Silence the console

Well, at times, its very much annoying to hear the console beep from a Linux terminal. Sometimes, it is very untimely. For example, you might be stuck at some command and might press a tab. If there is no possible completion, terminal beeps. Its more like your leg is stuck between tracks when the train is approaching and you are desperately trying to escape. Then the guard standing near you blows his whistle and asks you to get of from the track fast, without trying to help you. Anyway, Here is how you disable it

For text terminals

setterm -blength 0

For graphical terminals

xset b off

And u have peace....

Chrome with built-in support for pdf

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/11/pdf-goodness-in-chrome.html
Well, I can see cloud printing really picking up. PDF is the only supported mime type for cloud printing via Google cloud. Google had earlier mentioned that it expects pdf to be De facto standard for printing documents over cloud. With their Chrome OS release expected only a few days from now, I could not see much movement in this front. But, I guess, Google's plans are very clear now. With this beta release of Chrome, others will have no way other than support pdf extensively on web. I like Google's way of doing things :)

Fedora 14 on its way!

Has Linux lost the Desktop war?

http://www.techeye.net/software/linuxs-chance-has-gone
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/207999/desktop_linux_the_dream_is_dead.html?tk=hp_new

Those are the two interesting links that I came across recently. They make the statement (rather convincingly) that the Linux has lost in the Desktop front. I look at it from a different perspective. I would say that Desktop has lost its place as a PC (personal computer).

Today, we can clearly see that Desktops are rapidly getting replaced with smart phones and MIDs. And, what are the two most interesting players in that domain? Though a subject of argument, Android is surely one of the forerunners for the title. Next, look at the cloud computing. Though in RC stage, Google chrome OS has made generated enough buzz among the tech community. I am sure that with the weight of Google behind these two distributions, Linux will stay close to you though the Desktop might not!

http://www.documentfoundation.org

http://www.documentfoundation.org

Its only today I saw this. I am currently downloading this. Good move considering the way Oracle is going now. I am just waiting to see bytecodelangfoundation.org :)