Pidgin, formerly known as Gaim, is a popular Instant Messaging (IM) client for Linux. It works with 16 different IM services, including AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Google, and can handle simultaneous connections to as many of them as you like.
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Installation and Configuration - Jinzora Streaming Media Server on OpenSuse
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Standard media players like iTunes, MusicMatch and Windows Media Player only allow you to manage your music and videos on a single computer.
Jinzora allows you to manage and access your media from any internet connected computer anywhere you are and provides a much richer set of tools to manage your collections.
Read more »rsnapshot - Local/Remote Filesystem backups utility in openSUSE
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rsnapshot is a filesystem backup utility based on rsync. Using rsnapshot, it is possible to take snapshots of your filesystems at different points in time. Using hard links, rsnapshot creates the illusion of multiple full backups, while only taking up the space of one full backup plus differences. When coupled with ssh, it is possible to take snapshots of remote filesystems as well.
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Marble: 'Googe Earth Lite' Comes Free With KDE 4
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EVERYONE seems to love using Google Earth. It is such a thrill to use, allowing you to zoom across oceans and continents at the click of a mouse button, or to look at your own home from the heavens (and, let's be honest here, your neighbour's/worst enemy's, too).
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Five outliners for Linux
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The first essays of the school year are coming due, and with the essays comes the need to outline and plan. GNU/Linux users are fortunate to have a number of outlining applications from which to choose.
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Network Performance Fine Tuning in openSUSE & SUSE
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openSUSE and SUSE Linux sets default values for some of the network related Kernel parameters. With Kernel 2.6 (default in recent releases of openSUSE & SuSE Linux), there are some fine tuning you can do to improve Network performance and get that extra out of your system.
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Firefox extension blocks dangerous Web attack
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A popular security tool for the Firefox browser has been upgraded to block one of the most dangerous and troubling security problems facing the Web today.
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A (New) Bash Script to Download Entire PicasaWeb Albums
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Although Picasa is now available on GNU/Linux, it is still proprietary and, as such, unethical. One year ago, I wrote a simple Bash script that handles a very rapid download of entire PicasaWeb albums/galleries. During the last weeks, Google changed twice the format of the related Web pages and my script could not fetch any picture.
Read more »Krusader - Advanced Twinpanel File Manager in openSUSE
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Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander.
Read more »Picasa 3 for Linux: A video tour
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Google's Picasa is all about photos -- it helps you instantly find, edit, and share all the pictures on your computer. Although it isn't released as open source it is free to download and use from Google's Web site. The new version 3, which is currently in beta, is available for Windows as well as Linux.
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Byzanz - free opensource Desktop Recording (command-line) tool
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Byzanz is a free opensource GNOME based Command-Line utility to capture desktop recording software for linux. This should probably be the coolest command-line utility that I have seen in recent days. Byzanz records your desktop session to an animated GIF. You can record your entire screen, a single window, an arbitrary region or even follow the cursor.
Read more »Sometimes It Won't Work
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A few annoyances, and I really hope this will be fun. I wrote it last night. Some things which don't work as they are supposed to, or some things which may be annoying - Linux forever, I love it, but sometimes it's not so funny fun as it should be.
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wubi: Best Thing Since LiveCD
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Wubi (Windows-based Ubuntu Installer) is amazing. It’s one of those tools that should make 100s if not 1000s of people to try out Linux right away.
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7 Days of M1530 - Advanced User’s Guide to a New Ubuntu Computer
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After doing a guide for a beginner setting up a new computer with Ubuntu, I decided to follow up with some Ubuntu setup tips for more advanced users:
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Fancy chapter headings with TikZ
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"A question on LaTeX-Community.org inspired me to try pgf/TikZ together with titlesec to produce fancy chapter headings. The result is this small compilable demonstration example: ..."
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