Grisbi is a personal accounting program. Grisbi can manage multiple accounts, currencies and users. It manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other informations that makes it adapted for both personal and associative accounting.
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Off Site Encrypted Backups using Rsync and AES
If you aren’t doing remote backups you are at risk. In this post we discuss the problems with incremental sync backups and encryption and how to effectively produce encrypted remote backups that are bandwidth efficient. We will leverage an existing FTP server or show you how to set one up on your friends computer so you can swap data and never have to pay for a backup service again.
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MySQL 5.4 makes debut but won't ship soon
Is it coincidental that Oracle announced its planned purchase of Sun (and its MySQL) at the start of the open source database’s annual conference this week?
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Several nice Linux Easter eggs
Although some of this stuff is old, here are some funny Easter eggs I bumped into over time.
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Review: MOC, text-based audio player
Last week I put up a short guide and review of CMus, a powerful audio player using the ncurses interface. Today I'll continue with an overview with screenshots of MOC, and hopefully in a few days I'll also review mp3blaster.
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Easy Peasy V1.1 A Quick First Look
I had to send my netbook, an Acer Aspire One, for repair after three months of use. I had installed Fedora Core 10 XFCE respin, but when sending in the unit I knew that Acer would probably re-install Windows.
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Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Intel Graphic Drivers - How to Enable Desktop Effects (Compiz)
In the new Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, Intel graphic (video) drivers 965 (x3000 or x3100) are blacklisted so you cannot run Compiz thus your desktop effects cannot be enabled. There is a way to enable desktop effects, though this is not recommended because
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9 Things You Need To Do/Install After Installing Ubuntu 9.04
After you have downloaded and installed Ubuntu 9.04, what is next thing you should do?
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18 Features Windows Should Have (but Doesn't)
Love it or hate it, Microsoft Windows is the world's most dominant operating system.
Read more »Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) released and Download Now
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop and Server editions and Ubuntu Netbook Remix, continuing Ubuntu's tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
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Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 will Ship on Time This Week
The Mozilla Foundation says it is still on track to release Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 sometime later this week despite the lack of a firm release date.
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Taking LXDE For a Test Drive
There are a lot of contenders in the ring when it comes to open source desktop environments. I’d been hearing more and more about a new challenger for the lightweight crown, LXDE. Can it stack up against the likes of Window Maker, Enlightenment, and Openbox?
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Six Levels Of Linux Customization
I’ve noticed that if you spend any time investigating the benefits of using Linux you will undoubtedly run across a few people commenting on how customizable it is. A person can tweak their desktop to make it look and behave to their precise liking.
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Music Notation Software for Linux: a Progress Report, Part 2
In this article, I conclude my status report on the development of some of the most active notation software projects for Linux.
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Xubuntu 9.04: Where’s the beef?
It’s hard to see the point of Xubuntu. Most of the polish and new features Canonical comes up with are reserved for Ubuntu itself, and I feel that side projects like Xubuntu and Kubuntu just can’t keep up.
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