As a business consultant, web designer and photographer my technical know-how around doing system administration on my Microsoft desktop is limited and sometimes I do require the assistant of my computer engineering son to get it right.
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Perceptions Against F/OSS
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Some people I know are closed-minded when it comes to using free and open source software. All of its flaws are magnified. None of the good things seem to stick in their minds.
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NetworkManager
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network management on linux differs from distro to distro. trying various of these i liked what SuSE did over the year. they included a network manager like applet ‘knetwork’ with kde 3 which even included isdn (ppp) links. but NM does a very bad job if things don’t work. there is no debugging possible.
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Gentoo 10.1 LiveDVD Brings Fixes & Enhancements
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In celebration of Gentoo's 10th birthday, the Gentoo engineering team banded together and created the Gentoo 10 LiveDVD of the latest packages for this rolling Linux distribution. Less than a month after releasing Gentoo 10.0, the Gentoo Ten team has released Gentoo 10.1.The Gentoo 10.1 LiveDVD contains enhancements and bug-fixes since the 10.0 release at the start of the month...
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LLVM 2.6 Released, Clang Is Now Production Ready
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Version 2.6 of LLVM, the Low-Level Virtual Machine, has been released.
Read more »How To Enable Networking In Xen Guests On Hetzner's New EQ Servers (Debian Lenny)
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This tutorial shows how you can enable networking in Xen guests (domU) on Hetzner's new EQ servers. With the new EQ servers, you can get up to three additional IPs that are in the same subnet as the server's main IP. The problem is that these additional IPs are bound to the MAC address of the host system (dom0) - Hetzner's routers will dump IP packets if they come from an unknown MAC address.
Read more »Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL On Ubuntu 9.04
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This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
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Ubuntu Tip : Simple way of making a stop animation
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If you want Simple way of making a stop animation you can use mencoder.MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is a close sibling to MPlayer and can convert all the formats that MPlayer understands into a variety of compressed and uncompressed formats using different codecs.
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What can we expect from 10.04 - Lucid Lynx?
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Although Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) isn't out the door yet, let's take a look at what's coming in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).
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Crafting a custom Metallica pinball table with Linux, love
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What does it take to create a pinball machine for the biggest metal band in the world? Custom art, Linux programming, and a whole lot of love. Here is the Metallica pinball machine.
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How to Install Ubuntu One on Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
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One of the key new features in Ubuntu 9.10 is Ubuntu One and the ability to sync files into the cloud. This product is developed by Canonical and functions similarly to Dropbox.
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Enchance Ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala repositories with Midibuntu
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Medibuntu contain all software that cannot be included in Ubuntu for various reasons, like opera ,google earth, wincodecs and more, by adding Medibuntu repositories you will stop wasting time by looking for the right package adding repository for every package, verification keys ...
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 56
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc and crimperman.
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Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
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Because it lacks the expensive licensing that is often the hallmark of proprietary software, open source is regularly touted as a way for IT departments to make their budget stretch a little bit further and it has already enjoyed considerable success in certain areas of the enterprise, such as web servers.
Read more »D2X-XL: Unique 6 Degrees Of Freedom Game (Descent 2 Mod)
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D2X-XL is an OpenGL mod for the classic 3D game Descent 2. D2X-XL is based on D2X 0.2.6, has all bugs from D2X 0.2.6 fixed and has restored all features from the original D2_3dfx (official Voodoo graphics version). D2X-XL is free and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
Descent is a 3D first-person shooter video game which has a strong following due to its unique 6DOF gameplay.
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