Sometimes the GUI is just too slow. Learn how to resize images, add drop shadows, splice mp3s, clone hard drives and more with the command line. Here are a few tasks that you might want to consider using the command line for.
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17 Cool Firefox about:config Tricks
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about:config page contains most of Firefox configuration options as you know.So it is the most powerful and effective way to tweak and enhance your Firefox experience. Here is 17.
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Deactivate Location-Aware Browsing in Firefox 3.5
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If the new Location-Aware Browsing (a.k.a. Geolocation) feature in Firefox 3.5 makes you worried about your privacy, you can turn the feature off with a simple about:config tweak. This "feature" allows the website you are viewing to activate the geolocation function in Firefox and discover your location.
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Aisleriot - Solitaire on Steroids
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Despite all the people who claim to be productive at work, or those who claim to be more than a casual gamer, there is a lot, and I do mean a lot, of people out there who are either casual gamers, or they love to play various solitaire card games on the computer.
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Speaking UNIX: Man oh man
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UNIX has hundreds if not thousands of commands, and it's impossible to remember every option and nuance. But, happily, you don't have to: man, UNIX's built-in, online reference system, is man's best friend.
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Linux Appliances Made Easy With Suse Studio: Arstechnica
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Novell has launched a new Web service called SUSE Studio that simplifies the process of building Linux-based software appliances. It provides a convenient interface for creating custom versions of Novell's SUSE Linux distribution with specialized configurations. The service is part of Novell's broader SUSE Appliance Program initiative.
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Are we too naive by believing that GNU/Linux is more secure by design?
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Technology FLOSS: "GNU/Linux is far more secure than Windows among other things because it's designed to be so (a real muti-user OS by design, real Networked OS by design, etc) plus other customs that we *NIX users have like not using the root account to play Frozen Bubble and so on."
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Adobe Released An Alpha Version Of Flash Player 10 for Linux x86_64 (64 bit)
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Yesterday, Adobe released an alpha version of Flash Player plug-in version 10 for x86_64 architecture. This is a prerelease version of the Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software 64-bit Linux platforms. It is being made available for developers and consumers to test their content to ensure new features function as expected, existing content plays back correctly, and there are no compatibility issues.
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Howto Make Link to Filesystem on desktop or panel
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This tutorial will explain Howto Make Link to Filesystem on desktop or panel from command line and using GUI
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How to: Buy a Wireless Router
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A diminishing few of us can still remember a time when you had to talk on a phone whose handset was tethered to the phone itself with a six foot cord.
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#!*A5%amp;j9 - How to Encrypt Your File System
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Protecting your data has become more important than ever. Let’s look at some options for encrypting Linux file systems.
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Virtualbox 3.0.2 bridged network bug workaround
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VirtualBox 3.0.2 has a nice and easy bridge network configuration GUI. But it does not work.
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Play Classic Super Nintendo (SNES) Games on Ubuntu Linux
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Perhaps most of our readers are old enough to have experienced playing some of the popular video games of the 80's and the early 90's on Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).
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Run your Linux LiveCD in Windows with one click
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Like any new Linux user I had problems burning/installing Linux from Windows. I had to learn how to fix problems the hard way but that didn't stop me from trying again. Here I'd like to share a tool I use to run any Linux liveCD (ISO) inside Windows without any experience at all!
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Laptop encryption — the ideal and the real
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I was listening to the Ubuntu UK podcast yesterday, and they were talking about how to do encryption, either full or partial, to protect the data on your computer from being stolen and used against you should the machine itself be lost or stolen.
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