Windows or Linux

I was browsing through my stats on Blogger.com and realised that the majority of viewers are browsing this blog post using a windows machine. The shares are heavily for Windows with >70% of visitors on Windows machines, and only 11% on a Linux machine. So I had a thought of whether some of links to my old posts were still hanging around somewhere - during the times when I was mainly on Windows. Or whether some of the visitors are considering move from Windows to Linux. If you are a Windows user considering a move to Linux, then my advice...

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Using RDP in Linux and Remmina RDP client for Linux

The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is widely used in Microsoft Windows, originally it was introduced as Terminal Services. Essentially it allows you to control a computer remotely (i.e via another computer), you can almost do anything via RDP. When I first switched from Windows to Linux, I had found that this feature was greatly missing from Linux's array and features. My initial questions about RDP was met with VNC as the solution. If anyone has...

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SAMBA: Unable to Mount

I was working on my HTPC today and I was trying to transfer files to it. After re-installing everything due to the 3TB debacle, I realised that I hadn't set up anything for connecting to it and sharing files. So my initial thought was to get FTP up and running, after while I thought to myself that I need to get SAMBA up and running. I quickly whipped up Google to get some instructions on how to do this, since I was terrible at remembering...

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Linux Download Manager

I've been asked this a couple of times in IRC channels as to whether there is a download manager for linux... and the answer is usually a "yeah ofcourse, this is linux". The download manager that I use is Uget, and it works pretty well for my purposes which is fairly basic (download, pause, resume). I remember that when I was on the Windows and Mac, I had to purchase this type of software, however, on Linux it's FREE. Love it. To install it, and like with most packages, open up a terminal session and type in:  sudo apt-get install uget  And,...

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