August 27th, 2009
Free Software Foundation launched a campain against Microsoft’s new Operating System Windows 7 and other proprietary software, website www.windows7sins.org with modified badvista image on the website. As we all know proprietary software is a threat to our future & to our children so it is high time to re-think about stanse on open-source vs proprietary.
The main highlights of this campain are
- Poisoning Education
- Invading Privacy
- Monopoly behavior
- Lock-in
- Abusive Standards
- Enforcing DRM
- Threatening user security
More features include windows7sins mailing list, donations, widgets and more. You can view the entire information by visiting the website http://windows7sins.org.
Tags: opensource
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August 23rd, 2009
Wordpress is a great content management software not only for blogging but for general purpose as well. Inove this is one of the top theme for wordpress created by mg12, his website is http://www.neoease.com/. Inove theme is a white, light, two-columns, fixed-width, theme-options, right-sidebar theme.
But if you want to change the inove theme from roght-sidebar to left-sidebar, here is my modification. Open the file style.css under inove theme directory. Apporximately go to line number 350 and search for
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Tags: inove, wordpress
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August 23rd, 2009
Wordpress is a great content management software not only for blogging but for general purpose as well. Inove this is one of the top theme for wordpress created by mg12, his website is http://www.neoease.com/. Inove theme is a white, light, two-columns, fixed-width, theme-options, right-sidebar theme.
But if you want to change the inove theme from fixed width to any width say full screen, here is my modification. Open the file style.css under inove theme directory. Apporximately go to line number 150 and search for
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August 19th, 2009
Some good news for Pidgin fans despite its drop from Ubuntu 9.10 latest alpha. Pidgin has released 2.6.0 with support to Voice and Video and currently these features support available only on XMPP. Here is the upgrade process on some popular Linux Distrubutions.
- Ubuntu:
Open Terminal, copy and paste these commands
- sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8
- echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \ `lsb_release –short –codename` main | \ sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list
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August 18th, 2009
GNU/Linux is a great customizable Operating System, so are we can really customizing to our needs, well, many of us are not bothering to modify the defaults. I found some tweeks while searching for some thing else. Here are some of them which might come in handy at times.
- Change FileManager: Though nautilus is a great file manager, but some prefer other file managers like a thunar, dolphin, PCMan, etc may be for speed, looks or whatever. Here is a way to do it.
Open Terminal, type in command gconf-editor to open gnome configuration editor.
In gconf-editor navigate through / –> desktop –> gnome –> session –> required_components –> double click on filemanager and change the value to new file manager command. You can also change panel, window manager navigating through same path.
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