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Archive | August, 2006

Poser 5 3d Art & Animation Software is now Free, Cool, No Strings

31. August 2006

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Poser 5 is now a Free Download at ContentParadise.com. This is an awesome piece of software, the best thing around for Character Animation! It also outputs Flash and does great still images. Too many features to list. Technorati Tags: free software, poser, free 3d read more | digg story Share and Enjoy:

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Desktop Linux reports that Ubuntu is now the most popular distro

30. August 2006

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Yikes!  Looks like Ubuntu’s getting something of a following. From the article: “Ubuntu, with 29.2 percent of the vote, has been the hottest community Linux since early 2005. While this Linux has had its problems lately, such as the update fiasco on August 21st and 22nd, users continue to download, install, and love it. “ [...]

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Ubuntu’s Source-o-matic – great way to get a sources.list file!

30. August 2006

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Need to find a reliable sources.list file for you Ubuntu install?  Want to update to the latest and the greatest? Check out the Ubuntu Source-o-matic!  Let it know what you want and it will generate an accurate sources.list for you.  This isnt’ the end-all be-all  guide to sources, but it’s got just about everything most [...]

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Disable Autoplay in Windows XP

30. August 2006

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Autoplay can be extremely annoying.  I’m not fond of pluggin a USB drive into my laptop and watching while XP tries to figure out what to do with it.  Thankfully there’s a way to turn this off.  You can turn it off either for your cd/dvd drive or anything. First, go to Start-> Run and [...]

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3 Great Safari Add-Ons

30. August 2006

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SafariStand, Taboo and Forgetmenot are three great little Safari add-ons that make surfing with Safari even more pleasurable. Technorati Tags: apple, mac, safari, osx read more | digg story Share and Enjoy:

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Flickr: 1.2 million photos geotagged in first 24 hours

30. August 2006

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Stunning news from Flickr; that users geotagged 1.2 million of their photos in first 24 hours of new service, and 1.6 million by the time the staff got around to mentioning it the next morning. Wow! Technorati Tags: flickr, 1 million geotags, geotag read more | digg story Share and Enjoy:

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Write for ArsGeek – Build positive Karma for your next install.

29. August 2006

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Arsgeek wants YOU! See your name up in lights, on the internet and possibly from space. We are searching for the following: Share and Enjoy:

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How to share a folder with Read/Write access using Samba on Linux

29. August 2006

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Here’s my setup. I’ve got a large network that’s accessible by hordes of people. On this network I have an Ubuntu box acting as a file server. I want a limited number of folks to be able to put files on it, take files off of it and access it from a number of different [...]

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Here’s a good one for your machine room / computer lab

29. August 2006

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This says it all.

29. August 2006

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geek out Technorati Tags: sudo, comics, sudo comics Share and Enjoy:

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Culture Leaps – Medieval State of the Movies

29. August 2006

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Join us in this episode of culture leap while our intrepid author discovers that Hollywood isn’t all that concerned with the accurate portrayal of medieval life and that certain snakes have been entertaining us with accurate parodies long before they flew about in planes.   Share and Enjoy:

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Learning the Shell, and why you should

29. August 2006

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Here’s a great article at LinuxCommand.org detailing why the Shell is and always will be an important part of Linux.  Also, thrown in for good measure, is a guide to using it! geek out. Share and Enjoy:

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Lenovo provides BIOS simulators for all of their Thinkpads

29. August 2006

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Here’s a great site for anyone who has to troubleshoot Thinkpads and needs to check BIOS settings on them, even if the laptop isn’t right in front of them! (Think phone support). Since this tool has come in handy more than once, I thought I’d digg it. read more | digg story Technorati Tags: lenovo, [...]

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Free Automatic Photo-stitcher

28. August 2006

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This awesome program developed at the University of British Columbia will automatically align, stitch, and blend multiple picture files into individual photographs. Forget stitching your hundreds panoramic shots by hand, the output from this program is better than anything you could do by hand in the same amount of time. Look at the results!Technorati Tags: [...]

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How to generate and check md5 sums.

28. August 2006

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md5 sums are extremely useful. They let us know if something is what we really expect it to be. for instance, if you create a program, and compress it before sending it off, you can generate an md5 sum for it so others can validate that the compressed bit of code they’ve just downloaded is [...]

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