tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94349562012-01-27T15:48:09.807+01:00Richardnoreply@blogger.comBlogger49431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-8993206360578599552009-08-19T12:05:00.000+02:002009-08-19T12:05:05.050+02:00

Do you constantly have 99 new notifications, marked with the little red button at the bottom right in your Facebook account? Would you like to only receive important notifications, such as comments from friends, and skip the stuff various applications send you? Read on. This isn’t a new feature, but I’m always amazed at how many people simply endure thousands of notifications and updates from

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Unleash The Power of the Find Command

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It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no

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SourceForge.net, the big open source app/code repository has hit a major milestone: 4 billion downloads.Since 1999, SourceForge has the 'go to place' for all open source downloads, but in the last couple of years, Google Code has put up a bit of challenge. Remember also for a while there was this constant thread in media about how SourceForge had 100,000 project, though most had been abandoned.

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The days of ugly Linux desktops are a thing of the past. Modern distros include many tools and options that enable them to look good and be more useful.Unlike Windows, Linux has several different widget toolkits. The most well-known widget engines are GTK+, (distributed with GNOME) and QT. (pronounced “cute”) Widgets are the various elements which make up a program's GUI: scrollbars, arrows,

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Richardnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-37597853623713169752009-06-10T12:59:00.001+02:002009-06-10T12:59:51.474+02:00

Fedora 11 is released today.Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure, and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project, a partnership of free software community members from around the globe. Fedora 11 tourFeature ListRelease-notes

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UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) for Karmic Koala took place this year, between the 25th and 29th of May, in Barcelona, Spain. There were 270 blueprints that needed to be discussed during the summit, like the new professional look of Plymouth (an application that takes care of the graphical boot animation) for Karmic Koala, which will not become reality very soon. However, some of the ideas

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-65690813216008764792009-06-09T12:16:00.001+02:002009-06-09T12:16:45.600+02:00

Puppy Linux is a 100MB Jack of all trades Linux distribution, mainly used as a light, fast live CD distro. It's one of the more popular small distributions. I've reviewed Puppy twice already, loving it better each time.One of the things that makes Puppy so unique is the large number of sub-versions created by enthusiasts, each featuring a slightly different set of programs and themes. These

Richardnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-62881802684514702092009-06-09T12:13:00.001+02:002009-06-09T12:13:32.996+02:00

If you’ve taken a look at KDE 4, you will have noticed significant changes to the desktop. Many people feel these changes have made the KDE desktop less usable. By default, I would say that is certainly the case. But with KDE 4 comes one addition to the desktop that helps it out significantly: widgets — tiny applications that reside on the desktop and serve one or more functions. Most new KDE 4

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The Wine development release 1.1.23 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - Support for registering MIME types with the Linux desktop. - FBO mode is now the default for Direct3D. - Support for COM proxy delegation. - Improved support for the Mingw cross-compile. - Proper fullscreen mode for the virtual desktop. - Various bug fixes. WineHQ - Wine Announcement

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Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OSAfter four decades, the future of the operating system is clouded, but its legacy will endureUnix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS

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After 5 months of hard work, the Amarok team is proud to present the next major version of Amarok, 2.1.Amarok 2.1 "Let There Be Light" released

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KDE Community Improves Desktop with KDE 4.2.4KDE Community Ships Fourth Translation and Service Release of the 4.2 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates KDE - KDE 4.2.4 Release Announcement

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-71243701730350812762009-06-03T23:54:00.001+02:002009-06-03T23:54:51.782+02:00

Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform dedicated to open video formats and web standards: openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to watch videos on this platform - the only requirement is the latest version of Firefox, 3.5 beta, available here. Dailymotion announces support for Open Video! Farewell Flash

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-23872759780160563952009-05-31T21:57:00.002+02:002009-05-31T21:57:45.140+02:00

A showcase with download links of gnome themes.The post is called:Ubuntu Themes: 61 Awesome Themes for Linux

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The release is based on Ubuntu 9.04, the 2.6.28 Linux Kernel, X.org 7.4 and GNOME 2.26.www.linuxmint.com

