For the curious: What made me write this post: A very good friend of mine called me up today and asked me to go through a web portal that their company is developing to gather some feedback about it. When I opened the page I was quite impressed at first…
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Installing Firefox Nightly with Australis on Fedora 18 / 19 / 20
Are you a Fedora user who wants to check out the new Australis Theme for Firefox scheduled for release with Firefox 28? However, you are a bit apprehensive of letting go that stable release of Firefox in bundled within your Fedora installation by default, just in case something goes wrong…
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Installing Skype on Fedora 18 / 19 / 20
Here’s a list of command line steps to install Skype on Fedora 19:- Step 1: Open up the terminal and switch to super user: $su – Step 2: Install the dependencies: yum install alsa-lib.i686 fontconfig.i686 freetype.i686 glib2.i686 libSM.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 libXi.i686 libXrandr.i686 libXrender.i686 libXv.i686 libstdc++.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 qtwebkit.i686 zlib.i686 Step…
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Hello WordPress – says my Keon!!
This blog post celebrates the joy that I feel from the depths of my heart to see that my baby has finally hatched from its shell and come to life for the first time on my Firefox OS Keon developer device. This is the first post that is being made…
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Installing Sublime Text 2 on Fedora 18 / 19 / 20
Here’s another three step guide to installing Sublime Text 2 on Fedora 19 – Schrodinger’s Cat:- Download the installation script from the following gist. https://gist.github.com/sayak-sarkar/5810101 Extract it to your home directory [or anywhere you like]. $tar -xvf gist5810101-3b0e9bb3ef5128760df9e3e06877fa4f7e5689ec.tar.gz Open your terminal (preferably as super user), navigate to your home directory…
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Installing VLC player on Fedora 18 / 19 / 20
Here’s a simple three step guide to installing VLC media player on Fedora 19 [Schrodinger’s Cat]:- Login as Super User: $su Setup rpmfusion: #rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm Install vlc using the default yum package manager: #yum install vlc mozilla-vlc Voila! You now have VLC media player installed on you computer! 🙂
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Installing Microsoft TrueType Fonts in Fedora18 / 19 / 20
This is something that I just learned how to do, courtesy of a documentation work that I need to for my college’s fourth semester evaluations, where the requirements state that I need to use Arial / Verdana fonts for my Project Report. The interesting part is that I’m a hardcore…
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Programming on Mobile Devices
This is a thought that’s been rather bugging me for sometime now: Is writing code (programming) via mobile devices really not a very feasible idea? In the current scenario, almost all conventional programming is done on desktop computers (PCs, laptops and the likes), wherein we have a standard keyboard which…
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Running Friendlycode – A local instance of Thimble
Here is a breakdown of how to run Friendlycode in 3 (maybe not-so-simple) steps. Prerequisite: A static file server such as Apache. Steps:- Download Friendlycode from here. Extract the contents of the friendlycode-gh-pages package into a directory named friendlycode within your file server’s document root. For example, in Apache you…
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Installing Steam for Linux Beta | Counter Strike for Fedora 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
Here’s the link to a really interesting article by Russel Bryant that I found on the web. Especially helpful for all my geeky gamer friends who keep on complaining about how they are not able to play Counter Strike or Team Fortress 2 on their Linux based systems. Enjoy! If…