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Create Your Own .deb Packages with Checkinstall

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If you’ve been using Linux for a while, you’ve probably run across the need to install something from the source packages. Either the program you wanted wasn’t available in the repositories, or you wanted a more recent version than what’s shown in the repositories. Checkinstall is a program that will create Slackware, Debian, or RPM packages for you after you compile a program from source. For a typical install from source you run Continue reading →

Install Your Own Ringtones with Ubuntu and BitPim

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BitPim is a free open source program that allows you to manipulate data on several CDMA mobile phones. Today I’m going to show how to install BitPim on Ubuntu and copy an MP3 ringtone to a phone. For this example I’ll be using my Samsung Alias SCH-U740 phone and Ubuntu 8.04. You’ll need the USB data cable for your phone to connect it to the computer. Continue reading →

Install Multimedia Codecs in Ubuntu 8.04

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Web designers in the multimedia business have been slow to embrace open standards. Most websites feature content in the proprietary mp3, wmv, or Adobe Flash formats. In order to get many multimedia files to work with Ubuntu you need to enable the Medibuntu repositories. So fire up your handy, dandy terminal and enter the following to add Medibuntu to your sources list. Continue reading →

Use Linux to Solve the Linux Journal Scramble

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This week Linux Journal announced a promotion to win a free one year online subscription. Every day this week there will be a video that includes some secret letters. Watch all the videos from this week to collect the secret letters and unscramble them to win. Friday’s video will provide the email address to submit your answer. Today’s video (Thursday) provided the final letters, so you have a day to figure out the scramble. Well, I just figured it out a few minutes ago. I’m not going to give away the answer, but I’ll tell how I did it. Continue reading →

Dvorak Rings Death Knell for Microsoft’s Business Model

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John Dvorak has an article on Marketwatch, (posted yesterday), that claims that the new fast boot, embedded Linux options offered by Asus and Phoenix Technologies mark the start of Microsoft’s decline.

Users will use these fast booting options out of convenience and get there first exposure to Linux. Once they realize that they can surf the web, listen to music, watch movies, and maybe even edit word processing documents just as easily, then they will start to realize that there really are viable alternatives to Windows and MS Office. Continue reading →