Monthly Archives: May 2011

Graphics in console

Linux uses framebuffer to show graphics in console. It is possible to see pictures or even video in console using framebuffer. In ubuntu the packages such as fbi, fbcat, mplayer etc can be used to see pictures, take screen shot and view video respectively. You need to be in any of the console by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1….6 to use these commands.

Fbi package to view pictures

The fbi package provides the framebuffer image viewer.

sudo apt-get install fbi

sudo fbi /path…/to/image

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New host, New look

If you are seeing this post then the DNS cache of your ISP is already updated and you are started to accessing mutexes from my new host. I was hosting this site in one of my friends server. He is very helpful and he gave me the hosting account along with jail shell access. But I decided to move on and host it with a professional hosting company, so that I don’t need to worry about any down time. All the technical issues will become the head ache of their support person. Hope you noticed, I changed the look and feel of the site. It now runs on WordPress default theme with some customization. It is simple and good looking. I liked it, hope the same with you.

I was not doing much or, can say no work on this blog for a long time. My shift schedules are not giving me much free/convenient time to write blog posts. But I decided to get some time and add new technical posts, so that readers will be benefited. You will for sure start to see new technical stuff here in near future.  Thats for now. Enjoy your life and opensource :-)

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