A geeky thing for the geeks, but generally touted as an educational device – that’s what Raspberry Pi (wiki) is in simplest words. It has pretty much the same hardware configuration as did my first PC. And now that it’s finally out in the wild, it’s perhaps every geek’s dream to extract the hell of […]
Tag: linux
Mint 13 Screenies
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — 6 CommentsHere’s the fast, beautiful thing on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop. 🙂
A new init system in Linux
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — Leave a commentIt was bound to happen some day. The existing init system in use by most of the present Linux distros is really not leveraging the performance capabilities of modern hardware to the fullest. Spawning processes one-by-one to get the system up and running costs a lot of precious time, when it is possible to do […]
TweetDeck — Installing in Ubuntu 64-bit
Posted on under Tutorials — 3 CommentsWith Adobe AIR‘s (the runtime required by TweetDeck) official support for Linux ended, and no Linux 64-bit edition already in place, installing TweetDeck it in Ubuntu 64-bit is one hell of a task. You can get it installed in your 64-bit Linux system by following one of these tutorials, but chances are you’ll end up […]
TestDisk — A life saver
Posted on under Coding & Tech — 2 CommentsTurning on your computer one not-so-fine day just to discover an entire partition (drive on harddisk) gone is nothing short of a nightmare potent enough to give you a mild heart attack. Unfortunately, exactly that happened to me yesterday. An ardent distro hopper that I am, I recently installed (K)Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop. Things […]