Recently I put together two themes for GTK2 and Metacity. Most of the work on these themes was done by other people, I simply tweaked some colors and settings. Other people have shown interest in these themes so I package them and am making them available to anyone who wants them.
Read more »Distribution Variation
Recently, I stumbled upon a new Linux distribution aimed at the x86, general use, desktop microcomputer. Naturally, I had a bit of an urge to groan, moan, and otherwise throw a temper tantrum. The predisposition to loathe new Linux distributions is not based in a dislike of Linux distribution plurality, but more of a dislike for redundancy.
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10 of the Best Free Linux Web Browsers
A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. Everyone needs one, and there is not a desktop Linux distribution around that does not make a web browser available.
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Howto Install Exiftool in ubuntu
ExifTool is a Perl module with an included command-line application
for reading and writing meta information in image, audio and video
Quake Live - Redefining the online gaming
Quake Live is a First Person Shooter game, very similar to many other Quake-based variants, an extremely popular and successful franchise of games developed by id Software. In fact, many Linux First Person Shooters are based on a variety of game engines, released as open-source by the company.
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Create, sign, and publish your PGP key with Seahorse
Seahorse is the default keyring manager for the GNOME desktop and it makes the task of key management quite simple.
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RE : Please Reinstate the OS Wars
In that post, he talked about how he would love to see another cold war between Linux and Windows. To put it bluntly, I simply disagree with the post.
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Get your game on in PCLinuxOS with djl
Djl is an open-source (GPL licensed) game manager written in Python 2.5 for the GNU/Linux Operating Systems. It is inspired by Valve’s Steam software for Windows.
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Answering two anti-feminist articles
Life has been interesting since I wrote a piece called ”Sexism: Open Source Software’s Dirty Little Secret” for Datamation a couple of weeks ago. I won’t go into details, but, since then, replies pros and cons have occupied a disproportionate amount of my time.
Read more »How Microsoft/ISO Took More Control of ODF
The SC34 Bellevue Plenary Report is leaked to reveal what ISO had in mind when hosting a meeting in Microsoft's own turf
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jQuery Plugins To Create A User Friendly Tooltip for your web applications.
Kentico CMS is a powerful, flexible & complete content management system that is built with ASP.NET.
It has various modules that make building any type of website possible from blogs to e-commerce or wikis to social networking.
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Real-Time Earth Wallpaper
We already wrote about a wallpaper application for Linux which displays the current weather, moon phases and time of day based on your current location, in real time. This time, I'm going to tell you about a script created by Claudio Novais @ Ubuntued which displays a picture of the Earth, in real time.
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The very first bug in Ubuntu... the most critical?
A few days ago, just to do something, I wandered on launchpad.net putting my nose in the Ubuntu bug: it always gives me a good feeling to see how the faults are not hidden but rather exposed and solved with the help of the community ... one thing I like about Linux, absolutely.
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Use your mobile as remote for linux media players the easy way
Remuco is a duplex remote control system for Linux media players and mobile devices equipped with Bluetooth or WiFi. To put it simple you could actually use your mobile phone with bluetooth or Wifi as a remote control for linux media players like Amarok, Banshee, Totem, VLC and more.
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Firebird 2.1.3 packages for Ubuntu and Debian are ready
Firebird 2.1.3 is a recommended update, packages for ubuntu , karmic ,intrepid , jaunty and hardy are ready and uploaded
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