Howto check NHL or MLB Baseball and NBA scores from the command line

April 26, 2008 · General · 1 comment

If you are baseball lover and you want to check the baseball scores for your favourite team score from command line use the following procedure.

Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other "curses-oriented" display). It will display hypertext markup language (HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local system, as well as files residing on remote systems running Gopher, HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP servers.

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Screenlets work with Compiz widget layer in Ubuntu Gutsy

April 25, 2008 · General · 2 comments

Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as "the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk". Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, ... the possibilities are endless.

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Upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)

April 24, 2008 · General · 22 comments

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is the Latest stable version of the Ubuntu operating system. The common name given to this release from the time of its early development was "Hardy Heron".

If you want to know what are new features in this release check here

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How to Cut MP3 files under Ubuntu

April 24, 2008 · General · 7 comments

If you want to cut MP3 files under Ubuntu,follow this instructions first you need to install poc-streamer package.poc is a suite of MP3 tools and MP3 streaming programs. It can stream MP3s over HTTP, RTP multicast (RFC 2250 and RFC 3119) and a special multicast protocol to enable the use of Forward Error Correction to protect the MP3 stream against packet loss. It can also stream OGGs over HTTP. In addition to the streaming programs, poc contains two MP3 tools: mp3cue and mp3cut. mp3cue can cut a big MP3 file according to a tracklisting contained in a .cue file. mp3cut can split and concatenate MP3 files according to time slices given on the command line. mp3cut cuts MP3 files on ADU (autonomous data units) frames to ensure best quality.

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How to make Gnome menus Faster in Ubuntu

April 23, 2008 · General · 6 comments

If you want to make Gnome menus Faster in Ubuntu follow this procedure

You need to Edit the file /home/your_user_name/.gtkrc-2.0 file

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