Life plus Linux

I got my first salary few days back. I could think of hundreds of ways to spend that money. But I wanted to do something else, something I...

After Google announced that the new  Material Design  is going to be adopted on Android's next release, currently codenamed Android L; ...

I feel that the default size of navigation bar is too huge and it occupies a lot of space on the screen. There is a simple way in which you...

I installed CM11 on my Nexus 4. After I installed Google Calendar, I thought deleting stock AOSP calendar app and few other depending apps ...

Unfortunately I am forced to use windows at work. So I installed cygwin to run linux commands. While editing using my favourite editor vim;...

shopt  is a builtin command which can be used to customize the way you interact with terminal is several ways. Some of them are: Ignore ...

It is hard to reuse multi-line commands as the newlines are replaced by semicolon and the many line command is converted to a single line. ...

We have seen cases where we are not allowed to safely remove or eject USB drive because of the fact that some process is using resources on...

Sometimes we might want to perform a 'dry-run' of package installations without actually installing them in order to prevent unwant...

Mails used to be the easiest way to spread malware. So obviously Gmail doesn't allow users to attach windows executables (.exe) to mail...