Author: John
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Jolicloud: Web Based OS
In the shop on my bench today I am working on Jolicloud The main purpose of Jolicloud is to present a web enabled GUI. Under the hood, it’s based on the Ubuntu long term service release (10.04), and the front end is handled by a combination of the Chromium web browser and a full screen…
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One Cool Screenlet To Get You Started
If you are like me you haven’t used Screenlets on Ubuntu yet, what you need is one great one to get you sucked into the warp drive and get started. Screenlets are an excellent application to experiment with. And there are lots of useful third party user contributed screenlets available for free. Here is the…
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dd-wrt and git as Aspirational Projects
Aspirational Projects: Those projects we aspire to complete and yet often never really find time to actually work at completing. Two of mine, installing dd-wrt on a router as a hack, and installing git for version control have been around for some time. I completed dd-wrt yesterday and have no idea why I put this…
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Sites Offering Free Linux Courses Online
Novell – OpenCourseWare Project (novell.com) Linux Enterpise server 10 Course Novell Linux Desktop Starter Course Certified Linux Professional 10 Course Novell Training Services offers a huge collection of free online Linux courses for through their OpenCourseWare project. These courses are great for anyone interested in becoming a Linux certified professional. Courses can be accessed directly…
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Grsync or Read The Man Pages = Ouch!
Grsync is a GUI front end to rsync for your Gnome desktop. You can install Grsync by issuing the following command in Terminal: sudo apt-get install grsync Once installed, you will find Grsync listed under Applications > System tools. If you are like me, this makes setting up rsync commands a lot easier. Now if I can…