Linux | ~TECH-BYTES~

~TECH-BYTES~

Your Favorite BYTE of Technology!!!

Author :-

Hit counter

Listed in:-

~TECH-BYTES~ does not claim copyright over any images seen on this site besides the ones we have created ourselves. If you own any of these images and do not want them displayed then please Email

Apr 21

How To: Reset forgotten root password

Posted by Vaibhav Gera in linuxNo Comments »

DISCLAIMER — I do not take any responsibility for your actions if you go and try this on your friends machine!!

Reboot the system and when lilo/grub boot loader get to the point where you select the various installed kernels on the system, type the letter “a” for “append”.
You will get a prompt like this to add boot options to the boot string found in your lilo/grub conf file: Continue reading »

Aug 25

Linux users, you can video chat too!

Posted by Vaibhav Gera in gmail, gtalk, linuxNo Comments »

If you’ve been wanting to use voice and video chat on Linux (our top video chat request), then we have good news for you: it’s now available! Visit gmail.com/videochat to download the plugin and get started. Voice and video chat for Linux supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon.

Jun 20

open SUSE 11.0 released...

Posted by Vaibhav Gera in linux1 Comment »

Mar 30

Macbook Air Hacked in Under 2 Minutes,Linux becomes only OS to escape

Posted by Vaibhav Gera in apple, hack, linux, mac, vistaNo Comments »

After a week full of Red Bulls, Fruit by the Foot and dreams of In-N-Out, the mighty Sony VAIO loaded with Linux stood as the only machine unhacked by the end of the PWN 2 OWN hacking contest at CanSecWest.

Feb 23