Archive for January, 2010

Hi friends,
Recently i came to know about the method to add a context menu entry in the nautilus window manager. By using that we can easily add music files to the playlist, instead of drag them and add to the list.
Initially you should have nautilus-actions-config package. Here we go

1.open the terminal and type

nautilus-actions-config
it ll open a window.

2. In that click add, it will open a new action window.

3. In that, specify the following things:

label: add to playlist
tool tip: add to totem playlist
icon: /usr/share/pixmaps/totem.xpm
path: totem
Parameters: –enqueue %M

3.then in the conditions tab
Filenames: *.mp3
MIME type: audio/*

4.then in advanced conditions tab,
select local files option.

save that action and close the terminal and reboot the system.

Cheers,
Dharanitharan.A

Hi friends,
Today i installed LAMP in my UBUNTU 9.10. LAMP in the sense Linux, Apache web server, Mysql database and scripting languages like Python,PHP,Perl. LAMP is a web application development stack. Before this i used LAMP in Fedora. When i typed the same commands to start mysql service and apache service in UBUNTU 9.10, i found that those commands did not work at all. So i tried to google it and came with the following information. Here are the commands to start the Mysql,Apache2 server:

1.First you should login as root, by typing
su –
then give your root password

2.Then to start mysql:

/etc/init.d/mysql start

3.Then to start apache server

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

4.To stop these services, type

/etc/init.d/apache2 stop
/etc/init.d/mysql stop

Cheers,
Dharanithara.A