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Ubuntu Linux and your Apple iPod 0000-00-00 00:00:00 This article is from a new book published by No Starch Press: UbuntuLinux
for Non-Geeks: A Pain-Free, Project-Based, Get-Things-Done Guidebook by Rickford Grant.
Well, you will be happy to know that Ubuntu does iPod
s, even Nanos. You will also be happy to know that using your iPod on your ...
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Debian/Ubuntu Linux apt-get vs. aptitude 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Being an Ubuntu
/Debian
user (yes, I use and advocate both), I have fallen in love with the Advanced Packaging Tool, also known as apt. Before Ubuntu, I played in the world of RPM hell, with distros such as Red Hat itself, Mandrake (as it was called back then), and even ...
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Popular Linux bittorrent clients comparison 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Two the most popular in Linux
community bittorrent clients are compared in the following article.
BitTorrent is popular peer-to-peer sharing communication protocol used for transferring all kind of files over the Internet. Two of the most popular BitTorrent clients for Linux are Azureus and KTorrent. If you're looking for a robust, ...
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Linux history: 0.02 and 0.03 releases memories 0000-00-00 00:00:00 "Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?" began the October 5th, 1991 announcement for Linux
kernel version 0.02 on the comp.os.minix newsgroup. In the release notes, Linus Torvalds continued, "as I mentioned a month ago, I'm working on ...
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Keep contacts and calendar/datebook of Motorola Razr V3 saved 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Some time ago I wrote about syncing mobile phone contacts and calendar with online service ZYB. Today I'd like to share my experience of Motorola
Razr V3 sync by means of this free service. I'd like to mention that advantage of this method is that it doesn't matter what operating ...
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Claws Mail 3.0.0 released 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
3rd September 2007 Claws Mail 3.0.0 is released
. Now it's GPLv3 and has the following updates:
Added Tags feature
Threads can now be sorted by most recent message
Added "/View/Show or Hide/Column headers"
Added 'watch thread' feature
Enabled the running of folder Processing rules on ...
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EV-DO Internet access with Ubuntu Linux 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The following manual is applicable for 32bit Ubuntu
6.10 (Edgy Eft) and 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and Verizon Motorola v3 EV-DO enabled phone connected via USB cable as well as number of other EV-DO cards like PC5750.
Make sure your device is activated by service provider and if possible ...
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, Internet
Manage gzip files on-the-fly (zcommands) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Both Linux and Unix like OSes comes with z commands. It allows you to read gzip compressed text files
using zless, zcat and zmore etc. gzip reduces the size of the files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension .gz, while keeping ...
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Linux and Solaris filesystems comparison 0000-00-00 00:00:00 This is my attempt to cut through the hype and uncertainty to find a storage subsystem that works. I compared XFS and EXT4 under Linux
with ZFS under OpenSolaris
. The machine is a 2200MHz Athlon 64 with 1GB of memory and 8 400GB disks attached to an Areca ...
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Web server cluster with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Spreading a workload across multiple processors, coupled with various software recovery techniques, provides a highly available environment and enhances overall RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) of the environment. Benefits ...
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Buddi: track your finances in a simple way 2007-10-02 03:34:29 Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, author has attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users.
To my mind the idea of using such applications to manage personal finances
makes sense definitely. But not all of us have a lot of time and patience to get familiar with all the intricacies of tools like GnuCash or Money Manager Ex. If that sounds ok for you, try Buddi as the easiest way to to keep your finances organized.
Buddi is released as Open Source Software, so you can download it for free, with no disabled features and no time limit. Actually it’s written in Java and Buddi runs on most platforms that can run the Java Runtime Environment. There are pre-compiled binaries available for different Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian. There are executable versions also for MS Windows and Apple MAC.
You can
Sexy wallpapers for Ubuntu Linux 2007-10-01 03:02:19 Here is the list of sexy wallpapers for Ubuntu
and actually for any other Linux
distribution. Every wallpaper can be downloaded from gnome-look.org.
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Conky: light-weight Linux system monitor 2007-09-30 06:53:57 Conky is a light
-weight and highly configurable system monitor for X. It can monitor many different aspects of your Linux
computer. You choose what to monitor and you choose where the monitor is displayed on your desktop through use of a configuration file .conkyrc. As for me I like to have it at the top right of my display. To get conky running in Ubuntu execute:
sudo apt-get install conky
Fedora users should install it with yum:
sudo yum install conky
Then regardless distro you use, you should edit configuration file that is located at your home directory ~/.conkyrc. For example like this one.
