What happens if an application on your Linux machine goes haywire? Here’s how to recover from these dreadful situations, as well as a nice prevention tip.
Read more »Google Desktop for Linux: Why Do We Need It?
Like many of you, I feel confused in regards to the advantage of using Google Desktop on my Linux PC. After all, if I needed such a thing, Beagle has been readily available for a long time now. And of course, there are also other alternatives to Beagle as well should the need to index your desktop be something that you are interested in.
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Great Desktop Calender on Linux
I love Screenlets and Gdesklets all every other widget type thing for Linux, but none of them have a calender for your desktop like this. This post will be review Rainlendar, which your desktop should not live without. This post will review it and tell you how to install i ton Linux, cause boy did I have problems with this guy.....but it was worth it once we figured out what was going on.
Read more »Privateer Gemini Gold
Many of us experienced Privateer in the early 90's, the engaging space piracy and trading game that captured us with mystery and challenges.
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Benji’s “One-Click-Install” Gets Supported by openSUSE Build Service
The openSUSE Build Service generates .ymp files from now on, which can be used with Benjamin Weber’s One Click Install YaST Module.
This module takes care that all required repositories get used for installation and installs a predefined set of packages. You need no root permissions just to browse the content of a .ymp file.
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How To Manage An iPod From A Linux Desktop With Rhythmbox
This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with the Rhythmbox audio player. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod and delete files on the iPod.
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Sneak peak, pretty playlist, raw plasma
I thought it was time to post a screenshot of how Amarok2 development is moving along.
As my focus is on the service integration, I have chosen to show a few of the new things that are happening in this area, as well as some of the more general and cool stuff that is being worked on.
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Laptop webcam works with AMSN in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3 on my laptop on Saturday. It has ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics card. I had problem with the Live CD as usual. The X server didn’t work. I had to use the safe graphics mode in Live CD to get it to work. I then installed Ubuntu from the Live CD.
Read more »Free Software Money Management Quandary
I found myself facing a moral quandary yesterday. I considered using proprietary software for a job that has lots of free software alternatives. You see, I have these doubts and reservations about the free options.
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Keep users informed with PHPList
If you've ever considered throwing together a mailing list to keep the members of your group, project, or organization informed, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better application for that purpose than PHPList, a free and open source newsletter manager.
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Managing wireless connections seamlessly with wicd
The nature of my work forces me to be something of a digital nomad -- my notebook computer and a wireless connection are essential parts of my working day.
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Linux rpm command no such file or directory error and solution
New Linux user often get this error. Let us say you haved downloaded the RPM file from net and saved to /tmp, you may get error - no no such file or directory - when the file is really downloaded and ls command can show the same.
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Turn your computer into a media center PC with GeeXBoX 1.1
GeeXBoX, a small media center Linux live CD distribution, can run from any small device, such as a USB disk or a wallet CD-R, and can play both disk-based media like DVDs and online media like Icecast streams. The project has been in development for several years and has just released version 1.1.
Read more »MEPIS to switch from Ubuntu to Debian
SimplyMEPIS, a very popular desktop Linux, is going to change back to using Debian Linux for its core from Ubuntu. In March of 2006, MEPIS founder Warren Woodford, decided to switch to Ubuntu from Debian for the next version of SimplyMEPIS, version 6.0.
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How to create a banner at home?
ProPoster – software for printing large posters, banners, signs, murals & wall photos from any pictures, digital photos, Word, Excel documents.
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