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The team behind the Puppy Linux project has released the first maintenance release of Puppy Linux 4.2, version 4.2.1. Puppy Linux provides a very small, yet complete Linux desktop, with a lot of useful applications, many supported hardware devices and a pleasant user interface.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-4296026018860556082009-05-26T01:30:00.001+02:002009-05-26T01:30:13.178+02:00

Mozilla's new Jetpack project makes it easy to enhance the Firefox web browser by using conventional HTML and JavaScript. In this hands-on tutorial, we introduce you to Jetpack and use it to add a Digg counter to the browser's statusbar. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-23910560571792245632009-05-25T00:02:00.001+02:002009-05-25T00:02:04.331+02:00

The Open Source project behind the Google Chrome browser called Chromium has finally established an official Alpha release and it promises to be a very lightweight swiss army knife once completed.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-63744736956623014092009-05-24T00:13:00.001+02:002009-05-24T00:13:16.972+02:00

Calling all web coders - have you tried Bespin yet? It's a new project from Mozilla Labs attempting to bring a full-featured, collaborative editor to the web. Right now it's in the early stages of development (version 0.2.2) but you can take it for a test run today. read more | digg story

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Most distributions configure your graphics card and display automatically, but xorg.conf is still well worth fiddling with. It's a text file that contains all the configurations details required by the X server to deliver a graphical display and provide a connection between your keyboard, your mouse, and the computer. Read on to understand how xorgread more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-17701868039148257582009-05-23T02:10:00.001+02:002009-05-23T02:10:31.411+02:00

Firefox currently uses it's own notification pop ups to tell you that something has finished downloading - but you can get it to use your sexy new Jaunty notifications by installing a plug-in. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-43209284864997429172009-05-23T02:09:00.001+02:002009-05-23T02:09:01.433+02:00

More improvements to OLE copy/paste. - Beginnings of x86_64 exception handling. - Direct3D locking fixes. - ARB shaders improvements. - Better OpenGL pixel format support. - Various bug fixes. ---- And yes "Wine is not an emulator"read more | digg story

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"Ubuntu has got some excellent FREE applications which can turn your PC into Live Studio!"read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-68772618873963940542009-05-22T00:43:00.001+02:002009-05-22T00:43:41.395+02:00

Frustrated with Skype's treating Linux users like second-rate citizens, I resolved to see what alternatives there are to Skype. I started with Ekiga, which is pre-installed on Ubuntu. Read on to find out how I went getting rid of Skype and its limitations. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-38189938908441673972009-05-21T01:34:00.001+02:002009-05-21T01:34:19.040+02:00

Researchers have tested the question-and-answer routine that many web-mail services use for helping users that have lost their passwords, and found that they can't always be recalled by the user that entered them, but they are vulnerable to statistical and geography-based attacks. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-48823178691727073852009-05-21T01:33:00.003+02:002009-05-21T01:33:20.652+02:00

You don't need to install the new Moblin 2.0 Beta onto a netbook to try it out - you can install it onto your regular PC using a virtual machine. Story has complete step-by-step guide (with pics) on how to get it up and running, plus all the tools you need (free). Cool.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-78485556980923801612009-05-21T01:33:00.001+02:002009-05-21T01:33:01.017+02:00

From WYSIWYG Web authoring to video surveillance to audio recording to book authoring, Linux offers a wealth of featureful, capable applications. Today in part 1 Carla Schroder reviews four of her favorites.read more | digg story

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From WYSIWYG Web authoring to video surveillance to audio recording to book authoring, Linux offers a wealth of featureful, capable applications. Today in part 1 Carla Schroder reviews four of her favorites.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-80843263302644008602009-05-20T01:45:00.001+02:002009-05-20T01:45:03.902+02:00

Gnome is known for making subtle incremental changes instead of doing major overhaul, but the changes they have planned for Gnome 3 is much bigger than we have come to expect from Gnome.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-39066110298132672642009-05-20T01:44:00.005+02:002009-05-20T01:44:50.811+02:00

