eee-control is an easy-to-use utility for controlling Eee PC hardware under Linux. It can toggle hardware (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) ON and OFF, lets you configure all hardware hotkeys, enables aggressive powersaving, and more. Almost all Eee PC netbook models are supported to varying degrees.Ubuntu9.04 and higher will support eee-control with out any kernel modification.
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Nice Tool for eeePC Linux Users : eee-control
Submitted by panayara on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 08:57Howto Enable and Disable ROOT Account in Ubuntu
Submitted by panayara on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 08:55Enabling the root account in ubuntu is rarely necessary. Almost everything you need to do as root of an Ubuntu system can be done via sudo or gksudo. If you really need a persistent root login, the best alternative is to simulate a root login shell using the following command...
How to make your own splashimage for GRUB2 on ubuntu 9.10
Submitted by panayara on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 08:54This how to help you to add your own grub splash image(image in the boot menu).
1. Open any picture in GIMP
2. Resize canvas size to 640x480 ( If you are an expert you can add higher resolutions)
3. Now Save as .png or .tga format (in some versions jpg also works)
How to Play DVD in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Submitted by panayara on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 08:53There is no default support od DVD in Ubuntu 9.10. You have to install the following for getting the DVD Support.First You Have to add the medibuntu repositories. Howto add medibuntu repository
How to make Ubnutu 9.10 Karmic Koala Multimedia Ready
Submitted by panayara on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 08:51Ubuntu 9.10 Required the following steps to Run Multimedia files like MP3, AVI, Mpeg, 3gp etc...
In Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala", the universe, multiverse and restricted repositories are activated by default.
5 Useful Tools to Access Linux Partition from Windows
Submitted by panayara on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 03:43If you currently have Windows OS running and you need some files for your work which you have stored on the Linux installation, you no longer have to shut down Windows and boot Linux!
Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem.
How to Run DOS Applications and Games in Ubuntu / Debian Linux
Submitted by panayara on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 03:42DOSBOX RUN DOS APPLICATIONS AND GAMES IN UBUNTU LINUX
The Fundamental Operating System DOS is still alive. For basic study purpose, DOS is Used in most of the Universities. Now Also people like DOS games. The Famous C language Compilers are woking only is DOS. You can Make a virtual DOS environment Linux.
sudo apt-get install dosbox
(Your can use Synaptic Package Manager and search for dosbox)
Howto make Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Multimedia Ready
Submitted by panayara on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 13:19Most of the ubuntu users suffering non availability of Multimedia in there system,
Ubuntu 9.04 Required the foll0wing steps to Run Multimedia files like MP3, AVI, Mpeg, Flash file etc...
In Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty jackalop", the universe, multiverse and restricted repositories are activated by default.
Howto Extract camera settings and Picture information from a image file using ExifTool in Ubuntu
Submitted by panayara on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 13:15ExifTool is a Perl module with an included command-line application
for reading and writing meta information in image, audio and video
files. Modern Digital Camera including Canon, Minolta,Konica, Nikon, Pentax store all the settings you used, such as aperture or shutter speed along with the picture. For extracting the camera settings and Picture information , you can use ExifTool. ExifTool is requred for profesional editing of some Picture Files.
5 Exciting 2D Graphics Design tools for Ubuntu Linux
Submitted by panayara on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 13:13Ubuntu linux is rich with exciting graphics utilities, Here you can see simple but very useful 2D Graphics Design tools for Ubuntu Linux. Yes welcome to the fantastic world of ubuntu graphics. Xara Xtreme, ( apt-get install xaralx) This is simple, easiest vector graphics drawing program. It is very userfiendly, it is very nice, which is not usual in this kind of applications.