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Five Tweaks for Your New Ubuntu Desktop |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 07 November 2008 07:23 |
"Disable or throttle back Tracker indexing
Installed and running by default on Ubuntu desktops, Tracker is an actually handy search tool that's placed, Spotlight-style, in the upper-right taskbar, giving you quick access to files and folders. The only catch is that Tracker eats up a good bit of processor power to keep itself current, and, depending on how you use your system, might not be necessary at all. The How-To Geek walks through the process of scaling back or disabling Tracker entirely. Looking for a low-power, high-functioning alternative? Try learning the magic of find." |
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Written by Mike Golvach
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Monday, 20 October 2008 06:08 |
Linux/Unix Want Ads - Humor That's Sad But True "Maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps a good segment of our society out there, who aren't pathologically lying train-wrecks, can do it all and are willing to do so for just enough money per paycheck to inch them closer to homelessness ;)"In that spirit, I present this piece. You can find the original version here, plus a few other goodies." |
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Is Linux failing the Netbooks? |
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Written by yuga
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 14:16 |
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Is Linux failing the Netbooks? Several Linux flavors attempted to go mainstream when they were introduced pre-installed into netbooks. It was free, performs well and doesn’t take up a lot of space. It made sense and seemed like a perfect fit. Or not. As quoted from Engadget, people who bought their netbooks with Linux pre-installed as more likely to return the unit: MSI’s internal research has found that Linux-infused netbooks are returned four times as often as units with Windows XP.
That’s not twice as often. It’s 4 times. What does it say about Linux? I’m not sure but I guess it all boils down to familiarity. Netbooks are for mass market and that market is more familiar with Windows XP than any other OS available. As the Atom processor gets faster with HDD/SSD storage and RAM cheaper, there will be less and less reasons to go with a stripped-down OS. No wonder XP continues to get a second lease in life. |
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Track Stolen Laptop / Mac With Free Open Source Adeona Software |
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Written by Vivek Gite
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 00:00 |
Track Stolen Laptop / Mac With Free Open Source Adeona Software
With the growing ubiquity of, and user reliance on, mobile computing devices (laptops, PDAs, smart phones, etc.), loss or theft of a device is increasingly likely, disruptive, and costly.
Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go -- there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.
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Written by Jonas
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 00:00 |
jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox You may have read that from John Resig or Scott Guthrie. I’m very excited to announce that Microsoft has decided to ship, adopt and support using jQuery on top of ASP.NET. This may come as a surprise to some of you but I hope you’ll agree with me that it makes total sense. jQuery is a fantastic JavaScript library that focuses on DOM querying and manipulation, whereas the Microsoft Ajax Library focuses on building reusable components and interacting with ASP.NET web services. A lot has been written already on this new partnership so I’ll just go ahead and show some code that hopefully will show how great jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX work together. As my first piece of code using both frameworks, I’ve built a very simple plug-in for jQuery that instantiates a specific control on all elements in a jQuery result set. Here’s the full code for the plug-in: |
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