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VLC Media Player says Merry Christmas

The popular multiplatform media player VLC Media Player says Merry Christmas to all users this festive season by putting a red Christmas hat icon. This is an Easter egg in the latest version of VLC media player, and those who have the updated version will notice this at use. renjus blog reports that, If you [...]

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  • Notepad++: Its and IDE

    Most of my friends know me as a person advocating for Linux and FOSS . But most of them get surpurised to see me using Vista half the time. There are few reason I have for that, but this post is not about that. While I’m on Linux I really enjoy the text editors such as [...]

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  • The Matrix Runs on Windows

    Take the red pill. Get the blue screen. “The Matrix Runs on Windows” is a hilarious video that describes some of the “great featues” we get with Windows and other Microsoft products. The video ends with a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death ) and finally saying “Ubuntu, I’m going to learn Ubuntu“. Video by: http://www.collegehumor.com/chtv

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  • Luntbuild : Installation

    This is the second part of the little notes about Luntbuild. This gives some basic installation steps of Luntbuild. For an introduction on Luntbuild refer this post. Using zip distribution (without GUI), in Linux Download the Luntbuild zip distribution from Luntbuild Sourceforge site, or from Luntbuid Javaforge site. This file is normally named luntbuild-xxx.zip, where [...]

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  • Luntbuild : Introduction

    This is going to be another short series (2-3 posts) about a build automation tool. I got using this during my internship at WaveNET. I don’t this this is going to be a very useful post to many ( I here some one saying when I write useful posts ), but it could be at [...]

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