Linux hosting with Ubuntu VPS

Ubuntu's vast user community and continual development have made it a primary contender on the Linux desktop scene - Ubuntu Virtual Privet Servers (VPS) hosting is also an ideal candidate for maintaining a VNC remote desktop.

As a web hosting solution, Ubuntu has also proven itself to be popular and robust. Built upon the Debian distribution's package management system and "secure by default" philosophy, Ubuntu shares Debian's reputation for stability and reliability.

Linux hosting providers offers ubuntu vps with several recent versions of Ubuntu (including preconfigured LAMP and Ruby on Rails templates). Some versions of Ubuntu have been selected as LTS releases - these versions will be maintained with security updates by the Ubuntu developer community for years to come.

Linux web hosting with Apache2

To install linux web hosting you can install apache2

sudo apt-get install apache2

and put your home page in /var/www folder

Compare Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8

Google has designed an almost completely new Web browser. In fact, other than the core rendering engine – which is based on the open source WebKit standard of Safari fame – everything in Google Chrome. The current versions of Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, individual Web page tabs are hosted in a single process , single crashed tab can easily take down the entire browser application. Chrome seeks to eliminate this problem by isolating each tab within its own application process, then leveraging the built-in memory protection capabilities of modern multitasking operating systems to keep code and data in a failing tab from stopping on other processes.

Internet Explorer 8 takes Microsoft's creaking browser architecture and injects it with some much needed life. The sturdier, multiprocess design means that most crashes will be isolated to a single tab, while the new "porn mode" and quick-access tools (Accelerators, Web Slices) make browsing more efficient. IE 8's hefty system requirements could slow adoption until Windows 7 debuts late next year.

see more in
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/03/36TC-browsers_1.html

LINUX GUI Text Editors

nano
nano is a small text-based (launched from the command line) text editor. It's top on our list for many reasons. A clone of the older Pico editor, nano can be used to easily view and edit files.

gedit
gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Though not the most glamorous of text editors. It has the basic features like -- spell check, word count and search and replace. Its features can be extended with plugins.

kate

If you prefer KDE, and do a lot of text editing, I would recommend looking beyond the standard Kate or Kwrite applications.

Geany
Geany is a graphical application designed to be lightweight, and install with only the GTK2 runtime libraries as a dependency.

Cream
Cream is interesting, because it's more a set of nice macros than a full-fledged text editor. It is a descendant of the Vi/Vim editors. Cream puts a familiar look on the Vim editor, making it accessible to new users. Basic features include spell check, bookmarks, code folding, and find and replace. Advanced features allow for different keyboard mappings, text color themes, and word completion. Cream is a good choice.

Gobby

Gobby is a collaborative text editor. (It is also available for Windows, OS X and UNIX.) It connects computers on a network . It allows for the creation of multiple documents, dragging and dropping of documents, and has an IRC-style chat interface, so you can discuss any changes in real-time. Originally designed for programming collaboration, group editing of other types of documents is also possible. It's a neat application for offices that have a mix of software platforms.

Linux Text Editors

Editor	Description
ed	Original UNIX line-based editor, useful in scripts
emacs	GNU editor and fully integrated user environment
ex	Powerful line-based editor (integrated with vi)
gawk	GNU awk, powerful text editor for records containing fields
sed	Stream-oriented (non-interactive) line-based editor
vi	Classic screen-based editor for UNIX
vim	Vi IMproved, enhanced support for programmers

HTML EDITORS FOR LINUX (Quanta, Bluefish, TinyMCE, Amaya and KompoZer)

Creating a website has become more easier these days, thanks to the more powerful HTML editors. In Linux you can try some of the best Free and Open-source HTML editors.

Quanta Plus
Quanta Plus, originally called Quanta, is a web IDE for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP

TinyMCE
TinyMCE, also known as the Tiny Moxiecode Content Editor, is a platform-independent web-based JavaScript/HTML WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE is designed to easily integrate with content management systems, such as Mambo, e107, Drupal, WordPress and Joomla!

Bluefish
Bluefish, as described on its project home page, is a powerful editor for web designers, with many options to write HTML, PHP, JAVASCRIPT, CSS etc.

Amaya
Amaya is web authoring tool with browsing abilities, created by a structured editor project at INRIA, a French national research institution, and later adopted by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Amaya started as an HTML + CSS style sheets editor. It was then extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications .

KompoZer
KompoZer is a WYSIWYG HTML Editor based on Nvu. It was favorably compared to Adobe Dreamweaver.

Screem

Unlike most other web site / HTML editors SCREEM does not provide a WYSIWYG display of pages. Instead you are presented with the raw html source in its editor window. SCREEM also lends itself to being a versatile XML editing package

OLED (Organic LED) will replace liquid crystal display (LCD)

Organic semiconductor or "plastic" LEDs are important because they are much cheaper and easier to fabricate than existing inorganic LEDs (which can be made of compounds of gallium, arsenic, indium, and other inorganic materials). Some inorganic LEDs can convert 47% to 64% of incoming electricity into white light rather than waste heat, but are hindered by high costs.

Organic LEDs' greatest promise is not in lighting, but to replace liquid crystal display (LCD) technology in modern televisions and computer screens. Organic LEDs will be much cheaper, can be made on flexible materials, have a wider viewing angle and color range, and will be more energy efficient than LCDs

How to install Python plugins in GIMP ubuntu hardy

GUI Method

Copy your .py file into the directory .gimp2.4/plug-ins . This is a hidden directory, you don’t see it in the file browser. With Nautilus you can toggle the display of the hidden files with Ctrl-H.

Then make the file executable by right clicking, selecting “Properties” from the menu and activate “Execute” in the permissions tab.

If GIMP was running, restart it.

command line

Enter this:

cp myfile.py ~/.gimp2.4/plug-ins
chmod a+x ~/.gimp2.4/plug-ins/myplugin.py

Restart GIMP

Work With Linux Partitions From Windows

If you have dual-boot Windows and Linux? I think you know about different file systems that the two operating systems used and the difficulty in transferring files between the two. While most modern Linux operating systems can read and write to Windows file systems (NTFS and FAT/FAT32), Windows can’t read or write to Linux file systems (Ext2 and Ext3).

If you want to access your files from both operating systems you could just save everything to a Windows-readable partition is the easiest and safest way

Otherwise you can use the following third party software. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

Explore2fs, DiskInternals Linux Reader, and the Ext2 Installable File System For Windows.

Make PDF Directly (Print Directly to PDF) in ubuntu 8.04

1. Install the cups-pdf package using: sudo aptitude install cups-pdf
2. Select “New Printer”
3. Select “Print into PDF file” with the device URI of “cups-pdf:/”
4. Select “Generic”
5. Select “PDF file generator”
6. Assign a name. “PDF” should be sufficient.
7. Select “Apply”

Check with

System--> Administration --> Printing

You can find a PDF entry