When you are new to Linux you often seek to get help from others and almost most of the advices you get will be in the form of some commands such as ps, top, modprobe, lspci etc. Be careful when you run these commands as some Anti-Linux a**holes try to fool new Linux users in the name of tips and tutorials.If after following such command(s), you lose all your files, no one is to be blamed but you.
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Solving Privacy Issues in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
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One of the new features in Ubuntu 8.10 is the ability to create an encrypted directory for content you do not want others to access. Oh, by the way, did you know that anyone can read your files that are in your home directory? Here is an example of sue logged in and able to open files in mike's home directory. However, note that they are opened read-only so they cannot be changed.
Read more »Internet Explorer 7 status on Wine 1.1.7
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I thought I would see what the status of Internet Explorer 7 is in Wine 1.1.7 so I downloaded the installer from Microsoft and proceeded to try and install the Browser in current Wine. I was pleasantly surprised to get as far as I did. I was once again surprised when the browser actually came to life and started to run from the install directory.
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7 Google Tools For A Better Linux Experience
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Google has changed our lives permanently, no one can deny it. The amount of innovation it brings to the table is almost dizzying.
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Comix - User firendly Comic book & general image viewer in openSUSE
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Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR or tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed) as well as plain image files.
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Linux Gaming Console Coming in November
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Envizions Computer Entertainment announced recently that the Linux-based EVO gaming console will be available for sale November 18.
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Newbies: 7 Useful Ubuntu Tips
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In this article we’re going to look at 7 useful tips to make your Ubuntu experience even better. This is particularly aimed at newbies, and shows you step by step how to tweak Ubuntu with some must have extras.
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3 Best Video Players for Linux: SMPlayer, VLC and Kaffeine
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SMPlayer is built in Qt4 and it uses the MPlayer engine for video playback. It's one of the most powerful applications out there for watching DVDs, and it supports plenty formats like AVI, MKV, MPG, FLV.
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Where to search Ubuntu Personal Package Archives (PPA)
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Personal Package Archives (PPA) allow you to upload Ubuntu source packages to be built and published as an apt repository by Launchpad.
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CodeWeavers software free for download today!
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— On Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, any one visiting the CodeWeavers' Web site will be given a deal code that will entitle them to one free copy of CodeWeavers' award-winning CrossOver software. Each copy comes complete with support. This is good for today only... If your interested in this offer you will need to get the deal code today.
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Easy way to get Teamspeak working in Ubuntu
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Get a second sound card! USB headsets usually got one integrated.
This might seem a little over the top but in my experience it’s really the only way that really works most of the time without using non or bad working wrappers.
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Battle for Wesnoth - Awesome Turn-Based Strategy Game
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Battle for Wesnoth is one of the most popular and played turn-based strategy (TBS) games on Linux, if not the most popular. It's a free, open-source community-driven project which has done some amazing improvements since its initial release, in 2003.
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First-Person Shooter Games for Linux II: Nexuiz and OpenArena
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Today I will continue with two other first-person shooter (FPS) games, natively available for Linux: Nexuiz and OpenArena. They both are currently maintained and the wonderful thing about them is that they all are completely open-source, free and usually available in all the major distributions.
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How to install gimp 2.6.1 on ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
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GIMP is a multi-platform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.
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CrossOver 7.1.0 for Mac and Linux released!
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Codeweavers released Crossover 7.1.0 for Linux and Mac systems, here is the full change logs for each system. While there practically the same I thought I would post both Change logs so their wouldn't be any confusion on what has changed for each platform.
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