Many of the ubuntu newcomers might be left in a fix when they discover that their system has lost its capability to play media. Actually its not so, those media formats which you might be trying are proprietary ones which requires you to install codecs from a third party. Since ubuntu is shipped with only [...]
Entries from July 2007
July 21, 2007
Installing and configuring Tomcat on Ubuntu
This documentation owes its credits to the Ubuntu Community (Docs) and the book: Java-The Complete Reference by Herbert Schieldt where I learnt the basics of Java and Servlets. Let’s begin.
Before starting you need the Java Development Kit (JDK) and not Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Download it from http://java.sun.com as a .bin file and install it [...]
July 21, 2007
Enabling root login in ubuntu
Many of you must have noticed that root login in ubuntu is disabled in default. Even su doesnt work. The ubuntu documentation says that “ubuntu is shipped with root account is locked“. Actually its a good move. The newcomers to ubuntu do not want to get frightened hearing the name ‘root‘. If you have moved [...]
July 7, 2007
New Tech Blog! Hurray!
Well People! I have got another blog on my own site. I know that this blog is the most visited blog i have ever owned, I am really happy to see that even without any publicity I am getting more traffic than i had ever expected. Its even showing up in all major [...]
July 5, 2007
FAQ for Beginners (Volume-II)
What is a distro?
Distro is actually a fancy name for Linux Distributions. As you know the source code of Linux is open, so you could hack/modify/tweak according to your needs and if you think the changes you made is helpful to the people around you, you could even roll out a distribution containing your changes. [...]
