iPod Linux lock-out broken. Just a day after it was reported that Apple’s latest iPod had a checksum that prevented it from working with anything other than iTunes, the offending piece of code has been broken. Blog ipodminusitunes was among the first to report this.
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KDE 4: The Shiny New Linux (and Windows) Desktop
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Linux users are as evangelical about desktop environments, the all-encompassing graphical user interface software responsible for providing everything from taskbars to office suites, as they are about operating systems. It shouldn't come as any surprise, then, that the first major release in over five years of the most popular desktop environment available is causing quite a stir.
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Fast, small, lightweight—and still a full-featured GNU/Linux: Puppy Linux combines a complete set of applications with great flexibility, yet it requires minimal hardware. This article introduces this increasingly popular GNU/Linux distribution.
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Help yourself in man pages
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To know more about a command, check for more options and maybe some examples how to use it, you need to read the manual of the specified command. While you are in man, you can trigger search by specified a keyword. Man provides efficient browsing like in vim, you can bookmark a point and jump back to that point later, and a lots more.
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Plasma backgrounds
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Whenever the topics of background wallpapers for plasma comes up, 99% of the time first question is: can they be animated?...Yes, background wallpapers can be animated!
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Never Forget a Password Again
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Okay, so you’ll probably still forget them. But with GPass, you can find them again in an instant.
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Bluetooth done right in GNU/Linux
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Ever wanted to use your bluetooth phone, keyboard, mouse or other system in Linux but been frustrated by the fiddly set-up? Check this story for a screencast of bluetooth done right in Linux (Fedora), with information on how to take advantage of this in the up-coming Fedora 8 release.
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Love and usability drive Firefox success
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"Founder of Mozilla explains how a sense of purpose and an eye for easy use has made the Firefox browser such a success."
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Ubuntu + mpd + Jinzora + Hi-Fi == ACE
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Turn an old PC into a music server for streaming MP3s to your hi-fi or the net and control it all through a web browser from anywhere using Jinzora.
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Howto Set Flickr images as Ubuntu desktop wallpaper
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Webilder delivers stunning wallpapers to your Linux desktop, directly from Flickr and Webshots. You choose what keywords (tags) to watch for, and photos are automatically downloaded to your computer. Webilder can also change the wallpaper every few minutes.
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Kicking around the ol' soccer ball with Bygfoot
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Programming free software is tons of fun. But every so often, it’s nice to get a change from the daily grind and have some fun. That’s where Bygfoot comes in. Bygfoot is a Windows or GNU/Linux (or Macintosh via fink) compatible football (or soccer, as us Yanks call it) management game in the spirit of Football Manager (Americans and Canadians know it as Worldwide Soccer Manager).
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Loop-based Music Composition With Linux, Pt. 1
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This article covers loop-based music composition using GNU/Linux a free software.
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Embed a terminal in your Ubuntu desktop
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Admit it. You enjoy using the command line in Linux. You only have a graphical interface so people in the office don't look at you strangely. So why not embed a terminal window into the Gnome desktop and have a soothing desktop picture and the power of the command line all at once?
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Animated Wallpaper with Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu
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Animated wallpaper may not be very useful, it just looks sweet. In this how-to I will explain setting up an animated background that works with Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu using a program called XWinWrap.
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Apple cuts us off
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So, it's finally happened. Unhappy with other media players being better than iTunes, Apple have apparently decided to stop them from working with the new range of iPods.
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