service command in ubuntu

Redhat, Fedora and CentOS users and server administrators uses service * start/stop/restart/status command. Where as Ubuntu users and server administrators uses /etc/init.d/* start/stop/restart.

With Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 Ubuntu users can also use the service command to start/stop/restart the Ubuntu services.

Hope this make the Redhat and other administrators little homely while using Ubuntu :P.

The End: 150 Great Climactic Movie Moments

NOTE: Naturally, in a story like this, there's going to be SPOILERS. So consider yourself warned, but still, don't be scared away... I got to thinking about movie endings the other day. I was watching George Roy Hill's A Little Romance again and noticing how my heart beats faster as it barrels towards its conclusion, even though I've seen it a hundred times. There's that race against time,

The End: 150 Great Climactic Movie Moments

NOTE: Naturally, in a story like this, there's going to be SPOILERS. So consider yourself warned, but still, don't be scared away... I got to thinking about movie endings the other day. I was watching George Roy Hill's A Little Romance again and noticing how my heart beats faster as it barrels towards its conclusion, even though I've seen it a hundred times. There's that race against time,

Change folder background

It is easy to customize color or pattern in folder background. I use Ubuntu, Gnome and Nautilus. To put any particular color or pattern as a background follow the following steps.

1. In Nautilus go to Edit -> Background and Emblems
   
2. You will see patterns. Drag any one of them to put it as pattern. To reset drag the pattern on top left corner with reset text.
3. If you want to put particular color go to colors tab and drag any one of them.

Dark October Mornings

Last year the US Congress made a change in daylight savings time. Rather than end in October it now carries into November. The effect of this is that mornings are dark in October, making it hard to get up and get going. On the other hand, it makes it much easier to see the morning sky and in the coming days it's going to be noteworthy.

Sunrise is happening this week at 7:30 which means that up until 6:45 or so, the sky is dark enough to see stars and planets. The diagram shows where to look for the Moon, Saturn and even Mercury. In the Fall, the path of the planets and Moon (the ecliptic) is in a very steep line from the point of sunrise into the eastern sky. Hence Mercury will be visible just above the point where the Sun will be rising, and Saturn and the Moon in increasing distances above and to the south of Mercury.

I love to see the very old Moon in the last days of its cycle. The ever thinning crescent reflects more and more "earthshine" and glows like a jewel in the morning sky. As October comes to a close, the waning Moon on the 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th should be a striking sight as the sky begins to glow with the dawn.

Trippy, Dude: A Guide to Films Best Seen in an Altered State

Ideally, when we succumb to a film, we’re giving ourselves over completely to it. We ask it to take us away to another place, another time, away from where we might be in our lives. When the lights dim in a theater or a den, we hope the trip on which we’re about to embark will lead to unabashedly spiritual or physical changes in our bodies. In that way, movies certainly resemble drugs,

Trippy, Dude: A Guide to Films Best Seen in an Altered State

Ideally, when we succumb to a film, we’re giving ourselves over completely to it. We ask it to take us away to another place, another time, away from where we might be in our lives. When the lights dim in a theater or a den, we hope the trip on which we’re about to embark will lead to unabashedly spiritual or physical changes in our bodies. In that way, movies certainly resemble drugs,