Linux may soon gain "multi-touch" support similar to that found in Apple's iPhone. The MPX (multi-pointer X) project is currently developing software aimed at enabling multiple cursors and input devices on standard OSes that use the X Window System, such as Linux and BSD.
Read more »Use smartmontools to find out information about your hard drives
Modern hard drives can tell you quite a bit about how they’re doing and show you some statistics about themselves. It won’t necessarily give you a realistic guess of when your drive is going to die, but it can help to keep tabs on things nevertheless.
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BlueWhite64 Linux adds features and enhancements
BlueWhite64 Linux v12.0, featuring a 2.6.21.5 Linux kernel with IA32-emulation, has been released on live CD and DVD ISOs. The distribution is aimed at pure 64-bit AMD64 Athlon, Opteron, Sempron, Turion, and Intel EM64T processors in desktops and servers.
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Back up like an expert with rsync
It's like "rsync for Dummies". Short and clear, yet with examples and syntax tips.
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Wyneken: A powerful, flexible notetaking program
Wyneken belongs in the growing list of note-taking applications for GNOME, along with the Sticky Notes panel apps, Evolution, and Tomboy. Specifically designed for students' needs, it is equally well-suited to the random jottings that anyone might make during the course of their work, as well as letters, reports, presentations, and even man pages.
Read more »Foray into Feisty Fawn helped me take back my MIPS
I am software developer, and I write software for the .NET Framework / Windows platform.
A short while ago I noticed that I was no longer doing development from home, so I didn't really need Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Internet Information Services, etc. etc. All I was doing was playing World of Warcraft (Ravenholdt-EU if you're interested)
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The Power of Google Gears (Part 2)
The ease of HTML and server-side programming makes web development, and the use of web applications, very popular. But dogging the web application developer all this time has been one nagging problem; what happens when the customer can't get access to the Web?
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Vmware Server Console — Introduction to Virtualization
Now we introduce the virtualization technology which allows us to run several systems on the same computer, at the same time, all under the control of one of them, called a “host”. My examples are based on the Vmware Server Console v. 1.0.3 (distributed from its manufacturer’s WWW free of charge) running under Mandriva Linux Spring with KDE 3.5.7.
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Dropdown lists in OpenOffice.org Calc
Dropdown lists are a mainstay of many spreadsheets and forms. They help you control what people can enter, as well as giving them ideas for what types of things they might say.
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Desktops and Windows Managers - Part 3 - Window Maker
Window Maker is a window manager that, while having elements of a desktop environment, does keep very strongly to the principles of a basic, light weight window manager. It has an extremely simple, mouse driven interface and in some ways operates in the old NextStep blueprint of functionality.
Read more »Syllable 0.6.4 released
The Syllable team are proud to announce the release of Syllable 0.6.4!
Syllable 0.6.4 contains many new features, enhancements and bug fixes from previous releases. Highlights of this release include...
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Smolt To Become A "Linux Thing"
Smolt, the Linux hardware profiler that was introduced by the Fedora project for automatically reporting installed hardware and other system attributes, reached a new milestone last week and is in the process of another. Last week, Smolt reached 75,000 profiles for Fedora after being introduced back in January of this year. At the time of writing, there are now over 78,300 profiles.
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MusicPal WiFi radio from Freecom offers internet radio
While most portable audio devices have MP3 (and video) files in mind, the new device by Freecom has internet radio as the main feature, but can still play the usual MP3s. It is called MusicPal WiFi radio, and as the name suggests it uses the wireless connection mode to access the internet.
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Intel and OLPC kiss and make up
There's nothing like allegations of predatory conduct to bring two organizations together. Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project has decided to bring Intel on board as a partner and a possible future supplier, just a few months after Negroponte went on 60 Minutes and essentially accused the chip maker of trying to destroy his low-cost PC project.
Read more »Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies
In this guide I will show you how to install a LAMP system. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. The guide is intended to help those who have very little knowlegde of using Linux.
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