How to Rip DVD audio to mp3 or ogg

You can extract sound from a DVD, one track at a time or a chapter at a time. Some simple command line examples should suffice to demonstrate how this is done.

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Fix for Intel cards with broken EEPROM / e100 driver

If you have Intel cards with broken EEPROM / e100 driver you need to try this fix

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File Server Configuration in Debian Using Samba

Samba is a suite of Unix applications that speak the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol. Many operating systems,including Windows and OS/2, use SMB to perform client-server networking. By supporting this protocol, Samba allows Unix servers to get in on the action, communicating with the same networking protocol as Microsoft Windows products.

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Kubuntu 7.04(Feisty Fawn) Screenshots Tour

Kubuntu is a user friendly operating system based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment. With a predictable 6 month release cycle and part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu is the GNU/Linux distribution for everyone.

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Ubuntu 7.04(Feisty Fawn) Screenshots Tour

Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.The most recent version, Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), was released on April 19, 2007.

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Ubuntu's Gutsy target: Windows-level device support?

Less than a week after the latest Ubuntu Linux release - version 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" - users are already crying out for driver support to rival that for Windows in the next release.

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Ubuntu Lays Down the Trademark Law

Ubuntu's trademark policy opens by stating what's covered by the policy. "Canonical owns a number of trademarks and these include UBUNTU, KUBUNTU, EDUBUNTU, and XUBUNTU. The trademarks are registered in both word and logo form. Any mark ending with the letters UBUNTU or BUNTU is sufficiently similar to one or more of the trademarks that permission will be needed in order to use it."

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Debian.org website meets mentors layout

Gustavo Franco have decided to take a break reading and arguing and do a mockup based on mentors.debian.net

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Install Pidgin Instant Messanger in Ubuntu

Pidgin is a graphical IM program that lets you sign on to AIM, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, and other IM networks. It uses GTK+. It was formerly called Gaim.

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Upgrade Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

Ubuntu 7.04 is the current stable version of the Ubuntu operating system. The common name given to this release from the time of its early development was “Feisty Fawn”.

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Compiz and nVidia on Ubuntu feisty Fawn

Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE.One more cool thing about ubuntu feisty fawn is Compiz will be installed by default.

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Firefox 3.0 (still in Alpha) Installation in Ubuntu Feisty

Firefox 3.0 is the next generation release of the award-winning Firefox web browser from Mozilla.This article describes how to install fiefox3.0a1 in ubuntu linux system.The development name for Mozilla Firefox 3 is Gran Paradiso (a national park in Italy) and final version will be released in May 2007.

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Ubuntu 7.04(Feisty Fawn) Screenshots Tour

Ubuntu 7.04(Feisty Fawn) Screenshots Tour

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GnuCash financial-accounting software in Debian

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

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Difference between .bash_profile and .bashrc Files

One of the things you always have trouble remembering when working with linux is what is the correct “.profile” to edit when you want to automatically set environmental variables.

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UbuntuGuide.org updated for Feisty

UbuntuGuide.org has been updated for the latest version of Ubuntu. This is a huge guide that has tons of information on how to do just about anything in Ubuntu, including dealing with Windows partitions, networking, installing alternative desktop environments, and getting uncooperative graphics cards and wireless cards to work correctly.

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Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) has officially been released!

The beta and the wait is over. Ubuntu 7.04 has been released and is available for immediate download

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Install Popular Applications in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Using Automatix2

Automatix is a graphical interface for automating the installation of the most commonly requested applications in Debian based Linux operating systems.

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Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Release Dates

In addition to Ubuntu 6-months stable releases and the next version of ubuntu is 7.10 with Code Name “Gutsy Gibbon”.

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How to Install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to native machine code for execution.

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MySQL Database Server Installation and Configuration in Debian

MySQL, the most popular Open Source SQL database management system, is developed, distributed, and supported by MySQL AB. MySQL AB is a commercial company, founded by the MySQL developers. It is a second generation Open Source company that unites Open Source values and methodology with a successful business model.

