Pakistani Blogs

vnStat is a very simple utility that can track the amount of bandwidth used by your web server. It works by monitoring the received and transmitted bytes counters of your network interface and logging the data in a database. In this post I look at how to install vnStat and a web-based front end on a CentOS 5 Linux web server. Continue reading Monitoring bandwidth usage with vnStat ...

Back in days of windows 98, LINUX users were like aliens to me. LINUX came into my life as super hero when a live CD helped me retrieving important files out of my dead PC. I was amazed with pre-installed applications and the ‘free’ features. Currently I am running on Ubuntu 9.10 that’s really productive for me. I first tried UBUNTU 9.10 before final installation when i was using windows 7. I ...

Yesterday, I posted a tutorial on how to tether your iPhone on Ubuntu 9.10 using Bluetooth, and now I have another tutorial to tether iPhone using USB on Ubuntu Linux. In this tutorial, we’ll be using an iPhone Ethernet driver written by Diego Giagio and several packages from Jonathan Beck’s PPA. iPhone Tethering on Ubuntu 9.10 Using USB First step is to add the PPA repository to your Synaptic ...

iPhone tethering on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is now possible! You can easily tether your iPhone 3G or 3GS running on iPhone 3.0 or 3.1.x firmware with your laptop/netbook running on Ubuntu 9.10. If you’re running 3.0 then you can do this without jail breaking your phone by installing a modified carrier profile. However, if you’re on OS 3.1+ then you will need to jail break your phone to ...

Novell today announced that BankIslami Pakistan Limited, a dedicated Islamic commercial bank headquartered in Karachi, has chosen SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop as its operating platform of choice.

Back in June, Google released the first development version of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux platforms. Mac and Linux users have been waiting for a proper release version since then, but Google has kept quite in letting out any word on when the first beta would be released. Today Google announced the availability of Google Chrome Beta for Mac OS X and Linux. You can download it from the ...

Who needs resource expensive IDEs when you can use Vim and GNU Screen to create a fast and efficient work environment.

We’ve seen many themes for Ubuntu but the only OS theme left for Ubuntu was, Android. This Android theme, Genoid, brings Android-styled interface to you Lunux with matching icons, background and wallpapers. Now you can easily change GNOME desktop to Android. This theme comes in many Android flavours that I’m sure you’d love to try out.

We’ve just had Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala a month ago, and Ubutu has already started working on their next version of Linux distro, Ubuntu 10.4. Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx mockup designs were posted in the Ubuntu Wiki. This artwork has been labeled as UbuntuSun.

I started using Ubuntu 4 months back, and since then I’ve been looking for ways to customize and tweak it to make Ubuntu more productive and look good.