X11 Forwarding

Filed under Desktop, howto, Microsoft Windows, Network, System, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP by on October 18, 2010 at 11:00 am {no comments}

At office I have some linux machines without monitors. Earlier we have covered how to setup VNC to see linux desktop from remote machine. Apart from VNC we can also use putty & Xming.

Xming is the leading X Window Server for Microsoft XP/2008/Windows7. It is fully featured, lean, fast, current, simple to install and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily transported portable as a pocket X server.

Xming is totally secure when used with SSH and optionally includes an enhanced PuTTY Link SSH client and a portable PuTTY replacement package. Xming can work completely independent of the Window’s registry when used with Xming-portable PuTTY.

Interactive 3D graphics capability is provided compatible with OpenGL/GLX.

Xming is cross-compiled on Linux for Microsoft Windows (32-bit x86), using MinGW, mainly from the canonical X.Org source code with my patches applied. It is kept current and secure with frequent updates from X.Org, XKB, FreeType2, Pthreads-Win32, Mesa, PuTTY and Freedesktop Bugzilla.

When released Public Domain, Xming can be distributed and used without restriction.

You need two application, Xming & putty. You can download latest versions of it from below sites:
Xming
Putty

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VirtualBox 3.2.10 released

Filed under Desktop, Fedora, howto, Linux, System, Ubuntu, Virtualisation by on October 17, 2010 at 12:34 pm {no comments}

VirtualBox 3.2.10 is a maintenance release
You can download latest version from VirtualBox website
Download

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Power Supply Calculator

Filed under Desktop, howto, Linux, Microsoft Windows, System by on October 13, 2010 at 3:51 pm {no comments}

Have you ever want to find out how much wattage SMPS you need for machine? So here is the website to major your pc’s wattage consumption. By using Antec Power Supply calculator you can get a rough idea regarding your machine’s power consumption. Jut fill the hardware details of your machine & click on calculate button. This calculation will be useful for purchasing a new SMPS. From Antec Power Supply calculator you come to know how much wattage SMPS you need to run your machine smoothly.

Website :
Antec Power Supply calculator

PXE booting Maverick Meerkat Ubuntu – 10.10

Filed under Desktop, howto, Linux, Network, PXE, Server, System, Ubuntu by on October 12, 2010 at 10:45 am {no comments}

For PXE booting Ubuntu 10.10 you can follow the similar procedure which we have followed in Ubuntu 10.04. No changes needed except Ubuntu 10.10 iso. You can follow this procedure.

Changing default boot option in Ubuntu 10.10

Filed under Desktop, howto, Linux, System, Ubuntu by on October 11, 2010 at 10:00 am {2 comments}

At home I share my machine with my friend who are die hard fan of windows. I have windows as well as Ubuntu on same system. So for my friend’s convenience, I set windows is the Default boot OS in grub.
But after updating Ubuntu to version 10.10, I unable to change my default boot option cause there was no /etc/grub/menu.lst file, which I used to modify for default boot option.

After searching little bit, I got startupmanager. With the help of Startupmanager you can change your boot options easily.

First you need to install Startupmanager, to install run,

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

How to use
Go to System > Administration > Startupmanager

  • In the Startup Manager window, you’ll see Boot options tab
  • Just click on Default operating system option and choose the OS you want to load as default boot at the time of booting.
  • Click on Close button, statrtup manager will perform post configuratin task.

Voila, Now whenever you restart your machine it will boot in Windows by default. Now on no need to manually change grub options. A beginner user can also change grub settings with just a few clicks.

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