I wrote about Amarok as a tool to manage your iPod, Apple's portable music and video player. If Amarok is not your cup of tea (or coffee), then here's another way to manage your music...
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by Rom Feria on July 31, 2007
There are several ways to share files, directories and printers in Linux. Unfortunately, Windows do not know how to tango with Linux, so Linux was "forced" to play along with Windows by...
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by Rom Feria on July 31, 2007
On the Mac, I just use quicktime Pro to combine two or more separate videos into a single one. I have not tried doing this on Linux yet but figured that it won't be long before I find a......
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by Rom Feria on July 31, 2007
I have been bragging about how easy it is to use wifi on my Mac compared with Linux (or even Windows) - just set the Location and boom! Your network adapters are activated/deactivated, IP address and...
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Still on the topic of audio and ALSA, one of the quirks I had with Linux was how to enable 5.1 (or more speakers) to work perfectly with my music. After troubleshooting and configuring your system...
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Admittedly, it is only now that Linux and multimedia are starting to play wonderful music together (it was not so 10 years ago!). However, this does not prevent the occasional glitches that one...
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Whilst I prefer having Windows users completely switch to Linux (or a Mac for that matter) instead of running Linux as a secondary OS or using an emulator to run it, some users simply need to be...
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by Rom Feria on July 30, 2007
Even if we secure our computer systems from remote intrusions, hackers will never stop at testing your defenses. Whilst having a sufficiently secure system may be sufficient, the fact that these...
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by Rom Feria on July 30, 2007
I have featured tutorials on how to install Compiz/Beryl before and here's another one for those who are using Ubuntu 7.04, NVidia graphics card and Gnome. I cannot wait to have this eye-candy...
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Managing Apple's portable music player, the iPod, on Linux normally defaults to using GnuPod or GtkPod. I use GtkPod to manage the first gen iPod shuffle and a 3rd gen 40GB iPod. Whilst these are...
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by Rom Feria on July 28, 2007
One of the things I love about my Macbook Pro is its Sleep mode (hibernate) - just close the lid and the system automagically saves the computer's state allowing for instant on when the lid is...
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by Rom Feria on July 28, 2007
Short of creating my own do-it-yourself guide to Ubuntu security, Ubuntu forum Master Roaster, bodhi.zazen, wrote one already. The Ubuntu Security forum entry includes information about password...
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In a blog entry, "Debunking Linux and its Relationship with Gaming", the author presented a line-up of decent games available on the Linux platform. It is an attempt to debunk claims that...
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by Rom Feria on July 26, 2007
Mounting disk images on Linux should be easy with autofs. However, it is inevitable for users to use the mount and umount tools on the command-line since not all disk images get mounted...
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by Rom Feria on July 26, 2007
The merger of Compiz and Beryl is starting to give users tons of new eye-candy for the Linux desktop. (will definitely be useless on the servers, yeah?) Anyway, I am wondering if the developers are...
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I have been looking for a screencast on Kubuntu and luckily, Linux.com create a series of screencasts on Kubuntu. This first screencast shows Kubuntu running as a LiveCD. There are two other...
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by Rom Feria on July 21, 2007
There are two little applications that are often missed by new system administrators and/or desktop users and these are cron and at. These little critters can make your life easy when running resource...
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When I was using a PowerPC-based computer (Mac), one of the Linux distributions that I always have with me is YellowDog Linux. This was until the PowerPC Ubuntu distribution came along, of course....
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by Rom Feria on July 21, 2007
There is an influx of web-based applications prompting projects that try to create an entire operating system that is based on the web, i.e., WebOS. Examples of WebOS are eyeOS, Goowy and WebDesk....
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by Rom Feria on July 21, 2007
Most current Linux distributions made it very easy to configure your graphical user interface, aka X Window System. However, the graphical tool to configure xorg.conf, the X11 config file, is not...
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by Rom Feria on July 21, 2007
Back in February, I wrote about a simple hack on how to get a notification system like Mac OS X's Growl. Today, I feature Specto, "a desktop application that will watch configurable events...
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by Rom Feria on July 16, 2007
With hard disk drive prices plummeting rapidly, it is easy to create your own network-attached-storage (NAS). Whilst there are commercial devices that provide with a simple NAS solution, using an old...
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by Rom Feria on July 13, 2007
First time I heard about OpenLogic is at JavaOne. Just recently, OpenLogic announced the availability of their Discovery tool, a tool that scans your network for open source applications installed in...
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by Rom Feria on July 13, 2007
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project of Dr. Nicholas Negroponte and Intel finally reached some sort of an agreement that they will collaborate. This is really great news for those who are waiting...
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