One of sources for China’s netizen entertainment is watching online video streaming. PPStream as one of the largest online video streaming software, all the while only provide streaming for Windows. Finally, there is Linux version. It is for Ubuntu, but you can get it working on other Linux distros as well. You can download it [...]

Finally, Fedora released their latest Fedora 11 Final. After more than 6 month development, and postponed twice on 26th May and 2nd June. Although I often discuss on my blog about Ubuntu tips and tricks, but Fedora really one of my favourite Linux. One of the top discuss topic about Fedora 11 is the boot [...]

Opera has just released their first Opera 10 beta to public. This version supports Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, Solaris, QNX, OS/2 and BeOS. There are some features why you would like to have the new version 10. Opera turbo for fast browsing on slow connection New visual tabs and sleek design Speed dial Web integration Resizable search field 40% faster engine [...]

Cheat-Sheets.org is the only place I have been visiting for any quick reference, not only for Linux, but also other programming and web developments languages. They even have cheat sheet on chemistry topic?! Quoted from there, these are the Linux cheat sheet you might need. Linux Command Line Tips [html] (pixelbeat.org) Linux Shortcuts and Commands [html] (linuxshortcuts.shtml) Unix/Linux [...]

While, Ubuntu One is still in closed beta, only through invitation to get access to it. I’ve applied it for more than one week, but still haven’t get any response from them. So, people very intuitive will take Ubuntu One and Dropbox for comparison, what so special about Ubuntu One? Ubuntu One users get 2GB [...]

It has been a while I have been using kill command to stop the non responsive running process. But until yesterday then I found out there is a much simple linux command that can do the job of kill and even much better way. It is pkill command. Pkill is written for Solaris7 and later has [...]

In PC industry, hardware outdated too frequent. Your hardware often too old and too slow for the latest applications or Operating System. But you can give life to your old desktop by installing some lightweigth Linux distro. Here are 6 linux distros that are less that 350MB. The first four are less than 256MB, suitable [...]

There is a problem on showing purper desktop when using some ATI graphic cards. Here is one of the solutions I can find to solve this. In the terminal, type the below command line by line to get the the open source ATI driver you needed for the problem. sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool [...]

Transmission is a popular bit torrent client, but I don’t know why it is not officially inside the Ubuntu repository. So, if you want to run Transmission, you need to build it from the source code. And from Transmission official web site, it also doesn’t provide a very clear instruction how to do it. Below a [...]

One of my favourite applications on Windows, Launchy has finally come to Linux! I heavily rely on this software on Windows instead of looking for the software I want from the Start Menu. Besides Launchy, there are also similar software for Linux, such as Gnome Do, but I’m still not very used to it. [...]