Don’t compare GNU/Linux to Windows and Mac OS X
and yet another great post I saw today. Essentially this article talks about why we can’t compare Linux distributions with other operating systems such as Windows and MacOSX!
Linux Life-saver(tm)
I recovered yet another fatally crashed computer with a linux live cd and yet the term Linux Life-saver(tm) given to that Fedora live-cd!! and the credit goes to that specific cd!! My friend called me, worried about his just-uploaded video files. And he didn’t have any other copy. Using some weird program he wanted to optimize his computer, and his computer crashed with the next restart. So he called me, and I told him put your fedora live cd in and boot your computer with that. Then we recovered his files with ntfs-3g (now the credit goes to developers of this utility). So I thought I would post it here on how we did it, very simple.
1) restart your computer with any linux live cd ( really, all of them would work )
2) install ntfs-3g and ntfs-config. In fedora:
$ su -c ‘yum install ntfs-3g ntfs-config’
3) GNOME: go to System > Administration > ntfs configuration tool
KDE 3.5: Kmenu > System > ntfs configuration tool
KDE 4: Alt+F2 ( run command ) and search for ntfs and click on ntfs configuration tool
4) it gives you some choices of HDDs. check the one you want to enable and click on Auto configure
5) fire up a file manager and put into your computer a cd, or even better, a USB disk and start moving your files and backing up your windows drive!
Installing KDE 4 on Windows XP/Vista
today I ran across this very nice walk-through for installing KDE 4 on Windows XP/Vista. Nothing to note here, you can run usual KDE applications on Windows too!!
setting up SSH on windows
united windows and linux screenshots
ok, I finally tried to unite my fedora system with windows XP pro SP2 ( fancy name ) and it worked. Thanks to softpedia.com for the great tutorial and thanks to virtualbox for making it possible. By the way, today I saw that Sun Microsystem has acquired Innotek.
Anyway, these are the screenshots, I just followed the tutorial ( refer to second previous post for that ):
Unite windows and Linux peacefully
The point is, you can have windows and linux running at the same time on one screen and work with both of them at the same time! Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Doing it is very easy, just get the virtualbox into ’seamless mode.’
To do this, you need to install VirtualBox and have a legitimate copy of Windows, whether windows XP or Vista doesn’t matter, something that works ( which unfortunately is not the case with any of them ). Now, configure the virtual machine which is a virtual windows, like this:
1) On the ‘General’ section drag the “Video Memory Size” slider to 64.
2) On the ‘Audio’ section check the “Enable Audio” box.
3) On the ‘Remote Display’ section check the “Enable VRDP Server” box.
Now, run the virtual machine and install the guest additions.
Go to machine > seamless mode and you’re done 
And don’t forget to leave comments if it worked for you 
For very detailed walkthrough, click here.
