Linux and free software: front page
Get to know the wonderful world that Linux and free software enthusiasts have created!
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Does the subwoofer in your ASUS laptop not work under Fedora?
- Here's a hacky fix that worked for me. Works for Ubuntu too.
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Tip: letting your ZFS pool sleep
- You may not want to keep those disks rotating all day long, if they're not in use.
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Does your Adobe Flash Player icon in the KDE System Settings malfunction?
- The library is installed in the wrong location on Fedora 15 64-bit machines. Here is how to fix it.
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Does your wireless (WiFi) network connection glitch / stop / interrupt every two minutes?
- If you have a wireless adapter on Linux like the ath9k (Atheros) or others, and you are on Fedora, here is a solution.
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A better way to block brute force attacks on your SSH server
- You have probably seen very simple IPTables rules to do this. This is a little bit better.
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Nokia N900: check it out on this video.
- It is not only superior to the iPhone 3GS in what you can do -- the user interface is really streamlined.
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Help! I uninstalled a Plone product, reinstalled it and now some of my content doesn't show up in the navigation!
- Relax. Your content hasn't disappeared -- is there, hidden by a perhaps overzealous malfunction protection mechanism.
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Arcana of /etc/ltsp/ldm-global-dmrc
- A tip of the trade from a fellow LTSP administrator: how to set up the default language and desktop session on LTSP terminals booting off a Fedora 11 terminal server.
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How to make PulseAudio run once at boot for all your users
- Running PulseAudio as a system-wide service has advantages -- you can play audio without having logged on, multiple users can play audio on the same audio gear, and music daemons like MPD won't fight for the audio device with PulseAudio. Here's how.
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How to get virtual surround sound on your headphones plugged to your Linux rig
- Want to experience movies better but don't have the home theater? Now you can.
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KDE 4.2, NEPOMUK and Linux distributions
- NEPOMUK and Strigi do not work in the vast majority of Linux distributions. We'll see why, and how we can fix that.
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Conficker eye chart -- reloaded. Also known (in the great tradition) as: Spread this chart
- Are you infected with Conficker? My machines can handle the DDoS that Conficker inflicted on the original eye chart's site. See if you're infected here.
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Amarok 2: a story of disappointment -- with a solution for Fedora 11
- Amarok 2 is regrettably worse than unusable (it actually causes data loss) for people coming from Amarok 1. Worst part is, Fedora ships it as "stable" software since its tenth release. Fortunately, I have built Amarok 1.4.10 for Fedora 11 -- and you can install it now.
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Making Zope and Plone collaborate with Google Analytics
- Otherwise known as the slash-ended problem.
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Plone Documentation Center failing with right_slots or 'name not defined' errors?
- Plone Documentation Center has been having some issues with Plone 3.1 and above. Here is the fix.
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KDE 4.2, Web Shortcuts (gg:) not working in KRunner?
- I have the fix.
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New Plone 3.2.2 packages released as RPMs
- The latest release of Plone just hit the shelves, and we're right on track delivering the RPM releases for your CentOS and Fedora.
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qSEOptimizer and Plone Documentation Center acting up? Here is the fix.
- Those two Plone products seem to never get along. Here's a hot fix for Plone 3.0.x users that will make the excellent qSEOptimizer by QuintaGroup work just fine along with Plone Documentation Center (PHC) and Plone Software Center (PSC).
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How to make Plone 3 not log you off when you close your browser
- Plone is pretty secure by default. Unfortunately, as an administrator, having to log in each time you restart your browser is extremely annoying. Here's how to bypass that.
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How to create big-ass empty files in milliseconds
- A small trick that will help you when you need a file that is multi-gigabytes in size, but you don't have hours to wait for it to be written to disk.
