The BBC have recently released a plugin for totem which allows users to view some of the BBCs content though a pretty interface in totem.
This allows users to access the beebs content though a nice interface.
George Wright,Portofolio Manager at the BBC's Research and Innovaton department talks about the plugin on video (ogg theora, ogg dirac, mpeg4, flash)
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The BBC's George Wright explains the experimental new content distribution platform
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a kind of magic
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"Today just a short tip: if you are using emacs and git, I can recommend magit. Magit is a git-mode for emacs, which makes using git convenient and easy to use..."
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js-comint.el - an interactive javascript mode for use with js2-mode.
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"...Js-comint.el is a javascript comint mode which lets you run a javascript interpreter from within emacs. It's hosted on http://sourceforge.net/projects/js-comint-el and has a web page which can be found here: http://js-comint-el.sourceforge.net/ ..."
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Parallel SSH execution and a single shell to control them all
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Many people use SSH to log in to remote machines, copy files around, and perform general system administration. If you want to increase your productivity with SSH, you can try a tool that lets you run commands on more than one remote machine at the same time.
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Network traffic & bandwidth monitoring with darkstat on Gentoo
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Darkstat captures network traffic, calculates statistics about usage, and serves reports over HTTP. Learn how to get this up and running on Gentoo
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Ultimate Security Proxy With Tor
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Nowadays, within the growing web 2.0 environment you may want to have some anonymity, and use other IP addresses than your own IP. Or, for some special purposes - a few IPs or more, frequently changed. So no one will be able to track you. A solution exists, and it is called Tor Project, or simply tor.
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plasma is now feature complete?
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the Plasma team is making great progress these days. I particularly like the new Plasma style notifications that are part of the new system tray:
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Kernel Log: More than 10 million lines of Linux source files
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After the release of Linux 2.6.27, kernel developers are currently busily integrating patches for the next kernel version into the main development branch of Linux. This usually involves discarding some old code and adding new code though on balance, there are usually more new lines than old ones, making the kernel grow continually.
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An Introduction to Tiling Window Managers
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In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.
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A Brief Introduction to Emacs psvn
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"...As the resident Emacs guru, I was recently asked by a coworker to write up some tips on using the Emacs psvn mode for doing integrated work on Subversion repositories and Trac. You can download the latest copy here: psvn.el ..."
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GNU Screen
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"The key to being an effective administrator is understanding the software that you administer. Software administrators are nothing more than employees who are well rounded in software applications, their versions, how they are configured and installed and lastly how to troubleshoot them should something go wrong.
Read more »Three to-do list managers for GNU/Linux
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Never forget an important task again with these great to-do list managers for Linux.
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New Xfce beta focuses on usability
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Xfce version 4.6 is shaping up to be more significant than most minor releases. Besides fixes and enhancements that are invisible to the casual user, the first revision in almost two years of GNU/Linux's third most popular desktop includes numerous changes to applications such as the calendar, mixer, and logout dialog, a new configuration engine, and usability changes to the desktop.
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Advanced Tips For The ps Command
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Admins use ps all the time to look at processes running on a system. But do you make the best use of the multitude of options this very useful tool has, or do you stick to a tiny, tested handful? Here are some ps options to check out that you may not have encountered before.
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McCarthy Reaffirms the Importance of Having Access to the Abstract Syntax
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"...When asked what separates a good programming language from a bad one, McCarthy said he had one advocacy: a language should have access to its own abstract syntax. Any program which works with programs involves abstract syntax..."
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