Miro is a free application for channels of internet video (also known as video podcasts and video rss). Miro is designed to be easy to use and to give you an elegant fullscreen viewing experience.
Read more »How to install adobe Flash Player 10 in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy heron)
15th Oct 2008 adobe released Flash Player version 10.If you want to know what is new in adobe flash player 10 check this.In this tutorial we will see how to install dobe Flash Player 10 in Ubuntu 8.04.
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Float irregular images on your Web pages with pngslice
Web sites that run text squarely around images even when the images don't have even borders look a little lazy. pngslice slices an image into thin vertical images and generates a small chunk of HTML to align these slices so that the original image can be seen in a Web browser.
Read more »The Biggest Flaw in Gnome UI
Everywhere you go, any building you enter, any OS you operate, any settings window you open, one rule remains set in stone, “THE ESCAPE DOOR”. Always give an exit path, a way to make it all go away, make it look like nothing happened. But Gnome seems to think otherwise. Any settings window you open, all you see is a “close” button.
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My wish for GNOME 3: better configuration tools
A while ago there was a meme at Planet GNOME about the wishes for GNOME 3. Although I don’t have any influence on this, I do also have things I’d like to see in the next major release of my favourite desktop environment.
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Customizing the Asus Eee
Here I am day 3 of having my Asus Eee I got at Target an my first impressions of this box are pretty good
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MySQL in KDE
MySQL is a database. I don't like it. It hurts my brain, not only because of its infamous help 'no help installed; consult help' messages.
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Ubuntu Installation Report Generator
Today i came across this interesting post about Ubuntu Installation Report Generator so I thought of giving it a try.Installation Report Generator is a small application, developed with Python + GTK, which helps user to gather informations about his hardware and software configuration, in order prepare an installation report.
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Big things come in TinyMe
I take a sort of sick joy in using a computer as long as possible, so I've become interested in lightweight Linux distributions like TinyMe 2008.0 that help prolong the life of a computer.
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How to add Ubuntu 8.04 to win server 2003 Active Directory Domain
This tutorial will explain how to add Ubuntu 8.04 desktop to win server 2003 Active Directory.We are going to use Likewise Open.Likewise Open is a free, open source application that joins Linux, Unix, and Mac machines to Microsoft Active Directory and securely authenticates users with their domain credentials.
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Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha Released
"Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. The original announcement can be found at ..."
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Let PAM take care of GNU/Linux security for you
When they hear the word PAM, most people think of a certain blonde Canadian Playmate, but readers of this Web site surely will recognize the basic element of Linux security: the Pluggable Authentication Modules. So let's talk about how this PAM works, and look at some examples of how it is used.
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Brilliant Brainstorms #31 - Underlying Stuff
Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site.
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Does Hacking Closed Hardware Hinder Open Hardware?
If there's an average customer, I'm not him. I use open and unencumbered formats as often as possible. I don't use iTunes. (It won't run natively on any OS I use.) I have a few MP3 files, but most of my music I've ripped myself from CDs to Ogg Vorbis files.
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OpenOffice 3.0 Final ready for download
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Final has already been uploaded to a variety of mirror download sites ahead of the official announcement Monday 13.
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