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Ubuntu: A User's Look at Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Posted by god 22 days ago - Average Rating: 5 with 2 vote(s) (http://lifehacker.com)
Category: General interest

Review of the new release by Keir Thomas, author of Ubuntu Kung Fu read more »
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Compile Firefox 3 from scratch on Ubuntu

Posted by virtusa 24 days ago - Average Rating: 5 with 2 vote(s) (http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com)
Category: Desktop trick | Tags: ubuntu linux firefox

Compile firefox from scratch with jssh support on ubuntu. read more »
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Miro - Internet TV for your Ubuntu Desktop

Posted by david23 25 days ago - Average Rating: 3.83335 with 3 vote(s) (http://www.ubuntugeek.com)
Category: Desktop trick | Tags: miro ubuntu

Miro is a free application for channels of internet video (also known as ‘video podcasts and video rss). Miro is designed to be easy to use and to give you an elegant fullscreen viewing experience. read more »
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PPA for OpenOffice.org 3.0 : ubuntu snippets

Posted by virtusa 27 days ago - Average Rating: 5 with 4 vote(s) (http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com)
Category: Desktop trick | Tags: ubuntu linux openoffice

How to install OpenOffice.org 3.0 on ubuntu. read more »
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ssh-xfer: Quickly grabbing files over an existing SSH connection

Posted by franko 103 days ago - Average Rating: 5 with 2 vote(s) (http://www.linux.com)
Category: Command-line | Tags: ssh file transfer

The ssh-xfer project uses the local SSH agent to allow you to easily grab files using an existing SSH shell connection. read more »
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Create an Encrypted Private Directory with eCryptfs

Posted by franko 54 days ago - Average Rating: 5 with 2 vote(s) (http://tombuntu.com)
Category: Desktop trick | Tags: encryption security

eCryptfs is a kernel-native cryptographic filesystem. It’s also a stacked filesystem, eCryptfs must work on top of another filesystem such as Ext3. This means that you don’t need to allocate space for eCryptfs, it will grow and shrink as you add fil read more »
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Disabling Your PC Speaker in Ubuntu | Eric Biven’s Blog

Posted by ericb 38 days ago - Average Rating: 5 with 2 vote(s) (http://eric.biven.us)
Category: Hardware | Tags: pc speaker disable modprobe blacklist

How to disable the PC speaker in Ubuntu, either permanently or temporarily. read more »
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Full system backup using tar

Posted by franko 103 days ago - Average Rating: 5 with 2 vote(s) (http://www.matusiak.eu)
Category: Command-line | Tags: tar backup

Nice tutorial about using tar for complete system backup -- not Ubuntu-specific read more »
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