This video tutorial will explain how to losslessly convert any video file format under Linuxread more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-11437559018765068662009-05-20T01:44:00.003+02:002009-05-20T01:44:23.274+02:00

The new user interface for Mobil is finally here and I must say it looks gorgeous.read more | digg story

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With GNOME 3.0 comes GTK+ 3.0. So whats going on with GTK+ these days?read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-38239979173229126072009-05-20T01:43:00.001+02:002009-05-20T01:43:50.462+02:00

I have a webserver with a 4GB CF card in a very very small computer. I was trying to come up with ways to reduce writes on this device and I remembered UnionFS. UnionFS can take 1 folder and make it read-only and have all the changes written to another folder. To the user, everything will look the same.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-21334614788660857702009-05-19T00:18:00.005+02:002009-05-19T00:18:59.892+02:00

It just dawned on me yesterday: What will be the future of ZFS and Btrfs, seeing how Chris Mason, the lead developer to Btrfs works for Oracle? Historically, Btrfs was the Linux community’s solution to ZFS. Sun had intentionally open sourced and released ZFS under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) as a way to prevent....read more | digg story

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The next kernel version is to provide all that's necessary to convert, for example, a RAID 5 into a RAID 6 and vice versa. There are changes to the block layer designed to speed up the system, and new and improved drivers will offer better SAS support.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-85274302789428203332009-05-19T00:18:00.001+02:002009-05-19T00:18:15.387+02:00

Chromium now sports clickable tabs, new ‘tab’ button, the ‘speed dial’ page, a basic bookmarks bar, incognito browsing mode, better font rendering, ‘find’ bar and feels far more stable. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-27427249561629145562009-05-18T01:40:00.001+02:002009-05-18T01:40:08.077+02:00

Fedora 11 Screenshot Tour. Screen shots of install and other items.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-6313571342732904322009-05-18T01:39:00.001+02:002009-05-18T01:39:38.098+02:00

One of the most under-appreciated aspects of Thunar is the ability to create custom actions. A custom action is a user-configure item that interacts with Thunar plugins so you can quickly take action on files within a directory. Say, for instance, you want to quickly print a file.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-74744403669825602672009-05-17T00:55:00.003+02:002009-05-17T00:55:57.111+02:00

PolicyKit integration is the most notable back-end change: this framework lets application developers request privileges from the OS without needing the all-or-nothing 'su'. On the user-visible side, 4.3 Beta 1 sports a new tree view option for System Settings, a fading desktop switcher, and new window animations. Here's the full changelog -- read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-17574129211633515232009-05-17T00:55:00.001+02:002009-05-17T00:55:47.225+02:00

Linux users should soon be able to use USB-connected monitors that incorporate DisplayLink's chips. DisplayLink has released Linux versions of its USB monitor source code under LGPL, and has partnered with Novell and the Linux Driver Project to develop drivers for desktops and mobile devices.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-2720401583169964972009-05-17T00:53:00.001+02:002009-05-17T00:53:19.377+02:00

"Well known for being a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, this new release brings you the latest GNOME 2.26.1 release, a newer Linux kernel 2.6.29, a revamped notification area, and a ton of Xorg improvements!"read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-10617212976786008922009-05-16T01:21:00.003+02:002009-05-16T01:21:53.993+02:00

Another month has passed, and it's time to present the second beta release of the upcoming Amarok 2.1. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-54402028779243800512009-05-16T01:21:00.001+02:002009-05-16T01:21:36.403+02:00

A look at the future......this article shows the first steps being taken to implement the concept of Social Desktop in KDE4 using the Open Collaboration Services (OCS) API and how it enables the Users.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-60780470026703322352009-05-16T01:20:00.001+02:002009-05-16T01:20:49.905+02:00

Some nice GTD apps that can be used in Linuxread more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-55969035628617768822009-05-15T01:24:00.001+02:002009-05-15T01:24:42.525+02:00

