There are many GUI based CD rippers available for the Linux desktop. While many of these applications do a great job of ripping, I like to understand the underlying technology. For that reason, I decided to figure out how to rip CD's from the command line.

Think you all knew this already, the c-korn/vlc ppa has been removed by the author himself. You can't live without PPAs in Ubuntu especially for most downloaded apps like VLC. Guys at LFFL have made a dedicated PPA for VLC. I just gave it a try and it worked awesome.

It is advertised as a system for beginners, experienced users and ultra-geeks and on the basis that nearly everyone can fit into one of those categories, this should be a pleasant experience.

In past articles our Android sample application GUIs have consisted of a simple button or two and the corresponding click-handler code. What if some of those buttons are only supposed to be available under specific device conditions? Examples include providing a button only when a connection to a remote Bluetooth peripheral has been established or some other specific device condition.

Dan Kegel released winetricks 20100904 today.

lots of little fixes. New verbs comdlg32.ocx, vcrun2010, Winetrickstest really paid off this time... it caught three problems before release.

Troubled with lost Windows password? Replace Windows password logon with fingerprint logon. This article intrudes you some basic knowledge about fingerprint logon on Windows 7.

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Ubuntu 10.04. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.

A powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync tool.. .