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Banshee - music management and playback 2007-08-17 11:14:00 What? An alternative music player again? But hey, its free opensourced linux world anyway. Alternatively, here's another multimedia player around the linux application arena. Banshee. Banshee... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

gnome music applet install howto 2007-08-17 09:34:00 Gnome Music Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control a variety of different music players from the panel. Music Applet provides easy access to information about the current... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Pirut and yum-updatesd - software management 2007-08-17 09:09:00 This blog entry covers how to managed currently installed or missing packages from Fedora using Gnome. The closest term most people calls this is the Add/Remove software of Fedora Linux. Pirut... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Alacarte - editing panel menus install howto 2007-08-17 08:49:00 One way to edit your Gnome panel menus in Fedora is to use Alacarte package. Alacarte is a menu editor for GNOME that lets you get things done, simply and quickly. Operations for this package is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

access NTFS drive in Fedora 2007-08-17 08:22:00 If you happen to have a dual boot hard drive between Fedora and Windows OS, and you wish to have read and write access to your windows partition from Fedora OS, consider adding this entry. If you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

FileLight - graphical disk usage and statistics 2007-08-17 05:56:00 We all know most user's desktop runs and boots operating system from their harddisk. Simply from a harddisk, which is usually composed of files and folders. But trying to think how these data are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

TestDisk- partition tool install howto 2007-08-17 04:54:00 TestDisk is a powerful free linux tool that can check, undelete partitions. TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

using /dev/null in linux terminal 2007-08-16 12:59:00 Here it is, several usage of /dev/null special file. We all know that /dev/null acts like a black hole in the universe. Anything you throw at it would be totally gone forever. Any attempts to read... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

yahoo messenger in fedora install howto 2007-08-16 12:23:00 I know, installing yahoo messenger in linux is a very old odd entry. Why bother. Atleast for one, and for my record as well, this blog entry covers Yahoo Messenger for linux installation howto. For... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... Yahoo

check and repair MS-DOS file systems howto 2007-08-16 07:54:00 Using linux, there are ways to check and repair for MS-DOS type of file systems. This has been possible using dosfsck linux command. dosfsck verifies the consistency of MS-DOS file systems and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

using fdformat and mkdosfs from terminal 2007-08-16 07:37:00 fdformat does a low level format on a floppy disk. device is usually one of the following (for floppy devices, the major = 2, and the minor is shown for informational purposes only). The generic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Tremulous - Quake 3 install howto 2007-08-16 04:56:00 Tremulous by Darklegion Development is a teamwork oriented First-person shooter with elements of real time strategy. Originally developed and released as a Quake 3 mod, Tremulous has since been... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

block consecutive IP address using scripts 2007-08-16 02:40:00 How to block long list of consecutive IP address? How to call linux route command inside a script? How to block consecutive IP address using bash script or perl script? How to block local IP address... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

using floppy linux command from terminal 2007-08-15 10:28:00 How to probe for floppy devices? How to update or create floppy configuration file and overwrite existing /etc/floppy setup? How to display available floppy drive with current configuration settings... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

display word or text file in reversed pattern 2007-08-15 07:24:00 Here's a quick way of display text based files in reversed style line per line or character per character, using tac and rev linux commands. As you can notice, tac is the reversed spelling of cat.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...