Update: I have mispelt Ubuntu in the title as "Ubutu" which made this page to appear as a first hit in the google search for the work "Ubutu". I am changing the title now. I will no more have google's first hit privilege for "Ubutu" :-)

I have been an ...

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Yesterday midnight, one of my 80GB HDDs died suddenly. It was the one where I have installed Linux. By God's grace, I didn't have any crucial data on that. So, loss of data in that HDD was not a great loss but still a minor loss. Oh Gosh ...

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I am planning to buy a new PC. Here are the key components that I have in my mind.

• Intel P4 3.2 GHz with HT
• MSI P4N Diamond Motherboard
• Hynix 1GB 400MHz RAM
• Seagate 160GB SATA HDD
• LG 16x DVD ROM Drive
• Samsung 17'' Flat Black monitor
• Creative Gigaworks ...

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If you are looking for a free software for debugging and profiling x86 Linux programs, then Valgrind is the right tool. It helps you in detecting memory management and threading bugs. The Valgrind distribution currently includes five tools: two memory error detectors, a thread error detector, a cache profiler and ...

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A very nice tutorial "Developing with Gnome" is available at newren's site. There is a chapter which gives detailed instructions on how to build Gnome from CVS.

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This might be of interest for those sitting for placement. How do you swap two integers in C without creating a temporary variable ?

#include <stdio .h>
int main(void)
{
        int a = 100;
        int b = 200;

        printf("a=%d | b=%d\n",a,b);
        a ^= b ^= a ^= b;
        printf("a=%d ...

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Now-a-days, I spend most of my free time playing Need For Speed Underground 2. NFS always been a seducing game. Apart from strategy games, NFS is the only game that I like in other categories. I have completed almost 25% of the game. In other 2 weeks I will be ...

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There is an online price list of the computer components at Ritchie street available here. This page is maintained by Delta Peripherals. All the shops almost have the more or less the same price. This would be useful for estimating the rough cost of the PC that you want to ...

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For my surprise the news came today that GMail is increasing the user space from 1GB to 2GB. I initially thought this as an "April Fool". But when you goto the page of GMail, you see the space keeps increasing every instance. It is now around 1060 MB and keeps ...

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I would like to share the GNU/Linux tutorial for Beginners in Tamil written by MK Saravanan. This is a bit outdated document. Still, it holds good for beginning in Linux. It would be of much use for Tamil people who are not much fluent in English.

ஆங்கிலத ...

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