Although most of the specs and other details have already leaked, ASUS has finally pushed out the official press release for the new Eee PC 901, 1000 and 1000H. The three machines will all be offered in Windows XP and Linux variants, with a choice of black or white casings.
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Why do Open-Licensed drivers matter?
One of the more common questions to be found in open-licensed software today is why do open drivers matter?
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Transform images into videos with images2mpg
images2mpg, a simple utility that's part of the KDE Image Plugin Interface (KIPI), lets you create an MPEG file from image files. Relying on a handful of command-line tools including the ImageMagick suite and mjpegtools, images2mpg creates wonderful videos from your images and even lets you insert your favorite song as the background. It supports SVCD, DVD, VCD, and XVCD video formats.
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A Tale of Two Experiences … Or Why I Don’t Use Windows
Today I booted into Windows XP MCE for the first time in 24 days. I would like to share my experience. I kept careful notes because I knew what to expect from past experience and I anticipated some of the problems that I will share.
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Review: The Linux Powered Nokia N810 Internet Tablet
But now that is all history thanks to Nokia's new N810 Internet Tablet! But what are some of the things that make this device so special? Actually, quite a lot. So let's go have a look and see what it has to offer you.
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Does OpenOffice.org fall short?
Here’s a bit from occasional contributor Imagineer66 in response to my throw-away comment that choosing between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice on functionality is like choosing between tweedle dum and tweedle dee:
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Put irssi in a chroot jail
Irssi is a popular IRC client. Its a very popular client for small window managers like fluxbox. This short howto will walk you though the steps for setting up a jail that only has a few commands in it and will help create a much safer IRC enviroment for you.
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Was leaving MS and opting for Linux a good move?
Three years already ... It's been three years now since I started using Linux, which I think is a reasonable time to look back and evaluate that move.
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GnuCash: Free Accounting Software
A common question that I get asked in emails is whether I know of any free accounting software that is any good. Some people don’t want to purchase applications like Quicken because it is way more advanced than what they are looking to do. All they want is a simple way to manage their finances, but at the same time something that offers more features than a basic spreadsheet.
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Protect SSH from brute force attacks
pam_abl provides auto blacklisting of hosts and users responsible for repeated failed authentication attempts. Generally configured so that blacklisted users still see normal login prompts but are guaranteed to fail to authenticate.
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How To Change Your Login Screen In Mandriva
This is a simple howto on changing your log on screen. This will also work with other distros. This is a very easy way to add more eye candy to your Linux system.
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Screenlets add customized functionality to the desktop
If free software development goes by trends, then the current era might be called the Age of Extensions. In the last few years, every application from the Mozilla family to OpenOffice.org to Gedit has created frameworks in which developers can add their own small bits of functionality to an application.
Read more »eBay sniping with JBidwatcher 2.0
While eBay was once seen solely as the world's garage sale, it is evolving into a general commerce marketplace, and that makes auction monitoring applications all the more useful. JBidwatcher, one of the best open source eBay utilities, has just released a major update. Let's take a look.
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Bringing Safari Web Inspector to Linux
For web developers, when it comes to debugging the web applications, tools like Safari Web Inspector can be handy and very useful. Web Inspector is written in HTML/CSS/JavaScript except for the rather small platform-specific code. With QtWebKit it is very easy to bring WebInspector into any QtWebKit-based browser on any platform, including Linux.
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Edit the Tags in Your Adio Collection with Kid3
Kid3 is a nice KDE application, which recently reached version 1.0. It allows you to edit the tags of all major audio formats, like OGG Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, MP4/AAC or WavPack. The best feature Kid3 ships with is the ability to edit multiple files at the same time, somehow similar with the way Amarok allows you to edit the tags.
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