I run Ubuntu on a couple of my machines and I love how clean they look. But some always look for a lot of flash in their Operating System. So people have upgraded to Vista for that reason alone, though I WOULD NOT suggest it. At the same time many have actually said [...]
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I know just enough linux/unix shell to be dnagerous. But every once in a while I find out about a new command that makes me go Ooooo… why doesn’t Windows (I won’t say MacOSX since it may) have this?
lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a [...]
I hadn’t been feeling well for the last few days… even spent a few hours in the emergency room Tuesday, So I decided to take it easy on making any posts. But in some wandering around I came across this post about a guy who wanted to show that evolutionary is all in the [...]
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In wandering around, it was nice to see a linux distro aimed at showing that the operating system isn’t toothless in the gamer area. And rather then having a bunch of opensource games that a lot of people won’t recognize. They included a number of top games that would be recognizable to [...]
eMoviX is a tiny Linux CD distribution containing all the software to boot from a CD and play automatically every video file localized in the CD root. Supported formats are all formats supported by MPlayer, most noticeably DivX & XviD but more in general most AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, FLI and a few others.
If [...]
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We’ve just installed these two donated computers in a community nursery and breakfast/after school club in Lincolnshire, England. The machines are 600mhz/128mb/4.2gig and they took about 3/4’s of an hour to install and configure perfectly, and have cost the center nothing!
The kids absolutely love them, most are from underpriviledged backgrounds and many of them [...]
Sys Admin > Halted Firewalls
As systems administrators, it’s often funny how new and interesting information ends up in our hands. Sometimes, it’s through an intentional course of study; other times, it seems to arrive by accident. That’s exactly how the concept of using a halted Linux computer as a firewall occurred to me. I was [...]
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I’d ignore this wine normally but now I’m curious about how it is. Why is this? Because it shares a name with one of the most popular and easiest to use Linux Distributions, Ubuntu.
But what is Ubuntu wine you ask?
The word “Ubuntu” means to share and the four single varietal wines that comprise [...]
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APC Magazine » How Vista screws dual-booting nirvana
[...] In my sanguine state, I didn’t even notice that I had just told Ubuntu to hibernate instead of shutdown. Generally, I tend to avoid hibernating my notebook. Over the years I’ve become accustomed to treating an OS like my office; the first thing you do when you [...]
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Google To Pay Freight for Number 2 Linux Guy @ LINUX.SYS-CON.COM
Now that English-born Aussie Andrew Morton, Linux’ second-ranking kernel hacker, has resolved what friends described as his US visa issues, he has “taken a job” with Google. In other words, Google is going to pay his salary while he continues to act as the 2.6 [...]
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