You can download image files from here. You can also use other images. Now after you have downloaded the zip file, extract “.img” file inside it Then from Linux run the following command: “dd if=/path-to-img-file of=/dev/sdX” ex: “dd if=archlinux-hf-2012-09-18.img of=/dev/sdb” Replacing sdX with the location of the SD card, it can be found out by […]

Many of us dual boot windows and linux. We all know we are always in need to reinstall windows and it overwrites the Linux MBR on the device. Now you can’t boot into linux as it doesn’t show up in windo a booting device (cd or usb) of Your Linux installation. Then Boot from it […]

We all remember captcha of MeroSanoKatha, if not here is a preview This uses three event Handlers Mouse Down, Mouse Move and Mouse Up. So when you click and move mouse, the object has to be dragged, and on living mouse click the object will be dropped. You can use your creativity to work with […]

1. Open vlc binary in a hex editor ghex /usr/bin/vlc [yum install ghex] 2. Now search for the following string geteuid by using find, type the string to be searched on right hand side; You’ll see something like geteuid._libc_start_main 3. Replace the string as getppid so it looks like getppid._libc_start_main 4. Save and close and […]

1. Open google-chrome located in /usr/bin with ‘gedit’,’vi’ or your favorite text editor. vim /usr/bin/google-chrome 2. Add –user-data-dir at the very end of the file. Mine looks like this: exec -a “$0” “$HERE/chrome” “$@” –user-data-dir 3. Save, close and you’re done. Enjoy your favorite browser.

Gnome is so configurable that sometimes you end up breaking your window manager. Most of the local system settings for GNOME are stored in configuration files inside the following hidden directories in your home directory – gnome, gnome2, gconf, gconfd, metacity. You can remove these files to reset all the settings. While in login screen […]

Open Terminal Login as root, by typing “su –” (without quotes) Now type in blkid Output will be similar to: /dev/sda5: LABEL=”File” UUID=”01CCCE1FC7BA38C0″ TYPE=”ntfs” note down the UUID of the disk you want to mount Now again in terminal type “gedit /etc/fstab” or “vi /etc/fstab” and in the editing window add /dev/disk/by-uuid/[UUID of Partition] /mnt/[Name […]

Go to Applications->Others->Network Connections Click on Mobile Broadband Click on ADD and select the device you want to connect with Select the country you are in Select the provider or enter it manually Enter Username and Password as required Now you can connect to internet via Mobile Broadband

For those having trouble with switchable graphics (ATI+Intel or Nvidia+Intel) in Fedora or Ubuntu. (heating + slowdown). This might help you: go to super user mode by “su -” in fedora or “sudo su” in ubuntu (without quotes) First check if both the vga is running by typing “lspci |grep VGA” in terminal Next check […]