Linux Tips and Tricks
First things first; What is the Master Boot Record (MBR)?
The Master Boot Record(MBR) consists of the first 512byte (half a Kbyte) of the Hard Disk. Inside this fundamental part of the Hd are stored all the commands necessary for the PC to boot up the OS. Practically the firmware found in the ROM of the BIOS loads and runs all what it finds on the MBR and MBR on its part loads up the OS.
The MBR contains a partition table, that is used by the system to understand the structure of the HD and a boot loader(for Grub o Lilo) that loads the kernel of the OS. More»
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GeoGebra is a cross-platform, Open Source application written in Java, that puts together algebra, geometry and calculus. Created by Markus Hohenwarter of the Florclassa Atlantic University, it has received many international awards including the European and German educational software awards.
GeoGebra shows the relationship between geometry and algebra and how one can constructs with points, vectors, segments, lines, conic sections as well as functions and change them dynamically afterwards. More»
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The version 1.0 of the application formerly know as Democracy player has been released. The new-born, bug fixed Miro is an improved open source video player that sets as its major objective – be better to Joost.
Miro is DRM-free and friendly to all content creators. It connects to all the popular video sharing sites like YouTube and blip.tv and has high definitions, full of content video.
Miro could be used to search and download video from the internet regardless of whether they are professionally produced or user-generated. It downloads via HTTP or BitTorrent. If you are rather interested in streaming video, it converts into download streaming video from sites like Youtube and DailyMotion. More»
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If you are tired of the rather problematic gFTP that comes as a pre-installed in Linux distros like Ubuntu, like I am, then get Filezilla 3.0. Filezilla is a popular open source, FTP file transfer client and now cross-platform. Windows users know it well, Linux users have the chance to appreciate its capabilites with the first version for Linux. It is simple to use, with an intuitive interface. If you’ve used it on Windows then you would’nt have any problems even though some options have been moved More»
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KeePassX is a cross platform password application that saves your various passwords in a single local database (on your PC), using a single master password and/or a key-file.
– It’s a multi-platform ported version of KeePass, an open source password manager for Microsoft Windows. KeePass is also portable and has versions for Blackberry, PocketPC, BlackBerry, and PalmOS. More»
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