by nazham on
December 2nd, 2009
There are various ways to view for open ports on your local Ubuntu/Linux machine. However, I particularly prefer two methods/command below, since it is simple, and without any third-party application.
by nazham on
July 26th, 2009
I have been using Conky as my desktop monitoring widgets for quite some time now. Before this, I’ve been using few applications like screenlets and gdesklets, but there’s a lot of drawbacks on these applications. Among them were limited customizations, it’s difficult to develop your own widgets, unable to find widgets you’re looking for, and [...]
by nazham on
April 19th, 2009
Transmission is one of my favourite bittorrent client. However, it’s lack the feature of running command(s) before or after you have finished downloading. Luckily we can improvise this with the help of transmission-remote, a command based client for transmission, and along with some Linux bash scripting.
Below I have created a simple bash script. What it [...]
by nazham on
March 9th, 2009
I’ve got a little project going on in the past few days. I have a reasonable amount of media; movies, mp3’s and family pictures in my Linux desktop, Ubuntu 8.10. Would it be nice if I could stream all the movies and music directly from the Linux machine to my Xbox 360? This is a [...]
Tags: Linux . Ubuntu . Ubuntu 8.10 . Xbox 360
by nazham on
February 4th, 2009
Need to view Microsoft Silverlight enabled sites, but you’re on Linux, and running Firefox as the web browser? Have no fear, Moonlight is here.
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix or Linux platform.
The current release version is 1.0. All you have to do is, just go to their site, and install [...]
