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Why I will not buy Google’s Cr-48 Chrome Notebook

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Knowing that these are part of the service agreement, why would anyone want to own a Cr-48? I understand that a significant percentage of potential buyers will not care, but I do, and that is why I will never own one, when it goes on sale. Not that Google’s executives care one bit whether a blogger buys their latest gadget or not, but it’s about my privacy, not theirs.

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Configuring Places, Bookmarks, and Locations in KDE Software

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Part of the free software experience is having the freedom to setup your workspace the way you want it. KDE, the popular free software compilation for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, offers a plethora of configuration and customization options. Among those options are a number of methods for accessing files quickly and easily.

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How to backup your ubuntu PC effectively

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This is a simple tutorial on how to backup your system using sbackup.

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Preview of PC-BSD 9 installer

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The current stable release of PC=BSD available for download is version 8.1. Version 8.2 is due sometime very early next year (mid to late January is the likely release time frame), and version 9 much later. A snapshot release of version 9 has just been made available for download and testing. SysInstaller, PC-BSD’s installation program, will pack more features than the current version.

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Sending emails via gmail smtp with python

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This is a tutorial on how to send mails using Python smtplib through Gmail SMTP.

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7 Ways to Beautify Your KDE 4 Desktop

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KDE offers more easily customizable features than any other desktop. Here are 7 ways to get the desktop look you dreamed about when you were a child.

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Nagios Face-lift with V-Shell

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Nagios is the foundation for many networking applications world wide and is know for its flexibility. Building upon those concepts is a new project named the Nagios Visual Shell (V-Shell). What follows is a short review of V-Shell and an interview with the lead developer of this new Nagios project.

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Performing Searches with grep

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You can direct grep to search through one file or many. You can also pipe in output from some other utility so that you’ll see only the information that you want to see. And, the fact that grep uses regular expressions allows you to perform searches even when you only have an approximate idea of what you’re searching for.

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Changing the Looks of Nagios in 60 Seconds

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Did you know you can easily change the way Nagios looks? Nagios has a number of options for frontends, or skins for the Nagios web interface. These frontends change the look of Nagios. Often these frontends are a matter of preference as they do not change the functionality of the program at all. They are easily changed and and restored if you follow some basic principles.

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LibreOffice 3.3 RC1 is released ! Installation instructions - Fedora, LinuxMint, Ubuntu & Debian

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LibreOffice RC1 is released, this new beta release comes to fix some known issues, now the Linux and MacOSX builds are English builds with the possiblity to install language packs. Find below the release notes in details, also the installation instructions for Fedora, Debian, LinuxMint and Ubuntu.

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Text Frames in Scribus

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As a layout program, Scribus puts objects in frames so that they can be manipulated more easily. Images, drawing primitives, tables - if it is content, Scribus puts it in a color-coded frame, with eight handles so that you can position it by dragging it around. But of all its frames, the most important - and probably the most customizable - is the text frame.

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How to Install Squid Proxy server in Ubuntu / Debian Linux

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Squid Proxy server can be configured by editing the directives contained within the /etc/squid/squid.conf configuration file. The following examples illustrate some of the directives which may be modified to affect the behaviour of the Squid server. For more in-depth configuration of Squid, see the References section.

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Using Skrooge's advanced features for your christmas expenses

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Getting a gift for every child in the family, trying to keep inside your budget, and making sure they are treated equally. Not to speak about the crowd in the shops, that's another topic. Of course, all of this is weighs nothing when seeing the lights in their eyes when they crack open their presents, but the road to that moment can be a bit bumpy.

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GNU/Linux Command Sequences in the Bash Shell

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In addition to creating programming structures, you can also use the semi-colon to separate stand-alone commands that you want to execute from the same command entry. If you wanted to cd to a certain directory and then look at its contents, you could enter each command on its own line. Or, you could enter them both on the same line. This process is called command chaining.

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Multiget: Graphical Download Manager for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverik

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MultiGet is an easy-to-use GUI download manager for ubuntu / debian linux. It is Look and work like famous windows download manager flashget.

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