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Comparing CTK Arch Live and ArchBang
My name is Prashanth Venkataram, and I write and manage the blog Das U-Blog by
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In-Depth Chakra “Ashoc” 0.3.0 Review and Impressions
This is guest blogger Prashanth Venkataram, and I write and manage the blog Das U-Blog

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Disable Nepomuk or Strigi (Desktop Search / Indexing) in KDE 4.7 Kubuntu openSUSE
The KDE developers have included Strigi and Nepomuk to help users find files on their
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Business Data Recovery
Data Recovery With more and more businesses using VMware to run virtual machines that run

Hardware more »
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Linux and Your TV
So, after reading the article Is your tv running linux and watching a very boring
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Sony Playstation 3 Owner Gets Partial Refund For Losing Linux
Recently sony recently reported the following: The next system software update for the PlayStation 3

Tutorials & Fixes more »
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Installing Oracle (sun) Java 1.7u1 openSUSE 12.1
As many of you know, SUSE decided to drop Oracle Java starting with openSUSE 12.1.
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Fluxbox 1.3.1 on Fedora 14, 13 or 12
If you’re looking for Fluxbox 1.3.1 on Fedora 14, then you’re in luck. I’ve gone

Virtualization more »
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Getting VMware Tools Version for Linux via CLI
VMware doesn’t seem to provide a very good way to get the version of your
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Virtualbox Walkthrough: Ubuntu 10.04
This walkthrough takes you through creating a virtual machine on Virtualbox and installing Ubuntu 10.04

Scripting and Security more »
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VMware Powershell – Find the number of Windows VMs
family law lawyers . experiance . Have you ever needed to know the count of
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Linux Kernel 2.6.30+ RDS Vulnerability
Recently it was reported by VSR Security that Linux Kernel versions 2.6.30+ are affected by

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Fluxbox 1.3.0 Released

Fluxbox has had its first release since 2008. This release brings me much joy, as a Fluxbox user, it solidifies the point that Fluxbox is [ continue reading... ]
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Installing openSUSE 11.4 GNOME Live CD Step by Step

Here are a bunch of screenshots for the installation of openSUSE 11.4 using the GNOME Live CD. The screenshots are self explanatory and shouldn’t require [ continue reading... ]
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Black Box While Using Flash on x86_64 Arch Linux

Recently I re-installed Arch Linux onto my Laptop, and upon installing Chromium (9) and copying libflashplayer.so (the Beta that is full x86_64 bit compatible) into [ continue reading... ]
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Puppet 2.6.2 on SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise

If you’re a puppet user and running SLES and have been looking for the latest version shipped via an RPM, then you’re in luck. california [ continue reading... ]
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Ubuntu 10.10 – Is it worth the hype?

As with any Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 10.10 has quite the hype train backing it, and its release. But this time, they backed it up better [ continue reading... ]