Three Free And Secure Windows XP Alternatives

Microsoft finally pulled the plug on Windows XP on 8 April, 2014. Computers running Windows XP won't get any further security updates-patches. This means that the computers running Windows XP have become more vulnerable to the security risks even if they are running latest anti virus-malware products because operating system level exploits are beyond the scope of these products.

Enable Numlock on bootup in GDM, LightDM and LXDM

GDM :-

First you'll have to install package 'numlockx'. It is available in the repositories of almost every Linux distribution. After you have installed 'numlockx' package open the following file as root in your favorite text editor,

/etc/gdm/Init/Default

A nice looking and useful bash PS1 prompt

It's been a while since I blogged anything. Getting lazier. Anyways the folks who use Linux and/or Mac are familiar with Bash. It's the default shell in most of the Linux distributions and Mac. And the folks who use these operating systems also know the power of working in the terminal. And the prompt you see whenever you open the terminal is controlled by PS1. Most of the time the default prompt is, let's face it, boring. Today I'm gonna give you a nice, colorful, two lined prompt that also displays the exit status of the last command. Exit status means whether the command failed or succeeded.

we don't like cricket, WE LOVE IT.

Just behold the following image,

Isn't that a beautiful cricket venue?

hakbak - Ultimate file backup tool for Linux

Scenario:

Yesterday i decided to play with my conky configuration file. I edited it and then saved it. Today when i ran conky somehow i didn't like it. It wasn't looking as good as my old configuration. Now here comes the problem! I just can't seem to get the current config to look like the old one! I have forgotten what changes i made yesterday! Damn!
Fortunately it was just a conky configuration file. what if it was some system file? I would have broken my system. What if it was some important work file? That would have been disaster!
This kind of disaster can happen to anybody and everybody who sometime or other edits their files. It happens to the best of us. A simple thing can prevent such a disaster from happening. You may ask what is that?
That simple thing is create a backup copy of file every time before opening it. But implementation of this practice is not easy! Stress, hurry or plain old silly moment and "Hell! I forgot to backup the damn thing!" Disaster!!!

NetChecker is now available on SOFTPEDIA

Exciting news as NetChecker is now available on softpedia. They have tested NetChecker and issued 100% clean award.

Feel free to visit NetChecker on softpedia,
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Network-Testing/NetChecker.shtml

Cheers!!!

NetChecker is now available on FreewareFiles.com

NetChecker is now also available on FreewareFiles.com! They have also hosted NetChecker setup file on their mirror! I want to thank FreewareFiles.com for hosting NetChecker.

NetChecker on FreewareFiles,

http://www.freewarefiles.com/NetChecker_program_86593.html