Miro Internet TV: Internet TV for Ubuntu Desktop

Miro Internet TV: Internet TV for Ubuntu Desktop

Miro, a new application for Internet video has been designed to be an easy app that will give users an amazing full-screen show. With over thousands of free videos that can be viewed from the Internet, Miro gives the user the ability to download all the chosen videos they enjoy as soon as they are […]

Speak Up In Linux Using eSpeak

Speak Up In Linux Using eSpeak

Article by Ankur Aggarwal, owner of the Blog http://flossstuff.wordpress.com Sometimes we want our Linux box to speak to/for us.This ability is very useful to make announcements and alerts in case of many critical events in our machines or can be used just for sheer fun. There exists a command line synthesized known as eSpeak that […]

Doing calculations using bash

Doing calculations using bash

Sometimes in my small shell script i’ve to do some math, usually nothing too complex but it’s useful to do the math inside the bash script. Bash it’s really complete and among the many builtin functions there are also some mathematical functions. Using the syntax $((expression)) you can evaluate the expression. Operations allowed are quite […]

Upstart from the SysAdvent site

Upstart from the SysAdvent site

We are in December and for this month i suggest to keep an eye on the site: http://sysadvent.blogspot.com This site it’s a sysadmin relative of the Perl Advent Calendar: One article for each day of December, ending on the 25th article. With the goals of of sharing, openness, and mentoring, the authors aim to provide great articles […]

How to clone a PC on the network with 2 live cd

I hope this brief guide will be useful to others as it has been helpful to me, I found it on Lilis a site where there are useful guides published by Linux enthusiasts. Mini guide to clone 2 PC without any special tools. With two Linux livecd, can be anything you like the only requirement […]