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Peng’s links for Monday, 27 October
Gerry Ilagan: VirtualBox 2.0.4 now available, support for Ubuntu 8.10 added. I wish I had seen this news before I started the upgrade to Intrepid. I would have checked it in VirtualBox before running...
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Get Full Circle Issue 18
The newest issue of the independent Ubuntu magazine Full Circle is now available! Of note (IMO) in this issue is another installment in the series on Package Management, Programming in C, using a...
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Full Circle reaches a milestone
On Monday Full Circle, the independent Ubuntu Linux magazine, published their 20th issue. They’re marking their milestone by starting a brand new series on web development software for Linux users. Of...
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[HOWTO] Get KDE SC 4.7.2 on Linux Mint Debian Edition, and a fix to the LMDE...
[Updated 5 December to include an additional pair of apps the broke with the upgrade.] I love being able to run KDE on Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), even if it is just KDE 4.6.5. I was able to...
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[HOWTO] Fixing Chromium on Linux Mint Debian Edition with KDE SC 4.7.2
Yesterday I wrote about updating to KDE SC 4.7.2 and the fact that Chromium broke thanks to a long known issue in Debian testing repos. My original fix was to install Google Chrome, but that wasn’t...
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[HOWTO] QuickTip: Do you use the OxyXmas icons but can’t change the icon for...
Earlier this week I installed the OxyXmas icons as part of my holiday decorations, but no matter what I did I couldn’t get the icon for Chromium to change. I finally looked at the settings in the...
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[HOWTO] QuickTip: Why are there Smurfs in my YouTube videos?
The other day I noticed that YouTube videos were taking on a bluish tint for some odd reason. I thought it may have been due to a Firefox addon I had installed but it turned out to be a red herring....
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[HOWTO] QuickTip: Is that website up?
The good folks over at DuckDuckGo have launched DuckDuckHack, a way for users to create some amazing instant answer plugins for DDG. One that came out earlier this month that I finally got to check out...
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[HOWTO] Run frequent commands with aliases
Folks who have used Linux for a while probably know that you can create an alias to run commands that you use often while not having to type out the whole command. For example rather than having to run...
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[HOWTO] Quick Tip: Watch videos without your browser with Minitube for LMDE
Back in 2009 I wrote about an app called Minitube that lets you watch YouTube videos without using a tab in your web browser and last year I wrote about yet another a change from YouTube that broke...
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[HOWTO] Get YouTube videos and video files on your computer so they can be...
[Updated 3 October 2011 to reflect the new name of the profile I submitted to MMC's devs, although I didn't update the screenshots. Thanks for the quick work, Mike! -Peng] According to the user manual...
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