«Three years after its last major release, Rockbox 3.0 is now available. This popular app is a great open source solution for replacing the firmwear on many types of portable media players including Sansa, iRiver, Archos, and iPod.»
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Plug and Run Fedora on a TOSHIBA A300D laptop, Part II
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In the following story I will explain you how I made to work my laptop with Fedora. No, not my opinion or expectations of it but how I made it to work, what were my difficulties and how I solved them.
At the previous part of the article I talked about the perfect symbiosis of my new laptop and Fedora.
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How to Install Skype 2 on 64-bit Ubuntu
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Skype is software that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service and to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.
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Ubuntu's BulletProofX Takes Simpler Step Forward
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Introduced in Ubuntu 7.10 was a feature known as BulletProofX, which provides a fail-safe mode that is by default used when the X server fails to properly initialize. In this original implementation, it would default back to using the VESA display driver with 256 colors and then proceed to run the displayconfig-gtk utility.
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Switched From Ubuntu To Gentoo!
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Ubuntu has served me well for a few months, I think it was April when I started using it. I have to say Ubuntu is one of my favorite Linux distributions. It’s great for people who are new to Linux or have been using Windows for a long time and want to try out something different or more reliable.
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Sphinx: Open Source Speech Recognition
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Have you been frustrated with speech recognition software in the past? I've used the top proprietary products, such as IBM's ViaVoice and Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking in the past. I've found limited good uses for them, but they're not entirely accurate, and they're reasonably expensive.
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Where Do YOU Send Netbook Users For Help?
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As a Linux evangelist, I find myself in an interesting quandary. There are many new netbooks being sold with Linux pre-installed, but often the way Linux is installed is not what I’m used to seeing. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. I understand the reasoning for custom interfaces, but it has some disadvantages.
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DIRECTV Scores Points in the Linux Community
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Unlike NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games, DIRECTV customers who have the NFL Sunday Ticket SuperFan viewing package can now watch live football games on computers running Linux.
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Simple dual monitor setup with XrandR in Ubuntu
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«This article will be a quick tutorial on how to set up a dual monitor display system on GNU/Linux with the XrandR program.»
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Canonical Provides A Solution to A Frequent Misconception
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For a number of reasons, Linux is significantly different from other operating systems. One of the ways in which it differs is that it is free. This makes including licensed media codecs very difficult, leading to reviewer complaints such as this one which appeared a while ago in the Wall Street Journal:
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How to Install Chromium (Google chrome) in Ubuntu using deb package
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We have already discussed how to install google chrome using wine .Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. The Chromium codebase is the basis for Google’s Chrome browser.
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Video - Installing and Uninstalling Adobe AIR and Applications
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Yesterday, I reported on Adobe AIR for Linux. What I didn’t do in that post is show how to install it and applications built with AIR.
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Songbird Rocks!
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I'm not that picky when it comes to desktop audio player. Typically, I just use whatever audio player that comes with my Linux distro. As long as it plays all of my audio files (with the right plugins of course), I'm good. Until most recently, when I've tried those iTunes replacements that I wrote about a while ago, I've discovered Songbird, and it quickly became my favorite audio player.
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How to install two microsoft fonts (office 2007) ‘APA’ or ‘Turabian’?
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My daughter’s school requires her to use one of two microsoft fonts (office 2007) called ‘APA’ or ‘Turabian’. I wish to print a list fonts used by OpenOffice by name in their respective fonts. This will allow my daughter’s teacher to select the font that she will accept. I could do this in mc-Word but can not find a similar process in oo-Word.
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How to make your application appear in the Add/Remove tool (gnome-app-install)
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In order to make your application appear in the Add/Remove tool (gnome-app-install), there are two steps to make: * add a “X-AppInstall-Package” line to your .desktop * and run “update-app-install” to update the database
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