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Hacking Ubuntu to Improve Performance

In order to fine-tune your system, you will need to know what is currently running, which resources are available, and when processes start up. From there, you can tweak configurations: disable undesirable processes, enable necessary housekeeping, and adjust your kernel to better handle your needs.

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Ubuntu's 'feisty' spin on virtualization

The Ubuntu version of Linux is getting more virtualization-friendly, but in a different way than its top rivals.

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Desktop Data Manager(DDM) for Ubuntu Desktop

Desktop Data Manager is a Clipboard Manager for GNOME similar to Klipper for KDE. With DDM it is possible to display different types of content like text or images.Additional DDM includes a screenshot taking application which is able to take screenshots from a single window/subwindow, rectangle of the screen or the whole desktop.

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The Perfect Setup - Debian Etch

This tutorial shows how to set up a Debian Etch (Debian 4.0) based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters

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Upgrade Debian Sarge to Debian Etch

Before upgrading your system, it is strongly recommended that you make a full backup, or at least back up any data or configuration information you can’t afford to lose. The upgrade tools and process are quite reliable, but a hardware failure in the middle of an upgrade could result in a severely damaged system

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Debian Etch: first impressions

Debian deserves some extra attention. The latest release is being distributed and I have no doubt that it will be installed on quite a few machines over the coming days and weeks

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View Hidden Files and Folders in Ubuntu File Browser

The Ubuntu file browser does not show hidden files or folders by default, only the files that your user has access to.Here is the small tip how to view Hidden Files and Folders in Ubuntu File Browser.

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How to Fix broken Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Ubuntu Development team released ubuntu feisty fawn beta on 23rd March 2007 some of them started upgrading their edgy to feisty .If your feisty broken here is the procedure to fix that.

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Upgrade Debian Sarge to Debian Etch

If you want to upgrade Debian Sarge to Debian Etch follow this procedure

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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Officially Released

The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed etch, after 21 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments." Excellent work!

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Upgrade Debian Sarge to Debian Etch

Before upgrading your system, it is strongly recommended that you make a full backup, or at least back up any data or configuration information you can't afford to lose. The upgrade tools and process are quite reliable, but a hardware failure in the middle of an upgrade could result in a severely damaged system

The main things you'll want to back up are the contents of /etc, /var/lib/dpkg and the output of dpkg --get-selections "*" (the quotes are important).

The upgrade process itself does not modify anything in the /home directory. However, some applications (e.g. parts of the Mozilla suite, and the GNOME and KDE desktop environments) are known to overwrite existing user settings with new defaults when a new version of the application is first started by a user. As a precaution, you may want to make a backup of the hidden files and directories ("dotfiles") in users' home directories. This backup may help to restore or recreate the old settings. You may also want to inform users about this.

Any package installation operation must be run with superuser privileges, so either login as root or use su or sudo to gain the necessary access rights.

Unofficial sources and backports

If you have any non-Debian packages on your system, you should be aware that these may be removed during the upgrade because of conflicting dependencies. If these packages were installed by adding an extra package archive in your /etc/apt/sources.list, you should check if that archive also offers packages compiled for etch and change the source line accordingly at the same time as your source lines for Debian packages.

Adding APT sources

The default configuration is set up for installation from main Debian Internet servers, but you may wish to modify /etc/apt/sources.list to use other mirrors, preferably a mirror that is network-wise closest to you.

For example, suppose your closest Debian mirror is http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/. When inspecting that mirror with a web browser or FTP program, you will notice that the main directories are organized like this:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/...
htp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/etch/contrib/binary-i386/...

To use this mirror with apt, you add this line to your sources.list file

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian etch main contrib

Note that the `dists' is added implicitly, and the arguments after the release name are used to expand the path into multiple directories.

