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Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 3rd of March 2009 04:30:08 AM Filed under
- Changing sound volumes in Openbox
- Finding information on your hardware openSUSE
- Set up RPM Fusion with Fedora to shore up multimedia support
- Mounting NTFS in OpenSUSE
- Debian Lenny PXE Installation on Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950 servers
- Automatically Logout SSH Sessions After Period of Inactivity
- Simple Code To Implement C's stat() function On Linux And Unix
- Read Popular Magazines for Free Using Firefox
- How To Fix Pidgin Yahoo Error " Could not establish a connection
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Simplify the Use of Sudo
Submitted by srlinuxx on Monday 2nd of March 2009 11:23:34 PM Filed under

sys-con.com: Being in the security business, I am constantly surprised by how many companies continue to rely on security practices that they know to be poor.
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some howtos & others
Submitted by srlinuxx on Monday 2nd of March 2009 02:59:15 AM Filed under

- Customize The Ubuntu 8.10 Boot Splash
- Installing a New Hard Drive on Ubuntu
- The Linux Action Show! Season 10 Episode 1
- Convert audio files with Gnormalize
- Good, Cheap Tech for Schools, Cloud Computing and More
- My Experiences With Ubuntu 9.04 So Far
- Flip - Convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats
- Blueman - Bluetooth manager for Ubuntu
- Mounting LVM
- How to Install Adobe Flash in Debian Etch/Lenny
- The Last Word: Where’s the Beef?
- Finding differences in two files with TkDiff
- How to install Gnome Do in 3 minutes
- Build your own email server with Postfix
- Draksnapshot
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Web cam tweaks in Linux
Submitted by swamytk on Sunday 1st of March 2009 02:18:01 PM Filed under


Recently I bought a Gear head Web cam (cheaper) from Frys Electronics. The vendor id and product id of this gadget is 093a:2620. It does not come with driver for linux.
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Installing And Using OpenVZ On Debian Lenny (AMD64)
Submitted by falko on Sunday 1st of March 2009 12:49:21 PM Filed under
In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Debian Lenny server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project.
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some howtos & leftovers:
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 1st of March 2009 04:30:44 AM Filed under

- Better looking Emacs in Ubuntu / Debian
- How to Disable Startup Programs on Your Computer (Linux)
- Simple and Useful Ways to Optimize GNOME for Netbook Displays
- Error messages explained
- Safari 4 beta over WINE
- Linux tips every geek should know
- My top Flex tips for beginners
- Standard Process for Restoring IPtables at Boot?
- How to fix Linux boot problems
- How to measure network performance with iperf
- FLOSS Weekly 58: ZFS
- Clint Savage of the Fedora Project on Spinning Your Own Linux Live
- Opera should give up on desktop browsers?
- Shuttleworth Says Linux is a Joke
- Paul Harvey dies at 90
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Concurrent boot sequence
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of February 2009 11:26:19 PM Filed under

debian-administration.org: In the quest for the fastest boot ever, you may want to consider setting the variable CONCURRENCY=shell in /etc/default/rcS, recalling from your your theoretical studies that "Parallel is faster than Sequential."
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Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 25th of February 2009 03:31:25 AM Filed under
- Gentoo Linux - Part 1 - SSH
- High perfomance Xen virtualization on Ubuntu server
- Fix For Grub Problem After Fedora Update
- How to add your own Nameservers to Arch Linux when using dhcp
- lenny-backports
- Disable GNOME Automounting
- Gimp Tip: Document History Dialog
- Ubuntu Linux: The Easy Installation Guide
- Enabling Web Video Playback in Fedora 10
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Installing Xen 3.3 With Kernel 2.6.27 On Ubuntu 8.10 (x86_64)
Submitted by falko on Tuesday 24th of February 2009 12:23:02 PM Filed under

This tutorial shows how you can install Xen 3.3 on an Ubuntu 8.10 host (dom0). Xen 3.3 is available from the Ubuntu 8.10 repositories, but the Ubuntu 8.10 kernels (2.6.27-x) are domU kernels, i.e., they work for Xen guests (domU), but not for the host (dom0).
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Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 24th of February 2009 04:26:23 AM Filed under
- HOWTO use Inkscape filter effects to style text
- Migrating from Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird in Linux (part 2)
- Installing A "Full" Linux Distro On A USB Stick [How-To]
- [HOW TO] Get the new Notifications on Intrepid
- Set up a bluetooth keyboard and mouse in Fedora 10
- Tutorial: Mounting UDF DVD's in Linux
- Stupid Geek Tricks: Watch Movies in Your Linux Terminal Window
- How-To: Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 and ext4
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