Article about 10 audio and video players for KDE, including Amarok, Kaffeine, or KPlayer.
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Ubuntu Photo Manager Experiment
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I have a passion for photography and have become heavily entrenched in the tools available on Mac OS X, such as Aperture and Photoshop. This experiment focuses mainly on Aperture and what tools, if any, exist for Ubuntu to replace my Aperture workflow with something cross-platform and open-source that I can use on Mac OS X and Ubuntu.
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Reminder: Physical access = Root access
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Today I needed to reset a password on an Ubuntu system. While doing this, I was reminded of just how simple it is to get root access on a default install of Ubuntu. I wanted to share these steps on this blog to remind people that if someone has physical access to your Ubuntu system, they can get root access in just a few seconds.
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Firefox developers shrink desktop apps
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ONE OF THE DRIVING forces behind the development of FireFox is shorely the developer crowd and its never-ending ability to write new add-ons for the browser contender.
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Linux examined: OpenSUSE 11.0
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A few weeks ago, the OpenSUSE Project announced the release of OpenSUSE 11.0, the "community" edition of SUSE Linux, Novell's commercial Linux distribution. Like most recent distributions, OpenSUSE is made up of the usual suspects, including GNOME and KDE-based desktops, Live CD and full DVD installation options, and an online repository of software that can be installed using a GUI tool.
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Configuring Synergy2 to Share Keyboard, Video and Mouse
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we’re going to show you how to share keyboard, mouse, and video (click for short demonstration) between multiple desktop computers, using different Operating Systems with a free Open Source program called Synergy2.
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See the future of Ubuntu ... plus an editorial on Debian
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Canonical just announced the release of Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS, the first "point release" after April's initial release of the GNU/Linux distribution's latest long-term-support edition.
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Ubuntu Kung Fu
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New PDF and Paper book with over 300 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for working with Ubuntu. Here's a link to a PDF with excerpts: http://media.pragprog.com/titles/ktuk/excerpts.pdf
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Have linux, will travel
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I had a look around at the state of the art in Linuxes that boot from USB and I come across a little gem: DSL USB Embedded. DSL is Damn Small Linux and is an old 2.4 kernel and 50 megabytes of applications, a minimal system with hand-picked useful apps.
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Flashblock - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Flashblock is an extension [...] that prevents Macromedia Flash "movies" from automatically playing when a web page is first loaded. Flashblock is primarily used to prevent banner ads that play audio or video from starting, but also to reduce load time of banner-filled pages..." --
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
* http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
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Why I Am Leaning Toward Debian
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I am looking at various options for a Linux distribution these days. Some of them I discussed in my previous post on how to choose a Linux distribution. I also discussed CentOS. Here I would like to point out some factors why I am leaning toward Debian.
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Top 4 New Feature Proposed for Fedora 10
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Since I have been writing about Ubuntu a lot recently, I thought I would look at some proposed features for Fedora 10. No features have been officially approved yet, so these are just proposals.
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Howto Install VirtualBox 1.6 in Ubuntu 8.04(Hardy Heron) including USB Support
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VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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For those "oops" moments: ext3undel
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The rm command can be a powerful tool for deleting data -- until you delete the wrong files or directories. Thankfully, the ext3undel utility can recover accidently removed data on ext3 filesystems.
Read more »Canonical and Valusoft bring Ubuntu plus support to Best Buy
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If you walk into a BestBuy this week you may spot some new software peeking out from the shelves. Yes, Ubuntu is now available as a spiffy boxed set in stores and on-line.
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