The gnome-session program starts up the desktop environment. Essentially, it loads either your last session, or a default session as defined by the user. There might be some applications that you want automatically started after the boot. For instance, those in habit of using the Skype would prefer to have it on even without  having to click. Well, that is only possible when you autostart a program at the start up. If you autostart a program in Gnome desktop it will start only after the session starts. This is in contrary to the PreSession solution that starts before the session has started. Now the question is how to make a program autostart when your Gnome desktop session starts.

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WordPress nice permalinks is a way to create search-engine-friendly url's for WordPress posts and pages. Unfortunately they sometimes do not work out-of-the-box even after choosing your permalinks structure in WordPress options. I have found the issue in Cent OS 5 as also in Fedora versions before.

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Following the grand releases of Snow leopard and  Windows 7 the latest Linux distribution - Ubuntu 9.10, or Karmic Koala made its debut recently. The upgraded Ubuntu deserves an acclaim for bettering its predecessors in most respects. Ubuntu 9.10 hosts a number of features that brings it at par with Windows 7.  With a swift boot time, flashy enhancements and additions like Empathy, Mozilla Firefox , and ext-4 as the default file system, it's definitely an OS that will woo the Linux buffs. Still, like its predecessors, Ubuntu 9.10 is not flawless and complete.  It requires fix es for things that are not working, some tweaking and installing useful applications to make it an accomplished OS. We decided to provide you with the 10 things that you must do after installing Ubuntu 9.10. Full article (981 words) »

Windows control panel is something we are all familiar with in Windows operating systems like Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista & now Winfows 7. Unfortunately you may not have found a direct equivalent of Windows Control Panel which works in Linux systems like RHEL, Cent OS, Fedora, Ubuntu etc. Despair no more for the solution is here.

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LONDON - Older adults, who find working on computer a complicated task, a new PC with simplified desktop may offer hope.

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Windows 7 has made its debut and Karmic Koala(Ubuntu 9.10) is rearing to make a go. Ubuntu 9.10 is scheduled for a release on October 29. In most articles and discussions we found Windows 7 eclipsing Ubuntu and in some instances vice-versa. With a faster boot time, and flashy enhancements Ubuntu is winning out the geeky-hearts. Windows remains the favorite OS for its simplicity of use. WIndows 7 has received optimistic reviews from testers.  In the operating system market dominated by Windows, where Mac is bent to create its own niche, Ubuntu carries the prospects for Linux. What's more, Canonical is introducing Ubuntu on mobile Internet devices MIDs, netbooks, servers and cloud system. Microsoft is already diversifying Windows 7 for netbooks and cloud systems, surely we could expect more. Clearly, both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 are complete operating system that could make for your daily desktop.  For the two blocks suipporting Windows 7 and Ubuntu here's some food for thought.

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OpenDNS is a major DNS service provider. Their ubiquitous DNS servers are used by corporations to individuals to speed up their DNS response time. The downside is that they maintain a huge DNS cache to speed up access time, which may cause delays in propagating any recent changes you have made to your DNS. There are two ways to address it: Full article (193 words) »

CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. Other than logo and name changes CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is compatible with the equivalent Red Hat version.

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Blender is popular open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D content creation. Here is how you can install Blender on CentOS 5 (enterprise version of Linux) and equivalent to RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.

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CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed. However that doesn't provide the required libraries to run Java from browsers (read: applets). Here are the steps to install and enable applets / Java plugin in Firefox browser on CentOS 5.

Note: The instructions may be applicable to other versions of CentOS, Fedora, others Linux distros too. However it has only been tested on CentOS 5.3. Full article (310 words) »