To some of our readers, this is plain basic but to readers who are just starting to learn Unix/Linux, knowing what the cryptic numbers beside each file name means is new. In my freshman computing...
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by Rom Feria on November 30, 2007
It may sound a bit weird saying that the tool is a "command-line" GUI tool but that is exactly how you can best describe Hotwire as compared to how it is written on its website, "a...
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by Rom Feria on November 30, 2007
Not too long ago, I was surfing the net on my notebook with a Serial cable connected to my mobile phone. It was upgraded with a USB cable, which was similar to what I wrote about not too long ago.......
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by Rom Feria on November 30, 2007
I was in a meeting this morning and forget to copy a file from my Macbook Pro, which I left at home, to the Asus Eee PC that I was using. One of my professors-colleague joked about calling home and......
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by Rom Feria on November 30, 2007
I was hoping that I'd be the first one to give you a comparison of the OLPC's XO Laptop and the Asus EeePC but since I was not able to get hold of an XO Laptop, LaptopMag.com beat me to......
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by Rom Feria on November 30, 2007
I have mentioned several audio editors available on our favorite platform but OnLamp.com's John Littler introduces three more (I have mentioned Audacity several times already) that I have not...
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by Rom Feria on November 26, 2007
To continue with our Asus Eee PC user experience, I will talk about how difficult it is to use the trackpad. :) First off, the design of the trackpad may have been influenced by Apple since there is...
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by Rom Feria on November 25, 2007
I managed to get hold of the Asus Eee PC two Fridays ago. The one that I have has 1GB RAM and 4GB of storage (of which 1.3GB is available) and in white (a black one would have been way......
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
Skype just released a beta of version 2.0 of its voice-over-IP client for Linux. One of the most requested feature has been included, i.e., video support. Now Linux users can do video conferencing...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
I have mentioned about Intel's Classmate PC being targeted for schools and government agencies. I re-quote An Intel executive, meanwhile, said the eePC (sic) will not compete directly with the...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
In what seems to be a start of a war to get affordable ultra-portable laptops to the consumers, OLPC, Intel and Asus release their products just in time for the holiday. Each one seems to target one...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
The One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) program has started accepting orders from individuals in the US. Dubbed "Give One, Get One", the program accepts orders for one XO Laptop at USD399 and gives...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
Speaking of IPTables, Sergio Gonzalez Duran of Linux.com writes about using IPTables to block specific applications and specific IP addresses from accessing network resources. For more detailed...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
Today, nobody can afford to connect to the internet without a firewall enabled. However, it is not always easy to setup, configure and maintain firewalls specially if your applications are...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
With personal media players (PMP) getting really affordable, consumers are converting their video collection to formats that are supported by their favorite PMP. In my case, I use an iPhone so I...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
I admit that I am pretty much spoiled by Apple's applications but this just shows how much Linux developers can learn from commercial applications. :) Anyway, today's Mac application is called...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
Inspired by Selena Frye's "Highly superior gifts for the Linux geek", I figured that each one of us has a wish-list of sorts. So here's my not-so-complete-yet list for this year:...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
One of Apple's popular Mac OS X feature is called Front Row. This is some sort of a controller for all your computer's multi-media content. What makes it even more interesting is the bundling...
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There are times when you want to execute an application on the command-line without interrupting the most recent process or application that is running. Whilst this is very basic, I find that n00bs...
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by mateusz on November 19, 2007
Last time I blogged about a very useful feature in bash - a for loop. Here comes the second part. We will take care of batch file renaming this time. With couple of additional, standard tools, you can...
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by Rom Feria on November 17, 2007
As the second semester of the academic year 2007-2008 starts in the Philippines, Computer Science students start to master LaTeX for their papers. Whilst most of them would rather use their favorite...
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by Rom Feria on November 17, 2007
Now too long ago, a friend asked me how to view CHM documents on a Mac and she ended up getting a FOSS tool from somewhere. CHM files are Compiled HTML Help files that Microsoft use for its Help...
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by Rom Feria on November 17, 2007
I remember 3 years ago, when I was teaching a bunch of freshmen how to use Linux, the students had a rather unpleasant experience of having their computers freeze and become unresponsive. It was...
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by Rom Feria on November 17, 2007
After reading the OpenMoko soft-dev tutorial, it is now time to take a look at the newest member of the mobile development platform group, the Google Open Handset Alliance's Android. Here's...
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