Use Google Linux repositories in Debian

Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories.

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Monitoring Debian Servers Using Monit

monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

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Enable Foreign Language Support For PDF

XPDF is a suite of tools for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. These are sometimes referred to as ‘Acrobat’ files after the name of Adobe’s PDF software. To enable support for Foreign Languages including Chinese to view PDF Files you need to install the language support. Here are the instructions.

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Load Applications Quicker in UBUNTU Using Preload

Preload is an adaptive read-ahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.

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Configure GMail in Evolution, Thunderbird or KMail

Many of us would like to use our GMail accounts in Evolution, and to a lesser degree Thunderbird and KMail. Here is a step by step guide on how to configure Evolution, Thunderbird and KMail to access you GMail account.

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Install Xine Multimedia Player in Ubuntu

xine is a free (gpl-licensed) high-performance, portable and reusable multimedia playback engine. xine itself is a shared library with an easy to use, yet powerful API which is used by many applications for smooth video playback and video processing purposes.

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Howto Change CPU Frequency Scaling in Ubuntu

The CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor provides a convenient way to monitor the CPU Frequency Scaling for each CPU.

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Gip - IP calculator for GNOME desktop environment

Gip is an IP address calculator that integrates well with the GNOME desktop environment.Gip provides system administrators with tools for IP address based calculations. For example, an administrator who needs to find out which IP prefix length equals the IP netmask 255.255.240.0, just types in the mask and gets the prefix length presented. But many more advanced calculations can be made. Gip can convert an address range into a list of prefix lengths. It can also split subnets using a given IP netmask or IP prefix length. Many more calculations are possible.

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Schedule Tasks Using Gnome-schedule (A cron & at GUI) in Ubuntu

Gnome-schedule is a grapichal user interface to ‘crontab’ and ‘at’, both used to schedule tasks. It supports periodical tasks and tasks that happens once in the future. It is written in python using pygtk.

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OKI B4100 Printer Driver for Ubuntu Users

For all those owners of OKI B4100 printers and other lower models in B series,Basically, it’s a heavily modified ppd for hp laserjet 6, and uses hpijs driver.With this driver ppd you can use all OKI options, and you can set paper type, weight, 2 toner saver modes, tray/manual feed, etc.With this ppd OKI prints at 600dpi. You can tell your printer to use 1200dpi too but hpijs doesn’t support resolutions over 600dpi.DON’T FORGET to switch off duplex printing in printer properties, otherwise each page you print will be followed by a blank one.

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Convert .flv (Google Videos) to .mpg using ffmpeg

FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most operating systems, including Windows.

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update-pciids & update-usbids - Download a newer version of the PCI and USB ID’s list

If you want to download new version of PCI and USB ID’s List use the following command

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How to Install Elisa media center in Ubuntu

Fluendo’s Elisa is a free software media center application that can play your DVDs, video files, music, and pictures. Since it is designed for extensibility, Elisa has the potential to do much more. It does not handle television or video recording functions, but it is a slick and promising project.

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How to show the number of reboots before next forced fsck Using showfsck

show the number of reboots before next forced fsck.This package displays during startup and halt the number of mounts for each ext2/3 partition before an fsck will be forced, so that the user will not be suprised.Very useful for people that often reboot (laptop users for example).

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Speed up dynamic linking Using Prelink

ELF prelinking utility to speed up dynamic linking.The prelink package contains a utility which modifies ELF shared libraries and executables, so that far fewer relocations need to be resolved at runtime and thus programs come up faster.

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Setup Maxemum TV-Guide in Ubuntu

Maxemum TV-Guide is a KDE TV-guide. It is developed in C++, based on QT/KDE and uses XMLTV as it’s back end to grab listings. At present there are backends grabbing TV listings for Australia, Belgium and Luxemburg, Brazil, Britain and Ireland, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary and Romania, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, North America, Norway, Portugal, Reunion Island (France), South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

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Sharing Internet Connection in Ubuntu

Setting up a computer to share its internet connection should be easy.After all, you’ve successfully networked your computers together and even shared files with all your home computers, so why not the Internet? Well if you have a small home network of computers all connected and have tried to open up a browser, you’ve probably found out that things aren’t quite as straight forward as connecting one machine with an Ethernet cable to the computer that has the DSL/cable modem.

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Shuttleworth: Ubuntu Is Enterprise-Friendly

So now that the desktop has been conquered, Shuttleworth says the next key target is the enterprise market.

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Free “Powered by Ubuntu” stickers from System 76

System 76 computers has been doing this for some time now, I got my stickers sent last year.

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