display with ATI Radeon (fglrx)

September 15, 2009

As promised in my last post (News: ATI Catalyst Display Drivers 9.9 Released), I am back with a post on configuring dual display with ATI Radeon HD Graphics Card and proprietary catalyst (fglrx) drivers from ATI. Hardware Used Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 3200 (256MB, onboard) Monitor 0: ViewSonic VG1930WM 1440×900 (19″ LCD, Connected via [...]

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News: ATI Catalyst Display Drivers 9.9 Released

September 12, 2009

AMD has released the next version 9.9 of its ATI Catalyst display drivers for Linux. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 9.9 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. I have already tried them with kernel 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586 and they seem to work fine without SWCursor hack. But I still see corruptions around cursor while moving [...]

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How To: Recover Deleted Files in Linux Using Photorec

September 1, 2009

Frequently I get messages like “I have accidentally deleted my project. Is there any way to recover it in Linux?” or “I worked really hard on that program and managed to deleted it right before submission How do I recover?”. Well I didn’t really have any idea on “How to actually recover deleted files in [...]

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TIP: Simple Regular Expression for Email Validation

August 18, 2009

I was playing around with Ruby on Rails and needed an email field for some application. I thought of validating the email address before actually saving it. Googled for same and got tons of results, but none of them was perfect. Few were somewhat exhaustive but horribly difficult to understand and those which were simple [...]

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How To: Install/Configure GNUMP3d – Streaming Audio Server

July 23, 2009

Mission GNUMP3d is the GNU Streaming MP3/Media Server written in perl. Our mission is to setup GNUMP3d and stream audio over LAN or over internet. Below are the essential steps to install and configure GNUMP3d. Download Download latest version of GNUMP3d from GNUMP3d Website. Extract [kulbirsaini@fedora ~]$ tar -xjf gnump3d-x.x.tar.bz2 Install [root@fedora ~]$ cd gnump3d-3.0 [...]

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How To: Install and Configure GitWeb

January 28, 2009

Goal Setting up gitweb (web interface for SCM software git) for your project’s git repository for public access and developer commits via ssh. Assumptions You already have your project’s git repository. You have hosting space somewhere to host gitweb. You have root access. You are using Apache as webserver. Example for this howto Project : [...]

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How To: Boot Fedora Faster

December 9, 2008

Note: These tricks apply to any Linux based OS. But I have tested them only on Fedora, so can’t say whether they’ll work on other Linux(s). My current Fedora installation is now almost one and a half years old. Yes. I am still using Fedora 7 I have Fedora 10 on my other machine. Coming [...]

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Humour: Funny Apache Logs

December 2, 2008

The other day I was debugging my drupal installation and had a look at the Apache error logs. And this is what I found [root@gofedora html]# tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log [Fri Nov 28 21:00:16 2008] [warn] long lost child came home! (pid 23229) [Fri Nov 28 21:00:16 2008] [warn] long lost child came home! (pid 23230) [...]

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Info: Spicebird Beta 0.7 Final Released

November 21, 2008

Reporting from Spicebird blog, Spicebird is a collaboration client that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is based on projects like Thunderbird, Lightning and Telepathy and adds more [...]

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How To: Configure Caching Nameserver (named)

November 19, 2008

Mission To configure a caching nameserver on a local machine which will cascade to another previously configured and functional nameserver (may or may not be caching. It’ll generally be your ISP nameserver or the one provided by your organization). Advantage Reduces the delay in domain name resolution drastically as the requests for frequently accessed websites [...]

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