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Pytube - Best YouTube,Google manager, downloader and video converter for Ubuntu Linux

Posted Mon, 2008-09-15 19:37 by gg234

PyTube is a GUI for various command-line tools such as:youtube-dl, sox, mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg and others.It allows you to resize, rotate, apply an external mp3 into a video, generate a 10 to 30 seconds mp3 ring tone.

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Pybackpack - A user friendly file backup tool for Ubuntu Linux Desktop

Posted Sun, 2008-09-07 17:14 by gg234

A graphical tool to make file backup simpler. Provides a user-friendly interface which allows you to back up your files easily to an archive, to a CD/DVD or to a remote location using SSH.pybackpack is a user-friendly file backup tool written for the Gnome desktop and released under the GPL.

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Howto Share Internet Connections in Ubuntu

Posted Wed, 2008-09-03 16:18 by gg234

Network Bridge comes in handy. Its essentially the same as ICS, only more flexible, albeit less secure. You might want to have a firewall remain on your system with it.

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Furius ISO Mount - Mount and Unmount ISO images with GUI Tool in Ubuntu Linux

Posted Sun, 2008-08-31 19:06 by gg234

An ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG Image management utility for the Gnome Desktop Environment. Furius ISO Mount

Features

* Automatically Mounts ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG Image Files.

* Automatically creates a mount point in your home directory.

* Automatically Unmounts the Image files.

* Automatically removes the mount directory to return your home directory to its previous state.

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List of Email Clients Available in Ubuntu Linux

Posted Thu, 2008-08-28 18:54 by gg234

An e-mail client, aka Mail User Agent (MUA), aka e-mail reader is a frontend computer program used to manage e-mail.

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Advanced TFTP server setup in Ubuntu Linux

Posted Mon, 2008-08-18 20:11 by gg234

atftp is Multi-threaded TFTP server implementing all options (option extension and multicast) as specified in RFC1350, RFC2090, RFC2347, RFC2348 and RFC2349. Atftpd also supports multicast protocol known as mtftp, defined in the PXE specification. The server supports being started from inetd as well as in daemon mode using init scripts.

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How to Change MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) of network interface in Ubuntu Linux

Posted Fri, 2008-08-15 21:21 by gg234

Maximum Transmission Unit(MTU), the largest physical packet size, measured in bytes, that a network can transmit. Any messages larger than the MTU are divided into smaller packets before being sent.By optimizing the MTU setting you can gain substantial network performance increases, especially when using dial-up modem connections.

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List of BitTorrent clients Available in Ubuntu Linux

Posted Tue, 2008-08-12 07:52 by gg234

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used to distribute large amounts of data. The initial distributor of the complete file or collection acts as the first seed. Each peer that downloads the data also uploads it to other peers. Relative to standard internet hosting, this provides a significant reduction in the original distributor's hardware and bandwidth resource costs. It also provides redundancy against system problems and reduces dependence on the original distributor.

A BitTorrent client is a program that manages torrent downloads and uploads using the BitTorrent protocol.

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Network Time Protocol (NTP) Server and Client Setup in Ubuntu

Posted Tue, 2008-08-05 23:56 by gg234

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. NTP uses UDP port 123 as its transport layer. It is designed particularly to resist the effects of variable latency (Jitter).

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Howto Install Nginx webserver in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

Posted Sun, 2008-08-03 20:11 by gg234

Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Written by Igor Sysoev in 2005, Nginx now hosts between 1% and 4% of all domains worldwide. Although still in beta, Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

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Howto Install VirtualBox 1.6 in Ubuntu 8.04(Hardy Heron) including USB Support

Posted Sun, 2008-07-27 19:28 by gg234

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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Howto setup DHCP Server and Dynamic DNS with BIND in Debian

Posted Sun, 2008-07-27 19:27 by gg234

This tutorial will explain Howto setup DHCP Server and Dynamic DNS with BIND in Debian.

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LXDE - Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment for Ubuntu

Posted Sun, 2008-07-06 17:57 by gg234

LXDE is a new project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It’s not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low. Different from other desktop
environments, we don’t tightly integrate every component.

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WebDAV Configuration With Apache2 On Debian Etch

Posted Sun, 2008-07-06 17:56 by gg234

Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote World Wide Web servers.This tutorial will explain howto
install webdav Configuration With Apache2 On Debian Etch.

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Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) LAMP Server Setup

Posted Sun, 2008-06-22 19:06 by gg234

In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux,Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.

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