When it comes to playing music in Linux, Amarok is one of the best audio players out there. It offers almost everything you need, from a clean, intuitive interface to a range of useful scripts. You can even put it on a server and give it a Web interface.
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Creating Snort Rules with EnGarde
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There are already tons of written Snort rules, but there just might be a time where you need to write one yourself. You can think of writing Snort rules as writing a program. They can include variables, keywords and functions.
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Doing it with style: bringing more bling to GTK with OpenGL
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At FOSSCamp in October, skilled eye-candy expert Mirco Müller (also known as MacSlow) hosted a session about using OpenGL in GTK to bring richer user interfaces to desktop Linux applications.
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Tips for Emacs Power Users
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"...Emacs is the world’s best text editor. It’s not just the best for editing program source; it’s the best for any kind of text-editing. Mastering Emacs will make you more effective at writing and editing email, documentation drafts, blogs, HTML pages, XML files, and virtually everything else that requires any typing..."
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Firefox 3 Beta 2 now available for download
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"...Firefox 3 Beta 2 is now available for download. This is the tenth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso..."
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Audit your Cisco router's security with Nipper
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While recently talking with a fellow network admin, I learned about Nipper. While there are many tools available to perform security audits of network devices, Nipper is unique. Let me show you why.
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GStreamer brings HTML5 video support to GTK/WebKit
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The GTK port of the WebKit HTML rendering engine has gained support for the HTML5 video element. The media backend, which uses GStreamer, was implemented by Pierre-Luc Beaudoin of Collabora. Developer Alp Toker integrated the backend with GTk/WebKit's Cairo graphics pipeline, making it possible for the video content to be embedded in SVG and manipulated with CSS and JavaScript.
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Bore a Hole! Three Methods for Tunneling your Connections
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Sometimes, you just need to break through a troublesome gateway. Or perhaps you need to test a connection from a remote location. If you’re like most geeks, though, there’s already ample reason to do any of this — because you can.
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Which Linux is "more" Linux?
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Is GNU/Linux RedHat Linux? Is it Ubuntu Linux? Mandriva? If one visits one of many a Linux distro community forum, you will hear countless accolades for that distros version or presentation of Linux and you will see many derisions of other distros in the forums.
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Canonical Releases Version 1.0 of Bazaar Version Control Tool for Efficient Developer Collaboration
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LONDON, December 14, 2007 -- Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu and Bazaar projects, today announced the general availability of Bazaar 1.0, a version control system enabling multiple, distributed developers to contribute to software projects independently in a controlled, managed way.
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Top FOSS security vulnerabilities
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Palamida, the San Francisco company that helps companies to audit their use of open source software, has released a list of what it calls "the top five most overlooked open source vulnerabilities." To this list, Palamida has added an additional five vulnerabilities exclusively for Linux.com.
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Apricot Open Game
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Starting February 1st 2008, a small team of again the best 3D artist and developers will develop a game jointly with the on-line community.
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Aleutia PC is Power Efficient But I Don’t See The Market
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The Aleutia is a small desktop PC that is powered by a roll-up solar panel and uses just 8W. It comes with Puppy Linux, a small Linux distributions that is designed for older hardware.
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Glipper: Clipboard Management for GNOME
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One of the things that has annoyed me most about GNOME as I've played with it lately is the lack of a clipboard manager comparable to Klipper on KDE. However, as I was looking for a package in Synaptic, I managed to come across a program that does the job quite well: Glipper.
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ClarkConnect: Turns an Average PC into a Powerful Network Server
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Ever wondered if it’s possible to get a full-featured server for your network that provides all the popular daemons (apache, mysql, ftp, mail, samba)? How about acting as a gateway at the same time by offering a secure firewall, intrusion detection and prevention rules, traffic shaping and bandwidth monitoring tools? Well, it is possible but unfortunately the time to install all of this takes an overwhelmingly long time - about 30 minutes.
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