After adding your new sources, disable the previously existing "deb" lines in sources.list by placing a hash sign (#) in front of them.

Upgrading packages

The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian GNU/Linux releases is to use the package management tool aptitude. This program makes safer decisions about package installations than running apt-get directly.

Next you should double-check that the APT source entries (in /etc/apt/sources.list) refer either to "etch" or to "stable". There should not be any sources entries pointing to sarge. Note: source lines for a CD-ROM will often refer to "unstable"; although this may be confusing, you should not change it.

Once you've updated your sources.list in /etc/apt you can upgrade from Sarge to Etch by running:

# apt-get update

# apt-get install aptitude

# aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade

Howto Setup Streaming Media Server in Ubuntu GNU/Linux

If you have a large music collection then streaming it across a LAN, or the internet, is a logical thing to do with it.This is simple guide how to setup Streaming Media Server in Ubuntu GNU/Linux

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Ubuntu Feisty CDs to be Available Through Shipit

Unlike Edgy, which was not available through shipit, free cds of Feisty Fawn, the upcoming release of Ubuntu Linux, may be available for free shipping.

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Build Scalable Web 2.0 Sites with Ubuntu, Symfony, and Lighttpd

How to scale a website using tools such as tmpfs in-memory file systems, eAccelerator, Memcached, Lighttpd, Symfony, Ubuntu, client-side caching, and low-latency DNS servers. A must read for web developers and systems administrators running their own dedicated servers.

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Step By Step Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) GNU/Linux LAMP Server Setup

Automatic LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) In about 20 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Edgy Server Edition, you can have a LAMP server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.

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How to Install Beryl with latest nvidia drivers in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Nvidia have released their 9xxx series drivers.Tis allows compiz/beryl to now run directly on an x server (xorg7.1) without separate aiglx or xgl.

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Securing Apache Web Server from information leakage

By default, most pre-packaged apache installations come with full information leakage, so if you telnet to port 80 on your webserver you can check, just type in the GET / HTTP/1.1 line, then hit enter twice

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11 Things You Haven't Seen Yet in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

A lot of websites have jumped at the chance of showing you the latest pieces of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. But they all have focused on the same things, the very same features that Ubuntu has touted as being the staple of Feisty Fawn. Yet there's a lot more under the hood that really makes life in Feisty a lot easier. Most are due to the enhancements of Gnome 2.18, but since they're not really covered well, especially in the context of Ubuntu, I think it's worth noting. None of these features alone make or break the system, but they most certainly add that little bit of personal touch to the system, removing many of the little frustrations, even adding some of their own in the process. See the screenshots and the details as I walk through each feature that I find adds real value to the Ubuntu name.

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Ubuntu Feisty Openbox on 1Ghz Pentium III

These are all the steps I take, more or less from start to finish, step-by-step. If you want to put together a similar machine, feel free to use this as a framework for a system of your own. I’m not saying this is the only way, or even the best way. It’s just the way that works for me.

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The decay of the Debian distribution

got my motivation, my push, to try out something non-Linuxy — to try out something new. This was especially the case when my laptop's screen crapped out, and I got a desktop system set up to replace it for my day-to-day work (I'm using it now). I decided I'd use this opportunity to install FreeBSD on something and see how I like it. Thus far, I'm in heaven. It's not only better than the Debian of recently degraded quality: it's better, at least for my purposes and tastes, than the Debian I remember from back when everything in Debian "Just Worked" without hassle.

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Installing Beryl On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Desktop With An ATI Radeon

This tutorial shows how you can install and configure Beryl on an Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) desktop with an ATI Radeon graphic card. With Beryl, you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects. We will use the open-source ATI driver that comes with Ubuntu plus AIGLX to achieve this.

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Really Simple File Backup Script for Linux

A simple script that will compress a directory, and store a variable amount of days, weeks or months of backups. Great for backing up large websites on a server. Script has built in NAS/NFS support and configurable archiver selection.

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