How can it make my life easier as a developer? How do I get started? Well, jQuery makes writing Javascript fun again and really allows you to take advantage of some of the more difficult aspects of Javascript with relative ease.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-5931988958533928242009-05-15T01:22:00.001+02:002009-05-15T01:22:56.441+02:00

399 999 999 999 999 - 399 999 999 999 998 = 0. Google can't be wrong -- math is! But Google is hardly alone; this is just another example in a long and storied history of obscure little computer math errors that go way backread more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-41519375667664925082009-05-14T01:12:00.001+02:002009-05-14T01:12:21.865+02:00

Canonical is preparing to launch Ubuntu One, a new Web service that will offer cloud synchronization and collaboration features. Ars gives you a detailed hands-on look at the service and some of the underlying technology.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-16280728598241590742009-05-14T01:11:00.001+02:002009-05-14T01:11:47.679+02:00

Recently, the Linux Foundation, the non-profit consortium that fosters the growth of Linux, took over the stewardship over Linux.com. Now, the site has been relaunched, bringing together various Linux distributions, software, as well as prominent bloggers and people from the Linux community.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-253367725343391422009-05-14T01:10:00.001+02:002009-05-14T01:10:56.452+02:00

Even though Firefox is the default browser in most Linux distro, that doesn’t mean you have to confine yourselves to Firefox. While I love Firefox, there are times when it becomes a memory hogs and causes my computer to crash. Luckily, in Linux, there are plenty of great alternative browsers that you can use. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-4825503409387868292009-05-13T01:05:00.001+02:002009-05-13T01:05:38.449+02:00

The hard drive is the biggest speed bottleneck in any computer system. Linux has a number of tools for optimizing your hard drives and speeding up performance for different tasks. Paul Rubens shows us how.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-84182920665682696502009-05-12T00:37:00.001+02:002009-05-12T00:37:15.951+02:00

The security company releases AVG 8.5 for Linux, and hands an element of this package back to the open source community. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-54089284803513522012009-05-12T00:36:00.003+02:002009-05-12T00:36:55.996+02:00

Seems like a dropbox clone for now. It's a invite only beta (but you can request invites)read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-56433443809215674692009-05-12T00:36:00.001+02:002009-05-12T00:36:00.711+02:00

"With the release of Prism 1.0 beta we are ready to start fostering an ecosystem that makes it easier for developers to create and distribute compelling web app bundles"read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-35149127960352607882009-05-11T00:35:00.001+02:002009-05-11T00:35:10.376+02:00

As well as allowing the software to take advantage of multicore microprocessors to boost responsiveness, the enhancement would also improve browser stability, the company said in a news blog on the subject.read more | digg story

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Creating Ubuntu themes is no longer a bad experience. You can set up themes easily and effectively.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-45011094818134059952009-05-11T00:34:00.001+02:002009-05-11T00:34:33.493+02:00

Now that you've all gotten comfortable with your shiny new 9.04 release, we're rolling right along to the first milestone of the Karmic cycle - with Karmic Alpha 1 targeted for next Thursday, May 14. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-28080121190186030382009-05-10T01:27:00.001+02:002009-05-10T01:27:12.968+02:00

Uh-oh. The C library is an essential core component of any Unix-like operating system, and for Debian to switch from the well-established Glibc is big news. This blog post explains the reasons behind the move to EGLIBC, noting technical aspects such as a consistent stable branch, support for different shells and the ability to optimise for size read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-64769608614028813502009-05-10T01:26:00.003+02:002009-05-10T01:26:42.266+02:00

The KDE community proudly announced last night the immediate availability of the third maintenance release of KDE 4.2. The new version brings lots of bug fixes, especially for applications such as Kate, KRunner, Kephal, KSysguarda, KScreensaver, Kalzium, Konquest, JuK, KAlarm, KMail, KGpg, Ark and of course the KHTML engine.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-90382777678006391102009-05-10T01:26:00.001+02:002009-05-10T01:26:27.501+02:00

