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30 Things To Do When you are Bored and have a Computer

by Ramesh Natarajan on March 1, 2010

  1. Read technical blogs – There are several technical blogs out there, that produce high quality content everyday. There are 9600+ technology blogs listed in the technorati website. Browse the technology blog list and read the blogs that interests you. As always you can browse our blog archive section for Linux related articles that you might have missed.
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How to Use Google Buzz in Gmail

by Ramesh Natarajan on February 11, 2010

If you are using Gmail, you might have already noticed the ‘Buzz’ link right below your inbox. Google buzz looks like a combination of twitter and facebook features built right in your email application.

What do you think about Google Buzz? Do you like it?
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I’m happy to announce winners of the 2 books giveaway contest.

Following are randomly selected winners, who will receive the corresponding PDF version of the book.
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Gone in 60 Seconds – Find Disappeared Internet Pages

by Ramesh Natarajan on January 25, 2010

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While internet is not as smart as Angelina Jolie to make a website or a webpage disappear in 60 seconds, it still somehow manages to make some of the webpages disappear after a while.

When you come across something interesting over the internet, you may either bookmark it locally or in a social bookmarking site for later use. I’m sure several times you might have seen one of those websites in your bookmark just disappears.

In this article, let us review few methods on how to find a website or a webpage that you’ve bookmarked disappears from the internet.
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2 Books Giveaway: Linux Firewall and Learning jQuery 1.3

by Ramesh Natarajan on January 18, 2010

I’m happy to announce book giveaway contest, where you can win PDF version of one of the two books — Linux Firewall or Learning jQuery 1.3.
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6 Steps for Minimal Ubuntu Installation Using debootstrap

by Leonardo Sanchez on January 8, 2010

Ubuntu LogoThe debootstrap utility installs a very minimal Debian system. debootstrap tool will install debian-based Linux OS into a sub-directory. You don’t need an installation CD for this purpose. However, you need to have access to the corresponding Linux distribution repository (for e.g. Debian or Ubuntu).

For the purposes of this article we will discuss how to install Ubuntu using debootstrap.
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Happy New Year 2010 – From Geek and the Doll

by Ramesh Natarajan on January 1, 2010

Happy New Year 2010
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The Beginner’s Guide to The Geek Stuff – A Guided Tour

by Ramesh Natarajan on December 28, 2009

We’ve published quite a few high quality articles on UNIX/Linux and open source since this blog was started on May 2008. This post is a quick reference guide to all the popular posts in this blog.

You might want to go through all these posts in detail by trying out the commands and software mentioned in these posts yourself. However, it is going to a take a while to read all these posts. Make sure to bookmark this article for future reference.
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