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by Rom Feria on September 30, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Dori OConnell HowToForge as a quite lengthy feature on how to turn your touchpad on and off with just a single short cut key. This is convenient specially when you also...
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by Rom Feria on September 14, 2008
If you are not happy with the applications bundled with the Ubuntu distribution, then welcome to the club. I prefer to have a lean, mean computing machine, i.e., without those games but with the...
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by Rom Feria on August 29, 2008
LogMeIn's Hamachi is "a VPN service that easily sets up in 10 minutes, and enables secure remote access to your business network, anywhere there's an Internet connection." This is...
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by Rom Feria on August 21, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Kiyoshi Takahase Segundo Ubuntu's next generation of Linux distribution includes eCryptfs, a kernel-based cryptographic file system. This new feature provides users...
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by Rom Feria on August 16, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Roman Sigaev In a constrained space provided by the current netbooks, such as the Asus Eee PC, MSI Wind, etc., space is a premium. However, it is also important that you...
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by Rom Feria on June 30, 2008
If you are like me, I tend to keep several copies of my photos in several directories. I use one directory as a scratch directory and do all image editing on image files in that directory. Once done,...
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by Rom Feria on June 30, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Leigh Schindler There are times when our server (or desktop) goes bonkers and simply refuses to boot up from its HDD. What I usually do is to boot-up from a standard...
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by Rom Feria on June 14, 2008
On my Mac, I use iStat Menu to monitor my system. On Linux, there are several tools to do this but I have found Conky to be the most familiar, i.e., looks like iStat Menu.......
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by Rom Feria on June 14, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Stepan Popov Whilst we have several distributions with LiveCD versions to allow us to boot-up our computer and run/test Linux without installing it, not too many are...
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by Rom Feria on June 14, 2008
Whilst we have featured quite a number of backup utilities for Linux, here is another one that may just prove to be a solution that works on almost all popular platform. Areca, is a personal backup...
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by Rom Feria on April 30, 2008
The benefits of having a Mac is its support for the subscription-based .Mac services, of which synchronization between computers is one of its features. Whilst there are tools available on Linux and...
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by Rom Feria on April 30, 2008
Skype may seem to be the de-facto standard in internet telephony (yeah, I know a lot will argue that it is not but which one seem to have the bigger share?) and I must admit that I have hooked......
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by Rom Feria on April 06, 2008
© Extra Ketchup If you are like me, an educator, then you know what I am talking about when faced with students learning computer skills in the classroom. There are times when you'd want to check...
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by Rom Feria on March 19, 2008
If you are the type who manages multiple linux computers in a laboratory, then you are familiar with HDD cloning. In my days as admin, I used to use Norton Ghost to do this with the Partition Image...
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by Rom Feria on March 19, 2008
by mindcircus Well, not if you are using ext3! Whilst everyone is expected (yes, now I expect everyone to have back-ups of their data after featuring several back-up utilities already) to have...
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by Rom Feria on March 13, 2008
I have featured back-up utilities that try to mimic the ease of use of the Mac's Time Machine. This time, I am giving you yet another Time Machine clone called BackerUpper, "a simple program...
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by Rom Feria on February 29, 2008
Whilst it is true that apt-get and Synaptic (or insert your favorite package manager here) make it easy to install and upgrade applications. However, uninstalling is still quite tricky specially if...
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by Rom Feria on February 29, 2008
We all know that files, specially from digital cameras, are named in a specific format that have no information whatsoever about its contents. There are other files that behave the same way, i.e., no...
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by Rom Feria on February 01, 2008
Not too long ago, I wrote about Gnome Launch Box, a Quicksilver-like app on the Mac OS X, for Linux. Whilst Gnome Launch Box is promising, the new Gnome DO seems to have improved on the features...
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by Rom Feria on January 26, 2008
If scientists can now clone sheep, I am sure that we Linux geek can clone our own drives. Just in case you do not know how, well, here is ArsGeek's how-to. You will need a linux livecd and a...
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by Rom Feria on January 18, 2008
One of the Mac's features is Automator, a tool that allows you to record user actions to make often repeated tasks automated. This is one of the features that is often ignored but proves to be...
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by Rom Feria on January 12, 2008
Who here does not regularly use a web-based service? I reckon that we all do - in my case, I use Twitter's web interface when I am not using a Mac. I also use Meebo for my instant messaging...
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by Rom Feria on January 01, 2008
When I first started using Linux, I was fond of invoking the 'who' and 'w' commands to find out information about users who are logged in the server. Sometimes I'll send them a...
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by Rom Feria on December 22, 2007
What great timing! I was pulling what's left of my hair figuring out how to get 5 different laboratories on different networks to share their printers. Thanks to LinuxPlanet's Carla Schroder...
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