Jackson Isaac Foss, Open Source

OSFY: Top 10 Music Players


This is my first article for Open Source For You (OSFY) magazine. Here is a raw version of the article. Those who didn't subscribe to OSFY or doesn't know about it don't worry, feel free to read the article attached in this post. This article is about the Top 10 open source music players. I … Continue reading OSFY: Top 10 Music Players

Jackson Isaac Bug Fixing, Foss, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials

Contributing to Mozilla: Building Firefox


All the coders out there, it's for some bug fixing. So let's take up Mozilla Organization and try to fix some bugs in Firefox Browser. Wouldn't it be awesome if we could contribute to our favorite browser and next time when we use it, we can be proud to say that this particular feature or … Continue reading Contributing to Mozilla: Building Firefox

Jackson Isaac Foss, Open Source, Tutorials

using line_profiler with python


This post will help you to use line_profiler for python (2.5.x) as well as python3 (python 3.x) line_profiler will help you to profile the time taken to execute each individual lines of code. The profiler is implemented in C via Cython, an optimizing static compiler for Python programming language as well as Cython programming language … Continue reading using line_profiler with python

Jackson Isaac Foss, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials

Partition Resizing: Linux


Hey bloggers and readers 🙂 This post will help you to extend your Partition on a Linux System. (Thanks to koxbox) Here I will be demonstrating how to extend / parition by shrinking the /home partition and using some of it's space (WARNING: You may lose files if not CAREFUL!) --- HINT: Backup everything before … Continue reading Partition Resizing: Linux