GIMP or GNU Image Manipulation Program is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc.
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Get The Gimp 2.6.4 .deb (for Ubuntu)
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Evolution vs Kontact - Part 2 - Kontact & Conclusion
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Welcome back to Part 2 of this series - pitting GNOME's Evolution Personal Information Manager (PIM) suite against KDE's Kontact.
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The watch command
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The "watch" command is a handy little program in Linux, what are some of the ones you use that may not be so common to everyone?
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Reading from Serial Ports in Python
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What once was the primary method of inter-hardware communication, the serial port now seems to be considered more of a legacy form of communication as more applications are networked. However, I don't think I am the only one that still has the need to interface equipment or applications that only talk through the serial port.
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Meet Emacs: in which a peepcode is released
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"Well, it's finally out! I'm proud to announce that the Peepcode screencast I mentioned earlier has been released and is available for download at peepcode.com ..." (available in Ogg format)
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Unix and Linux WebTech Humor: Bourne Shell Server Pages
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An idea whose time has come, gone and... come again? ;)
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The Twelve Days Of Unix
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By the time you read this, Christmas will be over ;)
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Happy Holiday - More ASCII Art
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Seasons Greetings To One And All :) Merry Christmas!
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Export your Firefox 3.0 full profile to Firefox 3.1 (all addons, themes, cookies, passwords, etc)
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This article explains how to move a full profile (addons, themes, cookies, browsing history, passwords and so on) from Firefox 3.0.x to Firefox 3.1.x beta or any other version, but it also works for synchronizing Firefox on 2 different computers or backing up a full profile of Firefox.
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Finding Your MSN/Live Index Rank From The Unix Or Linux CLI
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It's been a while since we put out an seo metrics script. In many ways, this is the opposite of our last one.
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TP-LINK TL-WN322G USB Wireless Network Card
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The TP-LINK TL-WN322G+ USB Wireless Network Card is supported very well in gnu/Linux with a builtin module zd1211rw now included in main linux kernel tree, thanks to the zd1211 project.
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A Single Command to Get Started on Functional Programming
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"Functional Programming is old. Ancient. Like right after FORTRAN. But it’s the future. Trust me, I’m named after the dude who knew about Jesus 700 years early. Seriously, it’s not going to take 700 years for FP to go mainstream. Some would argue that it already is. Python, Ruby, and others have adopted a number of FP features.
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This may have very little to do with Unix or Linux, but I miss Jack Handey ;)
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The Gnome Screen Real Estate Problem & what can be done now
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Gnome does a pretty bad job at utilizing screen real estate. In fact, all Desktop environments in Linux.. in all distro ’s uses up far too much screen real estate for just about everything. But until Gnome, Ubuntu, Fedora or anyone else can fix the problem, what can be done about it now? Well, a lot actually.
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Small is beautiful
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Netbooks are small computers that are cheaper and lighter than full-scale laptops. They have their merits—but do not ask too much of them
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