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Re: How To Customize Your GNOME Shell Easily using GNOME Extensions

Ravi — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:29:14 -0000

Hi,
You won't be able to see the linux partition in windows because the linux partition is either ext3 / ext4 depending upon what choice you made while installing Ubuntu in your machine. And windows does not recognize that partition type. However, you can install a special driver in Windows that will allow you to read the Linux partition.

Re: GNOME 3 Won't Have Minimize And Maximize Buttons

Ravi — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:02:36 -0000

Sean,
You can right click on the tool bar and from the pop-up menu you can
still maximize or minimize your application window. So this makes maximize
and minimize buttons redundant.

Re: Two Classic Games Developed Using Sed

Ravi — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:59:54 -0000

The game is written in sed. So you need to download it and play it in your
Linux terminal.

Re: DuckDuckGo - A Search Engine That Can Be An Alternative To Google Search

Ravi — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:16:58 -0000

DuckDuckGo uses the results of a lot more search engines (not just Bing alone). These include Yahoo, Bing, a number of vertical search engines - 30 sources in all.

Here is the exact quote from their FAQ page -

DuckDuckGo gets search results from over 30 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! "BOSS", embed .ly, "WolframAlpha", "EntireWeb", "Bing" & "Blekko". For any given search, there is usually a vertical search engine out there that does a better job at answering it than a general search engine. Our long-term goal is to get you information from that best source, ideally in instant answer form.

Re: The Xen Of Linux

Ravi — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:38:47 -0000

Xen is an external hypervisor; it assumes control of the machine and
divides resources among guests. On the other hand, KVM is part of Linux
and uses the regular Linux scheduler and memory management.

kvm only run on processors that supports x86 hvm (vt/svm
instructions set) whereas Xen also allows running modified operating
systems on non-hvm x86 processors using a technique called
paravirtualization. kvm does not support paravirtualization for cpu but
may support paravirtualization for device drivers to improve I/O
performance.

[Source]

For a more technical explanation, do read the following PDF document.

Re: Debian Is No Longer Just A Linux Distribution

Ravi — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:07:48 -0000

Hi ugh,
My bad. :-)

Re: KDE Version 4.6.0 Released - Integrates Support For Mobile Devices

Ravi — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:30:44 -0000

It isn't. That is why this post has been tagged as News. :-)

Re: Pinguy OS - An Ubuntu Based Linux Distribution on Steroids

Ravi — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:53:00 -0000

Hi Damon, That was rather enlightening. My observations were based on the basic tasks both these software aim to accomplish - namely organizing and managing your photos. However, the way you put it, I do agree these programs complement each other.

Re: Pinguy OS - An Ubuntu Based Linux Distribution on Steroids

Ravi — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:06:43 -0000

Comparing Pinguy OS with Linux Mint is akin to comparing apples to oranges. Linux Mint is much more than a re-master of Ubuntu. It comes with a lot of system side applications which they developed themselves.

In my opinion, Linux Mint is a far broader project than Pinguy OS. Though both aim to be as user friendly as possible.

Re: KDE For Windows - An Overview

Ravi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:44:32 -0000

Yes Arch Linux is a fine distribution. And KDE is especially polished in Arch Linux than in say - Kubuntu.

Re: All you want to know about Google Chrome OS in a Nutshell

Ravi — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:35:41 -0000

You have a point there :-) . However, only the operating system code base - what is actually installed on the machine solid state device - is open source.

Re: All you want to know about Google Chrome OS in a Nutshell

Ravi — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:42:17 -0000

Thanks. I used xmind to create this map.

Re: All you want to know about Google Chrome OS in a Nutshell

Ravi — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:38:38 -0000

Jason,
I am glad you liked the blog.I am not a Linux guru. Rather, I like Linux from an end users perspective. However, you will find all my experiences in using Linux right on this blog. Just do a search in the Google custom search on the top right corner of the blog - and if you are lucky - you will find what you are looking for related to Linux. :-)

Re: All you want to know about Google Chrome OS in a Nutshell

Ravi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:49:19 -0000

Thanks Jesse, Canonical has been included in the updated image.

Re: Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

Ravi — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:15:42 -0000

Greg,
The latest version of Abiword has the collaboration option in its menu. And I believe you can seamlessly integrate Abicollab with Abiword and create, edit, store and retrieve documents from your Abicollab account.

It might take some time for the latest version of Abiword to be available in Linux repositories though.

Re: Best Movies - My pick

Ravi — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:05:43 -0000

I like all the characters in KungFu Panda. None excluded.

Re: Open Solaris vs Linux - A Comparison

Ravi — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:04:00 -0000

Thanks for the info Sanjay. I agree with you on all the points you have raised. However, in this post, I tried to provide a mere synopsis of the original article for which a link has been provided at the bottom.

Re: Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

Ravi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:55:09 -0000

Thanks Farhadix. Corrected.

Re: Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

Ravi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:54:34 -0000

Yes, the Abiword on my machine also does not have this feature. I think they will be eventually bringing this feature to Abiword via a plug-in or something.

Re: Sir Tim Berners Lee apologizes for forward slashes in web addresses

Ravi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:03:49 -0000

Very true. :-)

Re: Linux servers can now be infected - Or can they ?

Ravi — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:45:23 -0000

Perhaps you missed reading the later part of the title "Or can they ?". I had not certified that Linux servers are vulnerable. I merely reflected on the article which explains how the afore mentioned attack takes place. But I agree, this could be any one of the following:

1. Vulnerability in nginx web servers
2. Poor configuration of the machine by adopting bad system administration practices.
3. A bad choice of Linux distribution. For example they used an out of the box desktop oriented Linux distribution to run a web server and so on.

Re: How many Operating Systems can you name ?

Ravi — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:39:06 -0000

I was aware of HPUX and AIX. I wonder how I missed out on those. ESX is a new one for me.

Re: Bash Shell Scripting - 10 Seconds Guide

Ravi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:14:05 -0000

In my understanding, single = is used for assigning values to a variable. For comparing two variables, you use double == . I didn't know you could use one for the other. I will check it out.

Re: Bash Shell Scripting - 10 Seconds Guide

Ravi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:06:02 -0000

Thanks Alex. I wonder how I missed it. Corrected.

Re: Haiku - A new Operating System inspired by BeOS

Ravi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:24:04 -0000

True. Package management is not a necessity for a good OS. But it sure is a nice and convenient feature to have. And having dependencies is good from a developer stand point as it allows different applications sharing the common files.