There seems to be a known bug with the Gnome Network Manager included with the Ubuntu 8.10 release that resets any static ip address settings that are set manually when the system is rebooted reverting back to a DHCP setup. These steps will remove the Gnome Network Manager and help you manually setup the required files for your static network configuration.
Read more »How to Set a Static IP address in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
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KNDISWrapper And Putting GUIs on Hardware Config Utilities
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If you don't know, NDISWrapper is a tool that is supposed to allow you to use Windows drivers for wireless cards. The problem is, it does not always work perfectly with every wireless card and it is very difficult for a new user to set up.
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Sweetcron: A Sweet Lifestreaming Solution
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f continually updating all these [social networking] sites is a hassle for us, imagine what it's like for friends who are trying to keep up with us. If you're looking for a way to tie all your updates into one site, have a look at the open source lifestream blog software, Sweetcron.
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Using Spawner To Populate SQL Database
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There are many reasons why you would want to generate bogus data for your database. Perhaps you’d like to know how well your databases will perform when filled with data, or maybe you just need some data so that you can start creating a front end for the database. I recently ran into the problem of not wanting to generate lots of data manually.
Read more »Patents Roundup: Microsoft Employs Patent Hawks, Google’s Chrome Sued, Ambush Denounced and More
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Various bits from the news, with particular emphasis on those that affect Free software
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Novell: Powered by Red Hat
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Mono promotion site used to run Fedora and may still be running it
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10 Ways To Trick Out Your Netbook for Free
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Netbooks are all the rage at the moment, with Asus predicting that it will sell 5 million of its Asus Eee PC netbooks by the end of this year. However, one of the tricky aspects of netbooks is that they have much more limited hardware resources than larger, traditional notebooks. For that reason, it makes sense to put applications on your machine that are both lightweight and powerful.
Read more »A media player for the times: Songbird
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After about two years in the works, Pioneers of the Inevitable have released Songbird, a Mozilla-based music player, with which, POTI aims to do for music what Mozilla did with Firefox: provide an open source customizable multiplatform music player.
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Video: Fedora 10
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Fedora 10 is out, and to celebrate that milestone, Fedora Project leader Paul Frields sat down with Red Hat community guru Greg DeKoenigsberg to talk about where Fedora’s been over the past five years and where it’s going. Along the way they discuss KVM improvements, the debut of new Fedora artwork, and the future of codec support.
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Playing the numbers game 2008: number of Linux installations world wide
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The number of Linux users and installations is impossible to estimate. But there are several different statistical information available which can be used to at least get a rough idea of the number of Linux installations world wide.
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Linux netbooks look likely to save Australian government education election promise
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The New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education and Training (DET) has today revealed its required specifications for custom-built laptops it intends to issue to students from grades 9 to 12 by the middle of 2009. In what is remniscent of a netbook, the budget is set at $500 per model, with hardware at that level.
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Pirates of the Amazon Abandon Ship
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Lawyers for Amazon.com promptly served the students’ Internet service provider with a take-down notice, and on Thursday the students complied and removed the tool.
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Linux gains FPS
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Linux game programmer Ryan "Icculus" Gordon has released a native Linux client for Prey, a two-year-old first-person shooter (FPS) game from Human Head Studios. The client requires users to purchase a copy of the title for Windows PCs.
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WiMAX deal "clears" Linux for takeoff
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Clearwire Corp. announced that it has completed a $14.5 billion transaction with Sprint Nextel to combine their Mobile WiMAX broadband services. The merger of the two largest WiMAX services may accelerate deployments crucial to the success of Linux MIDs, netbooks, and other devices.
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Installing Linux on the PlayStation 3
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Why install Linux on the Sony PlayStation 3? Two reasons: 1) because you can, and 2) to take advantage of the console's wildly powerful Cell Broadband Engine processor. Software developer Matthew Scarpino offers a recipe for installing Fedora Core 9 on the PS3.
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