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A Simple Guide to Making the Perfect Recording in Audacity

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let me show you some of the little tricks I've learned that you can use to make that perfectly sounding recording each time, every time.

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Nohup - Run a Command Even Once your Shell is Closed

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Oftentimes you’ll be in a situation where you want to run a command on a remote machine that will take a long time to complete, but you want to be able to issue the command and then log off and have that command run in the background. There are many ways you could achieve this, perhaps by using cron or at to schedule the command to run right away. However, there is a better way.

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ISO Master - The Ultimate CD/DVD image (iso,nrg) Editor

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ISO Master is a graphical editor for ISO images with support for ISO9660, RockRidge, and Joliet file names. It is useful for extracting, deleting, or adding files and directories to or from an ISO image. It is based on the bkisofs and GTK2 libraries.

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How to write a thorough review of a Linux distribution

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I have never written a review of a Linux distribution, but I've read more than I can count, and many of them have been maddeningly incomplete and not worth the time it took to read them. Here's a list of items you need to talk about in order to write a thorough review, covering every aspect of the distribution from the initial download to the final recommendation and everything in between.

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Chrooting into a Linux environment

http://www.tuxation.com

chrooting is a very important skill that any *nix administrator must know. It's essentially what allows one to repair an existing Linux environment by entering it from another environment. The process is actually relatively simple, and useful for doing tasks such as reinstalling GRUB, repairing a broken kernel, resetting the root password, etc.

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Configure a professional firewall using pfSense

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

The guide will take you through the setup of the pfSense firewall with one WAN interface, one LAN interface and one Opt1-WiFi Interface. This guide was written for Linksys, Netgear, and D-link users with no firewall or router experience. No experience is needed with FreeBSD or GNU/Linux to install and run pfSense.

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List of FTP Clients Available in Ubuntu Linux

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FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging files over any TCP/IP based network to manipulate files on another computer on that network regardless of which operating systems are involved (if the computers permit FTP access). There are many existing FTP client and server programs. FTP servers can be set up anywhere between game servers, voice servers, internet hosts, and other physical servers.

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Gestikk - mouse gesture recognition in Ubuntu

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gestikk provides mouse gestures for you, supporting many linux window managers. With gestikk, you can easily control your PC by drawing gestures with the mouse: mouse gestures. Gestikk allows to define an infinite number of gestures, which start applications or simulate key presses. Versions >= 0.5 uses PyGTK for GUI and python-virtkey for keypresses.

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Quick Command Line Tip - Recursively Delete Files of a Certain Type

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Applications can create a lot of temporary files sometimes, and these files aren’t always cleaned up automatically. An example of this is when you run Python applications. Particularly if you’re a Python developer, your source code directories stack up with a .pyc version of each file, which is the cached compiled copy of the script.

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How To Make a Fully Customized Live KDE CD/DVD Using Kubuntu (Updated)

There are tools available to allow anyone to create and distribute a completely customized Ubuntu Based distribution using the Gnome Desktop.

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Submitted by technoshaun on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 13:51
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Headless torrent downloads with rTorrent and Screen

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I have a constantly running server that would be a perfect on which to run torrent downloads. The only catch is that the server is headless -- it has no monitor or keyboard. To overcome this obstacle, I use rTorrent as my torrent client, and GNU Screen so that I can disconnect my terminal session and leave rTorrent running.

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Chapter 3: Configuring your project with Autoconf

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

We should all be very grateful to David MacKenzie for having the foresight to, metaphorically speaking, stop and sharpen the ax. Otherwise we'd still be writing (copying) and maintaining long, complex hand-coded configure scripts today.

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Add multitouch gesture support to a TouchPad-equipped laptop

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Multitouch interfaces provide a great deal of benefits for integrating new interaction modes within applications. Newer hardware and drivers on Mac OS X and Microsoft® Windows® allow for a variety of gestures beyond point and click that create more efficient application navigation.

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How to change settings for the bootloader and splash screen in Ubuntu

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StartUp Manager, or SUM, is a gui tool for changing settings in Grub, Grub2 and Usplash. SUM should work with recent versions of Debian and Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu.

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How to install KDE 4.1 Beta 1 in Ubuntu/kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

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The KDE Project is proud to announce the first beta release of KDE 4.1. Beta 1 is aimed at testers, community members and enthusiasts in order to identify bugs and regressions, so that 4.1 can fully replace KDE 3 for end users.

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