Recently I found that Dell has partnered with Canonical to offer the latest version of Ubuntu (7.04) with the sale of new Dell computers. This piqued my interest because of the hoops I had to jump through to get my Dell Intel Pro Wireless (IPW) 2200bg card to work with Fedora Core 4. My theory is that Ubuntu 7.04 should be incredibly easy to install and configure on my Dell laptop.
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Sharing Internet Connection in Ubuntu
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Setting up a computer to share its internet connection should be easy. After all, you’ve successfully networked your computers together and even shared files with all your home computers, so why not the Internet?
Read more »Setting Up Postfix As A Backup MX
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In this tutorial I will show how you can set up a Postfix mailserver as a backup mail exchanger for a domain so that it accepts mails for this domain in case the primary mail exchanger is down or unreachable, and passes the mails on to the primary MX once that one is up again.
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Konqueror, KHTML and CSS 3
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Some days ago someone on slashdot mentioned that the next Opera version is going to pass all CSS 3 tests. While this is great news for Opera I wondered how well konqueror does on this tests, and gave it a try. It passed all tests without a problem. This surprised me a bit because I did not remember reading about this.
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Linux Desktop User's Tips
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These are short and easy things to do which can make your Linux desktop even more convenient than it currently is. Trying Ubuntu out without changing your distribution or creating a new drive partition or installing it on another HD, setting up OpenOffice so ability to read/write Windows Office 2007 word processor documents are what you'll learn how to do today.
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Why is Amarok's "Burn This Album" Disabled in Ubuntu?
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So you are using the killer Amarok music application under Ubuntu, but when you try to "Burn this Album", the menu item is grayed out and otherwise disabled. The reason for this is because Amarok is a KDE application designed to work with K3b, the cd burning application for KDE, but it's not installed by default in Ubuntu. (For that matter, neither is Amarok)
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Alpha 5 Install, Continued
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I had managed to get my test system back to normal with the (brilliant and fast) 1-disc KDE install, and was still looking at (re)burning the 6 CDs of the original distro — until it hit me! I could point YaST to the Factory installation source, and stay absolutely current on a day-to-day basis!
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Easy Cross Platform File Sharing With KPF
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For those Linux users who have multiple networked computers and who want to periodically want to get material off of their linux boxes onto their windows computer, many people suggest samba. A much simpler application for someone who does not want to tranfer files the other direction (Windows->Linux) is KPF. It comes with KDE by default, and is very easy to set up.
Read more »Last.FM users: Please ask Last.FM to turn off their stations on Tuesday!
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The US copyright royalty board decided that online radio must pay *per song* *per person*, not per broadcast as it was previously done. Now only license holders or really rich people will be able to have online radio stations, and it's going to kill internet radio in the US as we know it. Last.FM: Will you please join the day of silence?
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Open Source World lacks Good Web Development IDEs
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Linux is considered the de-facto server based operating system. A typical Linux distribution comes with everything any web developer could have asked for: php, apache, python, perl, ruby etc. However there is one thing that Linux sorely lacks: Web Development IDEs.
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The Guide to 100 percent Linux KDE Desktop Success
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This is a guide on how Linux and especially the KDE desktop could revolutionize the world of computers and operating systems and bring a major breakthrough so Linux would go mainstream. It is made for the KDE desktop but the ideas could also find their way into GNOME and other environments.
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GParted Live CD
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Partitioning your hard drives is rarely a fun business and oftentimes can be a real pain to do. Thankfully, it’s a lot easier than it used to be to slice up and mess around with your drive, which is only helped by the fact that nowadays we have graphical applications for this sort of task.
Read more »Open sourcers rattle EU sabre at BBC on demand player
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The BBC is being threatened with an anti-trust challenge in Europe over its use of the Windows Media format in its on demand service, iPlayer, which is in the final stages of testing.
Read more »Protecting against SSH Brute Force Attacks
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There are some basic security steps that you can do to protect SSH, such as change the port from the ssh, and install a script as denyhosts.
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