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The New York Times has a very interesting article about the digital traces we leave and a completely new generation of Big Brother approach...Read more »

Many home users often power off their computers when they are not being used. Some do it to be green: turning idle computers off saves ele...Read more »

I accidentally just found out about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy online game by Douglas Adams. And it's full of his witty a...Read more »

After reading a lot in the media about the so called cyber war, I wonder: How well prepared are the nations? In the media it seems as if R...Read more »

The LinuxJournal posted a great article about good and bad consequences of technology . I have had similar thoughts. What people may forget ...Read more »

There's a nice little python script named droopy available which let's you receive big files quite comfortably over a simple web br...Read more »

lsof -p `pifof process` provides an exhaustive list including libraries. ls -l /proc/`pidof process`/fd provides a list of only the "pl...Read more »

LinuxPlanet has a really good article explaining how the Virtual Memory System works in Linux . I think it's nicely done and considering...Read more »

LinuxPlanet has a nice short intro to ssh . I have her on one point, though: The example ssh terry@host2 ls ~ is just badly quoted/escaped....Read more »

Catonmat has a nice overview of sed one-liners .Read more »

You may have heard of hdparm - a utility for getting info and changing certain parameters for IDE-type hard disk. It can't be used for S...Read more »

Pada tulisan ini saya akan mencoba menerangkan langkah-langkah menginstall modul OCI8 untuk PHP5 sehingga PHP bisa melakukan koneksi ke data...Read more »

The Linux Journal has a nice summary of open source brain training games .Read more »

After looking into the source of Android, Metthew Garrett tells us about his disappointment with the underlying code . And with his example ...Read more »

It's been a while. I've sat here on my chair for a long time and thought to myself: Hey, if you want to do it, video acceleration wo...Read more »

After writing an alias that shows me what's currently going on in my system ( tail -f /var/log/..., ~/.xsession-errors, ... ) I've w...Read more »

Pengguna Ubuntu sejak rilis Hardy Heron dan sekarang Intrepid Ibex, yang terkoneksi Internet menggunakan modem, atau tidak menggunakan Inter...Read more »

Ctrl + a + [ + j/k Or Ctrl + a then Esc and then use the cursor keys. Esc to leave the mode again.Read more »

Google just released a tool to track the spread of flus by statistical analysis of their search data. And it seems to work , too.Read more »

This script prepares your scanned Jpgs for using them e.g. with the sipgate fax. Or you can simply join them together in a small (black&...Read more »

Saya baru saja menemukan extension Sun Weblog Publisher di halaman ini . Extension ini akan membantu pengguna OpenOffice untuk mempublish t...Read more »

You can open/close the CD, DVD disk tray from the command line. Many Linux users already know about the eject command for opening the disk ...Read more »

" Begging the Software Gods " is an interesting read about what choices we make in Software and what they mean. A nice work of ope...Read more »

I still wonder why TV is not really international yet. We have endless countries with interesting TV channels. Especially US channels would ...Read more »

A tutorial how to set up the IMHO best remote desktop connection: NX.Read more »

If you haven't already read about it, it seems to be true : The Wifi encryption protocoll WPA has been compromised. The method will prob...Read more »

This script lets you easily mirror a local directory to foreign computers that have rsync installed - securely via ssh. It assumes you have ...Read more »

BotHunter is a pretty cool software that helps you detect bots through passive network monitoring. Their webpage has just gone offline. I...Read more »

Apple is locking iPhone users into their rigid software framework through the App Store: They would not let people develop interfaces to Gma...Read more »

There are two great program for watching DVB-T in Linux: Kaffeine if you want it really comfortable (including scheduled recording, instant ...Read more »

Here's a quick guide . It's all about downloading it and installing the deb files... ;-)Read more »

Who ever reads those readme files coming with the software? Well, someone did . And he's posted some funny quotes.Read more »

Someone already did it. Check out what happened .Read more »

I've already spent a few hours to finally get this working again. There are several problems in Ubuntu 8.10 considering Wake on LAN: 1. ...Read more »

There's a nice list of issues in Intrepid after upgrading. And there's more from other users in the comments. So read this post bef...Read more »

Find out a lot more detailled how memory is used in your Linux system with these tools .Read more »

Here's a nice little intro on what to do with wine. For help with wine, checkout Frank's Corner .Read more »

I've changed a few things in the layout. Let me know if it works for you!Read more »

FileZilla (ftp client) FUSE KDE 4, esp. Plama, Okular, Pauker, KTeaTime, Kopete, Kaffeine Nomachine NX (the best remote desktop solution o...Read more »

Sometimes when you talk about things as a Linux user, people look at you oddly. For example when you tell them about installing software int...Read more »

I've been trying to get java to work in the browser for me for a long time now. And I've got two final results for you: First, it...Read more »

Did you know you can configure grub to automatically fallback to a different boot entry if one was not successful? A pretty neat idea, espe...Read more »

NAT (be it SNAT or DNAT) relies on ip forwarding. You enable it, they are effective. I forgot to think about it last time ( I think 3 months...Read more »

I want to revisit a topic: how to tail a log file. My earlier posts discussed the use of tail and less commands to tail a log file, and m...Read more »

Ever been annoyed the Bugzilla or a similar software to report bugs online? Here are some funny examples for bug report misuse: http://linux...Read more »

The Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter will tell you.Read more »

If you ever wondered why people say the kernel developers are sometimes very rude, check out this article , referring to a post by Linus hi...Read more »

Check out these funny Linux T-Shirts .Read more »

There's a wonderful script named getlibs , that makes the annoying process of installation 32-bit libraries really comfortable.Read more »

Did you know there are original Linux driver from Canon? Now you know that, why not get the hacked and enhanced version .Read more »

Check out this summary of Famous Open Source Flame Wars .Read more »

Here's a funny video about a FSM preacher.Read more »

Check out this howto install MS Office 2003 with regular Wine: http://www.wine-reviews.net/microsoft/running-ms-office-2003-under-linux-wit...Read more »

There's a nice article about backups with rsync at Linux.com. I shall leave the explanations to it and just post my script as example h...Read more »

There's now an alternative to using the shared memory of the synaptic driver to enable and disable the touchpad: xinput set-int-prop ...Read more »