I have been thinking about this for a long time… I always ask and wonder for myself, “How do I get a fancy progress bar in the terminal (i.e., using C/C++ code)???” I got this thought when I was coding for my huffman lab program. I was thinking “If we input a large file > [...]
Playing songs & Videos in the terminal [GNU/Linux]
On June - 19 - 2009
We can play songs and videos from the terminal in a GNU/Linux or Unix machine. The player is “mplayer”. MPlayer has a GUI version too. It is GMPlayer Just a few screenshots to show you how we can play songs and videos on GNU/Linux or UNIX To install this: 1. SOLARIS/OpenSoalris: http://blastwave.org 2. Ubuntu: In [...]
Mozilla Firefox: It’s Time to Get Personal
On June - 10 - 2009
There are literally thousands of totally free ways to customize your Firefox to fit exactly what you like to do online. Mozilla to let enterprises build custom Firefox browsers The upcoming Build Your Own Browser program will let companies customize Firefox 3.5 and install it across multiple desktops Mozilla is readying a program that will [...]
GParted – Partitioning your hard disk
On April - 19 - 2009
Partitioning your hard disk using GParted GParted is THE BEST Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information. Let me give you a brief insight as to why it is the best partition manager: FEATURES: It is a GNOME based partition editor It is OpenSource It is based [...]
Update to OpenOffice.Org 3.x on Ubuntu 8.10
On February - 12 - 2009
I guess we all know that Ubuntu 8.10 ships with OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 and, if you want to use the new and improved version, then this guide is for you! However, we will not do a fresh install of the OpenOffice suite, as we will instead only upgrade the current version in Ubuntu Intrepid. What do [...]
ubuntu > VirtualBox > Windows Xp – Sharing folders tip.
On February - 11 - 2009
!Ubuntu Rocks! Introduction: Today morning as I got into my class, my little friend Aswathy (I call her achu) bounced up and asked me for help. On enquiring, what the matter was, she told me that she wanted to install IBM RSA for her projects; but she was having vista!! Ok now I knew that [...]
Radio VeRVe – my statistics
On January - 26 - 2009
Man… I just cant believe this. I have a reliance data card, running on ubuntu. I get a download of about 20kbps. You must have read my http://avinashjoshi.co.in/2009/01/26/radioverve/ post. It is really a cool stuff. I started playing the online player since i saw the webiste that is at 10:30 am. You want to see [...]
RadioVeRVe – The Best of Independent Music from India
On January - 26 - 2009
Radio VeRVe, a 24×7 online radio station is a great effort started by Gaurav Vaz (gaurav@radioverve.com) and Shreyas Srinivasan (shreyas@radioverve.com) that plays only independent music from India. The best part is that this awesome software was built only on FOSS technologies!! Here are some of the details from the Radio VeRVe website: Why RadioVeRVe? We [...]
Its here – Net Beans 6.5 is out!
On November - 22 - 2008
The only IDE you need! Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free. NetBeans IDE 6.5 Features A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and [...]
Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software
On November - 11 - 2008
osalt.com, open source alternative is your quick guide to the best open source software.
MPlayer – The Movie Player
On July - 13 - 2008
MPlayer Features MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even [...]
