Friday, June 30, 2006

Red Hat Partners Report More Customers Dropping Windows For Linux

Especially interesting in a Wall Street analyst’s recent report is a finding that 45% of Red Hat’s partners are seeing customers migrating from Windows to Red Hat. That trend could be a tremendous growth indicator for the Hatters since Microsoft dominates world markets and much of Red Hat’s growth in the past has come at the expense of Unix or other Linux providers.

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10 Things Men Hate About Women

They use sex as a weapon while pretending their chaste. They critisize other women, from their friends to their mothers and constantly use us as emotional crutches. They talk in "code" and are incredibly jealous. Regardless of how much we can't live without them, there are certain things we can definitely do without.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Online Quiz - Do You Have What it Takes to Become a Citizen?

MSNBC has posted a sample citizenship quiz to see whether you've got the national knowledge required to become a citizen of the United States. Time to dust off those history books.

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Gliffy, the Online Visio Killer

Two guys with some time on their hands have created a tool that might just become a Visio-killer. Gliffy is a free diagramming tool that works entirely in your browser. Like other online apps, it has inherent advantages over traditional software. Collaboration is easier,and so is publishing diagrams you create to the web.

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Monday, June 26, 2006

The Differences Between Linux Distributions

A lot of people have heard of GNU/Linux (more commonly referred to as just "Linux") and are having trouble finding out what the differences are between different versions -- or distributions -- that are available. This article outlines the differences between several popular GNU/Linux distributions and similar operating systems.

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Friday, June 23, 2006

55 Ways to Have Fun with Google

Here is a free E-Book on how to have fun with Google. A good read specially if you have lots of idle time in front of a computer.

Preview here

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Thursday, June 22, 2006

How to run full Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper

A how-to for using the QEMU virtual PC to load up a full install of Windows XP SP2 under Ubuntu Dapper.

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Ubuntu / Kubuntu Dapper Drake COMPLETE sources.list (repository list file)

A really complete sources.list file for *Ubuntu users with many extra software repositories included like Opera browser, Penguin Liberation Front packages, the latest KDE, KOffice and amaroK, up-to-date packages for VLC, Compiz, Skype, Freevo, MythTV and other popular software...
This list has been also reported by DistroWatch Weekly issue 156.

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The Devil's Guide to Google

Here's how to become a totally evil, worm-like creature with Google's array of services in under a month.

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Monday, June 19, 2006

Guide To Make Ubuntu Look Like Mac OS X

This is a detailed guide to turn the looks of your Ubuntu into a Mac OSX. The article was made as simple as possible to make it easy to follow.

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Saturday, June 17, 2006

How to enable remote desktop - Remotely

Remote desktop is a nice feature of Windows that lets you remotely work on the system as if you were there. Many times you find that you need it enabled - but the machine you are trying to access is tough to reach. This is a simply way to remotely enable it.

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How To Build A LAMP Server With Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This is a detailed description about how to set up a Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (Apache web server, Postfix mail server (with SMTP-AUTH + TLS), DNS/FTP/MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.). This guide comes with lots of screenshots and is therefore easy to follow even for Linux newbies.

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Free 24 Hours Linux Tech Support

Qunu empowers people to help others with tech support. It's different from other sites you've already heard of because it uses instant messaging to make the support real time. Qunu is your problem solved, instantly.

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Posted by G.M.C. at 7:38 PM | | Comments

How to set up Xen 3.0 from binaries in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake)

This tutorial contains step-by-step instructions for installing Xen 3.0 from precompiled binaries in Ubuntu Dapper Drake.

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Posted by G.M.C. at 7:36 PM | | Comments

Wine Doors opens Windows under Linux

Like WineTools, Wine Doors is designed to user-friendlify your Wine installation -- setting up phony Windows drives, adding Windows applications, and so on. The goal is to let users manage their Wine-based apps with point-and-click ease.

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How to keep users from messing up their desktops Linux

While I prefer allowing every user to customize his system, some managers may want to keep users from messing up a standard Linux configuration.

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Basic Things to Know When Switching to a Linux Desktop

"New users get stuck on their new Linux machines trying to figure out what went wrong, or as a better way to say it.. what they didn't know. From different questions that I get from new users, I have come up to a collection of the basic things that a new Linux user must know."

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Just Digg it!

A blog for news and articles that I digg.

Posted by G.M.C. at 6:40 PM | | Comments