Smoothwall Express is an internet firewall, which allows you to protect your network, as well as providing NAT functionality. It is ease to use and configurable via a web-based GUI. This open source firewall distribution requires absolutely no knowledge of Linux to install or use. This workshop shows the installation and basic configuration of the current release Smoothwall Express 3.0.
Read more »The perfect start with Smoothwall Express 3.0
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Printing Secrets Revealed: How to set Custom Page Sizes with CUPS Printjobs
So you have one of those sophisticated office printer models with adjustable guides that allow you to use any weird media size (with some sensible min/max value for width and height)? And you don't know how to tell CUPS to use that size when printing? (Ah... you don't have such a printer, and you are about to skip this article?
Read more »New Awn Clock Applet
So awn now allows people to use python for creating applets. And with that announcement lots of new applets and such have been coming out for Awn. One such new applet is the Awn Python Clock
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CSI Linux
Could we soon see Gil Grissom the Linux geek, or maybe a new series of CSI Linux? It's possible if they start using the new TreCorder forensic data collection computer which runs on SuSE Linux.
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Radeon HD 2900XT Linux Game-Play
In this article we will be looking exclusively at the image quality while gaming with the ATI Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB under Linux.
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RDesktop - remote desktop howto
Here's a document entry on managing and connecting to Windows (TM) based operating systems (Windows 2000/2003, XP Terminal servers, Windows NT) from Linux box using a remote desktop tool called RDesktop.
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Flaw Still Shadows Firefox
Sometimes it takes more than one or even two kicks at the can to fix a security issue even when the source code is open. Such is apparently the case with vulnerability in the Mozilla Firefox uniform resource identifier (URI) handler, which enables Firefox to call on other Web resources...
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Discover Hot Topics on Wikipedia with Wikirage
"...Much like Google Trends, a new Wikipedia data mining service called Wikirage tells you what the hot topics are on Wikipedia. A topic is considered "hot" based upon how many unique edits its received over a period of time. Wikirage allows you to view the hot topics from the last hour, the last six hours, the last day, the last three days, the last week, or the last month..."
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IBM's CoScripter: Greasemonkey for non-geeks
"What do you get when you mix one part automation, one part natural language interpretation, two parts programming by demonstration, and three parts online collaboration? If you stir all of these research areas together and toss in some XUL, you get one of the most innovative extensions for Firefox: CoScripter."
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BSG: Beyond the Red Line on Ubuntu
Battlestar Galactica: Beyond the Red Line is a 3D space combat simulation which takes place inside the Battlestar Galactica universe. The game is free, and the good folks over at Game Warden have also released a Linux client for it. Here’s how to get it up and running on Ubuntu.
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Best Linux Desktop Distribution for Home Users
"What is a Best Desktop Linux Distribution for home users?” After many years of playing & experimenting around with lots of Linux distributions I have come to some understanding of this question. I will put my thoughts and understanding together here about what is the best desktop Linux distribution for home users.
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A quick guide to DVD authoring
If you have video footage that you want to capture, edit, and share with friends or family (or even use professionally), you'll be happy to know that you can do it all with open source tools. I'll show you how to author a DVD that can play on most home players.
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Firefox: 400 million downloads
"Today Firefox crossed the 400 million downloads mark as tracked by SpreadFirefox.com"
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Second generation Asus Eee PC to come April 2008?
Asus is reportedly already planning to release their second generation Eee PC in April 2008 featuring Intel's Merom processor, reduced power consumption and no cooling fan...and will run a customized version of Linux worked out between Asus and Intel.
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Palm shakes hands with Linux
My Palm Tungsten E had gone totally dead. I had to restore everything with a sync, and by some kind of magic, my Palm infrared keyboard suddenly started working again. So it was time to get the Palm and Linux talking to each other.
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