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Archive for September, 2007

How to cancel files with strange names

By • Sep 23rd, 2007 • Filed under: Linuxfaq, Ubuntu

For Linux platforms only. Often the command rm from the command-line does not help you to cancel a file that begins with the character –. This happens because rm interprets the symbol – as the beginning of a flag(option) and so it does not execute it. In this case like in many others where the […]

Open Source Voip AsteriskNow

By • Sep 21st, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Video, Voip

AsteriskNow is a well known Open Source telephone system. Introduced by Digium, the creator and primary developer of Asterisk, AsteriskNOW includes all the software needed to configure a phone system that offers the advanced features found in expensive proprietary products. This video simply explains how to install and carry-out basic configuration. AsteriskNow is very adaptable […]

Gnome 2.20 Desktop Environment Released

By • Sep 20th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages

Gnome 2.20 Desktop has been released. The popular multi-platform desktop environment was released today, with a baggage full of new and useful features. Some of the major improvements include; Improved support for right-to-left languages like Arabic; Evolution now shows an icon in your panel’s notification area when you have a new email. Interactive PDF forms […]

Set multiple tabs as your homepage

By • Sep 20th, 2007 • Filed under: Firefox

A simple Firefox tip to set multiple tabs as your homepage. Go to Edit >> Preferences >> Main and simply separate multiple URLs by the | symbol in order to set them all to open in tabs as your Firefox homepage. Alternately, open all the pages you want to see on launch, and in Firefox’s […]

JackLab Audio Distribution 1.0 for media creators

By • Sep 19th, 2007 • Filed under: Multimedia

Linux media lovers have always desired a distribution like JAD – Jacklab Audio Distribution. Now it is out. JAD 1.0 contains a full production environment for media production, primarily music but not only, video and imaging also. JAD is based on the stable openSUSE 10.2 which uses a real time kernel suitable for multimedia applications […]