So, we now know our way around the Unix filesystem now and we know how to read, move or delete files. We also know how to ask for help if we’re stuck. This post in the Unix 101 series will teach you about file permissions.
We’ve been talking about Unix being a multi-user, multiprocessing system, but we haven’t really though of security yet, have we ? I mean, if there are several users using a system at the same time, your personal data can’t be safe, right ?
Wrong !
The designers of …

My favorite mountain resort in India is most definitely Gulmarg. Like Barney (from How I met…) would say… Gulmarg’s beauty is LEGENDARY.
Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir is the nearest Airport and Gulmarg is about 2 hours from Srinagar.
It’s proximity to Srinagar makes it easily accessible and visitors flock from far and near to take in its splendor. The journey to Gulmarg is half the attraction of reaching there, in any season. In the summer the sight of the rolling hills sprinkled with wild flowers makes Gulmarg look like …

Muxtape, the widly popular and short lived service which that let users create virtual mixtapes, is coming back … in a different avatar.
The site was pulled down after the RIAA sent the owner, Justin Ouellette a notice, just about a month after the launch. Muxtape already had an impressive 1 millon or so page views in the short month or so that the site was online. In a lengthy blog post on the site’s homepage, founder Justin Ouellette writes about all the legal hassles he’s been having and about his fight …

The GNOME foundation has released the new version of the GNOME Desktop environment, version 2.24. 
This release features a lot of bug fixes, performance improvements and new software.
This is also the first release of the GNOME mobile platform which is already a part of the various Linux based mobile device platforms such as Ubuntu Mobile, Moblin, Maemo and others.
The GNOME desktop focusses on ease of use, stability, internationalisation and good accessibility support and the new release only goes to prove the commitment of the developers behind this awesome piece of software. 
Version 2.24 includes …

Welcome to the second edition of the Friday Linkfest. A week sure passes by quickly ! This post is to share with you guys some of the cool stuff that we’ve been reading here at NomadicRider. 
Open Source
16 Free tutorials for top open source applications
OStatic’s firefox superguide
Old and evergreen posts from OStatic. Lots of good stuff there.
GNOME 2.24 released 
The latest and greatest release of the Open Source GNOME Desktop. Read the release notes for a glimpse of all the cool stuff the GNOME people have lined up for us.
The browser arms …