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Most popular Ubuntu blogs 2007-09-28 09:31:55 Here is Top 25 of Ubuntu
blogs provided by FreeGeekery. These four metrics were used to calculate the rankings:
— Google PageRank
— Alexa Rank
— Technorati Authority
— Bloglines Subscribers
#
Ubuntu Blog
Total
1
Ubuntu Geek
6
10
10
10
36
2
Ubuntu Blog
6
10
10
10
36
3
Mark Shuttleworth
7
9
10
10
36
4
The Fridge
6
10
9
10
35
5
All About Linux
5
9
10
10
34
6
Ubuntu Tutorials
5
9
9
9
32
7
Linux on Desktop
6
8
10
8
32
8
jonbacon@home
6
8
9
9
32
9
Wombat Ubuntu Blog
3
10
8
9
30
10
Only Ubuntu Linux
3
8
9
9
29
11
UbuntuOS
4
6
7
8
25
12
Motho ke motho ka botho
2
7
8
7
24
13
Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tutorials
3
7
7
7
24
14
ID- Ubuntu Blogs
4
7
7
4
22
15
Ubuntu Tutorials
4
3
8
6
21
16
Ubuntu Demon’s Blog
5
1
7
8
21
17
Ubuntu Linux Blog by Ralph
1
5
6
8
20
18
Ubuntu Tutorials, Howtos, and More
4
4
5
7
20
19
Xubuntu Blog
4
4
5
7
20
20
The Ubustu Feed
0
6
7
6
19
21
Joey Stanford
4
5
6
4
19
22
The Ubucon Blog
5
0
8
5
18
23
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Full Circle Magazine’s 5th issue for Ubuntu newbies 2007-09-28 08:30:54
The FREE Independent Magazine
for the Ubuntu
Linux Community fullcirclemagazine.org just released it’s 5th issue
containing articles useful for Ubuntu newbies:
Fluxbuntu - Step-by-step Install
How-To : Report Bugs with LaunchPad, CoLoCo Edubuntu Presentation, From VMware to VirtualBox and Learning Scribus Pt.5.
Review of Bridge Construction Kit.
Preview of Gusty Gibbon
Letters, Q&A, My Desktop, My PC, Top 5, the new My Opinion column, and more!
English version is available in PDF here.
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Google is 9 years old now 2007-09-28 07:56:32 PageRank 10 page google.com, turned 9 years old at 27th of September 2007, according to the special logo put up for the occasion yesterday.
wikipedia.org:
Google
was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Through a series of new product developments, acquisitions and partnerships, the company has expanded its initial search and advertising business into other areas, including web-based email, online mapping, office productivity, and video sharing, among others.
Here is a screenshot of google.com page in early 1997 (as you might notice Linux specific resources search was available from the beginning, unfortunately I didn't find any information when BSD related search become available):
Respect to Google!
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Portable and integrated Linux distro for USB drives 2007-09-27 07:58:21 FaunOS is a portable (easy-to-carry), fully integrated Linux
operating system with over 500 pre-installed packages. It is specifically designed to run from a portable USB Memory Device (USB Flash Drive). It can also run from a DVD. It does not change or install anything on your hard drive unless you specifically ask it to. This means it is safe to take your USB to a friend’s computer and boot from it (see minimum requirements). When you finish, shutdown, and remove your USB key from your friend’s computer, there is no trace of any of your activity on that computer.
Here are FaunOS features list:
Ability to save files back to the USB flash drive.
Tools that allow permanent installation to a hard drive. Supports the following install options on a hard drive:
Permanent Arch Linux Installer using archin
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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Linux driver 2007-09-27 07:38:04 Good news for owners of Creative SoundBlaster
X-Fi series as manufacturer’s binary Linux
drivers are available for free downloading. The driver is compatible with ALSA. Bad news: it’s available only for x86_64 Linux.
Here is the list of supported cards:
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
Driver is available here.
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XFCE based KateOS 3.6 released 2007-09-24 11:29:51 New version of nice Polish Linux distribution KateOS that is based on XFCE is released
.
KateOS is currently the best Polish(ed) Linux distro. It is developed dynamically by Kate team, and actively supported by a well educated community. Since early 2004, the team members have learned exactly what are the needs of Linux users in Poland and worldwide. The current development of KateOS is based on experience of people all around the world, who support and broaden the ideas of the project. KateOS is fast, stable and secure, and most importantly of all, gives its users a choice. We do not believe in applications satisfying the needs of all users. This is why we let our users choose their tools on their own.
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Fun: best hosting provider ever 2007-09-24 11:13:48 Just found very nice web hosting provider that that offers unbelievably stable service:
nouptime.com: Our Redundant Department of Redundancy has a Redundant Server Failover System that will initiate a failover hosting in case of unexpected server uptime.