" Browser makers Mozilla and Opera accused Microsoft yesterday of force feeding Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to users with Windows Update and silently changing the default browser on PCs." ... I say they shouldn't be able to force any web browser as the default that's not FULLY CERTIFIED as being W3C.org Open Web Standards Compliant.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-89912122730086101442009-05-10T01:25:00.003+02:002009-05-10T01:25:45.037+02:00

* Beginnings of shader model 4 support. * Support for copying/pasting images from X11 applications. * A number of GDIPlus improvements. * Various listview fixes. * 64-bit support in winemaker. * Support for building on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.Also this release includes my patch that prevents Wine from opening zip files and shell scripts.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-11640088295912030402009-05-10T01:25:00.001+02:002009-05-10T01:25:37.295+02:00

lire is a groovy little tool for generating html or text reports from syslogs. Makes nice reports for apache servers.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-27739386729565546482009-05-09T02:12:00.001+02:002009-05-09T02:12:43.868+02:00

In September 2008 police began arresting alleged members of Dark Market, an underground Internet forum for buying and selling credit card data used for identity fraud. The sting wouldn't have been possible without the work of FBI agent J. Keith Mularski who spent two years infiltrating the group. Mularski became hacker "Master Splynter." read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-50169583318193728762009-05-09T01:42:00.001+02:002009-05-09T01:42:13.392+02:00

Conky is a highly customizable desktop monitor for X Window System. Think of it as KDE4 desktop widgets on crack.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-29410380224353251142009-05-09T01:41:00.001+02:002009-05-09T01:41:44.458+02:00

The first openSUSE Community Week is just around the corner. May 11 through May 17 we’ll be hosting live sessions in IRC to help grow the openSUSE Community. Community week is all about helping new contributors get started with openSUSE and getting existing contributors together to mentor new contributors, and working together on major projects.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-5263381994577622042009-05-08T02:41:00.001+02:002009-05-08T02:41:20.127+02:00

Yes, there is more to Linux than Ubuntu. As you are probably aware, there are many different types of Linux to choose from, even though not all get the attention they deserve. This guide sheds more light on some of the more common distributions in use today and covers the distinct advantages or disadvantages of each.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-35540181156677774702009-05-08T02:26:00.001+02:002009-05-08T02:26:54.593+02:00

Look at what I have running in Xfce 4.4 on my OpenBSD 4.4 laptop. Do you think I should stop some of these Xfce services that I have in my panels? There are maybe seven or eight in there that use about 10 MB of RAM each. On this 768 MB system, should I be giving up 70 MB of RAM to panel apps in Xfce? I like seeing them in the panel. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-37781823338043585242009-05-07T00:59:00.001+02:002009-05-07T00:59:32.484+02:00

I need to extend my programming knowledge, I know as a system administrator, I should automate everything I need to do more than twice and therefore I need more programming skills. While I like shell scripting I think it's a little archaic (no harm meant, I do like it and if it's your skill more power to you) read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-32333211442762568522009-05-07T00:58:00.001+02:002009-05-07T00:58:54.558+02:00

The author states that choosing to use Xubuntu to get an Ubuntu version inorder to save RAM/CPU is not really worth and using Debian with XFCEsaves much more RAM/CPU.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-66464934506664222892009-05-07T00:57:00.001+02:002009-05-07T00:57:42.336+02:00

The grep search utility is one of the most essential building blocks of command line text filtering and processing. In this tutorial, we will give you a few simple examples that will demonstrate how to get going with grep.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-10769667896441977482009-05-06T00:50:00.001+02:002009-05-06T00:50:36.062+02:00

The Torpig botnet was hijacked by the good guys for ten days earlier this year before its controllers issued an update and took the botnet back. During that time, however, researchers were able to gain a glimpse into the kind of information the botnet gathers as well as the behavior of Internet users who are prone to malware infections.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-33169162824735602612009-05-06T00:44:00.003+02:002009-05-06T00:44:46.215+02:00

Right now you are in a soup if you have a slightly older ATi Card and it seems to me that this is going to remain this way unless someone figures out how to backport x.org 1.5 onto Jaunty, which is going to be a hell of a task read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-42771773146565829412009-05-06T00:44:00.001+02:002009-05-06T00:44:08.882+02:00

