I was reading How to install Ubuntu Linux from USB Stick posted on this site a while ago, and found it to be quite some work to get Ubuntu working on a USB stick. Besides, having to prepare your USB device, creating a separate partition on it which will be more or less “useless” after [...]
The Helix Player is an audio and video player based on the Helix DNA Client engine. It includes a Mozilla browser plug-in and supports local file playback and streaming over RTSP/RTP and HTTP. It supports video zoom in original, double size, and full screen, and supports:
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This tutorial will explain howto install Firefox 3 RC1 in Ubuntu Hardy.go to System > Administration > Software Sources
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If you are using zoneedit.com or dyndns.org for your DNS service so that you can access your server using a URL, then you might have to update your DNS record at the service periodically whenever the IP address of your computer changes.Now here is simple solution for this ddclient.
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Without viruses and other malware, Linux is typically much harder for the average user to mess up. But if you are setting up a GNOME desktop for someone who seems to do things like delete the window list, or for public use, then you should lock down the desktop.
Pessulus is a graphical lockdown editor for [...]
Wormux is an open source clone of the classic game Worms. It’s a multiplayer turn-based game in which teams of open source mascots battle on a deformable landscape with a variety of weapons.
Wormux 0.8 was recently released, bringing networked multiplayer, new maps & weapons, bugfixes, and more. Wormux has been one of my favorite [...]
Finding out the username by user id (uid) in Unix is not as common a task as determining the uid by a username, but if you need to do it - I’ll show you how.
How to find the username using user id (uid)
Simply use the getent command. Most common use for it is to query [...]
This document describes how to set up PHPlist on Fedora, CentOS,
Ubuntu and Debian. This howto should also work for other distributions
with little modifications. Taken from the phplist page: “phplist is an
open-source newsletter manager. phplist is free to download, install
and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. phplist is
downloaded more than 10 000 times [...]
I guess many of us
rely heavily on ssh/scp to access/maintain remote hosts. In this short
article I would like to share some experiences I find useful for ssh/scp
usage.
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Six degrees of freedom (6DOF) devices allow for movement in three axes, tilt in two axes, and rotation in the third. Some of these devices look like small joysticks — for example, the SpaceNavigator. These devices are typically used for computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and other 3-D applications. With a new programming library, you [...]
In previous installments of the crash course, you’ve learned how to build a simple basket tool, a task manager, and even a word game. This time, let’s take a look at how you can use the skills you picked up from those exercises to create a simple application launcher, which will allow you to start [...]
If your life is like mine, it’s probably more complicated than it should be. There’s that full time job, social events, and vacations to say nothing of various side businesses and their associated deadlines. The kids have Cub Scouts, soccer, and baseball. Since we homeschool, we have science club, field trips and play dates. And [...]
Following on from my recommendation for apt-buglist—where you can see the reported bugs on a package before installing it—I thought it might be useful to look at the other side of the coin, reporting bugs in Debian. The best way to do this is with the dedicated tool: reportbug.
Bugs happen
Bugs are a fact of software [...]
Hardware manufacturers often don’t release specifications of their products to the open source community, so programs like ndiswrapper become necessary. This video demonstrates how to use Windows wireless drivers in Linux using ndiswrapper.
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This is a 3 part posting that covers how you can setup 2-way Nagios alerting via SMS.
The series is broken down as such:
1. Part 1: Background and Requirements (this article)
2. Part 2: Sending SMS messages from Nagios
3. Part 3: Acknowledging SMS messages
For those that wish to [...]