Duly informed of the joys of conky-cli and the much-needed watch command, I decided to try out both of them this evening, and came up with this.
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Mild enthusiasm for conky-cli
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digiKam 1.0.0 Released - Manage Photos Like a Professional
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The new version of free and open source photo management app brings lots of new features. For example: metadata tags filtering can be customized, metadata templates, batch queue manager, first run assistant, database statistics dialog, support for wavelets image file format PGF, OpenStreetMap support in Geolocation panels, new color management...
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Open Source doesn't automatically mean safety
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The recent Firefox security upgrade introduced me to someone who thought that their old browser was still more secure than others. Sorry. It doesn't work that way.
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Printing Your Custom GIMP Holiday Cards
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You've made your beautiful custom holiday cards with GIMP, and now you're ready to print them. What's the best way? Your own inkjet printer at home, or farm the work out to someone else?
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A look at LinuxConsole 1.0.2009
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The LinuxConsole distribution is one of those small projects which quietly put out releases, gradually improve and - rarely get attention. The project, headed by Yann Le Doare, recently released version 1.0.2009 of this distribution and I decided to take a look at what it had to offer.
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5 Linux Tricks to Make Your Life Simpler
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Download a website in linux, change root password, play videos in RAR, five ways to logout from bash, and browsing in text mode.
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GnoMenu 2.2 released! Install the new version in Ubuntu via repository
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Announced today the release of GnoMenu2.2, the new version comes with new features and improvements, the big improvement is that GnoMenu now use 60% less Memory.
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A Quick Guide to Linux Partition Schemes
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What partition setup should you use when dual-booting Windows and Linux? Should you have a separate partition for /home? Why do some people put /boot into its own partition? These are the questions that have plagued mankind since the dawn of time (or thereabouts).
Read more »Firefox 3.6 Beta (revision 5) now available
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This morning the Mozilla community released Firefox 3.6 Beta 5. T his update contains over 100 fixes from the last Firefox 3.6 beta, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users.
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Ten KDE 4 Tricks Worth Knowing About
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Since I discovered just how great KDE 4 is a couple of months ago, I've been using it full-time and am loving it. In all that time, I've discovered a few tips and tricks that I couldn't live without, and all of them are listed here. Some of these include an inline CLI, split folders, setting up a media keyboard and using advanced wallpapers.
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Creating Slide Show Backgrounds in XFCE
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Continuing in this series of slide show backgrounds, in this article I will explain the process of creating a set of desktop backgrounds that will transition like a slide-show in XFCE. Note that I am using XFCE version 4.6.0 in this tutorial. Other versions may be able to use this tip, but the screen shots may look different. See corresponding howtos for GNOME, and KDE3 also.
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Review: Slackware 13.0
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When Slackware 13 came a few months ago on the LXF magazine, I decided to throw it into Virtualbox to see how it has changed. One difference this time around is that I now have the dual core machine so I am running Slackware on that machine.
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Minitube Streams YouTube Videos Right to Your Desktop -- No Flash Required
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Minitube is a solid open source YouTube viewing client that gives users a way to search and watch videos without all the visual distractions.
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Ubuntu's Lucid plans
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In April Ubuntu Lucid Lynx will be released. We look at what can be expected.
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6 Different Ways To End Unresponsive Programs In Linux
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Most Windows users know about the utility of the Ctrl + Alt + Del keys when dealing with an unresponsive application. A program is said to be unresponsive when it doesn’t respond to any user interaction and neither does it perform its intended actions.
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