SMPlayer is a free and open source media player for Windows and Linux. It is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer. SMPlayer is a very good alternative to VLC media player. It is faster than VLC and can play almost all video and audio formats. You don’t need to download and install … Read more
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 13.04. It went successfully. After I restarted my computer, I get a black screen at the time of login. Hence, I am unable to insert my login to my computer. However, I was able to login in recovery mode. I googled for solutions. Used the keywords like … Read more
VI is a display oriented interactive text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. It is available by default on all UNIX systems. It is supplied with all Linux distributions. Here is a simple and quick VI command tutorial. Note: VI commands are CASE SENSITIVE. Modes There are two modes in vi: command mode … Read more
CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) is a Microsoft proprietary online help format, that consists of a collection of HTML pages and an index. CHM files are not recognized by Linux and they cannot be open using any default application. To open CHM files, you have to install CHM viewer in Linux. In my previous article, … Read more
CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) is a Microsoft proprietary online help format, that consists of a collection of HTML pages and an index. CHM files are not recognized by Linux and they cannot be open using any default application. To open CHM files, you have to install CHM viewer (like xCHM) in Linux. You can … Read more
Zip is the most common archiving format. It is avialable on all operative systems such as Linux, Windows and Mac. However, it does not offer the best level of compression as compared to tar.gz and tar.bz2. Tar is very common archiving format in Linux. Tar.gz is better than tar compression. And, tar.bz2 is the the … Read more
Here are some linux commands to change the permission of files and folders/directories. chmod is used change the file system mode / permission of files and folders. Change Particular File and Folder Permission This will give 775 permission to test directory which is insde /var/www directory chmod 775 /var/www/test This will give 664 permission to … Read more
Here are step-by-step commands about installing apache, php, mysql, and phpmyadmin on ubuntu. 1) Open Terminal – Press: CTRL + ALT + T 2) Install Apache – In terminal, type: sudo apt-get install apache2 – To test if Apache installation, Open browser and type: http://localhost – It should show text: It Works! 3) Install PHP … Read more
PHPEclipse is a PHP development plugin for the Eclipse IDE Framework. And, XDebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities. I am using Ubuntu Operating System. This article provides a step-by-step guide on installing and setting up XDebug in PHP Eclipse in Ubuntu. Install XDebug in Ubuntu Open terminal and type the … Read more