this a post describes about recovering the grub 2. This problem usually happens when some other operating system on its installation overwrite the MBR..
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An Overdue Update on Diaspora
Since August is nearly over, it is time for an update and answers to some questions. We have been coding. We have Diaspora working, we like it, and it will be open-sourced on September 15th.
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Imagemagick - Edit image from command line
Usually when we talk about programs for editing images we think to graphic programs such as The Gimp or photoshop, but they are not the only alternative.
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Mozilla maintains its anti-patents stance and Red Hat could take a lesson from Mozilla
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A Bird's Eye View of the HTC/Nokia/Apple Patent Litigations
I don't know about you, but I've found it hard to follow the various patent lawsuits involving Apple, Nokia and HTC. First there are so many cases filed all over the place, it's hard to understand the big picture. And I kept asking myself what it was all about. I mean, what's it all about really?
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KDE 4.5 Window tiling
You’ve probably seen the advertisements for Windows 7 and the tiling windows feature. KDE refines the same feature and ads it into 4.4.
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Using Disk Compression With Btrfs To Enhance Performance
Earlier this month we delivered benchmarks comparing the ZFS, EXT4, and Btrfs file-systems from both solid-state drives and hard drives. In this article we have our Btrfs test results when the zlib compression mount option was enabled for looking at the SSD compression performance.
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Righthaven's Brand of Copyright Trolling
Righthaven is going after bloggers using text news stories for comment or discussion.
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Mark Ballard Shows Why British Government Must Move to ODF as Doorway to Software Freedom
Calls from within the United Kingdom to facilitate a promised migration to Free software, via international standards such as ODF
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Wacom Control Panel - Easily configure wacom tablet
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ACTA Action: Call on Obama to end the secrecy, reject the treaty
The US government still hasn't gotten the message. President Obama and his administration are blocking release of the full text of ACTA. They don't want the public to know what the negotiators are up to, because they know we wouldn't stand for it.
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Linux Mint 9 offers new software manager, backup tool
The Linux Mint team has released the final version of Linux Mint 9 ("Isadora"), based on Ubuntu 10.04. Linux Mint 9 features a new software manager with 30,000 packages, a new backup tool, and menu and interface improvements, says the team.
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Gnash 0.8.8: A Huge Improvement Over Previous Versions
Early this week Gnash 0.8.8 was released. Despite the small increment in version number, which would make this seem like a minor maintenance release, the difference between version 0.8.8 and the earlier 0.8.7 is like night and day.
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Microsoft Patents Operating System Shutdown? WTF!
It is reported that Microsoft recently obtained patent for "Operating System Shutdown". In simpler words, Microsoft now holds the intellectual property rights for 'shutting down an operating system'.
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Record Installed .deb Packages In A Text File (Ubuntu/Debian)
This short guide shows two methods of recording all your installed .deb packages in a text file that you can then use on another computer to install the same packages there. This is useful if you want to install the same set of packages on more than one computer.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.