First thing - the disclaimer. I’m very conscious about not misrepresenting myself to my blog aggregators regarding what my posts are actually about. On the other hand, after looking at my blog stats, search queries have turned up my site for searches roughly along the lines “Ubuntu Wipe Disk” at a rate that I did not expect. So why this disclaimer?
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An Open Software Services Ecology
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Evan Prodromou's suggestions for Web applications that are ripe for an Open Software Service following the Franklin Street Declaration.
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openSuSE stumbles, Ubuntu shines
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I tried loading openSuSE 11.0 on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110 over the weekend. It's an AMD Turion 64-based system, and of course it seemed to load just fine. However, for some reason, it stumbled over the Alps touchpad. The touchpad was often completely unresponsive, and when it did work, it generally behaved as if I had drag-lock on all the time.
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Configuring Linux Terminal to Work as a Transparent Wallpaper — Part 2
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In this second part we will show you how to get the same effect with devilspie, like we did with Tilda. With devilspie we will have more control over the placement and the behavior over the terminal window. What is Devilspie?
Read more »Exploring Space with Celestia
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If I had to choose only one tool to learn or teach Astronomy, it would be Celestia. Celestia is a program that lets you get up close and personal with the planets and their moons, asteroids, stars and galaxies. You can even follow the International Space Station as it orbits the earth. Celestia runs on Linux, Windows and Mac and requires OpenGL.
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Dang, Darn, Damn Small Linux!
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I've been looking at a very interesting variant of Linux called Damn Small Linux, (hereafter called DSL). Its 3 major contributors have basically taken a minimalist approach to Linux and have created a system that can provide a basic desktop running on an OS that's right around 50 Megabytes.
Read more »Too many Linux distributions?
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That’s one you often hear, right? There are too many Linux distributions, and that’s a problem. To some people, who then feel compelled to blog about it. Most of the times, the reasons stated are confusion for new Linux users, and lack of a unified install method for all Linuxes.
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42 of the Best Free Linux Video Software
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There is a sizeable amount of free video software available on the Linux platform which is both fully featured and mature. Become a digital video editing master, turn your Linux machine into a Home Theatre box are two avenues that are explored in this article.
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Open source laptop recovery
http://adeona.cs.washington.edu –
Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service.
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Create Your Own Linux Distro!
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One thing that I would probably have on my “50 Things I Should Do Before I Die” list (remind me to compile that), is create my own distro. And of course all of us Linux geeks would immediately think Linux From Scratch!
Read more »Software Testing FAQ
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A complete FAQ on Software Testing, Includes definations, descriptions and much more details.
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Gnickr - Access Flickr through your Filesystem
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What Gnickr does is that it gives you access to Flickr through your filesystem, so you can drag and drop files between your desktop and Flickr through Nautilus.
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List of Download Managers Available in Ubuntu
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A download manager is a computer program designed to download files from the Internet,unlike a web browser, which is mainly intended to browse web pages on the World Wide Web (with file downloading being of secondary importance).
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Open Source in the Cloud
http://www.linuxloop.com –
I have always been a big fan of web (or cloud) applications, because they make it easy to switch freely between computers and between platforms. With web applications, your applications don’t tie you to any platform, leaving you free to choose whichever platform suits you best.
Read more »More productive “Open With” method
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In switching from Mac OS Leopard to Ubuntu Linux there was one Mac feature I seriously missed—the ability to drag-and-drop a file onto any application icon to open it. In Ubuntu I experienced a reduction in productivity as I tried to find a way to get this file to open with that application when that application was not the default for that file type.
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