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OpenWRT Build Guide:  Start To Finish

OpenWRT Build Guide: Start To Finish

Tom Nardi January 17, 2012 11

The following guide will walk you through the downloading, configuring, and compilation of OpenWRT. The guide makes no assumption about the reader’s previous experience with OpenWRT, or even building from source, so as long

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Ubuntu 10.04 Lives!  Go Back To The Future With Lucid Lynx

Ubuntu 10.04 Lives! Go Back To The Future With Lucid Lynx

Dean Howell January 16, 2012 17

Does Oneiric have you down?  Is your hardware not up to snuff?  Well, what are you going to do about it?  Ubuntu 10.04 is almost 2 years old now, but you can teach it

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KDE’s New Oxygen Font Gets Naked For The Camera

KDE’s New Oxygen Font Gets Naked For The Camera

Dean Howell January 16, 2012 2

OMG Ubuntu reported today that KDE’s new Oxygen font is now available for testing.  As far as I’m concerned it’s at about 90% as far as usability is concerned, and for those of us

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Integrating Shutter With KDE 4.7

Integrating Shutter With KDE 4.7

Dean Howell January 5, 2012 2

Forget KSnapshot! Did you know that you can integrate Shutter with KDE 4.7?  Yes, you sure can.  Shutter is an excellent tool for screen captures regardless of your desktop environment. Why? If you use

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Did F-Spot Go To Heaven Mommy?

Did F-Spot Go To Heaven Mommy?

Dean Howell January 3, 2012 1

F-Spot.  Catapulted into the limelight of the Linux desktop as Ubuntu began to capture mind-share in the mainstream.   F-Spot was my choice in photo manager for years.  It didn’t do everything right, but it certainly felt

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Kmail 2:  Fix ‘Failed to fetch the resource collection’ error and get on with life

Kmail 2: Fix ‘Failed to fetch the resource collection’ error and get on with life

Dean Howell January 2, 2012 2

Not everyone uses the web to check their mail- though it certainly makes sense to do so.  If you are using KMail 2 in Kubuntu 11.10, you may have seen this error. KMail encountered

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Play Zelda: Skyward Sword in Ubuntu 11.10

Play Zelda: Skyward Sword in Ubuntu 11.10

Dean Howell January 1, 2012 4

Disclaimer:  Don’t you dare steal this game.  It is incredible and worth every dollar asked for it.  As you can see, I am using my own disc.  At $49.99, this game is a great

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Amarok For Windows:  Stable Freedom at Work.

Amarok For Windows: Stable Freedom at Work.

Dean Howell December 28, 2011 0

For those readers forced to use Windows at work, but have Administrative access to their machines, Amarok is now available to you.  What better way to listen to the Judge John Hodgman podcast or

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Think Penguin’s “Penguin Air” Review.

Think Penguin’s “Penguin Air” Review.

Dean Howell December 27, 2011 19

Your laptop might have an Nvidia graphics chipset, or an Atheros mini-pci wireless module.  These things are not really fully supported by the mainline Linux kernel, so your choice is to install non-free software

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Google Chrome Getting a Terminal Soon!

Google Chrome Getting a Terminal Soon!

Dean Howell December 13, 2011 3

In a message at src.chromium.org, the open-source parent to Google’s Chrome browser, user Rginda posted the following: Log Message: Initial landing of Screen, Terminal, and VT100 classes. Some of this code is based on

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