Google Earth comes to Linux
Monday July 17th 2006, 10:19 pm
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Linux
An excellent way to spend (or waste) hours exploring the world, Google Earth now has a Linux version out. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come with more Google products released for Linux. After all, it’s what they run on their servers in the first place.
New version of Linux music software
Monday July 17th 2006, 9:38 pm
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Linux
The Rosegarden team are delighted to announce the release of version 1.2.4 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. This is a pure bug-fix release, fixing several outstanding issues with the prior version 1.2.3. You can download this latest release from this page: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4932
SourceForge.net: Rosegarden 1.2.4 now available!
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Light relief with the Order of the Stick
Tuesday July 11th 2006, 10:11 pm
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Humour

The Order of the Stick
This wonderful comic strip has kept me smilling for many months now and if you haven’t discovered it yet, it’s worth taking the time to read through the 300-odd episodes right from the beginning
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A novel use for the GPL
Tuesday July 11th 2006, 9:57 pm
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Humour
Welcome to the free-penguin project page. This project provides ‘executables’ that enable you to make your own soft-toy Linux® penguin. To put it straight: You can find sewing patterns and a community to sew your own soft toy or stuffed Linux® Tux penguin here. To help Google finding this, once again: You can find sewing patterns and community to sew your own soft toy or stuffed Linux® Tux penguin here. All downloads come under GPL (GNU General Public License).
Free Penguin Project - download free penguin sewing patterns, stuffed penguin and Tux patterns open source
Then again, as my daughter gets closer to one year old, might have more relevance than I thought!
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Damn Small Linux gets bigger and better
According to Distrowatch.com, Damn Small Linux is the most popular microLinux distribution. What began as a toy project to stuff the maximum software inside a 50MB ISO file has matured into a refined community project known for its speed and versatility. DSL includes the ultra-lightweight FluxBox window manager, two Web browsers, Slypheed email client and news reader, xpdf PDF viewer, XMMS with MPEG media file support for playing audio and video, BashBurn CD burner, XPaint image editing, VNCViewer and rdesktop to control Windows and Linux desktops remotely, and more. If they could do all this in 50 megs, imagine what they could do in more space. Last month the DSL developers released DSL-Not, a.k.a. DSL-N 0.1 RC1. It’s 83.5MB of DSL coated with GTK sugar. Yummy!
NewsForge | DSL-N: Damn Small Linux gets bigger
I’ve really enjoyed using this Distro, especially as it has brought new life to an old notebook I had lying around. This larger version should help save the time I spent adding some of the larger apps to it.
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A useful network tool
Setting up your system network can be hard enough. You organise your router, firewall, connection to the internet and the workstations you need to connect to your router.You then sort out the required Ethernet cables, hiding them within your walls, so that your network is self-contained.Over time you’ll probably add more workstations to your network, and multiple network engineers will make other amendments.In the future you might find that you need to make major structural changes to your existing network. Can you remember what is connected to which router and how your workstations are all networked?The Dude is a network monitor that will enable you to scan all the devices within a network subnet and then draw a map of the network devices and tell you where your workstations are connected and warn you of service problems.Better still, your network doesn’t need to be internal. If your company has a network between offices, The Dude will enable you to map the entire network.Note this is an advanced tool for network engineers.
The Dude 2.0 beta 3 - Computeract!ve
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Exchange under threat?
Tuesday July 11th 2006, 9:54 pm
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Linux
There’s been a lot of buzz lately around Scalix, the Linux-based open source email and collaboration software that offers third-party MS Outlook integration.Its “transparent” support for Outlook, as well as its equally buzz-worthy AJAX-based webmail feature, has raised hopes that the open source solution can oust the Outlook/MS Exchange hegemony in the corporate market — one of the last remaining barriers for open source in the business world.
TECTONIC: Scalix slashes wholesaler’s collaboration costs
Having listened to what Microsoft have to say about Office, the collaboration tools have always seemed unbeatable. Maybe this will change things
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Rescuing Windows with Linux
However, I discovered another truly invaluable use for Live Linux CDs when my friend Mitch asked me to come over and help him with a very urgent need. His business report was due the next morning, but at the last moment his Microsoft Windows laptop failed to boot and he lost his report.
Emergency Boot of Windows PCs: Another Use for Linux - www.reallylinux.com
Catch Google in the act
Tuesday July 11th 2006, 3:07 pm
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Web Design
Ever wanted to know when google crawls your site?In this short tutorial we will cover how to send yourself an email via a PHP Script when Google’s spider has visited your site.
web : Ever wanted to know when google crawls your site? - SWiK
This is something I have often wondered about, especially when looking into the ranking of a site I’ve been working on.
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