Latest release of Ubuntu 9.04 codenamed Jaunty Jackalope has few annoyances for experienced users such as Indicator applet, No default Compiz/desktop effects for some Intel based motherboards, Update manager nagging continuously for updates, cant restart X server by Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key combination etc. This article will enlist the fixes or workarounds for these annoyances.
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How to get rid of annoyances of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope – A compilation of fixes
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View the stars in Linux with Stellarium
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If you are learning about the stars in school, an amateur sky watcher, or a meteorologist in the making you need to know your stars. To really see the stars you can visit a real planetarium, you can break out your serious telescope, or you can install and fire up a desktop application like Stellarium.
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16 "top"-Like Linux Apps / Commands
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htop - Undoubtedly the most famous of the top-like tools. It implements some extra options to the "top" command, like colors, ability to scroll horizontally and vertically, and a better interaction with the processes listed.
nethogs - network information, but instead of displaying the traffic by protocol, nethogs shows the bandwidth usage by process. Very interesting.
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David Versus Two Goliaths
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Apple will release its OS X 10.6 “Snow Loepard” in September and not long after, on October 22nd, Microsoft’s Windows 7 will be released. A week later Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” is scheduled to be unleashed.
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Everything you need to know about Firefox 3.5
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Mozilla recently released the second release candidate of Firefox 3.5 and is due to launch the final version before the end of the month. Here's your one-stop guide to the key new features in the latest version.
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From Arch to Ubuntu?
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I’m a big fan of Arch. It’s the Swiss army knife of Linux distributions, with the possibility to install as little or as much as you want. However, I’m also a fan of Ubuntu and when I install Linux on the PC of a friend who wants to try it, that’s the distribution I’ll use.
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Firefox 3.5 RC Review
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Google's Chrome 2.0 speeded up after dropping its beta and Opera 10 beta claiming a better browsing speed, all eyes are on Mozilla's new Firefox version hyped to touch Amazing feats of speed.
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Linux Netbooks: back to the facts
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There has been a lot of talk about the success or failure of the Linux netbooks recently, to the point that it is now a very controversial topic. I think that it is time to go back to the facts and perform a objective analysis how what we can learn from the Linux netbook market. You will see that Linux netbooks have been neither a complete success nor a complete failure.
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Firefox 3.5 Speed Freak: Faster Development, Faster Performance
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Firefox 3.0 is not quite a year old, but users are already clamoring for Firefox 3.5. So where is it, and what is it all about?
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Minirok 2.0 - Minimalist Audio Player for KDE4
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Minirok is a minimalist audio player which ships with a simple and intuitive interface, which kind of resembles Amarok.
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Download Inkscape 0.47 Pre-Release
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Inkscape 0.47 pre-release is now available for download. In case you do not know, Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
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Amarok MySQL Support - Promised and Delivered
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We told you it was coming. Sure, that was a while back, so you probably thought we forgot about it. Or maybe you thought we were simply playing politics, tossing empty promises to our users. Well...you were wrong.
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Things You’ll Love About Firefox 3.5
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Firefox 3.5 is around the corner. For those who don’t pay attention to development here’s the big features worth checking out. There’s lots more, but these are my favorites:
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Amarok 2.1 Review - New Features, But Still Lagging Behind 1.4
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One of the new additions which are noteworthy to mention for Amarok 2.1 is the introduction of the classic playlist (the one from 1.4) and also the playlist editor.
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Is Security Essentials Microsoft 's answer to Linux 's security record?
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One of the areas where Linux really shines is security: you do not really need an antivirus if you are running Linux as an end user. In the Windows world however a good antivirus is almost a requirement as viruses and malwares are commonplace. I have personally seen Windows computers being infected less than an hour after being connected to the internet.
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