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Near-final Firefox 3.6 out for testing

http://news.cnet.com

The new version includes Personas, which lets people customize the browser's appearance; blocks third-party software from encroaching on its file system turf to increase stability; and perhaps most significantly given the competitive threat from Google Chrome, shortens start-up time and improves responsiveness and JavaScript performance.

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How to Restore grub in ubuntu remix 9.10 karmic koala

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I recently installed Windows 7 on my laptop which already had ubuntu remix installed in it.The problem i faced was, the GRUB was lost. But i had trouble getting your GRUB boot loader since the process of restoring GRUB has changed.Follow these instructions to restore your GRUB.

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What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?

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Looking back at my career and life as a programmer, there were plenty of different ways I improved my programming skills - reading code, writing code, reading books, listening to podcasts, watching screencasts and more.

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Banish mouse pointer on emacs

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"In ratpoison and stumpwm, there's a 'banish' command that exiles the mouse pointer to a corner of the screen. It's quite useful when you don't want the mouse to distract you or clobber the text you are writing [...] emacs has a more sophisticated way to do it..."

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The best Linux desktop search tools

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Tools such as grep, find and awk have often come to the rescue of gleeful Bash-mongers searching for files buried beneath gigabytes of other items. But when a typical Linux distro takes up a couple of gigs of disk space, it's not hard to imagine that finding your files will only become trickier over time.

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Make a paper Tux Linux penguin in less than 15 minutes!!

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It is not enough to be a real Linux Geek, if you really want to impress then you must have a Linux mascot in your apparment.. This image tells how to make tux linux penguin in less than 15 minutes.

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Ubuntu, the Manual Project

https://wiki.ubuntu.com

A complete beginners manual for Ubuntu, featuring comprehensive guides, How Tos and information on anything you need to know after first installing Ubuntu.

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Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting...

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I think, to most people, scripting is a lot like obscenity. I can't define it, but I'll know it when I see it. Here are some common memes floating around

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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx’s Social Networking Features

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Social media and social networking are huge now-a-days, with Twitter, Facebook and the like being hugely successful at keeping friends and family in touch. Now only that, but social networks are huge for charities, with many causes being supported and heavily promoted via social networking.

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Linux is the perfect choice for many people

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Leave a 10 year old alone for an hour by himself on the family PC and I will say with almost 100% certainty that their will be spyware and viruses on that computer!

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How To List The Installed Packages on a Debian Based System

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In this tutorial I'm going to show how to list the installed packages on a Debian based operating system, (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Sidux, CrunchBang, etc.) I got this gem of a command line one-liner from the Sidux website.

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How To Create a Public Share on Samba

http://beginlinux.com

The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to set up a public share on your Samba server that can be used by everyone on your network with all rights. This will enable everyone on a Windows machine to access this without a password. Of course, this has security implications but it is a good way to get something working.

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How to save Photos and Video from Webcam in Ubuntu / Debian Linux : Cheese

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Cheese is a very good Utility for the GNOME Desktop which used for take photos, videos, and anything else you can think of with your webcam.

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Keryx: Portable, Cross-Platform Offline Package Manager For Ubuntu / Debian

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Keryx is a portable, open source and cross-platform package manager for APT-based (Ubuntu, Debian) systems. It provides a graphical interface for gathering updates, packages, and dependencies for offline computers. It is similar to "Sushi, huh?", but easier to use and with a nice GUI.

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How to Setup Yum and Yum Plugins in Fedora 12

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Like apt in Debian /Ubuntu , Fedora uses yum to install and update its softwares from Internet. When connected to the internet it will automatically determine application dependencies.

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