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Ubuntu Dev Gets MPAA Univ “Toolkit” Taken Down

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Ok for those that didn’t know about this, the MPAA released what they were calling the “University Toolkit” a few weeks ago. It was a customized version of Ubuntu, that sits on your network, sniffs all your traffic and reports all the information it finds using a standard Apache install with logs, charts, diagrams, etc. [...]

Technology Reviews

Friday, November 16, 2007

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Welcome to the Technology Reviews section. Below you will find reviews for computer software, hardware, online services and anything else related to technology. Hardware Dell 3008 WFP 30″ LCD Review OLPC (On Laptop Per Child) Laptop Review Onkyo DS-A2 iPod Dock Review Software Adobe Captivate Review and Screencasting Alternatives Amazon MP3 Download Service Review Blu-ray Profile 1.1 Features & Functionality Review Box.net: Great [...]

Guides

Friday, November 16, 2007

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General Choosing a Toilet General - Technology Choosing a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo Laptop Choosing a Hard Drive & Should You Use RAID? Apple Recording a Podcast on your Mac using Skype and Audio Hijack Pro Removing iTunes DRM Google Setting up Palm Versamail with Gmail Home Theater / HDTV Home Theater Audio (Part 1, Part 2) Home Theater Start-to-Finish Building a NAS for [...]

“Real” 3D Desktop with Compiz Fusion

Friday, November 2, 2007

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This is pretty slick, it looks like Wondor hacked up an anaglyph plugin for Compiz Fusion to actually re-render the desktop pulling apart R/G/B to give it that 3D effect. The trick is you have to have a pair of 3D glasses laying around to see it in action. And yes, Compiz Fusion is what Ubuntu [...]

Ubuntu Power Saver Settings Could Damage Hard Drive

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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It seems that the default ACPI (power saving) settings for hard drives while running on battery power mode could be causing your hard drive to run an insane amount of load cycles, manifesting itself in “clicking” sounds and also the hard drive’s mechanical portions to be stressed quite a bit more than normal and life [...]

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) To Get New Theme

Monday, October 29, 2007

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Covered in brief detail (yet to be filled out) the Ubuntu Wiki describes that every LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu, next of which will be the 8.04 release next year) should have a fresh theme to it. All previous releases of Ubuntu have had the very nicely done Human theme, but it looks like [...]

Unreal Tournament 3 (UT3) Linux Support

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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How cool is this… Phoronix is reporting that Epic’s Linux/Mac guy, Ryan Gordon, has confirmed that there will infact be a Linux client for Unreal Tournament 3 at launch. It won’t be on the media in the box, but it can be downloaded from their site for free and you just pop the Windows version [...]

Vista to Ubuntu Migration Superguide

Monday, October 22, 2007

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NOTE: Ashton’s guide is for Ubuntu 6.06, a lot of things he disliked in the guide have been taken care of in either 7.04 or 7.10, the newest release. While the guide has some good information in it, please keep in mind that some of the “wtf” gripes he may have may not exist any [...]

Ubuntu 7.10 Reviews

Friday, October 19, 2007

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No that is not a Mac desktop you are looking at, that’s Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). While we covered the 7.10 release a few times before, now that it’s officially out, people smarter than me have coughed up some pretty great reviews of it. Lunapark6 has a in-depth review with a lot of screenshots covering the [...]

Mozilla Working Hard on Firefox Visual Refresh

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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Ars has a good piece discussing the hard work that Mozilla is putting together to visually refresh Firefox on all the major platforms (Windows XP/Vista, Linux, Mac). In the original post only Windows and Mac were mentioned specifically as the main targets for the visual-fidelity refresh, but after a lot of user outcry two (1, 2) [...]

Ubuntu 7.10 RC Released

Friday, October 12, 2007

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The Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Release Candidate (RC) has been released for mass-consumption and deemed stable for any user to try out. For the folks that are “waiting for the final release”, you can just install this and the updates, as they are made available, will popup in the system updater for you to add. So [...]

glTail.rb: Real Time OpenGL Log Visualization

Sunday, October 7, 2007

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“Fudgie” took a personal challenge from his boss to see if he could make log visualization interesting from your Apache log file. 1 week, some Ruby and some OpenGL later he created glTail.rb; a real-time Apache log visualization toolthat uses OpenGL to render some interesting effects that represent traffic (Supported on Mac and Linux). It’s hard [...]

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