Setting up Last.fm streaming and scrobbling in Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, is fast and easy. The Rhythmbox music player provides scrobbling support and the Last.fm client will let you stream your favorite stations in a nice stand-alone application. Here’s a screencast and written instructions on exactly how to set things up.
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Use value and free software
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Remember the good old Marxist dialectics of commodities? When a good becomes a commodity, an exchange value is added to the pure use value that the good was originally created to be, and all hell breaks loose.
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Tux Games - Your online store for Linux games
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Gaming can sometimes be a make or break affair for most people that would like to give Linux a try. Well if you are such person, then Tux Games should be of interest to you.
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How Canonical Can Do Ubuntu Right
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So far, with only a very few exceptions, the comments and discussion around my criticism of Ubuntu has been respectful and on topic, even when people strongly disagreed with me. This says something very positive about the Ubuntu community.
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Ubuntu 10.04 Gets A New Catalyst Pre-Release
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A month ago the Canonical crew working on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS received an unreleased Catalyst 10.4 driver from AMD for inclusion with the Lucid Lynx since the publicly available ATI Catalyst drivers had not -- and to this day still do not -- support the X.Org Server 1.7 used by this next Ubuntu release.
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24 More of the Best Commercial Linux Games (Part 2 of 3)
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Why spend your hard earned money on proprietary software when open source software provides a similar (or better) amount of functionality? That's a very good question.
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Digging a Little Deeper into TurboHercules/IBM - OpenMainframe.org and Microsoft
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When IBM said that TurboHercules was a member of organizations Microsoft is a member of, it was particularly talking about OpenMainframe.org. It's an organization that seems dedicated to attacking IBM's mainframe business. It describes its purpose like this...
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HowTo: Save A File In Vim / Vi Without Root Permission
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This happens lot of times. I login as a normal user and start to edit httpd.conf or lighttpd.conf or named.conf in vim / vi text editor. However, I'm not able to save changes due to permission issue (all config files are owned by root). How do I save file without creating a temporary file (/tmp/httpd.conf) and then move the same (mv /tmp/httpd.conf /etc/httpd) as root using vim / vi itself?
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GNOME Terminator 0.92 released and Ubuntu installation instructions included
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Terminator is an application that provides lots of terminals in a single window, saving valuable screen space otherwise wasted on window decorations and not quite being able to fill the screen with terminals.
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Novell to Put Vista 7 Migration and Management “at Peace”
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Typo3 allows remote command execution via PHP
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Typo3 installations that have not yet been fixed allow attackers to inject and execute PHP code from an external server
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Android leads U.S. smartphone growth in sales, downloads
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Apple might have just tipped its iPhone OS 4.0, but Android has jumped to nine percent of the U.S. smartphone market, according to ComScore. Meanwhile, Nielsen says U.S. smartphone sales will eclipse feature-phone sales by 2011, and ABI Research predicts that over 800 million Android apps will be downloaded this year, making it the fastest-growing OS in app downloads.
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A word (or two) about Linux desktop security
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When I wrote my Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 Beta ARTICLE several days ago, I rated Ubuntu higher than Windows in terms of security. In hindsight, I think I was perhaps assuming certain bits and pieces, as well as maybe not thoroughly explaining why I thought that was the case.
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Asus Eee Red Flag Linux Pre Installed
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KDE 4.4 Positive Spin
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I just ran across KDE 4.4 Positive Spin over on Brain Dump – my first time seeing this blog. The author, Andy Crouch, makes a good point: "It’s interesting to see that even now, 2 years down the line people are still bringing up the KDE 4.0 release. Perhaps it’s me but I don’t (either as a user or developer) feel that KDE 4.0 was labelled a “Complete” or “User ready” release."
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