My most recent perception of the Ubuntu Linux community.Friday's are normally easier days, right? Not my last friday. It was loaded with stress, anger and other emotions. Why? Read here: We've let someone go...The difficult part for me was was finding out you've misplaced your trust in someone and in turn it makes you feel like an idiot.After friday's "goodbye" session ended, I was left with a mess to clean up and did not really know the best way to approach the matter. Do I email people, don't I? Do I blog an ...
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This is an open post to all visitors. Recently we were contacted by an individual who had some of their content posted on our blog. (Actually, we found out by accident when we saw a message from the poster while he was away from his desktop and left his Yahoo webmail page open; and he finally spilled the beans this morning). The message indicated that it was not licensed to be used. After checking the original site, we were fortunate to be able to easily confirm, as such, we were grateful that this individual brought...
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The following is a list of about 100 of the best OpenSource Applications, that actually help make Linux more usable for people. It is my hope that this list shows potential Linux users that there really is a large, effective, productive and usable range of free, OpenSource applications. For existing Linux users (like myself), I think this will provide a great resource in finding applications that may better suit your needs, or just for fun! Needless to say, this is just some of the thousands of applications available...
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I just inherited a Logitech Quickcam Fusion, but where the heck are the drivers? I took a look at the Logitech site... and asked the same question. (Sidenote: Logitech, you need to get your act together. Where are your Linux drivers?).Needless to say Ekiga could not use the cam. After much hair pulling, nashing of teeth and grumbling, I was able to Google enough information to put a solution together. If someone is looking for a solution on Feisty, read on...First, I needed to install the linux headers for my ke...
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I was sent a great URL yesterday, that (in essence) was a hands-on guide to cracking WEP. Personally I question the ethics of such activities, however I'd also like to learn how this is done, so that I might further enhance the wifi security here. I'd like to adapt this to Feisty or Gutsy, so will be interesting to see new versions and how they stack up against those in the guide. Below is the actual guide from the original author (listed below). Make a backup, first, BEFORE you do any of this:This post should ena...
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Looking for a simpler way to make a backup copy of your valuable DVD's? Try "K9":sudo apt-get install k9copyK9Copy is a small utility which allows the copy of DVD on Linux. The DVD video stream is compressed by the program Vamps.
Site: http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/If you are using KDE, it will appear in the “Multimedia” section of your menu once it’s installed; if you’re using Gnome, it will probably do similar. Run it. It should be plain sailing after that.Also, there's a great bash script at this s...
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While looking for a solution to another issue, I bumped into a site that enables us to create a hands-free install disk! Coolest feature? We can choose which distribution we'd like.From their site:"Why would I want to do that?Let's look at a few scenarios:you are a sysadmin and you need to build twenty web servers, all almost exactly the sameyou are working with other people who aren't very familiar with Linux and you want them to be able to easily rebuild a special purpose m...
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Just a quick post. Short but fun. Promise!I was playing around with some of the applications on my Ubuntu desktop over lunch... and trying easter eggs that I've been emailed over time. There were quite a few, but these are the ones that I thought were the best. They should work on most flavours of Linux, I'd think.Here are some of the best (in no particular order).1) Cow Power!In a terminal, type:apt-get mooAnd you'll see this: 2) Ubuntu Fish.Using Gnome? Try this.....
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Over the weekend a client phoned me as she was interested in the Knowledge Tree Document Management System. She runs a small business that provides document creation services for clients in the US and Canada, and needed an effective solution to manage her (electronic) documents. She also emailed this URL: http://www.knowledgetree.com/About a year ago she switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu and her business has since grown, hence the phone call about this. To get to the point, she needed a new PC configured as a "Kno...
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I was surfing today and came across this cryptic post:"Ubuntu joke
Actually I think it's a pretty funny one, not intending to be disrespectful against anyone.
Wonder what this is all about? Read more."The above post is found here: http://blog.eikke.com/index.php/ikke/2007/03/29/ubuntu_jokeNaturally I followed the "read more" link to find this:"Within the Ubuntu community we have the Code of Conduct to define acceptable behaviour, and – in my opinion – the community is better for it. Recently there was a ...
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