Category Archives: Linux

How to copy commits from one branch to another in GIT

Posted by on January 13, 2012 No comments

I have GIT version management tool for versioning and using gitolite for user and project management within git. Will tell about this gitolite story in a seperate post. Here we are going to learn how to copy commits from your master …

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Problem viewing Tamil fonts in chromium on Ubuntu

Posted by on August 26, 2011 8 comments

I am the big fan of tamil love poems.. Within Google reader all tamil blogs fonts are displayed correctly in chromium which was downloaded from Ubuntu software center. But when I goto that link directly, that page is not rendered …

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Shared media files with other users in linux

Posted by on August 18, 2011 No comments

          I think everyone might come across this problem. How to share your Music and Videos with other users in linux machine..? For mine ( username is arul ) I have all music and videos in my …

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Dos2Unix / Unix2Dos in ubuntu

Posted by on August 9, 2011 No comments

By default ubuntu does not have dos2unix and unix2dos commands. But they provide some alternative commands. Those are fromdos and todos. sometimes its hard to switch to new commands. You can solve this issue by creating soft/symbolic links. Here its …

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Upgrade Samsung Galaxy 5 and 3 to Froyo

Posted by on August 5, 2011 41 comments

How to Upgrade your android to 2.2 I am going to give steps for how to updagrade your Samsung Galaxy 3 (GT-I5800) and Samsung Galaxy 5 (GT-I5503) phone OS Android 2.1 (Eclair) to Android 2.2 (Froyo). I tested these steps myself. …

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Google chrome Download video

Posted by on March 19, 2011 No comments

The most video content web sites use flash player as them video player. In Linux you can download streaming videos without any third party tools. Previously the videos which you are watching by default its stored in /tmp directory. You can …

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Get Ubuntu Version

Posted by on February 25, 2011 No comments

How to get the ubuntu Version..? There are different ways to get the version of ubuntu you are using… Here we are going to discuss the all ways… This option is common to all linux flavors . it will display …

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Type tamil in ubuntu

Posted by on January 14, 2011 2 comments

I Just want to post a comment in my friend facebook wall… I feel if that comment is in Tamil it will be more expressive.. There are more services available for online like http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Tamil . But in the future if …

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Hectic problem in ubuntu – resolved

Posted by on December 23, 2010 1 comment

My Hectic problem in Ubuntu Here I will explain how to resolve hectic problems in ubuntu (that I felt were tough). Here is the list of my problems. Number Lock not enabled when booting Brightness adjustment Tata photon+ data card …

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Flash player debugger in ubuntu

Posted by on August 2, 2010 13 comments

How to flash debug player in Linux After a long time i am working on Flex for one of client for his one to one chat application. At this time i need flash debugger for debugging my program. The debug …

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