Quake like terminal emulator(not quite what you think)
· โ˜• 3 min read · โœ๏ธ noel
Everyone who has used the GNU/Linux terminal knows it is a force to be reckoned with. However, itโ€™s a pain to have to launch a terminal emulator wait for a it to load, and then have to keep Alt-Tabbing to it. That’s why quake like terminal emulators exists. For those of you who don’t know what a quake like terminal is, let’s clear it up first. Quake is a popular first person shooter created by id software.

Hunt for the perfect operating system
· โ˜• 5 min read · โœ๏ธ noel
Last week one of my hard drive failed. At that time I was dual booting XP & Ubuntu from that drive, so I lost my bootloader grub. I installed ubuntu on my other drive. Howerver, I have 512 mb ram in my pc. Ubuntu was running good but at times it seemed slow & the issues with my graphic card(intel 82845g/gl Brookedale) & linux has, worsened my situation. Because of my graphic card Ubuntu crashed alot.

Automatically mount NTFS partition on boot
· โ˜• 3 min read · โœ๏ธ noel
To mount ntfs partitions we need to specify where we want to mount those partitions. By default, when you mount any partition/plug in any flash drive/insert a cd, it is mounted in /media/ directory. So we’ll create a directory in /media/. Step 1 : Create directories sudo mkdir /media/directory name replace “directory name” with the name of the directory you want to create. I want to create a directory named data, so I will….