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To play encrypted DVDs, the libdvdcss2 package is essential. libdvdcss2 is a simple library designed for accessing DVDs like a block device without having to bother about the decryption. More information about this package can be found at VideoLAN. You can install libdvdcss2 as a 64-bit .deb package without installing the Medibuntu repositories: $ wget -c http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/

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If your build from source is successful, you can make a Debian (Ubuntu) package (.deb) for future use or can distribute to other users: Install package tools: sudo apt-get install checkinstall CheckInstall keeps track of all files installed by a "make install" or equivalent, creates a Slackware, RPM, or Debian package with those files, and adds it to the installed packages database, allowing

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The most widely used command for monitoring log file is tail. Tail binary allows a user to watch the log file grow in realy time. Watching the log file grows can be done using an additional -f parameter. Alternatively, another approach to watch a log file grows can be done using tailf binary command. Tailf: tailf  will  print  out  the  last 10 lines of a file and then wait for the file to grow.

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The .daa file extension stands for 'Direct Access Archive' is a proprietary file format developed by PowerISO Computing for their CD/DVD image file-processing tool "PowerISO". Unlike the majority of CD/DVD image formats, the PowerISO's .daa format allows advanced features such as file compression, password protection, encryption and the ability to split files in to multiple volumes. Due to these

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binchunker converts a CD image in a ".bin / .cue" format (sometimes ".raw / .cue") to a set of .iso and .cdr tracks. The bin/cue format is used by some popular non-Unix cd-writing software, but is not supported on most other CD burning programs. A lot of CD/VCD images distributed on the Internet are in BIN/CUE format. The .iso track contains an ISO file system, which can be mounted through a

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Wammu is a mobile phone manager that uses Gammu as its backend. It works with any phone that Gammu supports, including many models from Nokia, Sony-Ericssonn, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens, Huawei and others. Feature: * Read, edit, delete, copy for contacts, todo, and calendar. * Read, save, and send SMS. * SMS composer for multi-part SMS messages, and it can display SMS messages that include

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If you are a Network Administrator with little knowledge in Network Protocols and IPtables, don't worry you can also controll your network traffic with a simple tool named wondershaper. Installation: OpenSuSe 11.2 user can use "1-click" installer to install Wondershaper - here Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install wondershaper $ifconfig this will help you to find the network interface (eth0, eth1 or

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Services are programs (called daemons) that once started run continuously in the background and are ready for input or a changes in your computer and respond to them. For example the Apache server has a daemon called httpd (the d is for daemon) that listens on port 80 on your computer and when it receives a request for a page it sends the appropriate data back to the client machine. Many

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The problem of the proprietary (closed source) drivers is a very important subject in those 2006 days. The openSUSE decided to follow the kernels developers recommendations and not to include proprietary drivers with the kernel. Please look at the linux-kernel mailing list to better understand the situation. The reasons why a certain drivers is not included in the main openSUSE are the

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Why doesn’t OpenSuSe support MP3 ‘out of the box’? OpenSuSe cannot include support for MP3 or DVD video playback or recording. MP3 formats are patented, and the patent holders have not provided the necessary licenses. OpenSuSe also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright, or license restrictions, such as Adobe Flash Player and RealNetworks RealPlayer. That doesn’t mean you

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Openoffice.org for kids or better say OOo4kids is a project that aims to provide a simplified version of openoffice.org for kids between 7-12 years. Ooo4Kids is based on OpenOffice.org source code. Everything is made with the idea to contribute back to OpenOffice.org Project, through OpenOffice.org Education Project, and students projects, but not only (all sort of contributions are welcome, of

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iplist is a Linux application for blocking connections to and from a specified range of hosts using the netfilter netlink-queue library. Iplist is an open source IP filtering program similar to PeerGuardian  for Linux. Some typical reasons for using iplist are:     * to protect your privacy     * to ban a large number of unwanted clients     * to block whole countries or networks     * to block

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The Ubuntu Software Center is a virtual catalog of thousands of free   applications available for Ubuntu — software to make your computer more useful.  You can find applications by category or by searching, and you can install an application with the click of a button.     The Software Center also lets you examine the applications installed on the    computer already,and remove those you no

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Modern computers do have internal clocks called Real Time Clock chips (RTC) that provide time and date information. These chips are battery backed so that even during power outages, they can maintain time but personal computers are not designed to be perfect clocks. Their design has been optimized for mass production and low-cost rather than maintaining accurate time. For many applications, this

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This tutorial provides instructions on upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (code name “Karmic Koala”), the most recent release of Ubuntu, released on the 29th of October 2009. 1. First and foremost, you need to backup all your important files. 2. Next, make sure the repository is updated: sudo apt-get update 3. Open the Update Manager with this command: sudo update-manager -d If there are any updates to

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As everybody knows that Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic koala has been released, bellow a quick video for the new features on ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala. Ubuntu software center a quick view

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Why doesn’t Ubuntu  support MP3 ‘out of the box’? Ubuntu cannot include support for MP3 or DVD video playback or recording. MP3 formats are patented, and the patent holders have not provided the necessary licenses. Ubuntu also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright, or license restrictions, such as Adobe Flash Player and RealNetworks RealPlayer. That doesn’t mean you can’t

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The main objective is to let users boot their machines with bare minimal requirements on their side, and boot.kernel.org will handle most of the problem that user may face in booting. All that user needs is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. You can download these program from site (available at Downloads

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Bombono DVD is easy to use program for making DVD video discs. This program allows you to get video on optical discs without knowing many technical details. It provides the full authoring sequence: making chapters while browsing videos, custom menu creation, authoring, and optionally burning on DVD. Also, it features the interesting feature of re-authoring, which allows one to get video back from

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The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book (the equivalent of 974 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 364 profusely commented illustrative examples, a number of tables, and a cross-linked index/glossary. Not just a shell scripting tutorial, this book also provides an introduction to basic

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Virtually all applications running on Linux do some sort of IO. Even surfing the web produces a great number of small files that are written to disk. Without an IO scheduler, every time there is an IO request, there is an interrupt to the kernel and the IO operation is performed. Perhaps more importantly, over time the disparity in the performance of disk drives and the rest of the system has

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In software testing, stress test refers to tests that put a greater emphasis on robustness, availability, and error handling under a heavy load, rather than on what would be considered correct behavior under normal circumstances. In particular, the goals of such tests may be to ensure the software doesn't crash in conditions of insufficient computational resources (such as memory or disk space),

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Not sure what Linus is trying to say here :) Does is really means a "thumbs up for Windows 7"? Source: http://www.linuxinsight.com/

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VIRT stands for the virtual size of a process, which is the sum of memory it is actually using, memory it has mapped into itself (for instance the video card's RAM for the X server), files on disk that have been mapped into it (most notably shared libraries), and memory shared with other processes. VIRT represents how much memory the program is able to access at the present moment. RES stands

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HANDLE WITH CARE Since 2.6, there has been a way to tune how much Linux favors swapping out to disk compared to shrinking the caches when memory gets full. ghoti adds: "When an application needs memory and all the RAM is fully occupied, the kernel has two ways to free some memory at its disposal: it can either reduce the disk cache in the RAM by eliminating the oldest data or it may swap some

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