Monthly Archives: September 2010
Can India Ever Become A Global FOSS Hub?
The open source trend is catching on in the IT and electronics space in India, with enterprises and SMEs taking the plunge. So, will...
Ingres’ Steve Shine on the Database Company’s Business Model and Plans
Steve Shine, EVP, worldwide operations, Ingres Corporation, was in Delhi as part of his three-city tour of India. When we met with him, he...
Setting Up an External Laptop Display on Ubuntu
This article tells you how to set up a secondary (external) display connected to your laptop, using Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx.
You may have wondered...
A Desktop Twitter Client in 15 Minutes
Twitter, the fun social-networking micro-blogging service, has taken the world by storm. Millions of "tweets" -- real-time text messages of up to 140 characters...
The Pocket Penguin: A Customised Linux-In-Your-Pocket!
You are spending a weekend at your cousin's. Suddenly you feel like working on your Web project. You ask your cousin's permission to use...
Install Linux from USB on System without BIOS Support for USB Boot
Tired of burning CDs each time you want to try out the latest Ubuntu release because your not-so-new computer doesn't support booting from the...
Offline Package Install on Linux Made Easy with Keryx
In countries like India, where broadband penetration is very low, Linux users find it difficult to grab updates, or install those missing codecs. This...
Desktop Virtualisation in EduBOSS using NComputing X550
The BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) GNU/Linux distribution developed by C-DAC (the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) is derived from Debian, to enhance...
Securing Apache, Part 2: XSS Injections
In the previous article in this series, we started our journey to a secured Apache by dissecting its internals. We then looked at various...
Playing with User-mode Linux
This article gives you hands-on experience in setting up a User-Mode Linux (UML) kernel and getting it up on a running Linux OS. We...
