Are you new here? Subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Peter from FOSSwire has a nice article on using KRename to rename a set of files.
Renaming a big set of files can be a right chore. For example, if you’ve just imported a set of digital photos, they’ll usually have really unhelpful and […]

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Michael Stutz has a very nice article on IBM that covers 10 Good UNIX Usage Habits for the command line.
Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX® command line efficiency — and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for […]

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If you are looking for a reliable software application that will mirror a website for offline use, I suggest HTTrack. It is available for Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP, Linux/Unix/BSD, and MacOSX.
HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide website from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively […]

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Linux-gamers.net has a great comparison of free software shooters on Linux.
There have been many free software first-person shooters (FPS) projects over the years, from modded Doom and Quake engines to enhance the existing games (ezQuake, EGL, ZDoom), to free art packs such as OpenQuartz or OpenArena. In 2002, along came Cube, a single and multiplayer […]

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If you’ve ever lost data due to a system crash, you know how crucial backing up important files can be. Here are 5 Linux Backup Solutions you should check out. I recommend you implement at least one of these Linux Backup Solutions before it’s too late.
rsync
There are tons of Linux users and administrators […]

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Techtrob writes:
Preload is an “adaptive readahead daemon” that runs in the background of your system, and observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application load time. By using Preload, you can put unused RAM to good work, and improve the overall performance of your desktop system.
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Mark O’Neill has a nice article on how to get notified by SMS when someone contacts you on Pidigin.
There is a plug-in available for Pidgin called gSMS which will notify you by mobile phone SMS when someone tries to contact you by Pidgin and you don’t respond within a specified time frame. This would be […]

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Neil Randall has a nice review of Microsoft’s Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The review covers installation, performance differences, security, and more.
Also, for the hard core gamers, Vista Service Pack 1 will support Direct3D 10.1.
A little over a year after the first appearance of Vista, Service Pack 1 (SP1) is nearly ready for download. […]

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Wine has released a new version of their popular a program loader capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems.
What’s new in this release:
- Proper handling of OpenGL/Direct3D windows with menu bars.
- Stubs for all the d3dx9_xx dlls.
- Several graphics optimizations.
- Many installer fixes.
- Improved MIME message support.
- Lots […]

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Interested in running Linux Applications in Windows?  andLinux actually loads the Linux kernel on your Windows desktop and makes it appear as though your Linux applications are running like any other Windows application.
Linux fans that need a Windows app or two can take advantage of WINE, but what about Windows fans that need to run […]

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