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If you're a Linux administrator or you are integrating Linux into your IT department then you won't want to miss the latest tutorials, news, and updates on various Linux distributions and open source applications.
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Using version control with the LyX document preparation program

15 May 2012 - 8:00am
Scott Reeves introduces the LyX document prep program with a GUI front-end that makes formatting easy.
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Games, Sputnik, and robots: The week in open source

15 May 2012 - 3:28am
It was a fairly exciting week for Linux and open source. Jack Wallen shares some of the highlights, from games, to robotics, to servers.
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Project Sputnik: Dell plans Ubuntu laptop aimed at developers

11 May 2012 - 7:46am
Dell, in partnership with Canonical, has announced a serious effort to create an Ubuntu-based ultrabook aimed specifically at developers.
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Is the 'perfect desktop' attainable?

8 May 2012 - 3:00am
Jack Wallen found many people had strong opinions about his claim that Ubuntu 12.04 nailed the desktop to near perfection. As a result, Jack questions whether the "perfect desktop" is attainable.
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Automatically analyze text with these simple, command line tools

2 May 2012 - 1:00am
Marco Fioretti suggests some free tools you can use to check and improve your own writing style as well as analyze other types of text. Here are some tips on how to use them.
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Ubuntu 12.04: Desktop perfection within reach

1 May 2012 - 4:06am
Jack Wallen is wowed by Ubuntu 12.04. Just how close to perfection is this latest release from Ubuntu? Read Jack's take and find out if it's enough to make you want to give Precise Pangolin a go.
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How to automatically find and download videos from YouTube (or anywhere else)

25 April 2012 - 1:00am
Marco Fioretti shows you how to install two free SW utilities and supplies a sample script to use with them that will allow you automatically search for and download online videos matching the...
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Record and share your terminal session with shelr.tv

24 April 2012 - 4:50am
Jack Wallen stumbles across an incredibly handy command line tool for recording your command-fu. If you're looking for interesting ways to train users on the Linux (or Mac) command line -- shelr...
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Using iwconfig to configure settings on wireless cards

18 April 2012 - 1:00am
Scott Reeves shows you a command that allows you to set and change parameters of a wireless card, including changing the bitrate.
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Microsoft's new open source initiative

17 April 2012 - 3:24am
Microsoft has formed the Microsoft Open Technologies arm and is ready to help facilitate the relationship between open source and MS. Are you ready to don your tinfoil cap? Here is Jack Wallen's take.
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How and why to use KAlarm from the command line

10 April 2012 - 7:23am
Marco Fioretti describes ways of using KAlarm to automate and customize alerts on your desktop from the command line.
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How Canonical's next moves could repaint the Linux landscape

10 April 2012 - 3:23am
Jack Wallen highlights how Canonical and Ubuntu are going to totally revolutionize the Linux landscape in the upcoming months. Will mass acceptance follow?
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How to set up web filtering solution on Squid Proxy

6 April 2012 - 5:21am
Guest contributor Rafael Akchurin of QuintoLabs presents this how-to article on setting up web content filtering on Squid Proxy.
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Ubuntu's HUD: Light-years beyond any menu system

3 April 2012 - 3:31am
Ubuntu continues to take Unity into the future of desktops, and with its new HUD system, the desktop has now gone boldly where none has gone before. Jack Wallen introduces the Head-Up Display.
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Four of my most-used CLI commands

29 March 2012 - 8:51am
Scott Reeves lists four of the commands in Linux that he uses most often along with some examples of how he uses them. What are the commands you can't live without?
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Portable wikis: Seven tips to get started with one

27 March 2012 - 7:09am
Marco Fioretti describes a portable wiki and shows you how to get started with one that he recommends -- Wiki on a Stick (WoaS).
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Ubuntu Unity 5.8 seriously impresses

27 March 2012 - 3:30am
Jack Wallen gives Ubuntu Unity 5.8 a go and is seriously impressed. Read about the improvements and why Jack is so willing to admit his mistake when proclaiming the Ubuntu desktop dead.
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How to install Adobe Photoshop CS5 on Linux with WINE

23 March 2012 - 3:43am
Jack Wallen shows you the steps to install Adobe Photoshop CS5 on Linux with WINE when the GIMP toolbox just isn't enough.
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Windows 8 and Linux: The perception of change

20 March 2012 - 2:55am
Jack Wallen sees the changes in Windows 8 and wonders if the Microsoft community will react with the same displeasure that visited the open source community when GNOME 3 and Unity came on the scene.
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SourceForge says no to Anonymous-OS project

17 March 2012 - 8:34am
SourceForge has yanked an Ubuntu-based, security-cracking distro called Anonymous OS for a lack of transparency, calling it a "substantial risk."
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Giving a party is very like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion, and once you have begun it it is almost impossible to stop

— Jan Struther

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Reclaim your computer!

A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours. Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over.
— Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005

The most serious impediment to a lasting archive is the evolution of media, platforms, formats, and the applications that create them. Unique, proprietary, and constantly evolving data formats such as Acrobat-4, MPEG-4, Oracle 8, Quicken 2001, Real G2, and Word 2000 suggest or even guarantee obsolescence.
— Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher in Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group.

LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES. You can recover from Microsoft and its suppliers only direct damages up to the amount you paid for the software. You cannot recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages.
— Clause 26 of the Windows 7 License.

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