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Howto create a Transparent Terminal in Ubuntu Desktop

Saturday, February 16, 2008

This tutorial will explain how to create a Transparent Terminal in Gnome Background using alltray.With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the “close” button will minimize back to system tray. It works well with [...]

Howto Setup a Remote Calendar using WebDAV with Mozilla Sunbird

Friday, December 7, 2007

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Ubuntugeek has a great tutorial on setting up a group calendar. Mozilla Sunbird is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. Using WebDav you can set a calendar system accessible to everyone who has web access.

How to Install the Eternity Screensaver in Ubuntu

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

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The Eternity Screensaver plays animations of ray-traced scenes which took days or even weeks to generate. The reasoning is that these clips should look more impressive than anything which can be generated on-the-fly. Here’s where you can find instructions on installing it.

Installing LAMP Server Using TASKEL (desktop edition) in Ubuntu

Friday, November 23, 2007

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This is to help people install LAMP(LINUX-APACHE-MYSQL-PHP) server in ubuntu(if u use the desktop edition,not for server edition).There are many ways in installing LAMP in a desktop edition. now lets see them. Full Story

Xubuntu 7.10 (gutsy gibbon) Screenshots Tour

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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Xubuntu is a complete GNU/Linux based operating system with an Ubuntu base. It is lighter on system requirements and tends to be more efficient than Ubuntu with GNOME or KDE, since it uses the Xfce Desktop environment, which makes it ideal for old or low-end machines, thin-client networks, or for those who would like to [...]

Howto Upgrade Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

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The Ubuntu team is excited to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is Ubuntu 7.10, which brings a host of excellent new features.This tutorial explains how to upgrade ubuntu feisty to ubuntu gutsy including step by step procedure and screenshots. Full [...]

Setup CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) Server and Client in Debian

Monday, September 24, 2007

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The Common UNIX Printing SystemTM, or CUPS, is the software you use to print from applications like the web browser you are using to read this page. It converts the page descriptions produced by your application (put a paragraph here, draw a line there, and so forth) into something your printer can understand and then [...]

Mount and Unmount ISO,MDF,NRG Images Using AcetoneISO

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

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AcetoneISO is CD/DVD image manipulator for Linux.Using this tool it is very easy to Mount and Unmount ISO,MDF,NRG Images Full Story

How to install Tor with Vidalia GUI on Ubuntu

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

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Do you want completely anonymous internet access? For Free? Tor is the open source leader to anonymous connections on the internet, you can anonymize your internet presence from AIM/ICQ/MSN/ Jabber/IRC/WWW/FTP and you can even issue a torify command at the command prompt to anonymize your wget/ssh/lynx/ftp/perl or what have you. While certainly not new, Tor [...]

Howto Set Flickr images as Ubuntu desktop wallpaper

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

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Only Ubuntu Linux has a great howto about Webilder, which delivers stunning wallpapers to your Linux desktop, directly from Flickr and Webshots. You choose what keywords (tags) to watch for, and photos are automatically downloaded to your computer. Webilder can also change the wallpaper every few minutes. Full Story

Howto upgrade kernel(2.6.22-9-generic) in Feisty Fawn

Monday, August 6, 2007

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Currently Feisty Fawn users (7.04) using the generic kernel (which is 2.6.20-16-generic). This tutorial from Ubuntu Geek will explain how to upgrade you to kernel version 2.6.22-9-generic(as of 31JUL07). Full Story

VHCS2 ISP control Panel Setup Guide in Debian Etch

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

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from Debian Admin. VHCS delivers a complete hosting automation appliance by offering significant security, total-cost-of-ownership, and performance advantages over competing commercial solutions. With VHCS Pro you can configure your server and applications, create user with domains with a few point-and-click operations that take less than a minute. There is no limit to the number of [...]

Use Google Linux repositories in Debian

Saturday, July 28, 2007

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Debian Admin has the following story: Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories. Full Story

Mount and Unmount ISO,MDF,NRG Images Using AcetoneISO (GUI Tool)

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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Only Ubuntu Linux has a great article on using software to mount images. AcetoneISO is CD/DVD image manipulator for Linux.Using this tool it is very easy to Mount and Unmount ISO,MDF,NRG Images Full Story

Convert .flv (Google Videos) to .mpg using ffmpeg

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

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FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most operating systems, including Windows. In ubuntu This package contains the ffplay multimedia player, the ffserver streaming server and the ffmpeg audio and video [...]

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