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Public Service Announcement: Verify your Backups!

http://techthrob.com

There’s only one thing worse than having no backup at all: thinking you have a backup and finding out it doesn’t work when you go to restore. If you've never performed a test restore, you can’t say with any degree of certainty that you'll be able to recover lost data in the event of a disaster, because you've never tried.

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Created by nemilar 15 years 22 weeks ago
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4 More Ways to Clean Up Your Ubuntu Machine

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It doesn’t matter if you are using Windows, Linux or Mac, as long as you don’t maintain it, it will grow out of hand and become very messy. This time, we are going to show you 4 more ways to keep your Ubuntu clean.

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Created by GiTS 15 years 22 weeks ago
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The State of Ubuntu Studio 2010

http://dullass.blogspot.com

The current state of Ubuntu Studio could be described as losing momentum characterized by limited development in contrast to its substantial potential.

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Created by mick 15 years 21 weeks ago
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Linux Gaming Projects That Need a Little TLC (or How You Can Contribute)

http://www.linuxjournal.com

My favorite PC game of all time was Interstate '76. It was really unique in its gameplay and has the best soundtrack for a game ever, featuring 70's funk, where I would pop in the cd on my computer just to play the music. I've never done that with any other game, before that or since (the site has archived the soundtrack and you can download the mp3 files from there).

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Created by stalinux 15 years 21 weeks ago
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Add a Grammar Checker to OpenOffice.org using the After the Deadline Extension

http://www.linux-magazine.com

The lack of a grammar checker is a pet peeve of many OpenOffice.org users. But there is a solution for those who are in desperate need of grammar checking capabilities in the productivity suite.

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Created by bolony_and_cheese 15 years 21 weeks ago
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"And Yet It Moves" Game Released For Linux

http://www.phoronix.com

For those too impatient to wait for next month for a new native Linux game release when Amnesia: The Dark Descent is set to premiere, there is another game with a native Linux client that was released today: And Yet It Moves.

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Created by sonysuxx 15 years 21 weeks ago
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How to record audio from mic using FFmpeg aka audio grabbing

http://linuxers.org

Recently a linuxer pointed out that in spite of the amazing and widespread capabilities of FFmpeg, I have just been focused upon its media conversion feature.

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Created by yantramosi 15 years 21 weeks ago
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openSUSE 11.3 GNOME Review

http://consindo.wordpress.com

Unlike Ubuntu & Fedora, OpenSuse is released every 8 months. This means that they are always usually trailing Ubuntu, Fedora etc with the new Gnome, KDE. I personally prefer Gnome and even though KDE is the default option at install.

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Created by rakshita 15 years 21 weeks ago
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Ubuntu's vision for its Unity interface

http://www.techradar.com

What's got us really excited is that fact that the creator of the fantastic Gnome Do, David Siegel, is working with the design team. Naturally, we wanted to find out some more…

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Created by stripcut 15 years 21 weeks ago
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The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.3 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]

http://www.howtoforge.com

This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.3 server (x86_64) that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.

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Created by falko 15 years 21 weeks ago
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"Is it a PC?" "Is it a Linux?"... "No its PCLinuxOS"

http://mylifeinlinux.blogspot.com

Booting the live DVD initially didn’t work but the boot menu does give the option of a safe graphics mode also known as VESA. This got the ball rolling and a good looking Gnome desktop followed. Similar in looks to Mandriva but with a massive menu.

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Created by aditiseth 15 years 21 weeks ago
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Keeping track of your PCs temperature in Linux

http://www.ghacks.net

There are two ways in which I will show you how to monitor your temperature from your panel and/or using a screenlet. Both are incredibly simple to use and each have a very different look and different feel about them, but both tackle the same task.

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Created by oshea 15 years 21 weeks ago
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Meet Alawalk - Possibly the Lightest Launcher Ever

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk

Popular launcher applications Do and Kupfer may have some competition - say hello to the incredibly lightweight Alawalk.

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Created by johncuk 15 years 21 weeks ago
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ULTILEX - The Ultimate Linux Experience version 10.8

http://ultilex.sourceforge.net

ULTILEX stands for Ultimate Linux Experience. This is a live Linux CD compilation which in turn contains several live Linux distributions. You can boot ULTILEX from CD/DVD and USB flash devices.

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Created by davelong 15 years 21 weeks ago
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Android 3 plans ahead

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Android 3.0 is readying for an October launch. What you can expect. Most Android users are only now upgrading to version 2.2 of Google's mobile phone operating system but with version 3.0 expected in October, it's worth taking a look at what to expect.

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Created by emacsfanatic 15 years 21 weeks ago
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