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Howto Set Flickr images as Ubuntu desktop wallpaper

Posted Wed, 2007-08-08 15:03 by gg234

Webilder delivers stunning wallpapers to your Linux desktop, directly from Flickr and Webshots. You choose what keywords (tags) to watch for, and photos are automatically downloaded to your computer. Webilder can also change the wallpaper every few minutes.

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Howto upgrade kernel(2.6.22-9-generic) in Feisty Fawn

Posted Mon, 2007-08-06 11:13 by gg234

Currently Feisty Fawn users (7.04) using the generic kernel (which is 2.6.20-16-generic). This tutorial will explain howto upgrade you to kernel version 2.6.22-9-generic(as of 31JUL07).

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Monitoring Proftpd Server Using phpftpwho

Posted Mon, 2007-08-06 11:12 by gg234

phpftpwho is a program written in PHP that tells you the status of your local FTP server. It uses the unix/linux command ftpwho and formats and displays the information. The program is licensed under the GPL license.

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Monitoring Ubuntu Services Using Monit

Posted Tue, 2007-07-31 11:46 by gg234

monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

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VHCS2 ISP control Panel Setup Guide in Debian Etch

Posted Tue, 2007-07-31 11:45 by gg234

VHCS delivers a complete hosting automation appliance by offering significant security, total-cost-of-ownership, and performance advantages over competing commercial solutions With VHCS Pro you can configure your server and applications, create user with domains with a few point-and-click operations that take less than a minute. There is no limit to the number of resellers, users and domains that can be created.At the core of VHCS Pro are 3 easy-to-use,
Web-based control panels. VHCS provides graphic user interfaces for the administrators, resellers and users.

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Schedule Tasks Using Gnome-schedule (cron & at GUI)

Posted Fri, 2007-07-27 10:16 by gg234

Gnome-schedule is a grapichal user interface to ‘crontab’ and ‘at’, both used to schedule tasks. It supports periodical tasks and tasks that happens once in the future. It is written in python using pygtk.

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Use Google Linux repositories in Debian

Posted Fri, 2007-07-27 10:15 by gg234

Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories.

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Mount and Unmount ISO,MDF,NRG Images Using AcetoneISO (GUI Tool)

Posted Wed, 2007-07-25 16:38 by gg234

AcetoneISO is CD/DVD image manipulator for Linux.Using this tool it is very easy to Mount and Unmount ISO,MDF,NRG Images

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Convert .flv (Google Videos) to .mpg using ffmpeg

Posted Tue, 2007-07-24 16:52 by gg234

FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most operating systems, including Windows. In ubuntu This package contains the ffplay multimedia player, the ffserver streaming server and the ffmpeg audio and video encoder. They support most existing file formats (AVI, MPEG, OGG, Matroska, ASF, …) and encoding formats (MPEG, DivX, MPEG4, AC3, DV, …).

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Monitoring Debian Servers Using Monit

Posted Tue, 2007-07-24 16:52 by gg234

monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

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Setup Maxemum TV-Guide in Ubuntu

Posted Tue, 2007-07-17 10:52 by gg234

Maxemum TV-Guide is a KDE TV-guide. It is developed in C++, based on QT/KDE and uses XMLTV as it’s back end to grab listings. At present there are backends grabbing TV listings for Australia, Belgium and Luxemburg, Brazil, Britain and Ireland, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary and Romania, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, North America, Norway, Portugal, Reunion Island (France), South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

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Ubuntu Studio Screenshots Tour

Posted Tue, 2007-07-17 10:51 by gg234

Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavour of Ubuntu. It’s built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional.Ubuntu Studio is an unofficial derivative of the Ubuntu open source operating system, based on Ubuntu, which is explicitly geared to general multimedia production.

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How to install Vmware server From Canonical commercial repository in Ubuntu Feisty

Posted Wed, 2007-06-20 14:23 by gg234

VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers with enterprise-class support and VirtualCenter management. VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use server virtualization product and is based on proven virtualization technology, which has been used by thousands of customers for more than six years

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Create and Extract .gz,.bz2 Files in Debian

Posted Wed, 2007-06-20 14:23 by gg234

bzip2 and bunzip2 are file compression and decompression utilities. The bzip2 and bunzip2 utilities are newer than gzip and gunzip and are not as common yet, but they are rapidly gaining popularity. The bzip2 utility is capable of greater compression ratios than gzip. Therefore, a bzip2 file can be 10-20% smaller than a gzip version of the same file. Usually, files that have been compressed by bzip2 will have a .bz2 extension.

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SMPlayer - Nice Frontend for MPlayer

Posted Wed, 2007-06-13 10:40 by gg234

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

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