There, you got all the inspirations from the web and your friends and have now Linux proudly running on your system. (Linux is the kernel, ya ya I know you got it). Your friend approaches you to help him get rid of the virus in his USB drive. And you are proud you are of help in terminating viruses with ease, thanks to Linux’s security. And he asks you to do a favor. To rename the USB drive label to his name, from the name “disk”.

For those of you coming from windows backgrounds, the way the linux filesystem is laid out may seem confusing at first glance…. but that is where this article comes in !

The first thing you should know when working with linux, is that everything is treated as either a file or directory. Yeap thats right, even hardware is considered a file by linux, and, speaking of hardware… all your hardware devices are located in the /dev directory, but more on that later.

Most people look at Distros like Ubuntu and Fedora and Slackware and call them “Linux”. When these distros boot up and get into a GUI environment, people call the GUI linux as well.

But…..That is not true!

New linux users must have noticed this. There are antivirus available in the repos. You might question, “But wasn’t I promised that linux is virus free? That was an important reason for me to switch from Windows to Linux.” Well the hard truth is Linux does have it’s own category of viruses. But, the part [...]

I’m writing this post from Ubuntu8.04 aka Hardy Heron. Graphics in Hardy are awesome,cool, breezy,hot (The fire effect ) . Hardy was supposed to be released on 24th morning so i sticked to my browser refreshing their home page. It was released at 1830 hrs IST, I started downloading immediately. Initially  i got good [...]

Carolyn’s note: <CRLF> just means hit return. In case you can’t see that little
period between the <CRLF>s, what you do to end composing your email is to hit enter,
type a period, then hit enter again. Anyhow, try typing:
This is a test.
.
250 Requested mail action okay, completed
quit
221 <techbroker.com> Service closing transmission channel
Connection to host lost.
Using [...]

The Magic of DOS
In this guide you will learn how to telnet, forge email, and use nslookup with Windows XP.
The key to doing amazing things with XP is as simple as D O S. Yes, that’s right, DOS as in MS-DOS,
as in MicroSoft Disk Operating System. Windows XP (as well as NT and 2000) comes [...]

On April 6, 2008, A new version of gOS, called gOS 2.9 “Space” was launched, this version is intended for the gPCmini, and especially geared towards MySpace users and is based on Compiz fusion, Gnome, and the Avant Window Navigator dock manager, but it also uses E17 code. It has a Dock with a [...]