A while back on this site we had mentioned about a DNS benchmarking tool called Namebench.  The Google Code project has been having some major updates since then and now lookes more jazzier and generates some lovely graphs after analysing your connection for you. The tool can be downloaded here: http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ Screenshots:
Image via Wikipedia If you are a newbie Ubuntu user then in all probability you have struggled to get the system setup to listen to your favorite music, watch your favorite movies and browse your favorite sites(video and flash). Is there a quick simple way to fix these problems in one go? Yes there is […]
Image via Wikipedia Heard a lot of wonderful reviews of the latest firefox? Want to try it out on your Ubuntu box? Well unfortunately Ubuntu does not update its Firefox packages immediately after the release. To give a good test run for the latest and best you need to add the repository for the latest […]
Imagine this situation - “you are browsing through your photos on your camera or on your your thumb drive. You decide to clean up the unwanted photos/data and start deleting files. All of a sudden you realize you deleted your best photo or that important file. How do you get the data back?” Firstly dont […]
Mencoder is an extremely powerful video converter that is capable of converting video from almost any format to any other format. One of the simplest exercises to do with Mencoder involves joining two videos to make a single video. To join the videos all you need are the videos and Mencoder installed on your system. […]