Introduction to use psyBNC, installing and managing this IRC bot to hide your IP, encrypted talks, and much more stuff. You will need your own shell account to do this.
Read more »Tesseract (Free OCR) In Ubuntu Feisty...
How to use Tesseract in Ubuntu. Scan a text image, and then convert that to a text document!
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Embedded Terminal (DevilsPie)...
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Why Does Ubuntu Suck...
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Transmission Ubuntu...
Who doesn't love bittorrent? I build a .deb package for the latest version of Transmission, the greatest torrent client for Linux available.
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Microsoft's problem is close to home (UK national broadsheet)
A blistering criticism of Windows' quality and Microsoft's strategy, from a long time Windows (and MAC) user who has now got fed up! This is in a UK major top rank newspaper:
Read more »Google Tools for Firefox
Simple Firefox tips, specially with respect to Google.
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Linux Rage Looks Likely
Surely id Software, developers of Doom and Quake, cannot seriosult be thinking about leaving Linux behind? Lead Programmer John Carmack sets the record straight.
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Adding a basket tool to OpenOffice.org
No matter whether you are working on an article, an academic paper, or a novel, research is a crucial part of the writing process. And as with any research, you need a place to save your notes, ideas, relevant links, and text snippets.
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New P2P network uses bandwidth as currency
The only real exchange between peers in a traditional peer-to-peer network is limited to the files being transferred. Tribler is a new P2P network that's introducing social networking concepts to facilitate better interactions between users. Its users will also be able to cash in on their generous uploads for faster downloads.
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Linux And Hand-Me-Down Computing
My father recently retired a 1-Ghz AMD computer with 1 Gbyte of RAM that he'd built from mail-ordered parts. He'd dropped the cash for a new Dell with Vista, which he likes quite a lot (no grousing, please, it happens), and let me have the old machine. My first move: Wipe it clean, install Linux, and prepare it for an exercise in "hand-me-down computing."
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iKog: The tiny todo manager that could
Despite its name, iKog is not a KDE application. In fact, it's not even a GUI application. iKog is a text-based todo manager that can help you to keep tabs on your tasks from the command line. Although it lacks all the bells and whistles of a full-blown GUI task manager, it's one of those tools that make a virtue of doing a limited range of tasks well.
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Dollars and CentOS 4.5: Updating Up2date
I'm at the tail end of my CentOS 4.5 install. Once again, I continue to be impressed with the Anaconda installer. It's one of the best I've seen. It gives you a lot of freedom to pick which packages you want to install. I bulked up on the KDE -- I wanted everything to be as ready as it could be when the install finished.
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Seam Carving with Gimp plugin “Liquid Rescale”
Seam Carving is perhaps the the most interesting image resizing technology out there. It works by changing the height and width ratio of the image without distorting the image itself by croping the image. Now Seam Carving it possible with the Gimp.
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Installing The RadeonHD Driver On Ubuntu
While today's unveiling of the RadeonHD driver for the ATI R500 and R600 series is great news, this driver right now is targeted solely for developers as it's still experimental and doesn't yet support 3D acceleration and other key functionality generally needed in production environments.
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