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In day to day life every man has some documents which he wants to share public with some security like printing is allowed or not, data extraction is allowed or not , etc. for this type of securities issue pdf is best. To convert .doc file (MS Word file) to .pdf file there are two simple methods: 1. SaveAsPdfandXPS : It is a Microsoft 'Add-in' in MS Word to save as word document file directly to pdf or xps. It is a exe file so you can easily install it by double clicking the file.You can access it by :     Open MS Word -> File Menu -> Save As -> Save as pdf or Xps Format So its simply convert word file to pdf file but the converted pdf file has a large file size as compare to that word file size means if you have a 87 KB file size of a word file so the converted pdf file size will be 300 KB(approx.) which is not desirable. So for my view the second method is best. 2. Primo Pdf : It is best tool to convert .doc file to .pdf file. This software add a virtu

In today's busy world every man is busy with their mundane tasks and in between he also meets so many people who creates his social world. There are so many social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, LinkedIn etc. which helps user to share every moments of their life with their dearest friends and family. In Intel AppUp Center there is a awesome app Tweet Deck for managing your social world in one single browser. Tweet Deck is available in all platforms i.e. Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone. The quick installation of Tweet Deck gives you a efficient way of browsing, its require Adobe AIR application for installation. After the installation and on first run the add accounts option will pop up or you can easily add accounts by clicking on settings button. After configuring the accounts of Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Buzz the Tweet Deck will look like this The column wise view of your social world gives you an easy access to browse and by hove

Firefox is a very good & secure browser as you all know but there some addons you must use to enhance your browsing experience. 1. WOT : WOT stands for web of trust , based on user rating it tells you the website reputation. This addon warns you about website content according to its reputation level. 2. Instant Fox : Instant Fox is very good tool for directly searching through address bar in various websites which you generally use. Like searching in g for google, i for google images , m for google maps, y for youtube, w for wiki etc. 3. Thumbnail Zoom : Thumbnail zoom is a really awesome addon it will shows the full size image when you hover over thumbnails on websites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google Images etc. 4. DownThemAll : DownThemAll is a very good download manager like IDM. It breaks the file into chunks and download them all simultaneously. 5. UnPlug : UnPlug extract all video and audio from the websites (but sometimes). You should use UnPlu

In present scenario everyone become social means everyone is on twitter, facebook, linkedin and other social networking sites. The micro-blogging applications provides a easy way to access your social world. So here comes top 3 micro-blogging applications : Tweet Deck: Tweet Deck is a famous and easy to use application for your social world. In my words tweet deck is awesome.It is based on adobe air, so you have to install adobe air first and you can easily get this from the adobe site. And yes it is available in Windows , Linux, Mac. Gwibber: Gwibber is a famous micro-blogging application in linux and provides many features. It is ubuntu deafult micro-blogging application. Pidgin: Pidgin is famous chat client which provides many chat networks and easy to use. It is available in Windows, Linux, Mac. For Gtalk configuration in pidgin read this .

For setup a PXE server there are some prerequisites like : DHCP server, TFTP server, NFS server, syslinux . Server IP Address: 192.168.1.1 1. # yum install dhcp 2. # yum install tftp-server 3. # yum install syslinux Configure the TFTP server: # chkconfig tftp on # chkconfig xinetd on # service xinetd start Configure the NFS server: # cp -ra /media/Fedora(CD) /pub # vi /etc/exports / pub    *(rw,sync) # exportfs -a # chkconfig nfs on # chkconfig portmap on # service portmap start # service nfs start Make sure /pub/Fedora(CD) must have images directory. Syslinux : # find / -name pxelinux.0   /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 # cp /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 /var/lib/tftpboot # cp /media/Fedora(CD)/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz /var/lib/tftpboot # cp /media/Fedora(CD)/images/pxeboot/initrd.img /var/lib/tftpboot # cd /var/lib/tftpboot # mkdir pxelinux.cfg # vi pxelinux.cfg/default default install label install kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img

Become root : $ sudo -i Create a folder called "creative"( or whatever folder name you like) in /usr/share/backgrounds # cd /usr/share/backgrounds # mkdir creative In this folder put those wallpapers which you want in slideshow # cd creative # ls mountain-172v.jpg rai22m.jpg sunset-109a.jpg waterfalls-3a.jpg waterscapes-14v.jpg (source: www.santabanta.com)        4. Now put this xml code into file "background.xml"(or whatever name you like) in the same creative folder. <background> <starttime> <year>2011</year> <month>06</month> <day>07</day> <hour>00</hour> <minute>00</minute> <second>00</second> </starttime> <static> <duration>1200.0</duration> <file>/usr/share/backgrounds/creative/waterscapes-14v.jpg</file> </static> <transition> <duration>4.0</duration> <from>/usr/share/backgrounds

Open terminal & become root(#) :  sudo -i  For Telnet :              1.  Install the package telnetd                           # apt-get install telnetd              2.  Now check telnet is running or not                        # nmap localhost                  The output must consist ' 23 Telnet ' .By default telnet service runs on                   23 port number.                                   If nmap is not installed , install nmap                                                # apt-get install nmap                     3. For starting or stoping the telnet service                   # /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd {start|stop|status}                                   or                   # service openbsd-inetd {start|stop|status} For Ssh :            For security reasons telnet service is not very much use. So it is  recommended to use ssh . By default ssh service runs on ubuntu if not then                   1. Install ssh