Light at the end of a tunnel

No Matter what situations life throws at you, no matter how treacherous your journey may seem, Remember there is a light at the end of the tunnel

Linux commands arranged in a specific sequence

Linux commands arranged in a specific sequence - Let your imagination run wild, and it will make sense

gawk;
grep;
unzip;
touch;
strip;
init, uncompress, gasp;
finger;
find,route, whereis, which, mount;
fsck; nice, more;
yes;
gasp;
warnquota,umount;
head, halt, renice, restore, touch, whereis, which, route, mount,more, yes, gasp, umount, expand, ping, bashbug, dump, make clean;
sleep

Dos and Donts of handling a Baby

Microsoft Word, Gangsta Edition

Get Firefox to look like IE

Step 1: The Theme

The first thing we need is an Internet Explorer Theme. The best one that's currently updated for Firefox 2.0 is the Looks Familiar theme over at addons.mozilla.org:

1. Install the Looks Familiar theme
2. Select to use the theme and restart Firefox for the changes to take effect

Step 2: The Icons

The next thing we need are window icons that look like Internet Explorer's:

1. Download the Firefox Internet Explorer Icons Pack and unzip it to your Firefox program directory (typically C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\ for regular Firefox of PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox for Firefox Portable). It will create the necessary directories within the chrome directory and copy the icons to them.
2. Restart Firefox for the changes to take effect

Note: To uninstall the icons, just delete the icons directory within the chrome directory in your Firefox program directory.

Step 3: The Toolbar Layout

The next thing we need to do is to adjust the layout of the buttons on the toolbar to mimic Internet Explorer:

1. Right-Click on the toolbar and select Customize
2. Click Add New Toolbar and call it Address Toolbar
3. Drag the address bar and Go button from their normal position onto the new (blank) Address Toolbar
4. Drag the Search Box off of the toolbar onto the buttons window to remove it
5. Drag the stop button to the left of the refresh button
6. After the Home button, place a seperator,then the Bookmarks button, then the History button, then another seperator, then the print button

You should now have a Toolbar that looks like this:

Step 4: Window Title

If you wish to complete the look and change the application from Mozilla Firefox to Microsoft Internet Explorer, just follow these steps:

1. Install the Firesomething 1.8 Extension and restart Firefox
2. Go to the Firesomething options window (Tools - Addons - Extensions - Firesomething - Options)
3. Delete all the Vendors, Prefixes and Names (right-click Select All, right-click delete in each field)
4. Enter Microsoft in Vendors and click Add (or enter Mozilla for fun)
5. Enter Internet Explorer in Names and click Add
6. Check off "Use the same generated name in..." and click OK
7. Close the extensions window

There ya go, Firefox now, is IE (As much as I HATE to say it)

My first LOLCat

My VERY First LOLCat, I'd call this one LOLPuppet

How to undo close-tab with 1 click in firefox

There have been many a times wherein we close a tab by mistake using Firefox, and if we wish to undo-close it, we either use 'Tab Mix Plus' or 'Ctrl + Shift + T' key combo to undo close the tab. There is a much easier way that Firefox lets us do.

Simple, just middle click on an empty area where the tabs reside and voila, the closed tab comes back.

Again, just middle click on an empty area in the Tab Bar. Thats it !

How to add transparency in your GNOME toolbars

I've kinda liked KDE for its eyecandy. But since I'm waiting for the stable KDE4, I'm using GNOME in my Ubuntu Gutsy box. I've been hunting for solutions to make my panels transparent but all I came across was an endless list of compiling applications, twinkering with Compiz settings, apt-get'ing a LOT. But never did I really look into it.

You can now make your panels transparent by right-clicking on the panel and selecting 'Properties'. Select the 'Background' tab and select 'Solid Color'. You can now select the color of your panel, and right below that is the transparency slider.

Now, why didn't that occur to me before !!?

How to pimp up your Gnome-Do

If you’re using Compiz Fusion and you have CompizConfig Settings Manager installed (the advanced Compiz Fusion configuration utility), here are a few simple steps to take to make GNOME Do windows fade and zoom when they are activated and dismissed.

First of all, open CompizConfig Settings Manager and search for the Animations plugin by typing “anim” in the search box. Make sure the plugin is enabled by checking the box next to it. Once it’s enabled, click on the plugin to change its settings (click on images for a larger view):

Once you’ve found the settings for the Animations plugin, click on the “Open Animation” tab to change the animations that occur when a splash screen window is opened. To do this, click the Add button and an Edit window will open. Select an Open Effect from the dropdown menu (I prefer Random for well... never mind), set the duration to 100, and type “(type=Splash)” in the text field labeled “Window Match”:

Once you have added this animation effect, you will see it listed among the other Open Animation effects:

Next, go to the Close Animation settings tab, and repeat the steps for adding the Open Animation. Once you have successfully added the new Close Animation, you will see it in the list of Close Animations:

Now GNOME Do windows should have a nice zoom and fade effect. Experiment with different animation effects to figure out which ones work best for you.

How to install GNOME-Do on Linux

I've just discovered the sweetest program launcher for GNOME. It works just like Launchy on windows and looks somewhat similar to the awesome Quicksilver on the Macs.

Here's how to install it.
Installing GNOME Do on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
1. Open your /etc/apt/sources.list file with gedit text editor:
$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rharding/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/rharding/ubuntu gutsy main

3. After save file, run this command:
$ sudo apt-get update

4. Install GNOME Do, execute the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-do

5. To run GNOME Do, hit Alt + F2 to Run Command and type:
gnome-do

The hotkey to activate Gnome Do is (hate to say this) Windows + Space