Now you can convert your videos in Linux, in the easiest and most straightforward way.
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Migration from Microsoft to Linux - O, the Joy
So I finally made the plunge. I've long wanted to be part of that geeky elite who broke from the crowd, stepped aside from their fellow computer lemmings and took a different plunge - not off the cliff, but into an alien and poorly understood (by the masses) computer operating system - Unix.
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Microsoft Deserves Some Credit for Reaching Out to Moonlight
Whatever you might want to say about Microsoft calling Silverlight "crossplatform" and not making a version for Linux, you have to give them credit for what they did leading up to Obama's inauguraiton.
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How To Install And Configure Cairo Dock In Ubuntu Intrepid
Cairo dock is a Mac OSX dock-like application that you can install in your Linux machine. One of the advantage that it has over other docks is that it does not require any compositing window manager to work. Even on a low-end PC, it will still work fine. This is not possible for docks like Avant Window Navigator which depends on compositing manager (such as Compiz) to function.
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Linux CD Ripping Utilities
CD Ripping with Linux doesn’t have to be the labor intensive task that it once was. No longer do we have the days of writing a hundred character command to rip a CD with the perfect options. Here are some utilities aimed at making your life of ripping your collection of CD’s to a digital format you can actually use.
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Recover Deleted Files Using Linux
One of my neighbours came to me a couple of days ago with a problem… he’d lost his CV to a windows virus and had no backup. So I said I’d try to recover the file for him. A quick google led me to Foremost. I chose foremost because it’s small, fast and easy to use.
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KDE 4.2 Review From Inside Out. Part 2: Applications
It is so good to see that a lot of work during KDE4 development went into improving the quality of the user experience. Unlike their KDE3 counterparts, the best KDE4 applications are definitely more user-oriented. Despite being a developer, I enjoy this as much as every other person would. It is equally good to see almost all KDE4 applications being fast. The optimizations behind the scene in Qt and KDE frameworks already showed up, but I think that this is only a start. We will definitely see even more performance improvements in the future.
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Mozilla Wants to Start Watching Where You Click
In an effort to better understand how people use the web, Mozilla has launched a new data gathering project for usability studies called Test Pilot. It's still just a concept, but as an aggregation model, it shows great promise.
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Access Your Linux Partitions In a Dual-Boot Environment
If you're running Linux in a dual boot or multi boot environment, chances are good there's been times when you've needed to access some or other file on your Linux partition from within windows. Luckily there's an Ext2/3 file system driver available, for free.
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Darter Ultra: Linux on a Laptop
There are a number of netbooks on the market, but I wanted to get my hands on one loaded with the Linux operating system, Ubuntu. With a number of cell phone companies switching to Linux, I think it's only a matter of time before more and more laptops, see the light. System 76 is a company that is dedicated to the Linux operating system.
Read more »Linux Recording With the MobilePre
The MobilePre is a combination microphone preamp/analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converter.
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Setting Up the Ideal Linux Desktop
Since I'm currently mulling buying another computer in the spring, I'm sharing them now. I figure that many other people share my insatiable curiosity, and, like me, can find a benefit or two by seeing how someone else approaches the task of preparing a computer to run with their favorite free operating system.
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CrunchBang Linux 8.10.02 released
The final 8.10.02 builds of CrunchBang Linux, CrunchBang Linux “Lite” and CrunchEee are now available. The new releases contain numerous changes and many fixes provided by the CrunchBang community.
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Linux tablet emerges from blogosphere
Technology blog site TechCrunch has prototyped a WiFi-enabled tablet PC device that runs Linux. The "Crunchpad" is equipped with a Via Nano processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB flash, and a 12-inch, 1024x768 touchscreen, and appears to be aimed at Web-curious couch potatoes.
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Shorten Linux Boot Time with Services
The patience of today’s computer user is low. Time is, very much, of the essence. And for some reason that adage applies in spades to Linux computer and Linux server boot times. Although less than 1 or 2 minutes doesn’t seem like an eternity, when booting a computer it is.
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