N900 and skype support

2011-10-02 1 min read Maemo N900
Image by Getty Images via @daylife I was trying to add my skype account on the N900 today and could not add the account. I did not find any option to add the same. After some googling and searching, I found that I need to re-flash my N900. I had flashed the India image earlier to check out what it would provide me but to my astonishment there is no skype support in the India image, so if you are planning to have the skype account added to the N900, then you need to flash either the Global Image (with the string “MR0” in the name of the image) or the US image (004) and not the India image (004). Continue reading

Introduction to the Command Line (Second Edition) — Free Ebook Download

2010-10-06 1 min read Learning Linux
Pretty good book for beginners on command line whether you work on Ubuntu, Fedora, BSD or any other version. http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/introduction-to-the-command-line-%28second-edition%29/12665426 Related articles by Zemanta Install LibreOffice on Fedora and Ubuntu (ghacks.net) Learn To Use The Ubuntu Command Line With CLIcompanion (makeuseof.com) How To Install GIMP in Ubuntu (crenk.com)

Startup animation and theme for Fedora 12 onwards.

2010-05-20 1 min read Fedora Learning Linux
Since the release of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 12, fedora is using plymouth. Plymouth kicks in just after grub and before the Xserver starts. Description: Plymouth provides an attractive graphical <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/bootsplash" title="Bootsplash" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootsplash">boot animation in place of the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/text_messaging" title="Text messaging" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging">text messages that normally get shown. Text messages are instead redirected to a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/data_logger" title="Data logger" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_logger">log file for viewing Continue reading