Fun things to do with SSH in Ubuntu/Debian

SSH is a great tool to get around your computers with. There are lots of things you can do with it besideds simply connecting to another machine. Did you know you could use X11 forwarding to get graphical programs running on one machine to display on another? This guide will help you [...]

Get the latest Ubuntu .debs here!

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They’ve got the newest releases (or just plain new software) ready to install on your Ubuntu system with just a download and a click of the mouse!
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System Safety Monitor 2

System Safety Monitor 2 is available in a free version from the developers website. The tool basically works as a firewall preventing malicious software to be started automatically. The free version runs in paranoid mode which means you have to allow or disallow every process and get nagged quite a bit at the beginning.
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Change display properties to make things bigger

If you are like me, it’s getting harder to see things on your computer. My eyes are growing old and weak with the rest of me. And, of course, although computer screens are getting bigger, the higher resolution that is used has the opposite effect of making objects on the screen smaller. Fortunately, there are [...]

Google updates Reader, makes it better

Ever since I started subscribing to RSS feeds I’ve been trying out new feed readers whether they be desktop or web-based ones, never staying with one for very long (by the way, I’m currently using the fantastic NewsHutch which I’ll be reviewing shortly). When Google first released Google Reader, I wasn’t very impressed, [...]

Record your favorite shows with MSN Messenger

Say you’re stuck at work and all of a sudden you remember that there’s a new episode of your favorite show and you forgot to set a reminder on your Media Center. You can’t go back home so what do you do? Check out Mobile Record, a free bot which you can use on [...]

Songbird the ultimate Media Player ?

Songbird is a relativly new open source media player that is build from Mozilla and aims to revolutionize the media player market the same way firefox did to the browser market. Songbird is currently available in revision 0.2 “test flight” and runs on Windows 2000+, Linux and Mac just like firefox.
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Access your e-mail on your phone w/ Flurry

Flurry is a pretty cool new service/application which helps you bring all your countless e-mail accounts and favorite news headlines to your cellphone. Signing up for an account is free, and you’ll receive a text message with a link to download the application. After you’ve set that up, you can access any number of POP [...]

A working list of apps not working on Vista

Microsoft may be reticent to provide a list of what is not working on Vista, but that isn’t stopping others from going public with their findings. The folks over on IEXBeta.com have published as a Wiki a list of applications that work (mostly) well; work somewhat less well and don’t work at all with Windows [...]

Prevent from using (reuse) same old passwords under Linux

PAM is a flexible mechanism for authenticating users.
There is a module called pam_unix. This module provides functionality for PAM modules such as authentication, account management etc.
Same module can be used to maintain a list of old passwords for every user. This is useful if you want to disallow use [...]

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