launch2net – Mobile Internet Connection Manager for Ubuntu

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launch2net for Ubuntu Linux is a professional mobile Internet Connection Manager for Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 users.launch2net will recognize your type of modem or ExpressCard as well as the SIM card and does not need intricate driver installations or configurations.

Upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Beta

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The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 9.10 beta release, which brings a host of exciting new features.

Note: This is a beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released
on October 29th, 2009.

5 Useful Tools to Access Linux Partition from Windows

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If you currently have Windows OS running and you need some files for your work which you have stored on the Linux installation, you no longer have to shut down Windows and boot Linux!
Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem.

How to Run DOS Applications and Games in Ubuntu / Debian Linux

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DOSBOX RUN DOS APPLICATIONS AND GAMES IN UBUNTU LINUX
The Fundamental Operating System DOS is still alive. For basic study purpose, DOS is Used in most of the Universities. Now Also people like DOS games. The Famous C language Compilers are woking only is DOS. You can Make a virtual DOS environment Linux.

sudo apt-get install dosbox
(Your can use Synaptic Package Manager and search for dosbox)

Howto make Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Multimedia Ready

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Most of the ubuntu users suffering non availability of Multimedia in there system,

Ubuntu 9.04 Required the foll0wing steps to Run Multimedia files like MP3, AVI, Mpeg, Flash file etc...

In Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty jackalop", the universe, multiverse and restricted repositories are activated by default.

Howto Extract camera settings and Picture information from a image file using ExifTool in Ubuntu

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ExifTool is a Perl module with an included command-line application
for reading and writing meta information in image, audio and video
files. Modern Digital Camera including Canon, Minolta,Konica, Nikon, Pentax store all the settings you used, such as aperture or shutter speed along with the picture. For extracting the camera settings and Picture information , you can use ExifTool. ExifTool is requred for profesional editing of some Picture Files.

5 Exciting 2D Graphics Design tools for Ubuntu Linux

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Ubuntu linux is rich with exciting graphics utilities, Here you can see simple but very useful 2D Graphics Design tools for Ubuntu Linux. Yes welcome to the fantastic world of ubuntu graphics. Xara Xtreme, ( apt-get install xaralx) This is simple, easiest vector graphics drawing program. It is very userfiendly, it is very nice, which is not usual in this kind of applications.

Sabayon – Manage multiple GNOME user profiles

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Sabayon is a system administration tool to manage GNOME desktop settings. Sabayon provides a sane way to edit GConf defaults and GConf mandatory keys: the same way you edit your desktop. Sabayon launches profiles in an Xnest window. Any changes you make in the Xnest window are saved back to the profile file,which can then be applied to user’s accounts.

Unable to open pty: No such file or directory

Udev is a dependency of xorg and other development packages that breaks OpenVZ containers if installed or upgraded.

Re-create the missing devices after an upgrade via:

vzctl exec {VEID} /sbin/MAKEDEV tty
vzctl exec {VEID} /sbin/MAKEDEV pty

For a permanent fix, edit /etc/rc.sysinit to disable udev and auto-repair the devices:

#/sbin/start_udev
/sbin/MAKEDEV tty
/sbin/MAKEDEV pty

Subversion cheatsheet

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This post is a summary of the subversion book, only that the summary takes you straight in. Please find the subversion book here:
svnbook.red-bean.com

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