Archive for the “Ubuntu” category
Batch resize/rotate photos in Nautilus
by Nazly on April 17, 2010
It came as quite a surprise when I figured out that Nautilus, the file manager for the GNOME desktop actually had an extension to resize/rotate photos. I don’t do much post editing after taking photos. If any editing is required, (…)
Getting LAMP to work in Ubuntu Hardy
by Nazly on July 21, 2008
Few of my friends who switched to Ubuntu lately, asked me how to get LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) working in their desktops. Most of them have installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) so I planned to write a small guide (…)
My new ASUS X51R laptop and Ubuntu 8.04
by Nazly on June 21, 2008
After giving up my IBM Thinkpad laptop sometime back, I got used to working on Desktops for a while. But it didn't help me a great deal in organizing things when shifting my work from home to office and vice (…)
Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About
by Nazly on January 7, 2008
LifeHacker has a nice article on 'Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About' which reminds us some of the Google Products that we are less familiar with. Even some we haven't heard about it at all. I first came (…)
Dapper -> Edgy causing probs
by Nazly on November 13, 2006
Couple of weeks back I was getting to the edge of upgrading my Ubuntu Desktop from Dapper Drake to Edge Eft. Upgrading has been a very easy process in Ubuntu as last time too I upgraded from Breezy Badger to (…)
Edgy Eft is out
by Nazly on October 27, 2006
A lot has been happening this week and one being the release of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). It was released yesterday with a lot of enhancements and new features in order to make it a user friendly OS. Planning to (…)
Ubuntu Dapper – XserverFailover
by Nazly on August 22, 2006
I came home after work in the evening and found out that the X Server failed to start after booting my laptop. The log didn't give me that much of a clue though I tried to update my xorg.conf using (…)
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) Released
by Nazly on June 1, 2006
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS has been released right on time with the code name 'Dapper Drake'. Read the Release Notes to go through the improvements on Dapper Drake. Its something I have been waiting for since I started using Ubuntu 5.10 (…)
Switch to Ubuntu
by Nazly on April 26, 2006
About 3 weeks back I successfully made a switch over to Linux Desktop and my pick was Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger). I would love to share few things in this step I took coz I feel it might help you (…)
Ubuntu 6.06 BETA
by Nazly on April 24, 2006
Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) BETA has been released. This Beta Release has introduced the new Desktop CD, which can be used both to try Ubuntu 'live' and to install the system. Installation can be perfomed using the new graphical installer (…)
