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Run netstat --numeric --numeric-ports --program | grep ^tcp To list them, this'll also show the port via which they're connected...

Tired of QT related UI bugs in libreoffice[kde]? In the same libreoffice build, you can force the GTK UI as such -  OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=g...

Nokia 7210's screen size is 320x240 and supports the same video resolution (don't know about the max and the mins yet). It can ...

Pioneer DV-610AV dvd players support xvid/divx/mpeg4 in avi container with mp3 audio. It can stand a max resolution of 700x700. Winff pres...

If you believe the online reviews, t his earphone has a fantastic base, good noise isolation and is great value for money. Considering ...

I'm writing here to share my personal experience with both these technologies; although there are a lot of scientific claim and tests s...

Nokia has only a history of good phones but no future. The mighty N72 plays quiet a large no. of resolutions for it's screen resolutio...

Like with most other mobile devices, these 2 phones supports MPEG-4 Part 2 streams (xvid vtag) with aac audio in mp4 container. Guru...

This device plays MPEG-4 Part 2 streams (xvid vtag) with mp3 in an avi container. Limit the resolution to 320x240, otherwise the audio/...

Recently I'd face a problem with KDE + pulseaudio. On reboot, the volume would reset every time to maximum and the headphone volume redu...

The law and companies openly claim that piracy does no good; the opinion of the companies is bound to be obvious since they're co...

If you have a SBS (side by side)/polarized/3d video, and you want to get the 3d effect without owning a 3d monitory (capable of producing po...

Even if you have all the firmware installed, things wont work out of the box. You have to install linux-2.6.39 and xserver-xorg-video-inte...

There're no mags or tech news websites which point out to major issues in WP7; they just point out trivial ones. With an intention to ...

Apart form changing the binary location, there is a workaround for this bug, in custom mplayer options set - -vid -1 And everything sho...

The Debian installer has a bad habit of marking packages 80% of packages as manually installed which causes a horrible dependency issue. ...

I found this in the ffmpeg man pages; 99% users thing this's not possible, but it is possible without   calculating aspect ratio in mind...

Recently I'd downloaded all templates from templates.services.openoffice.org, so I decided to share all of them --  http://www.4shared...

To see a splash screen as you open Gentoo, you need something called the 'frame buffer'...this is basically a driver which has t...

This modem works out of the box. Just ensure to have the usb_modeswitch package installed. lspci output -  Bus 002 Device 003: ID 12d1:140...

Every wondered why does you custom kernel parameters in /etc/sysctl.conf doesn't get set on startup even after you add sysctl -p on boot...

Well, I'm disappointed. Agreed that CD/DVDs or any kind of optical media is a dying game, but it's also critical for professional/ho...

Audio technica LP120's USB interface is basically a USB audio controller integrated inside the player and it's compatible with Linux...

So we have 'tons' of computing power under our keyboards (or behind your screen or under you, depending on what sorta computer you...