Running custom scripts on startup is a common operation in the Linux community. In my case, when the machine hosting my website needs to be rebooted or even crashes, it is critical that the backend processes that the website depends on start correctly.
Read more »Running Commands at Startup in Debian and Ubuntu - The Simplest Approach
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mind control support may be coming to compiz
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Always feared that controlling Compiz with the power of thought alone was something only available for Jedi's and Sylar from Heroes? Think again.
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Konqueror doesn’t pass Acid2 (occasionally)
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Five years ago it was announced that Konqueror is the second browser of all to pass Acid2. Just for fun I thought to check how KHTML is doing these days and ran Acid 2 and 3 with it. Well… how times change…
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8 Advanced OpenOffice.org Add-ons
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OpenOffice.org (OOo for short) is a great office suite for Linux and pretty much any other operating system, but can always use improvement. This is especially true for templates and clip art. Fortunately, the open source community provides many add-ons or extensions. Here's a look.
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Rocking with Zeitgeist
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I must say I am very excited about the new developments happening in the Zeitgeist World… I have no idea where to start but here goes nothing.
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PlayStation Pull-Back Hurts Inexpensive Supercomputing
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Frankly, this was a selfish move on Sony's part, and a big hit to low-cost supercomputing.
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Ricoh Joins Linux Foundation
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Leader in digital office solutions, Ricoh will participate in OpenPrinting.org workgroup and LF events for face-to-face collaboration
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Boost Productivity with Workspaces
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Most often its not the case that you have only one application open at a particular time on your computer. With hardware becoming cheaper & faster, multi-tasking has become a norm. Its a common sight today to have a media-player, web browser, chat client & an image editor all running in realtime on one’s desktop.
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Pogoplug: An Interesting, Linux-Friendly NAS
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While more and more computer peripherals and gadgets these days are running Linux internally, not many vendors are matching their internal Linux support with external Linux customer support. For the Pogoplug though, which is made by CloudEngines, this is not the case.
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Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Being a System Admin, I Learned from Superman
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A few days ago, a copy of Action Comics No. 1 sold for about $1.5 million. What makes a 72-year old comic worth seven figures? More importantly, what can system administrators learn from a guy who's been wearing tights and a cape for more than seventy years?
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FSFE and FFII to Radio Station Winners: "rOGG on"
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The radio stations Deutschlandradio and Radio Orange received the awards from the Free Software Foundation Europe and Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure because they transmitted over the Internet in the Ogg Vorbis media container format.
Read more »Connecting Open Office Base Appliction to SQL
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In my last article, Quick and Dirty with Open Office Base, I described my initial experiences with building a simple database application for my wife in Open Office Base, having had no prior experience with the program. In that article, I described how easy it is to get started, and how easy it is to build usable software with Base.
Read more »IE Extends Its Slide in March; Other Browsers Gain
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser lost nearly a percentage point in market share in March, according to the latest statistics from Web analytics firm Net Applications.
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Setting the record straight on sudo
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I recently read a blog posting that denounced the use of sudo as insecure. My first reaction was that the author had no idea how to use sudo properly or why you would want to.
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Linux Mint 8 ‘LXDE’ Edition Review
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Linux Mint is, undoubtedly, one of the most popular Linux distributions out there and Linux Mint LXDE edition is a very welcome edition to the growing number of releases available of the popular distro.
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