IPv6 is the future of IP, and it’s a good time to start learning about it. It’s very easy to put an IPv6 address on Linux. IPv6 addresses have 126 bits. This allows for an enormous address space.
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SSHMenu Lets You Conveniently Connect to Remote Machines From the GNOME Panel
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SSHMenu is a panel applet for GNOME that allows users to connect to remote computers over SSH with a single click.
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Wine 0.9.55 Released
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What's new in this release:
- Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation.
- Beginnings of support for OLE objects in Richedit.
- Several fixes to the animation control.
- A bunch of fixes for regression test failures.
- Lots of bug fixes.
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Small Goodies: controll your KDE with a Sony Ericsson mobile phone
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At kde-apps.org there is a little KDE package available for Sony Ericsson mobile phones which enable the user to control different (KDE) applications via the mobile phone. It works like a charm and is easy to set up.
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Firefox: A Way Around Spyware
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My guess is you are using the best program of all, which is why year after year you are free from spyware: common sense. Firefox is a good browser because it has proven less vulnerable than Internet Explorer. Also, keeping your security settings high is helpful. Regular running of AVG antivirus, Ad-Aware and Ad-watch are helpful, too. The best protection from viruses and Spyware is using the noggin. Think before you click.
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The Distro Journey Has Begun: OpenSuSE 10.3
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I have started a journey of sorts as I have stated not too long ago. I decided to try multiple distributions in order to see what features were good, what ones were not, and if an all star distribution were to be made, which features would, in my view, make the cut. The first part of what is going to sound disturbing to a few at first, because of the issue of “selling out.” However, allow me to explain.
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A First Glimpse of Firefox Mobile
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"The Mozilla Corporation is hard are work on a version of Firefox for smartphones, and has some proposals for what the different versions this web browser will look and act like. There will be two versions, one for devices with a touchscreen, and another for devices without one. The design elements of this browser are still in development, and Mozilla welcomes comments on its proposals..."
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The OS should be invisible to the user - Is Torvalds right?
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The Sydney Morning Herald has a Q&A with Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds. It’s an interesting read, but one part more than any stood out for me: “An o/s should never have been something that people (in general) really care about: it should be completely invisible and nobody should give a flying [expletive deleted] about it except the technical people.”
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TrueCrypt 5: Encrypt your drive in GUI
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A few days ago TrueCrypt 5.0 has been released, a great tool for encrypting your hard drives. It can be used to encrypt existing partitions or create a virtual one located in a single file. In this article we cover the changes in version 5.0 and provide you some useful benchmarks.
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SSHMenu - Conveniently Connect to Remote Machines From the Panel
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SSHMenu is a panel applet for GNOME that allows users to connect to remote computers over SSH with a single click.
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Vector Linux 5.9 Standard Gold Review
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VectorLinux is a Linux distribution for the x86 platform based on Slackware which aims to be user-friendly.Vector Linux is currently ranked at #21 on distrowatch. Screenshots are available here
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gOS for the Cloudbook to use GNOME
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If you have not already heard, SCALE, or the Southern California Linux Expo, is now underway. So far, the most interesting news comes from ZaReason, a manufacturer of many Linux-based computers and a reseller of Everex’s gPC and CloudBook, regarding gOS on the CloudBook. According to Click, the CloudBook will now run a version of gOS with GNOME, instead of Enlghtenment, showing that Everex is continuing to improve their software.
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economy computing ...
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I've always wanted a linux machine at home to play with, but the realities of life have meant up to now that we've had to have a more mainstream machine, as we need to share it. And so we've soldiered on with a win2k laptop, which is now close to 7 years old.
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Meet the Gimp Episode 031: A double face and more selections
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A toolbar trinity
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Firefox rocks because it acts like a Lego set -- you have your base module, and then you can stick extensions on it. Some of the most obvious extensions are toolbars. Unlike the embedded-application extensions like Chatzilla or FireFTP, toolbars actually modify your interface. Here are three more general toolbars that any net junkie will find useful.
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