Ashok Gelal's Blog (6)

If you regularly run a couple of OS from your VirtualBox and want to login to those OS directly from GDM session, here is a quick way to do it. For this to work you should have already set up your VirtualBox. Here we won’t be talking about how to setup VirtualBox but only how to login to a virtual OS from GDM session. 1. Create a bash script with the following contents #!/bin/bash VirtualBox -startvm NameOfYourVirtualOS Replace NameOfYourVirtualOS with the name that you have give… Continue

Hey folks! Time for another scripting fest. This time it is lot more useful than something like BSU search plugin. Three sleepless nights and then the outcome is 'tapt', apt that tweets. This script tweets all your 'apt-get' activities to your Twitter account. It can also do some activities which apt-get can't do such as multi-operations with a single command for example installing one application, removing… Continue

Hey folks! I've just created a small BSU Search Plugin for Firefox. If you want to search anything inside boisestate.edu website, you don't need to open the site. Just search right inside from the Firefox search box. Look at the screenshot below. I've attached bsu.xml file. Put it inside /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/searchplugins… Continue

Just played with my Ubuntu desktop for some time and came up with this

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One of my friends saw me playing with Compiz-Fusion effects in Ubuntu on Saturday and was pretty much impressed with Ubuntu when I detailed him some more advantages of using Linux OS. He came yesterday with his laptop to get Ubuntu installed. He was more than satisfied with all the things. He was very proud not to be called 'Pirate' any more. His friend had told him that he need to spend a lot of time tweaking Linux OS to work for him; installing library files, install each and every codecs manu… Continue

The first hurdle you come across when you think of using Linux is not 'to know how to install' it, but you will be confused 'whether to install or not'. The benefits of using Open Source Software are great. You hear a lot about them and you think to give it a go for a test. But when you know you have to burn the .ISO file into a CD/DVD, you start scratching your head. Why to waste a CD/DVD when you are not sure you will be using it or not? Also, for people like me, who like to tast… Continue