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20th February Comments

Howto: Setup a Software Firewall in Linux using Firestarter

Posted on February 20th, 2008 at 6:41 am

Introduction One of the great features included in Linux is the IPtables firewall. Unfortunately, its command-line use is rather complex, and it can be intimidating for even experienced Linux users to configure it. Firestarter is a friendly graphical interface that allows you to configure a software firewall in Linux using the built-in IPtables/IPchains utilities. Installation [...]

Posted in Security, Software

19th February Comments

Bulk Uploader

Posted on February 19th, 2008 at 8:42 am

You are running Linux and you have a ton of pictures to up load to Flickr well I have found a tool just for that purpose juploadr a nice little tool that just allows you to mass upload to Flickr. Take a look and I think you will enjoy it, it worked perfect for me, [...]

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19th February Comments

Vista Demonstration (Royal Canadian Air Farce)

Posted on February 19th, 2008 at 7:35 am

heeeheeee Source: YouTube

Posted in Billyware

19th February Comments

Vista Wonders

Posted on February 19th, 2008 at 7:33 am

bwahhaaaa Funny!! Source: YouTube

Posted in Billyware, Humor, Linux

18th February Comments

Five must-have apps for a new Linux install

Posted on February 18th, 2008 at 5:50 am

  I tend to hammer my Ubuntu laptop. Running a website like Tectonic means I am constantly installing new applications to try them out. Many of which I later have to remove or lie forgotten on the hard disk until I start to wonder where the +40GB of free hard disk space went to. And [...]

Posted in How-To, Software

18th February Comments

Design better Web pages with Firefox extensions

Posted on February 18th, 2008 at 5:45 am

  If you’ve ever tried to create or edit a Web page, you know that getting the little details just right can sometimes take a long time. Here are a few Firefox extensions you can add to your toolbox that will help you measure images, align objects on your page, and capture colors quickly and [...]

Posted in How-To, Software

16th February Comments

OLPC and CC Free Content Drive

Posted on February 16th, 2008 at 7:42 am

“In his blog, SJ Klein, director of community content for OLPC, notes a collaboration among Creative Commons, One Laptop per Child, and TextbookRevolution.org. They are compiling together free and CC-licensed works — and they are asking for people to help them by submitting links to free books, movies, and music. Creative Commons will be burning [...]

Posted in Linux, News, Personal, Software

16th February Comments

New ‘Guitar Hero’ gives sweet emotion to Aerosmith fans

Posted on February 16th, 2008 at 7:41 am

Called Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, the new game will arrive in stores this summer, a surprise to many analysts and fans who had expected the next title to come out closer to the year-end holiday shopping season. woot woot! GH just keeps getting better and better!! Source: ZDNet News

Posted in General

14th February Comments

When files disappear, Magic Rescue saves the day

Posted on February 14th, 2008 at 6:57 am

  If you’ve ever had that sick realization that you made a mistake immediately after emptying your Trash or deleting a file with Shift-Del, then Magic Rescue may be the cure you’re looking for. Magic Rescue searches block devices for particular file types, then restores them to a designated directory where you can sort through [...]

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14th February Comments

TestDisk and PhotoRec 6.9 released

Posted on February 14th, 2008 at 6:53 am

  TestDisk and  PhotoRec 6.9 have been released! TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery program! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your Partition Table). PhotoRec is [...]

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