Category Archives: GNU+Linux+FOSS

Articles about different sections of GNU/Linux Operating Systems

Add vertical scrollbar in wordpress.com sourcecode blocks

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

Sometimes I post sourcecode accompanying my posts which are long and makes the length of the post unnecessarily long. The wordpress.com sourcecode shortcode has an option collapse which you can make “true” to collapse the sourcecode box when the page … Continue reading →

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Get list of installed packages and their details in R

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

When we need packages in R we install them. May be some time you wanted to have a look what packages were installed in your system and also what there version numbers are. Although rarely you would like to do … Continue reading →

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Save work environment in Octave

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

You won’t like to loose the variables and the command history generated after hours or days of work in octave. It is a good idea to save the environment in intervals to create backup points in addition to save from … Continue reading →

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Change Useragent in Firefox

Posted on July 1, 2012 by

There are some websites which require you to visit them using Internet Explorer only, I don’t know why but there are some. My friend had to download an important document from a site which insisted on using Internet Explorer. We … Continue reading →

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Fix dark video in Skype for Linux

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

I was very much disappointed when i installed Skype in Fedora, three causes which are as follows in the order. First, Skype for Linux is very old version (2.2 beta) than the Windows Skype, second, the video was too dark … Continue reading →

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Simple script to restart services automatically when stopped in Fedora/Redhat

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

When occasionally the services like Apache or MySQL or other rc.d script crashes and stops working, then instead of restarting them manually, it may be more desirable to restart them automatically. A friend of mine asked about such an issue … Continue reading →

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Running Skype for Fedora x86 in Fedora x86_64

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

After I installed Fedora 16 x86_64, i needed to install manually Skype for linux, which is available from This link, as it is not in Fedora repositories. After clicking the Skype icon from the kickstart menu, the Skype icon kept … Continue reading →

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Installing the applications from older version in a new fresh installation of fedora

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

I was using Fedora 15 32 bit for a long time but i felt the need to install a 64 bit edition for some memory limitations in the system. Therefore I downloaded the Fedora 16 x86_64 iso file from https://fedoraproject.org/ … Continue reading →

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Reviewing the GNUSim8085 (v1.3.7)

Posted on August 14, 2011 by

This article reviews the GNUSim8085 (v1.3.7) a graphical simulator, assembler and debugger for the Intel 8085 microprocessor. The Intel 8085 is an 8-bit microprocessor that was launched by Intel in 1977 and hence is something that we have never seen … Continue reading →

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Configure Samsung ML-1666 in Fedora

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

I recently had a problem with my Samsung ML-1666 Monochrome laser printer: I could not configure it in Fedora. Simply downloading the driver from Samsung website and installing seemed easy, but actually did nothing. Googling for hours did not solve … Continue reading →

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