Unlike NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games, DIRECTV customers who have the NFL Sunday Ticket SuperFan viewing package can now watch live football games on computers running Linux.
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Where Do YOU Send Netbook Users For Help?
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As a Linux evangelist, I find myself in an interesting quandary. There are many new netbooks being sold with Linux pre-installed, but often the way Linux is installed is not what I’m used to seeing. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. I understand the reasoning for custom interfaces, but it has some disadvantages.
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Sphinx: Open Source Speech Recognition
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Have you been frustrated with speech recognition software in the past? I've used the top proprietary products, such as IBM's ViaVoice and Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking in the past. I've found limited good uses for them, but they're not entirely accurate, and they're reasonably expensive.
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Switched From Ubuntu To Gentoo!
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Ubuntu has served me well for a few months, I think it was April when I started using it. I have to say Ubuntu is one of my favorite Linux distributions. It’s great for people who are new to Linux or have been using Windows for a long time and want to try out something different or more reliable.
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Ubuntu's BulletProofX Takes Simpler Step Forward
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Introduced in Ubuntu 7.10 was a feature known as BulletProofX, which provides a fail-safe mode that is by default used when the X server fails to properly initialize. In this original implementation, it would default back to using the VESA display driver with 256 colors and then proceed to run the displayconfig-gtk utility.
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How to Install Skype 2 on 64-bit Ubuntu
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Skype is software that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service and to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.
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Plug and Run Fedora on a TOSHIBA A300D laptop, Part II
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In the following story I will explain you how I made to work my laptop with Fedora. No, not my opinion or expectations of it but how I made it to work, what were my difficulties and how I solved them.
At the previous part of the article I talked about the perfect symbiosis of my new laptop and Fedora.
Read more »Rockbox 3.0 Released. Quietly. | OStatic
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«Three years after its last major release, Rockbox 3.0 is now available. This popular app is a great open source solution for replacing the firmwear on many types of portable media players including Sansa, iRiver, Archos, and iPod.»
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How to Use more than 3GB RAM on 32-bit Ubuntu
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Currently It seems that the current 32 bit editions of Ubuntu can only take advantage of 3GB (sometimes a little more) of physical memory.I am having a ubuntu desktop with 5GB RAM and i want to use all the available memory for gaming.
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Mandriva Linux 2009 RC2 released
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Mandriva has today released Mandriva Linux 2009 RC2, the last pre-release before the final release. 2009 is a significant release, featuring KDE 4.1.1 as the default desktop, GNOME 2.24, Firefox 3, OpenOffice.org 3, kernel 2.6.27 and many more significant updates. It also comes with a redesigned installer and Mandriva Control Center.
Read more »Wine Weekly News: Issue 352
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his is the 352 issue of the World Wine News publication. Its main goal is to prepare the world for WineConf 2008. It also serves to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer.
Read more »Firefox to update the update which screwed up my passwords
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Well that is OK then. No sooner has Mozilla updated Firefox to 3.0.2 and broken my saved passwords so they cannot be accessed, nor can I create new ones, than it announces it is 'working real hard' to get Firefox 3.0.3 out to fix the mess.
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Insert Page Numbers in Openoffice Writer
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Nothing is more frustrating than needing to change something very simple only to find yourself waste precious time figuring out where to find it or how to do it. If you want to insert page numbers into your OpenOffice Writer document you came to the right place. I’ll be using OpenOffice 3.0 RC1 to explain page numbering in a few quick steps.
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Firefox 3.0.3 update available now
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"As announced, and earlier than expected, a quick Firefox update has been released to fix a single bug that prevented some users accessing their saved passwords..."
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Linux Kernel Magic SysRq keys in openSUSE for crash recovery
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The Linux Kernel offers you something that allows you to recover your system from a crash or at the least lets you to perform a proper shutdown using the Magic SysRq Keys. The magic SysRq key is a select key combination in the Linux kernel which allows the user to perform various low level commands regardless of the system’s state using the SysRq key.
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