Here are it’s best "hosting packages":
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Fun: Linus Torvalds' quotes Top 10 2007-10-14 06:42:26 The idea to write a post regarding the funny Linus' quotes came into my mind after I came across this wiki page. So, let me suggest TOP 10 list of his quotes:
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it
Software is like sex; it’s better when it’s free.
Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?
Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive.
An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work, if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. And I'm not just sa
go2linux.org: Linux Operating System blog 2007-10-13 06:14:37 Recently I came across a nice site named as Linux OperatingSystem
(go2linux.org). As it comes from it’s name it is devoted to our favorite Open Source operating system and contains lots of useful information.
Linux newbies would find there all they need, I'm sure. For example here is great tip about how to add Google repository to your favorite Linux distribution package manager (like apt or yum). Actually I didn't know that Google has it’s own repository for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Mandriva :).
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Why use SUDO instead of SU? 2007-10-11 17:32:33 Nice article on why we should use sudo instead su. Actually it’s one of "must read" articles.
GNU/Linux distributions use the “su” model to elevate user priveledges. SU (or Substitute User) is a simple command which allows you to assume another identity on your pc. It’s most-often use is to become the root or administrative user. Both GNOME and KDE provide graphical tools which perform the same task, allowing you to install packages, change your resolution, and so on.
Sudo is a tool that supports allowing users to use their own credentials for privilege escalation. No two passwords. No root user. Furthermore, sudo already supports granularity. If Linux distributions used sudo instead of su by default, you wouldn’t have to give out the root password to anyone who needed to become an administrator on a unix box.
Here are some of the features and reasons to use sudo:
Least privilege: Some users need to be able to change network configs, or shutdown the pc without root. Sud
7 "must read" Linux tutorials 2007-10-11 17:13:57 If you're going to have long relations with Linux
operating system and use it as efficiently as possible I suggest to read the following howtos and guides that will help you on the way to advanced Linux user status
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Web app. of the day: interactive Linux kernel map 2007-10-11 17:13:14 As it comes from name of the post, here is interactive Linuxkernel
map I recently came across. It’s available as web application as well as html version. I think you understand who it may be useful for… Good luck in programming!
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htop: new generation Linux processes viewer 2007-10-11 02:21:01 As it comes from htop’s manual page, htop is free (GPL) ncurses-based process viewer, that is similar to top, but allows to scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes
and their full command lines. Tasks related to processes (killing, renicing) can be done without entering their PIDs.
I found this utility very useful and powerful in my everyday working process. Here is the comparison between htop and oldie top (taken from htop’s site):
In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes and complete command lines.
In 'top' you are subject to a delay for each unassigned key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape sequences are triggered by accident).
'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while before displaying anything).
In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to kill a process, in 'top' you do.
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Run Photoshop with Ubuntu (or any other Linux) 2007-10-10 16:31:51 Adobe Photoshop
(or simply Photoshop), is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. Currently it’s market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. Unfortunately it’s available for M$ Windows and Apple OS X users only. Thanks to heaven (and Wine’s developers of course) there is Wine allowing to execute M$ Windows applications (from simple executables to M$ Office and Adobe Photoshop) in Linux
. The following instructions will help you to run Photoshop with you favorite Linux like Ubuntu
Feisty / Gutsy, Fedora, Debian or OpenSUSE (actually it’s no matter what distribution you use).
1. Install wine (in Ubuntu just execute sudo aptitude install wine, Fedora users may run sudo yum install wine).
2. Configure "Wine Is Not an Emulator":
$ winecfg
When ~/.wine directory is created configuration tool will start and you can set up a virtual desktop with the graphics tabs.
3. Install Photoshop cs2
F
One day without graphics but with Linux 2007-10-09 15:50:27 The idea to work one day without graphical applications and use only text utilities like wget isn't new but… Here is the list of essential tools that are invaluable to make "text mode day" real. Many described applications are already installed out-of-the-box after certain Linux
distro installation, if not command sudo aptitude install will help you (or yum install).
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Open XML Explained e-book available for free [corrected] 2007-10-09 15:03:23 Here is a downloadable copy of book "Open XML
Explained".
As you can see, initially this post provided link to e-book for Microsoft’s Open XML
(actually there is nothing open there except empty word in it’s name) format developers. But due to righteous criticism the link was removed.
ODF format specifications are available
here and here. If it happened so that you have to use M$ Office (in this case I sympathize with you), here is nice utility to get ODF working there (thanks to Wolfgang Lonien for the link).
The OpenDocument format (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, full name: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) is a file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. The standard was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium and based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenO
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