All over the world discussing precisely the Football World Cup and the Vuvuzela. , Even in the mainstream media are circulating geeky instructions how to filter out the Getröte from the tone of the transfer. For mplayer or VLC for there are approaches that are also run under Linux would, but unfortunately, these solutions only isolated solutions for these programs. Read the rest of this entry »

Some time ago I've ever introduced a free VPN access ItsHidden.com, but works according to the last comment, it just does not match the service. Lack of access I can not verify the present, but also with UltraVPN there is a free replacement to ItsHidden.com. The service relies on donations as well as free software, and claims to pursue any commercial interests. Read the rest of this entry »

Data to and from Linux machines over a network transfer is indeed on thousands of ways. FTP, Samba, NFS, WebDAV, and I do not know what else. I'm personally quite happy via SCP or SFTP, because I have not set up large shares. An SSH server is installed quickly and thanks to the gvfs and Nautilus or KIO slaves from the Linux desktop you can easily access via SSH to the data of other Linux systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Complete Guide to Ubuntu GNU / Linux from the Galileo Computing Marcus Fischer publishing house, it already for quite a long time as a so-called “Open Book”. Thus, one could read the book for free on the homepage of Galileo. Now the publisher is a step further and offers the complete book in HTML format for downloading. Read the rest of this entry »

For the creator of screencasts useful programs mon-key or key status monitor, I told you once already introduced. Now I've encountered on OMG! Screenkey Ubuntu and I must say that this little tool, the principle of mon-key now to the extreme.ViewScreenkey represents not only the keystrokes on the screen, but the entire input in a partially transparent banner. Read the rest of this entry »

Today is a historic day for GNOME! On 9/10/2001, so soon before the age of 9, was the suggestion in the GNOME bugtracker Please add a way to customize the toolbar filed. Today is the fix finally arrived at the user. Although “only” firstonce in the Nautilus Nautilus Fork Elementary, but if not let me down my sources, then plans to take over some of the GNOME Nautilus Elementary in the “right” Nautilus. Read the rest of this entry »

For Linux there for years as a powerful GIMP image manipulation program, but who simply just want to make a “bit” image processing, which is often overwhelmed with Gimp. Here's a little bit of text, as retouch an arrow, there a little bit. This, of course, with Gimp, but with a simple image processing, the newcomers would be easier to go by hand. Read the rest of this entry »

Mir is a Terratec Cinergy C PCI DVB-C card pretty cheap fallen into the hands that I have of course tested immediately with Ubuntu. According to the required linuxtv.org mantis driver from kernel 2.6.33 is in the kernel, but unfortunately Ubuntu Lucid is therefore an older kernel. Therefore one must make use of a few pull-ups to get the card up and running. Read the rest of this entry »

Lenovo designed the notebook after the takeover by IBM for the first column at times vigorously with the division's Edge Lenovo notebooks. Now there is currently a 50 € cash back promotion, which just makes the entry-level models are very interesting. Eventually you get for 349 € for example, the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13 NUE2LGE that should run with current Linux distributions without problems. Read the rest of this entry »

Until now it was so common in Ubuntu, which was after the release of Ubuntu version no longer changes to the package sources. Only essential bug fixes or security updates have been distributed through the update and security sources. For the Mozilla products, this meant that only so-called minor updates such as recorded was an update from Firefox 3. Read the rest of this entry »