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Thanks to Mozilla Labs Prism you can now split your web applications out of your browsers and run them directly on your desktop.
This is an example about how to run Google Reader directly on your Ubuntu desktop.

1. Download Prism for Linux from here.
2. Extract it to where you want.
3. Then double click and run the prism executable or run it through your favourite shell.
4. Fill the details according to the screen shot.
5. Enter the Google account and password and tick remember this account if you want. It will load the reader.
   
6. Then when you want to run the Google Reader you can simply click the icon on your desktop and run it.

Labels: firefox, linux, prism, ubuntu

When it comes to memory management in operating systems, the buzz words you hear are swapping and paging. You will learn why this swapping and paging is important in your OS introduction course, or may be you hear it from some friend or read about it in a article. When you become more mature in operating systems you will learn about algorithms and various approaches used in memory management. When it comes to installing Linux you will always have to create a swap partition (I think most of the Linux distribution need swap), or if you use guided partitioning installer will automatically create partitions for you. In the following article published in Linux.com you will found most of the details about Linux swap and purpose of the swap space.

All about Linux swap space [Linux.com]

Labels: linux, memory management, swap

I started a new project to make fun in my free time and to learn python more deeply. So I start to develop TCP Monitor using Python for Linux platform. I was able to write simple fort forwarding program which will forward requests coming for a localhost port to remote port and I was able to make it multi threaded with the help of following code samples from ASPN.

• Port forwarding
• Asynchronous port forwarding

After that I tried to create GUIs using PyGTK and Glade. After some time I felt some uneasiness using glade and PyGTK. It gave some errors while using notebook control in PyGTK. So I moved to use PyGTK without Glade with the help of PyGTK tutorial available in PyGTK project site.
I think PyGTK is cool solutions for those who have problems while making GUIs with GTK+ in C. Because writing GUIs using C is a pain. But PyGTK will make your life easier.

Some Tutorials for PyGTK with Glade

• Creating a GUI Using PyGTK and Glade
• Building an Application with PyGTK and Glade
• PyGTK with Glade
• More Tutorials from learningpython.com

Labels: gtk, linux, programming, pygtk, python