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Install AMSN from tarball source

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aMSN is a free Windows Live Messenger clone. aMSN attempts to emulate the look and feel of Windows Live Messenger, and supports many of its features. aMSN has features not present in Windows Live Messenger. Users can set alarms, are … Continue reading

Smokin' Guns a free Old West game for Linux

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Smokin’ Guns is a free FPS and Open Source game that take you back to the old time of the ‘Old West’. Based on the engine of Quake 3, Smokin’ Guns has all the attributes of a traditional FPS: play … Continue reading

Clonezilla Welcome, Symantec Ghost goodbye

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Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone tool similar to Norton Ghost®. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive.. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live : It is suitable for single machine backup and restore.

Recover deleted files in linux with Photorec

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PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its ‘Photo Recovery’ name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after … Continue reading

Nice effect for Gimp : Harry's Mist and Fog

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A script-fu to add a photo a realistic effect of mist and fog. After treatment, you can delete excess mist by painting in black on the layer’s masks with a soft brush. It will appear in “Script-Fu/Effects”.

Play games installed on other computers with StreamMyGame

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StreamMyGame Server enables PC games to be played remotely by converting the game’s video and audio into a Game Stream and sending it over a home network to a second computer where you can view and play the game with … Continue reading

Install the KDE 4.3.2 on ubuntu 9.04

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The KDE community announces the immediate availability of KDE 4.3.2, a bugfix, translation and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.3.2 is a monthly update to KDE 4.3 Enhancements KDE 4.3.2 … Continue reading

Automatic Package Updates in ubuntu Using cron-apt

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If you have installed the full desktop version of Ubuntu, everything you need is already installed and running. Package updates can be scheduled from the desktop. For the server or costumised installation then you need to install apt-cron.  

Install proftpd in Slackware

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ProFTPD is a FTP server. ProFTPD uses only one configuration file “/etc/proftpd.conf”, the config file is very similar to Apache’s config file, it can be used to configure multiple virtual FTP servers easily, and has chroot capabilities depending on the … Continue reading

Create your own MP3/media streaming server with GNUMP3d

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If you want to share your music with your family , freinds or neighbours .. then GNUMP3d can do this job for you with one click.  GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s/, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media … Continue reading