If you want a more human readable Disk Usage stats while using linux, add the following script to your .bashrc

alias duf='du -sk * | sort -n | perl -ne '\''($s,$f)=split(m{\t});for (qw(K M G)) {if($s<1024) {printf("%.1f",$s);print "$_\t$f"; last};$s=$s/1024}'\'

You should add it under User specified Functions and aliases. When you are done with it this is what you will see when you type duf in your terminal.

There is one thing that is very noticeable about Google+ and that is the way it is evolving. When it first came in it had nothing very special so as to take Social Networking giant Facebook . But recently some very cool and clean looking features has been incorporated into Google+.

In the first screenshot you can see that there is a new navigation UI in Google+, just click the Google+ logo and you will get all the options such a profile page, Search, Images, Maps, Youtube, News, Gmail,Documents etc.

It might prove a very decisive move from Google+ to incorporate all the existing services that are being used by millions into Social Networking realm.The switch seems perfectly clean and everything works like wonders.

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Also in the next one we can see that a very portable YouTube player incorporated in the right, Just search in your favorite artist/band and it will be lined up in a convenient playlist. So you can actually use the Netflix kind of services for free and in many cases more better.

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This is the latest addition in Google+, a brand new share button so that you can update your status, add pics or whatever you wish even if u are using any of the Google services like gmail.

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So Looking at the new features we can definitely predict that future seems bright for Google+ and though the growth is slow, it might be a steady and long lasting one.

Hello everyone! Most of you must have faced some problems regarding your wireless drivers and it might not be working properly or working at all. Here is a quick guide how you can sort out this problem. The error must have been device not ready-firmware missing.

The guide is as follows: Download the drivers from this link http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2.

Now to need to extract the file.For that you need to go to directory where the file is downloaded. Open your terminal and type cd /home/username/Downloads and then type tar -xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2.When you type this command what it does is that all the content of the tarball gets extracted in the same directory the tarball is. Now get into Superuser shell because you will be needing full rights.For this you can type su -- and followed by root passwd if you are using fedora and alikes. If using Ubuntu/mint/ type sudo -s and then followed by passwd. You will get into root shell and will get # instead of $. Now you need to change the directory to the extracted drivers. For this type cd /home/username/Downloads/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/ Finally you need to extract all the drivers to the relevant directory.For this type : #b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta_mimo.o Now restart your system and guess what you can use your wifi without any hitch.