I was a techno-dinosaur, resisting the call of the computer with all my might. At the time, the learning curve seemed too steep and there was always too much to do.
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Why I Choose Linux
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I never liked Windows. My Apple II+, which didn't have a hard drive and had only 48 Kilobytes of RAM, was a dinosaur by comparison to my first Windows machine but the Apple was an old friend who I understood and spent hundreds of pleasurable hours learning how to use.
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How To Set Up A Headless X Server On Redhat Linux
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The Headless X-Server Rides! Rides, Rides how he rides. Sorry -- sourcing The headless horsemen and the Dead Kennedy's for some reason ;)
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Famous Sed One-Liners Explained
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This article explains tens of sed one-liners from the famous sed1line.txt file. Sed is a unix program for editing text.
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Amarok 2.0 Beta 2 was released
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The Amarok team has proudly announced a few hours ago the second beta release of the upcoming Amarok 2.0 music player. The much-anticipated release brings lots of improvements, new features and numerous bug fixes.
The most important changes in Amarok 2.0 Beta 2 are:
· Incremental scanning support;
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Exaile 0.2.14 and Exaile 0.3.0a music player - released
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0.2.14 has been released! This release includes a lot of bug fixes, and the lastfmradio plugin.
Also, we’ve put up the first source tarball for Exaile 0.3.0a. To use it, download and extract the tarball, then run ./exaile from within the source directory. Note: This is an alpha release, and yes we know that there are a lot of features missing. This is just barely a hint of what’s to come.
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A Linux wallpaper for beginners
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This is a wallpaper especially designed for Linux beginners. It shows the main Linux commands and their descriptions.
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Shell Script To Access The International Thesaurus!
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Impress your friends with fancy alternative foreign words for the banal English ones you use everyday ;)
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Linux Package Manager Cheatsheet
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A short introduction to package management. Provides an overview of YUM (RPM-based distributions) and Aptitude (Debian and its derivatives).
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Getting it on with Git - Part 1
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"When I first heard about Git a few months ago the first thing that popped in my mind was: "Why the hell would I ever want to learn a new version control system?" Subversion works perfectly fine, doesn't it? I resisted at first, but after a few weeks I came around and decided to take Git for a test drive. This is what I discovered: ..."
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Understanding HTTP PUT
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"I was in the process of writing an article to explain on how to make possible to edit your Web pages with HTTP PUT and Amaya (W3C technologies testbed authoring tool). The information is scarce on how to configure your server. This is my attempt at explaining HTTP PUT. Your comments are welcome. I'm pretty sure the lazyweb will fix any of my own misunderstandings..."
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Debian and Ubuntu DDNS with Bind9 and DHCP
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This tutorial is a continuation of my previous post How to setup a LAN DNS server using Bind9 under Debian and Ubuntu Linux which covers the installation of bind9 on a Debian/Ubuntu system. This new tutorial will cover the Dynamic DNS features of bind9.
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How to setup a LAN DNS server using Bind9 under Debian and Ubuntu Linux
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This is a step by step tutorial on how to install and configure DNS server for your LAN using bind9. The DNS server will provide caching and name resolution as well as reverse name resolution for your local network. In this tutorial, we will use the domain "debian.lan" and this will be the domain of your local network.
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Script To Get Weather Forecasts For Your Zip Code
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Not only will you not have to open the window, now you don't even have to open the browser window to find out the weather ;)
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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Install
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The new Intrepid Ibex install provides several new features which will make it easier to install Ibex. One of those new features is a new interface for understanding how to do a "Manual " installation. Most of the time the option "Guided" install is done because users are frustrated with how to create partitions correctly.
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