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Humble Indie Bundle 2
Click here to view the embedded video. ???Sweet! Great games, you pick the price, part goes to charity. Windows, Mac and Linux. What could be better? Anyone want to buy this for me for Christmas?
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How to Install KDE 4.5 in Lucid and Isadora
Image via Wikipedia I have been using XFCE forever now, and have written about it here a few times. I love XFCE, and don’t see giving up on it anytime soon. I do still like KDE, though, and every now...
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Parole – lightweight media player for XFCE
If you haven’t been paying attention, or haven’t made the upgrade to XFCE 4.8, you may not have heard of Parole, a light-weight media player for XFCE. I know I hadn’t heard of it, anyway, ’til just a...
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I don’t keep my love for GNU screen a secret. I’ve been using screen for so long that I feel a little handicapped when I work on a system that doesn’t have screen installed. I like to tweak my...
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I know, I shouldn’t be encouraging link baiters like ubuntugeek.com. But they do come up with some excellent information every now and then. Including this old chestnut, using Synaptic to pick the best...
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Horrid vim colorschemes
I know it isn’t considered polite to question a fellow geek’s choice for customization. But there are times when such things are necessary. I spent an hour or so looking through the various color...
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Humble indie bundle #3. Support Linux developers!
Just bought the Humble Indie Bundle. I love these guys, I love to support charities, and I want to support anyone who makes software for Linux! Sure these games work on Mac and Windows…. but who cares?...
View ArticleEasy tutorial to send email through Gmail with sSMTP
Every now and then I install a fresh install of Linux Mint, I always forget at least one program or utility. And that tends to be an smtp server. I’ve used Postfix in the past, but I find sSMTP to be a...
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HowToAmzDownload – pymazon – A Python based downloader for the Amazon mp3...
I love Amazon’s MP3 store. Probably more than I should! It is so easy to click the “Buy with 1-Click” button that is next to a song and *poof* there it is in my Amazon cloud drive, and playable via the...
View ArticleSamba taking too much CPU
Since I upgraded to Oneiric, I’ve been noticing problems with smbd. In particular, smbd has been taking up an inordinate amount of CPU. It’s been sitting around 30%, which is impressive since this is a...
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