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Howto: Restore All Installed packages in Ubuntu Hardy Heron and to a New machine

http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com

Ever forget what you had installed and find yourself at a fresh ubuntu install thinking to yourself... Damn now I gotta open up synaptic and search for everything I had... Well fortunately you dont need to do that. With this easy howto you can also restore all your packages that were installed by simply creating a package list and uninstalling every application installed after the list was made.

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Created by giantrobot 15 years 51 weeks ago – Made popular 15 years 51 weeks ago
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Disabling the GMail spam filter and handling it yourself using SpamAssassin

http://feeding.cloud.geek.nz

I've been using GMail ever since they decided to allow users to download their mail using POP. I was happy reading my email as usual in mutt. The only problem was that I had to log onto the website once in a while to clear out my spam folder and fish out the false positives.

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The Ultimate Guide to KDE Session Management and Autostarting

http://jucato.org

One of the most frequently asked questions (FAQ) about KDE is how to start applications when the user logs into a KDE session. The answer is not always as straightforward as one would hope, and sometimes quite scattered across several sources.

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Created by JRepin 16 years 1 day ago – Made popular 16 years 16 hours ago
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Filing good X bug reports

http://bryceharrington.org

For Ubuntu, a *lot* of time and effort goes into triaging X bugs. Mostly, this work consists of helping bug reporters get enough data to actually begin troubleshooting the problem. Sadly, a lot of bugs go uninvestigated due to lack of enough info.

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Created by mads 16 years 3 days ago – Made popular 16 years 2 days ago
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How to install Ubuntu Linux from USB Stick

http://www.ubuntugeek.com

This tutorial describes how to install Ubuntu by copying the contents of the installation CD to an USB memory stick (aka flash drive) and making the stick bootable. This is handy for machines like ultra portable notebooks that do not have a CD drive but can boot from USB media.

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Created by serdar 16 years 1 week ago – Made popular 16 years 1 week ago
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Have your own OpenID URL without becoming a provider

http://fosswire.com

Many services, such as AOL and myOpenID, provide OpenID accounts to use on whatever site that accepts them. You simply type in your OpenID url and hit Enter. But what if your given ID was randomly generated, or the username you wanted wasn’t available?

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Created by giantrobot 16 years 1 week ago – Made popular 16 years 1 week ago
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Howto: Install awesome Music Visualizations for Rythmbox and XMMS In Ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com

I absolutely love visualizations while listening to music, its unfortunate that Ubuntu does not currently have many presets, Fortunately here is a quick way to enjoy a few other visualizations in Ubuntu, personally I think these visualizations should have been installed by default with Rythmbox!

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Created by extra 16 years 1 week ago – Made popular 16 years 1 week ago
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Install OpenSuse Tutorial in Video

http://tuxtraining.com

A video tutorial about installing opensuse.

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Created by extra 16 years 1 week ago – Made popular 16 years 1 week ago
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Howto: Vectorize images in Inkscape

http://kmandla.wordpress.com

I know you’re looking at it. I know because I can track links through Wordpress, and two hours after I posted that last screenshot, I had double-digit clickthroughs. It is a rather interesting image, don’t you think?

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Howto Crack Zip Files Password

http://www.ubuntugeek.com

If you want to crack zip file passwords use fcrackzip.fcrackzip is a fast password cracker partly written in assembler. It is able to crack password protected zip files with brute force or dictionary based attacks, optionally testing with unzip its results.

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Created by mark 16 years 1 week ago – Made popular 16 years 1 week ago
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Stitch Photos Into Panoramas with Free Software

http://lifehacker.com

You can get decent photos out of a standard, consumer-grade digital camera, but a little post-processing can turn them into fantastic wide-angle landscapes. You don't need to be one of those people who can explain the concept of lateral chromatic aberration to get truly eye-catching digital pictures.

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Created by leo 16 years 1 week ago – Made popular 16 years 1 week ago
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9 Steps: Make a ultra cool and good looking desktop for your Ubuntu Linux machine in 30 minutes

http://www.kimchikid.com

A clean install of Ubuntu is not look very slick at all. To be frank, its pretty boring. But relax, if you follow this guide you will be able to get a ultra cool desktop like this one.

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Created by vlovindia 16 years 2 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 2 weeks ago
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Quick Tip - When Linux Won’t Give Your CD Back

http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com

Just a quick tip I wanted to pass on today. Have you ever had the issue where you want to eject your CD, but it will not eject...For any new users out there. Here is a quick fix to force the CD to eject

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Created by leo 16 years 2 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 2 weeks ago
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Making Animated GIFs With Free Software in Four Steps

http://blog.ahfr.org

MPlayer is a pretty powerful tool for processing video files. It has a built-in command line option that will export specified movie frames to a GIF. Such a feature seems like it would make the guide I'm presenting here obsolete, but the problem with the feature is that the resultant GIF looks terrible: too few colors.

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Created by electronichouse 16 years 2 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 2 weeks ago
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Enable Metacity Compositing in GNOME 2.22

http://tombuntu.com

In GNOME 2.22, included in Ubuntu 8.04, the default Metacity window manager has compositing built in. This means that you can get your eye candy effects without switching window managers!

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Created by snotbutter 16 years 2 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 2 weeks ago
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