apt-offline 1.1
Posted on April 8, 2011
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I just completed the release of apt-offline version 1.1. This release has many
bug fixes, adds basic proxy support and has a new Advanced Options window
for the Get operation.
Icedove
Posted on November 7, 2010
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My recent experience with Mozilla ThuderBird, IceDove.
With KDE 4.x, the KDE team took a radical step of ripping apart most of the stuff and rethinking many of the designs. Quite a bold move. Many people appreciated KDE’s efforts to start afresh while others moved away from KDE. For some reasons, I decided to stick to KDE. Maybe it was because of the awesome flexibility KDE provided provides to customize the DE to one’s personal taste.
[Read More]Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Kies
Posted on October 21, 2010
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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Well most must be knowing by now that Samsung is rolling out the Android 2.2 FROYO update in phases. And it would be available through Kies.
There have been numerous reports of Kies not detecting the Samsung Galaxy S phone.I think I have a pattern and know what has been causing the trouble.
Samsung Kies , by default, is set to auto-start and reside in the System Tray. The Kies application auto-detects the phone when plugged-in and starts up the applications.
[Read More]The Automatic Equalizer for Android
Posted on September 1, 2010
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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When I wrote the [autoEqualizer ](http://kde- apps.org/content/show.php/autoEqualizer?content=70509 “autoEqualizer”)plug-in for the Amarok (1.x) media player, to the best of my knowledge, there weren’t any media players with this feature nor were there any plug-ins.
Recently, I came to know that the Samsung Galaxy S ’s media player looks to be having the Automatic Equalizer functionality. Not sure if this player is specific to Samsung Galaxy S or the Android Platform in general.
[Read More]SystemTap in Debian
Posted on July 8, 2010
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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The latest kernel upload (2.6.32-16) brings goodies to SystemTap in Debian.
This version has added support for kprobes, on which systemtap has a major
dependency, for many of its features.
Most of the systemtap instrumentation should work now and all of this will be
part of the Squeeze release. Instrumenting the kernel modules still needs some
work (DBTS: #555549) but can be done.
tomoyo for debian
Posted on May 11, 2010
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Just uploaded tomoyo-tools and is waiting in the NEW queue.
Thanks to Moritz Muehlenhoff, tomoyo kernel support should be available in Debian with kernel 2.6.32-13 and above.
What is Tomoyo ?
Description: Lightweight and easy-use Mandatory Access Control for Linux
TOMOYO Linux is Lightweight and Usable Mandatory Access Control with
- “automatic policy configuring” feature by “LEARNING mode”
- administrators friendly policy language
- no need libselinux nor userland program modifications
[Read More]apt-offline 0.9.8
Posted on May 11, 2010
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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I just uploaded apt-offline version
0.9.8 to sid. Hopefully this is the one that would be part of squeeze. For
those who still arent aware of apt-offline, it is an Offline Package Manager
for apt.
I wrote a small [howto](http://www.debian-
administration.org/article/Offline_Package_Management_for_APT) that can give
more details about it.
apt-offline
Posted on October 14, 2009
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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It all started long back when I worked for a giant computer manufacturing
company. Certain IT policies led fo the need for an Offline APT Package
Manager
While I got it working for a long time, I didn’t have the aggression to polish
and push it for general usage. Thanks to my friend appaji, [apt-offline](http
://apt-offline.alioth.debian.org) (a.k.a pypt-offilne) is now part of Debian.
Evolution Newsgroup UI
Posted on May 29, 2009
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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I’ve been using KDE for a while now, probably 9yrs. I’ve also been an early adopter of KDE 4.x. While KDE 4 is still far way behind in proving its worth of the radical core changes it made (take for example: Nepomuk, Strigi, Phonon, Decibel - I still wonder when they are going to be ready for the user), I still find KDE apps far far ahead of GNOME.
Probably, many would disagree.
[Read More]Compressing Backups
Posted on April 4, 2009
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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Once upon a time CPU power was low. In those days, what we have today, was termed to be Super Computers.
Thanks to tough competition and great engineering, we now have CPU in the range of Gigahertz and multiple cores. But on Destkops/Laptops, do we really have applications that utilize the ability of these processors ?
So I thought about making these powerful CPUs to do some work.
There are different views about Backups.
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