Friday, September 29, 2006

 

How To Write a Good Howto

Howtos are always useful, no matter the subject they are about. Whether you are trying to contribute to an Open Source project or to attract traffic to your blog howtos can make the things done.

I wrote this list of things to keep in mind while ... read more


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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

 

The Easiest Way to Add Digg Buttons to Blogger

Integrating Digg within Blogger should be easy if you follow this method. However, if you do so you just get Blogger complaints. That's because Blogger does not allow using script tags in posts but only in templates.

I think that such limimitation ... read more


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Friday, September 22, 2006

 

5 Ways to Contribute to Open Source Projects Without Coding

Maybe you've seen many good Open Source projects that are no longer maintained. One of the many reasons for that may be lack of contribution. In fact, there are many one-man projects out there. Most of any program's users are just that, users, not ... read more


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Monday, September 18, 2006

 

Ubuntu Knot 3 Available

The third development release of Ubuntu family is available.

The most important thing, in my opinion is that "Common to all variants, we have changed the init system from the venerable sysvinit to upstart which is an event-driven init script ... read more


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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

 

PayPal Has Rejected Me Because Of My Name

I've received an e-mail from PayPal today that starts saying (bold emphasize mine):

Access to your PayPal account has been denied because your name is similar to or a match to an entry on the Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated

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Monday, September 11, 2006

 

Printer Configuration Utility Updated

xprinterconf, the simple GUI tool for printer configuration in xubuntu has been updated. This is a minor update that does not add functionality, just bug fixes. Nevertheless is recommended to update from the previous version.

You can download the ... read more


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Friday, September 08, 2006

 

Is Google Going To Defeat Microsoft?

It's quite obvious that the so called web 2.0 (and Open Source software) has changed a lot not only the way we use the Internet and PCs but the technology market too. Although I think that desktop applications aren't a thing of the past yet, the ... read more


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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

 

Gnome 2.16 Release Will Have Effects on Xubuntu

The latest version of GNOME, a free desktop environment has been released today. You can find more information in the 2.16 start page.

But being a xubuntu user I think that the most noticeable is that this new version of GNOME is based on GTK+ ... read more


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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

 

Xfce 4.4RC1 Released

A new version of Xfce was released yesterday. It's the first release candidate of the upcoming 4.4 version. There's also new version of Xarchiver and Thunar, which now has Trash bin support.

Read what's new in the ChangeLog. ... read more


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How to configure an Old Sound Card in Xubuntu: The CMI 8330 Case

Xubuntu has very low system requirements compared to other modern linux distributions. So, it can be used to extend old hardware's life. However, despite of the great hardware recognition of the Ubuntu family (including Xubuntu, of course), it may ... read more


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