Today we are going to see how you can make Ubuntu much more user friendly and add eye candy.
Read more »Installing and Setting Up Avant Window Navigator
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blog.el - 0.1 - WordPress client for Emacs
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"Hi all, I'm a new Emacs LISP programmer, and I've created a blog client similar to weblogger-mode, but it allows one to type posts in muse-mode. The client is still in primitive stage but at least it allows one to post to web-log. It requires muse-mode{,-html}.el and xml-rpc.el Emacs LISP libraries to be present somewhere in load-path. To use it, follow the instructions below: ..."
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10 Linux desktops you shouldn’t overlook
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If you know Linux, you know there are tons of options on every level. To some, this might seem overwhelming at first. To others, it’s all about possibility. The desktop is certainly not without options.
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Emacs Urdu Language Support
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Here a quick heads up on Urdu language support on Emacs-snapshot-gtk (1:20080228-1ubuntu1) on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Apart from the missing characters and even language direction gets messed up, its good to see some Unicode support but there is a long way yet, I still have to use gedit for editing language files.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #116
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #116 for the week November 2nd - November 8th, 2008.
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Apt-P2P: peer-to-peer downloading of Debian packages
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"Do you want to help out the Debian (or Ubuntu) project with some mirror bandwidth but don’t know how? Do you want to contribute somehow to Debian’s infrastructure, but you’re not a coder? Tired of getting slow download speeds when the mirrors are overloaded after a new release? Then Apt-P2P is for you..."
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Figuring Out Group Permissions in Linux
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You may be faced with a situation in which you must figure out who has permissions to a file or directory and what those permissions are. This sounds simple enough. It really is not as simple as it may sound, here is an example. You view the contents of the /var/www (/var/www/html in CentOS) directory where your web site content is found and you see a directory that looks like this:
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Hey, checkout my Ubuntu desktop.
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I'd modified my Ubuntu Hardy Heron Desktop to look and behave like Mac OSX Leopard. I installed Compiz Fusion for cutting edge 3D effects, Avant Window Navigator, gdesklets and Mac4Lin. Well, who needs Vista and Mac now?
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Kid3 - opensource ID tagger to edit mp3 & other media files
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Kid3 is a free opensource tool to easily tag multiple MP3 files (e.g. full albums) without typing the same information again and again and allow you to control and edit ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. It’s one of those things I started doing so enthusiatically and then give up after a few tracks and finally this should help me get around this.
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Firefox gets Porno Mode
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I guess it had to happen, after IE8 added a Porn User Mode, and now Firefox has got one as well. Is this a good thing?
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Extending ERC with Emacs Lisp
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"ERC is an IRC client written in Emacs Lisp. This makes ERC very easy to extend, customize and otherwise adapt to your personal style. A nice features of the standard ERC distribution is that you can extend the set of commands available on your IRC prompt by writing short Emacs Lisp functions. When you define a function called “erc-cmd-XXX” it instantly becomes available as an IRC command..."
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SuperTuxKart from the Libregamewiki, the Free Gaming Encyclopedia
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SuperTuxKart is a racing game featuring the Linux mascot Tux. It is an enhanced fork of TuxKart. The latest version of the game is 0.5 and was released on May 31th, 2008. It is written in the C++ programming language. It uses the library SDL and PLIB for graphics and OpenAL for sounds.
SuperTuxKart was worked on by the GotM team through July to December 2004.
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Theora 1.0 Final is here.
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It took long, but the Xiph.Org Foundation has finally released the mature, stable, rock-solid version of the Theora codec. Read the announcement for more information. After last year's attempted patent FUD that went nowhere and Mozilla's adoption of the format for the web, this announcement is another victory for the Open Media cause.
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Four More Offbeat Open Source Ideas
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I'm a fan of many kinds of offbeat open source efforts, and the idea of community contributions can be applied to any number of pursuits, as seen previously in this post. This week I came across a few eyebrow-raising open source stories worthy of another short roundup. Here, you'll find four unusual examples of left-field open source in action.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #115
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #115 for the week October 26th - November 1st, 2008.
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