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Happy New Year!

31. December 2006

Wishing you and all who are close to you a wonderful, happy and safe New Year! Share and Enjoy:

Running Internet Explorer in Ubuntu Linux

31. December 2006

No clicks needed. No boring setup processes. No Wine complications. Just one easy script and youâ€™ll get three IE versions to test your Sites. And itâ€™s free and open source.This may be very helpful for software developers and web developers to test their applications. Full Story Share and Enjoy:

SSH your Debian servers without password

31. December 2006

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Secure Shell is a program to log into another computer over a network, to execute commands in a remote machine and to move files from one machine to another. It provides strong authentication and secure communications over unsecured channels. It is intended as a replacement for telnet, rlogin, rsh, and rcp. For SSH2, there is [...]

Got Grail? Flu sufferers might.

30. December 2006

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News.com.au is reporting that a “holy grail” of flu vaccines will begin human testing in the near future. Full story here, or after the jump. Share and Enjoy:

NASA releases preliminary report on Stardust samples

29. December 2006

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The preliminary examination of space dust brought back to Earth by NASAâ€™s Stardust spacecraft has been completed. The results of the studies, which could help explain the origin of the universe, appear in a series of seven papers to be published in the December 15, 2006 issue of Science Express, the online edition of the [...]

This surely tops my gadget list for 2006 – a tiny co-axial helicopter

22. December 2006

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Although it’s probably too late to ask my wife for this for Christmas, I’d surely love to tool around with one in the new year. Introducing the worlds smallest co-axial helicoptor.Â Of course, the site is in Japanese but the pics are worth a visit. Read on after the jump for an amusing but innacurate [...]

Kubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Step By Step Installation with Screenshots

21. December 2006

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Kubuntu is a user friendly operating system based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment. With a predictable 6 month release cycle and part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu is the GNU/Linux distribution for everyone. Read Full article here Share and Enjoy:

Network Bandwidth Monitoring Tools

21. December 2006

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This is list of Network Bandwidth Monitoring Tools for Ubuntu Users includes bmon bwbar, bwm, bwm-ng, iftop, iperf, ipfm speedometer, cbm, ibmonitor, pktstat, mactrack, MRTG and Cacti.Â This tutorial has instructions onÂ how to install and configure each tool with examples and screenshots. This is very useful for all Linux users and admins. Read Full [...]

OS XP

20. December 2006

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One more before I go. I’ve been meaning to get these screenshots up! Here’s a few shots from my Apple Mini running OSXP – that is, OSX and Windows XP in Parallels. If you enjoy what you see, read this article to do it yourself! Share and Enjoy:

ArsGeek’s 1st annual holiday slowdown!

20. December 2006

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We’re winding into the holiday season, and this particular geek as a 10 day vacation coming up.Â I’ll be near a computer most of the time but don’t expect this site to be very active until the new year. Meanwhile I hope all of you enjoy your holiday breaks and winter wonderlands and that those [...]

Still got a bunch of cassette tapes laying about? Well here you go.

20. December 2006

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Firebox offers the Plus Deck Cassette Converter – a little gadget that fits into your 5.25″ drive bay and converts cassettes to digital formats.Â From their site: This back to the future bit of kit is a full logic, front-loading cassette deck that can convert, edit and play tapes on your PC. Once you’ve hooked [...]

In Memory of Dr. Carl Sagan | 1934 – 2006

19. December 2006

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On December 20th, 2006 it will be 10 years since Carl Sagan passed away. He is remembered for many things – a quick survey of various blogs and websites turns up tons of pro-science and pro-atheist sites.Â That’s all well and good and Carl did a lot to influence these folks.Â However what I’ll remember [...]

Instructions to any lego set ever made

19. December 2006

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This site purports to have every instruction booklet for every Lego set ever made online and available for free. Thank goodness for this, as I have a 30 lb Bag O Legos from my childhood that I can sort through and build wonderful things with. Share and Enjoy:

Ubuntu Quicktip – adding extra fonts to your Ubuntu install

19. December 2006

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If you’re in the mood for a few new fonts to play around with, here’s how you go about adding them to your system. First, you’ll have to make sure you have extra repositories added. Then, open up a terminal session (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and type the following: sudo apt-get install gsfonts-x11 msttcorefonts [...]

Wired Blogs presents the top 10 gadgets that changed the world

19. December 2006

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Wired makes a compelling case that our fascination with gadgets is justified.Â Gadgets can, in fact change the world. Share and Enjoy:

Archive | December, 2006

Happy New Year!

Running Internet Explorer in Ubuntu Linux

SSH your Debian servers without password

Got Grail? Flu sufferers might.

NASA releases preliminary report on Stardust samples

This surely tops my gadget list for 2006 – a tiny co-axial helicopter

Kubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Step By Step Installation with Screenshots

Network Bandwidth Monitoring Tools

OS XP

ArsGeek’s 1st annual holiday slowdown!

Still got a bunch of cassette tapes laying about? Well here you go.

In Memory of Dr. Carl Sagan | 1934 – 2006

Instructions to any lego set ever made

Ubuntu Quicktip – adding extra fonts to your Ubuntu install

Wired Blogs presents the top 10 gadgets that changed the world

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