It’s final now. Fedora 11 release name is Leonidas. My favorite choice Indomitable came as #2. The winner Leonidas got 1108 votes. The runner-up Indomitable got 1054 votes as shown below. Leonidas 1108 (Winner) Indomitable 1054 Claypool 944 Brasília 890 Blarney 890 Duchess 838 Zampone 716 Euryalus 713 View the official message here. Fedora Release [...]
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Photo courtesy of Dominik Gwarek This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy You can perform automatic word completion in Vim using Ctrl-x in insert or append mode. By typing the first few characters of a word you can get the whole word either from a dictionary, or a thesaurus, or even the words that [...]
This guide will help you to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron To Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. This tutorial has total of 14 steps with appropriate screen shots. Step 1. Check the Ubuntu Version before Upgrade. How to check the current version of Ubuntu? You have the following three options: Option 1: Check the /etc/issue file [...]
Fedora board has approved following names as potential candidates for the Fedora 11 Release. Blarney Brasília Claypool Duchess Euryalus Indomitable Leonidas Zampone I like Indomitable. (It sounds really cool). Even if you don’t vote, please leave a comment and let us know which name you liked from the above list? To learn more about how [...]
This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy. This article is part of the ongoing Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks Series. As a programmer, you may do lot of repetitive tasks while coding such as: Adding file header Adding function/frame comment Including default code snippet Performing syntax check Reading documentation about a function Converting [...]
Photo Courtesy: Dekuwa Happy New Year to all TGS readers. I Wish You and Your Family a Happy and Healthy New Year 2009. Happy New Year from me and my daughter 2008 was a fantastic year for my blog. I started this blog on May 2008 and currently it has 800+ subscribers and a Google [...]
Around The Geek World is a monthly summary of interesting articles and news around the geek world with my brief comments. List of Web’s Worst Predictions: Probably the worst prediction ever is “Computers aren’t for home use” – In 1977, Ken Olsen, the president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp (DEC). No wonder DEC [...]
Photo courtesy of tigerplish This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy. Monitoring your network is an easy task with iftop. It shows a table of current bandwidth usage by hosts. iftop shows the pair of hosts which is responsible for the most traffic at the top of list, which makes it easier to identify [...]