When Mark Shuttleworth was asked what role WINE will play in Ubuntu's success, he said that Ubuntu cannot simply be a better platform to run Windows apps...read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-19595794793011275202009-05-06T00:43:00.001+02:002009-05-06T00:43:21.720+02:00

A widget has been included in KDE 4.3 as the first implementation of the „Social Desktop“ which allows the user to view other KDE users in his or her city or region. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-88644338510303276112009-05-05T02:18:00.001+02:002009-05-05T02:18:07.458+02:00

For Linux users who don't need absolute top-notch 3D performance, Intel is considered the preferred graphics solution, not least because the company develops its drivers as open source within the framework of the X.org project. However Intel’s drivers are currently in a state of some disarray.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-60747921246189129292009-05-05T02:17:00.001+02:002009-05-05T02:17:32.414+02:00

Here's a review of top 10 applications for KDE4. Yakuake - Great terminal application. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-73650310963987852182009-05-01T01:20:00.001+02:002009-05-01T01:20:31.882+02:00

Cupcake also known as Android 1.5 has been released today for OTA update. We are awaiting for an actually image so you can download it but our recommendation is to wait until you see update on your G1 screen.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-75862645237295439712009-04-30T02:19:00.001+02:002009-04-30T02:19:49.446+02:00

There are numerous changes affecting data security and Ext3 and Ext4 performance. EXOFS and NILFS2 and FS-Cache for AFS und NFS are all new. Although it is now barely maintained, there are also fixes for ReiserFSread more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-42875475306825444562009-04-30T02:18:00.003+02:002009-04-30T02:18:41.213+02:00

"From the 'who doesn't use GCC?' files: One of the most popular open source programs (technically Free Software) in the world got a major boost this week. GCC 4.4 adds in lots of new features the biggest of which is the Graphite Framework. GCC, originally was an acronym for GNU C Compiler, and has changed in recent years to stand for simply ..."read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-8299496881870265192009-04-30T02:18:00.001+02:002009-04-30T02:18:22.771+02:00

This is pre-release software. The Fedora Project makes no guarantees as to its suitability or usefulness. All issues should be reported via the Red Hat Bugzilla. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-72779271570150332392009-04-29T02:52:00.001+02:002009-04-29T02:52:49.893+02:00

Debian, Fedora, MEPIS, Mint, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Xandros, the list of desktop Linuxes goes on and on, and maybe that's one of its biggest problems.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-88851226724094614972009-04-29T02:51:00.001+02:002009-04-29T02:51:46.169+02:00

Somewhere between being awake and being asleep, there is a new state -- for PCs at least. "Somniloquy," Latin for "talking in one's sleep," is a new architecture developed by a Ph.D. student at U.C. San Diego that can bridge the gap between the energy-efficient but unconnected sleep modes of computers and the high-energy connected active modes.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-49903177374540926322009-04-28T01:16:00.001+02:002009-04-28T01:16:53.782+02:00

Full Linux for the Embedded Systems. Let us explore how to install a full Debian distribution on an emulated ARM926 machine with QEMU.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-80124394715483368632009-04-28T01:08:00.001+02:002009-04-28T01:08:10.122+02:00

Picture the scene: you're logged into a remote server via SSH, or you've installed a new graphics card and you're left staring at the command line. You need to enter a command, but you can't remember the zillion options that go along with it. You're stuck - all you can do is consult the manual pages and pore through pages of waffling technicalread more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-91636068110544788212009-04-28T01:07:00.001+02:002009-04-28T01:07:54.901+02:00

The reviews are in, and the just-released Ubuntu 9.04, i.e. "Jaunty Jackalope," rates as a slick, fully-formed Linux desktop. Looking to get started or upgrade your system? We're recommending 10 downloads for everyone to try. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-71540599648463073072009-04-26T02:07:00.001+02:002009-04-26T02:07:19.729+02:00

Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, was expected to wreak havoc on April 1 when it was due to be activated, but it failed to cause many problems. Internet virus experts, however, claim it is now quietly turning thousands of personal computers into servers of e-mail spam and installing spyware. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-19474521957223552602009-04-26T02:04:00.001+02:002009-04-26T02:04:40.358+02:00

"Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics enthusiast or professional"read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-42047982657886268672009-04-25T01:08:00.001+02:002009-04-25T01:08:05.701+02:00

Google code search uncovers a secret screed against Adobe's apparently arcane file format.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-30205463823313461262009-04-25T01:06:00.001+02:002009-04-25T01:06:51.492+02:00

Learning how to write your own simple scripts isn't that hard, especially when you have a great teacher. Here is a handy reference of some of the excellent howtos by Akkana Peck and Juliet Kemp on LinuxPlanet. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-78836050118950435272009-04-24T01:15:00.003+02:002009-04-24T01:15:30.964+02:00

Lifehacker editors review latest Ubuntu release from a productivity perspective: 'Rather than playing catch-up with Windows and OS X, Ubuntu is now on a par with them. In fact, it's been on a par since 8.04, this time last year.'read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-53297968856076865172009-04-24T01:15:00.001+02:002009-04-24T01:15:06.593+02:00

Ubuntu 9.04 is up and available for download. read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-35529754495947145422009-04-23T02:26:00.001+02:002009-04-23T02:26:27.840+02:00

New features include Wi-Fi drivers for chips from Atheros, Intel, Intersil/Prism and Marvell, LAN drivers for chips from Intel and enhanced energy saving technologies for the latest Wi-Fi hardwareread more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-65942293231924224392009-04-23T02:24:00.001+02:002009-04-23T02:24:19.738+02:00

The New Zealand version of Microsoft's MSN website was briefly hijacked after attackers penetrated that country's prominent domain name registrar. Websites for Sony, BitDefender, and HSBC were also commandeered.The mass defacements came as security researchers gathered in San Francisco discussed vulnerabilities in the DNS...read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-37430409176368056512009-04-23T02:23:00.001+02:002009-04-23T02:23:54.456+02:00

Gnome 3 will introduce a new vision of usability and rapid change, rather than continuing with the incremental growth and gradual changes of Gnome 2. Gnome 3 may be just as ambitious and disruptive as KDE4. Will it work? Will users accept it? Bruce Byfield gazes into his tea leaves and tries to figure out how it will all work out.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-41828844159820369652009-04-22T02:27:00.001+02:002009-04-22T02:27:01.076+02:00

I had to read this story Lenovo analyst: Linux on netbooks is doomed" several times because I couldn't quite believe what I was reading. Was this really Lenovo's Worldwide Competitive Analyst saying things like "You have to know how to decompile codes and upload data"? Really? read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-84170568724512523592009-04-22T02:26:00.001+02:002009-04-22T02:26:16.093+02:00

With Sun it tow, Oracle will now finally have its own operating system with Solaris, instead of just its Oracle Enterprise Linuxon Red Hat).Perhaps more importantly with one swift stroke Oracle has effectively cornered even more of the database market than it already owned.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-11467738149752012012009-04-22T02:24:00.001+02:002009-04-22T02:24:12.945+02:00

Web photo retouching service Picnik just announced a new partnership with Photobucket-based Twitter photo sharing service Twitgoo on its blog. The alliance will allow Picnik users to quickly share their retouched images on Twitter for free. In addition, twittering Picnik users can also apply the image as their Twitter background.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-30943761606899270622009-04-20T00:56:00.001+02:002009-04-20T00:56:26.816+02:00

In a comment to one of my recent stories, someone said that they could run Windows 7 on an older PC, but not Linux. Yeah. Right. But, how slow can a PC go and still run desktop Linux? Here's the answer.read more | digg story

Richardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434956.post-78283916181365483352009-04-20T00:53:00.001+02:002009-04-20T00:53:37.078+02:00

A list I made about my favorite top 5 login screens for Gnome / Ubuntu / Fedora etc. + some short installation instructionsread more | digg story

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