Imagine being able to open any Web page on your server in OpenOffice.org, edit it, and save the changes back to the server by pressing the Save button. It may sound too good to be true, but that's exactly what the ODF@WWW project is set to achieve.
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Lightweight GNOME alternative emerges
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A fast, fast-booting, implementation of GNOME aimed at netbooks and older hardware has emerged, and shows "a lot of promise." LXDE has already stacked up a heap of distribution partners.
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Portrait: Michelle Murrain lives the open source lifestyle
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Michelle Murrain is a great example of what the FOSS community is all about. She's complicated: she calls herself a "scientist turned technologist turned theologian turned writer," all blended into one person. She's also an active supporter of and contributor to open source software projects.
Read more »How to Set WinAmp equalizer presets in Banshee 1.2
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The Winamp equalizers presets are the best equalizer settings I have found. The following guide will get the default WinAmp presets working under Banshee 1.2.
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Wired-Marker Highlights Text on Web Pages
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Firefox extension Wired-Marker permanently highlights text on web pages. Unlike web-based highlighters or offline options like previously-mentioned Scrapbook, Wired-Highligher is a hybrid of online and offline highlighting.
Read more »Get Your Webcam Working with GSPCA
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Webcams are notorious for their lack of support under Linux. But thanks to GSPCA, many webcams now have functional V4L drivers. This tutorial covers the building, installation, and configuration of the GSPCA drivers, including how to adjust color balance and brightness directly at the kernel module level.
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gOS 3.0 goes Gadget crazy
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gOS today announced release 3 of its Google-oriented consumer Linux distro, adding support for Google Gadgets. gOS 3 Gadgets offers access to more than 100,000 iGoogle and Google Gadgets, says the company, and also preloads WINE 1.0 and the LXDE (Lightweight X Desktop Environment) desktop.
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Mozilla reveals the Firefox of the future?
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Mozilla has unveiled a spectacular new concept browser, dubbed Aurora. The bleeding-edge browser is part of a new Mozilla Labs initiative, in which the open-source foundation is encouraging people to contribute ideas and designs for the browser of the future.
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Create an Encrypted Private Directory with eCryptfs
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eCryptfs is a kernel-native crypographic filesystem. It's also a stacked filesystem, eCryptfs must work on top of another filesystem such as Ext3. This means that you don't need to allocate space for eCryptfs, it will grow and shrink as you add files to it.
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Spotlight on FireFTP, an FTP client for Firefox
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Boasting over 6,800,000 downloads and counting, this add-on creates a full featured FTP client within Firefox that rivals standalone applications such as Filezilla or SmartFTP. This add-on is maintained regularly, with a few critical bug fixes released just last week.
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Desktop search comparison: Beagle vs. Tracker, part 2
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Yesterday I discussed Beagle and Tracker with regards to their preferences settings, the time to index a collection of both HTML and PDF files, and how to extract information from individual files. In this article I'll go over the interfaces used to submit queries and the syntax used for complex queries for both projects.
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Howto Check Wireless link quality in Ubuntu Linux
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Iwspy is used to set a list of addresses to monitor in a wireless network interface and to read back quality of link information for each of those. This information is the same as the one available in /proc/net/wireless : quality of the link, signal strength and noise level.
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Upgrading VirtualBox and Virtualizing the Ubuntu 8.10 Alphas
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If you're upgrading from the version of VirtualBox you get from Ubuntu 8.04's repository to the latest version from Sun, there are a few issues that could trip you up. I was doing this recently in order to run the latest Ubuntu alpha releases in a virtual machine, more on that in the second half of this post.
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Record your desktop with Linux tools
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You can capture video of all of the amazing things happening on your desktop with one of Linux's many screencasting applications. These programs are perfect for creating demonstrations for blogs and tutorials, and for illustrating projects with more than just still images.
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How To Install The Zimbra Desktop Email Client On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
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This article shows how you can install the Zimbra Desktop email client on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) desktop. Zimbra Desktop is a full-fledged replacement for email clients such as Outlook or Evolution, offering email, contacts, calendar, documents, tasks, etc. You can use it in conjunction with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) or any other email account that supports POP3 or IMAP.
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