What you need to know about the Linux Swap Space

Whilst in Windows the Swap is a file, in Linux systems it is a partition and this partition is very important to the system when it needs more memory(RAM) than it is physically present. It is often said that 512MB of RAM in Linux is equivalent to 1024 RAM in Windows – this is also because of the big hand the Swap space gives to the memory. A complete guide on how to configure your Swap has been provided by Linux.com. The major advise they give is to make your Swap partition twice that of the physical memory – but not bigger than 2GB. So if you have 256MB of physical memory then get 512MB of Swap space.

Firefox extension – DownloadHelper

DownloadHelper is a Firefox extension offers and easy and alternative way to download your favourite videos from sites like MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, YouTube etc. It also extracts audio and picture galleries.
DownloadHelper signals to you with an animated icon what videos you could download; by simply clicking on the menu beside the DownloadHelper icon. If you find yourself on a page with a video you could instantly download that video using the menu of DownloadHelper. Read the rest of this entry »

The Perfect Mozilla Firefox Blog

Well, after looking at the statistics of my blog, I felt it was necessary to write this post because I noticed about 88.3% of the visitors of this blog use Mozilla Firefox- WOW, whilst only 7.2% of the visitors use IE. If you are one of the 7.2% then know you are EVIL. IE is the cause of about 50% of the problems you could encounter on your system. That evil software ruins your system and mine too, so stop viewing this blog thru the eyes of IE, this blog is made to run better and faster on Mozilla Firefox, like many other blogs or sites around. Read the rest of this entry »

Popular Articles on Linux Advocacy

It was just time I polished some of my favourite post on Linux advocacy. These posts have been updated and even without the update they were still prominent. For why I did these flash-back? This where I started; explaining the reason why an alternative OS(Open Source, Linux) was absolutely necessary.

For many companies and individuals migrating from Windows to Linux makes sense. The reasons are compelling: greater stability and reliability, lower cost, access to application source code, greater security, and conformity with open standards. But what does it really take to make this move. What risks are involved. Lets take a look
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Is there a right way to bust apart the challenging fortress of metaphor that Apple has created with the “Get a Mac” campaign? With such a powerful dichotomy between the Mac and PC archetypes, is it even possible to insert Linux and have it come out on top?
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A program is not bad just because it’s not Open Source (or Free Software, or whatever the politically correct way to describe it is nowadays), but when the program tries to create it’s own protocol/file format/etc… when there are agreed upon standards, That is a bad thing. It is a practice used when trying to monopolize a market.
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Recover your saved passwords with the Firefox Asterisk Revealer

All platforms:
The Firefox Asterisk Revealer reveals the contents of any password whose text is obscured by asterisks in an alert box using a simple JavaScript.
How often do we forget are saved passwords? very often. It takes just a few months of blogging to accumulate so many passwords, I should personally have over 15 different accounts.
So how do I recover the password I’ve saved but can’t remember any more;
Here is your account; Read the rest of this entry »

Sergey talks about the Android Platform on this Video

After much talk about the Gphone, Google’s Engineering Director, Steve Horowitz says “there is actually no Gphone” instead there is the so-called Android platform that would permit thousands of people to create Gphones. On this video Steve together with Sergey Brin talk about the availability of the SDK(now available for download), Open Source and the demo applications on the Android platform.

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