I've been using Firefox for years and have collected what I feel are the best extensions for this wonderful browser.
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How to disable the blanking of screen after idle timeout in linux
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You may have noticed the blanking of screen after an idle timeout. This may be annoying while you are watching a movie. So If you want to disable the X screen blanking that comes up unexpectedly while you’re watching a movie in MPlayer or ...,
Type this at terminal
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Whats new with Java and the Google Web Toolkit
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See what's new with Java and the Google Web Toolkit and build a desktop-like Web application. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) lets you use the Java language to implement rich client user interfaces that run in a browser. This article brings you up to speed on the latest version of GWT and shows you how to build desktop-like Web apps with the GWT and Java code.
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Recover your Linux Root Password
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Just follow the below steps to recover it.
1. Reboot your system and at the GRUB press "e". Edit the first line and make sure it says "linux single". Then press "b" to boot the new entry line.
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Useful Ubuntu Links
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I recently helped a friend switch to Ubuntu and he wanted a list of Ubuntu-related links. I compiled the following list for him and thought it might be useful to others.
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First Test Images of LXDE Lubuntu Available
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The LXDE team is working on a lite variant of Ubuntu that will run on PCs with less than 265 MB. First images are now ready to test.
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Joomla responds to IBM X-Force security report
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Earlier this week, an IBM X-Force report said that the open source Joomla! content management system led in unpatched vulnerabilities.
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Anatomy of the Linux virtual file system switch
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Learn about the advantages of the VFS architecture and what make it so powerful. With the Linux virtual file system switch (VFS), you can create file systems on a variety of devices, from traditional disk, USB flash drives, memory, and other storage devices. You can even embed a file system within the context of another file system.
Read more »New Look for Ubuntu Network Installs
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In our LoCo team (Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo) we’ve been configuring a lovely tftp/pxe boot installer system that allows refurbished computers to be installed ridiculously easily via PXE booting. I’ve just completed a redesign of how it looks...
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Howto use Windows Shared HP printer in Ubuntu / Debian Linux (using samba)
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Most of the Computer Labs in Industry and Education Institutions are equipped with Windows. So Printers are also connected to Windows machines. Here a Simple howto for sharing windows shared printers for Linux users. I have test with a HP1015 printer installed in an Windows XP machine and shared. My linux box is ubuntu 9.04 ( I also tested with ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 , debian 4.0 and 5.0).
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Which licence is best: EPL, GPL or BSD?
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Debates about the pros and cons of various licences available to free and open source software developers often end up generating more heat than light.
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EU Commission Opens In Depth Investigation of Sun-Oracle Deal
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The EU Commission has just released a press release. They are not going to approve the Oracle takeover of Sun just yet anyway. Instead they are launching an in depth investigation of the deal, and it's MySQL that seems to be the issue. Here's the press release. This doesn't mean it won't happen, and the deadline for a final result of the investigation is January 19, 2010.
Read more »Installing Ubuntu Server 9.04
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Recently a friend requested I help him with an installation of Ubuntu Server. Since he was completely new to the process of installing Linux (and the topic is a winner anyway) I thought it would be smart to walk through the process of installing a Ubuntu Server, step by step, here on Ghacks.
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Wine 1.1.29 Released
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The Wine development release 1.1.29 is now available.
What's new in this release:
* Improved Gecko integration by using Wine's network layers.
* Use of external libmpg123 for mp3 decoding.
* Support for JPEG and PNG formats in WindowsCodecs.
* Many regression test fixes for Win64 and Windows 7.
* Various bug fixes.
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winetricks 20090902 released
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Another week, another winetricks, winetricks 20090902 has been released .
The only interesting changes are new verbs vc2005trial and python26. These are only of interest to developers.
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