AcetoneISO is a very good GPLv3 linux and Ubuntu replacement of Daemon Tools and UltraISO disk image manipulation tools. Indeed most of you geeks out there would say ‘mount -loop’ is there by default in linux, however there are lots of other things mount command simply cannot do while Daemon Tools or UltraISO can. You [...]

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You maybe didn’t know Google provides a flight simulator within its Google Earth program, what you certainly didn’t know was that also linux version of this program does have the flight simulator! While it is really easy to enable such feature in Windows and Mac (just type CTRL+ALT+A) in linux this shortcut does not work [...]

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first of all install elisa via package manager sudo apt-get install elisa then configure elisa to run at fullscreen by editing file $HOME/.elisa/elisa.conf and changing line # whether or not Elisa should start fullscreen start_fullscreen = ’1′ go into System > Preferences > Preferred applications and on Multimedia Tab select custom and enter text elisa [...]

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If you ever get in touch with such an error while updating with apt-get / synaptic or manually updating the initram disk via update-initramfs you must have improperly removed a customized kernel version. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.nn.nn-nn Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.nn.nn-nn update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.nn.nn-nn In order to fix this issue you should simply delete the corresponding [...]

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If you are experiencing long boot times, try this fix:

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I’m just quoting hereafter a Richard Stallman post on Gnome Foundation newsgroup. His words should make us think of what’s recently happening in Gnome Community (think of OOXML and MONO adoption thoughts, and to M. De Icaza policies). What a shame… GNOME is based on a philosophy, but it is not just a philosophy. It [...]

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Have you ever wondered how to watch and record on your computer mms and rtsp streams? In windows there is only StreamBox VCR, old app not more updated due to license issues. In linux mplayer simply does this job! 1) First make sure you have win32codecs (or win64codecs if you have Linux AMD64) installed, if [...]

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If you can, it is preferable to just boot using a backup kernel and sudo apt-get update, upgrade, dist-upgrade from there. If not then…1. Boot up a live cd, or separate linux install. 2. Mount your hardy drive somewhere (replace **** with name of drive, e.g. hda1 or sda1 etc. to figure out the drive [...]

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Yesterday I had a fight with my windows box after imposing it to change the /windows partition letter from D:\ to the default C:\ and finding out Windows to be so stupidly coded.

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