As a Linux user you’ll come to learn and love certain commands. Remembering these commands is the toughest part. Some people use cheat-sheets some create scripts, and some just refer to website for their fix. Here I have posted the 25 top command line snippets.
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News On The Default Applications In Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
Today is the last UDS-N day and a session about the default application selection in the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is ongoing. Here's what is being discussed:
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The Message of Firesheep: "Baaaad Websites, Implement Sitewide HTTPS Now!"
Firesheep demonstrates a security flaw that the computer security community has been concerned about for years — that any network eavesdropper can take over another user's session (say, a login to a webmail or social networking account) just by sniffing packets and copying the victim's cookie
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New Koobface Variant Infects Linux Systems
Security researchers warn that a new drive-by download attack is capable of infecting Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems with a new variant of the notorious Koobface worm.
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Gravaj sekurigeldonoj: Firefox 3.6.12, 3.5.15; Thunderbird 3.1.6, 3.0.10; baldaŭ SeaMonkey 2.0.10
Mozilo eldonis korektaĵojn de gravega malsekuro en Fajrovulpo kaj Tondrobirdo, uzebla per JavaSkripto. Oni planas eldoni la korektaĵon por SeaMonkey hodiaŭ.
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What's The Fastest Linux Filesystem On Cheap Flash Media?
Compact Flash and SD storage cards are everywhere; gigabytes for cheap in a tiny form factor. Most come formatted with VFAT. So what is the fastest Linux filesystem for these little devices?
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Generating barcodes with KBarcode
Sometimes alphanumeric text simply won’t cut it, and you need a bar code — mailing labels, security badges, inventory tracking, perhaps even URL-encoding for mobile phones. With KBarcode, you can use a simple desktop application to generate several dozen different barcode types
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Rosegarden - An open source MIDI / audio multi-tracker
Rosegarden allows recording, arranging, and composing music. Multiple tracks can have effects added and then be mixed down for burning to CD or for distribution on the web. The built-in notation editor supports printed output via GNU LilyPond
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Where Google Went Wrong with Android? and Where Nokia & Intel Went Right?
The most important issue is their very own fork of the Linux kernel which no longer can be merged with the upstream kernel
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The KDE Netbook Desktop - Continued
Jamie A. Watson writes: "I wrote a few days ago about Kubuntu on Netbooks. After a few days of experimentation and discovery, I'm going to continue and expand that topic to the KDE Netbook Desktop in general."
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Quality Printing with GIMP
In spite of Silicon Valley’s best efforts, it is still not a paperless world, we need to print. There are still a few things the average user can do to enhance the quality of prints from graphics applications like GIMP
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Weekend Project: Get Started with Btrfs
For those unfamiliar, Btrfs is a clean break from the approach used in Linux's ext filesystems in years past.
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State of Firefox 4.0 on GNU+Linux
"So we've probably all seen the mock-ups for Firefox 4.0 by now, but has any of it been implemented? In the Windows version, yes. On the GNU+Linux version, partially. And it looks like it's going to stay that way. I'm going to show you what's different in the current development version (nightly 4.0b8pre) from 3.6."
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Amarok Celebrates Success, Announces Roktober Fundraiser
In the last twelve months, we have made more than 4000 commits, closed over 4000 bugs, released 6 new versions of Amarok, written a Quick Start Guide to Amarok, attended over 10 conferences and had a big developer sprint in Switzerland. All of this, thanks to your donations!
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Microsoft posts video of customers criticizing OpenOffice
Warnings ! no objectivity there. Instead of simply listing what it believes to be the advantages of Microsoft Office over the open source OpenOffice.org productivity suite, Microsoft has compiled comments from 15 customers who switched to Office after evaluating OpenOffice. The result: this video recently posted to the company's officevideos YouTube channel, which we've embedded below.
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