Filed in archive Utilities
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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Filed in archive Servers
by Rom Feria on June 30, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 4845865 ZFS is the advanced file system created by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and included in OpenSolaris. This same file system is now being integrated into Mac OS X...
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Whilst each of us has his/her own favorite distribution, there are times when you tend to be curious as to why people are using other linux distros besides your favorite. It is quite cumbersome to...
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Filed in archive Utilities
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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Filed in archive Devices
by Rom Feria on June 30, 2008
When Linksys released their Linux-based broadband routers, e.g., WRT54 series, the Linux community quickly released custom firmware to add new features on the router. I personally am one of those who...
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When I wrote about music players available on Linux, a reader commented about Banshee. I decided to check it out now that version 1.0 is already out. Banshee is a like an open-sourced iTunes player....
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Filed in archive Hacks
by Rom Feria on June 14, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, René Mansi Apple's Macbook Air started the multi-touch revolution in touch-pads on portable computers. Whilst you may think that it is no big deal, I'd say try...
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Filed in archive Hacks
by Rom Feria on June 14, 2008
Ubuntu recently demoed their new Ubuntu Netbook Remix for small (ultra mobile/ultra portable) sub-Notebook Computers like the Asus Eee PC. Whilst it is not impossible to install Ubuntu's latest...
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Filed in archive Misc
by Rom Feria on June 14, 2008
Google now provides Linux users with Google Gadget support. If you are not familiar with how gadgets work, it is similar to Yahoo! gadgets and the Mac's dashboard widgets, i.e., small...
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Filed in archive Utilities
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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Filed in archive Utilities
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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Filed in archive Utilities
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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