Nowadays more and more cameras that support higher and higer resolution are available to the consumer market at an affordable price. The question is, is it really always that useful to have a 12Mb jpeg image?
In linux you can downsize your pictures by reducing the image resolution and size automatically through the command line with [...]

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A partire dalla versione ddi Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 il nuovo gestore dell’avvio GRUB2 viene installato di default sulle nuove installazioni (non negli aggiornamenti).
GRUB2 presenta una serie di miglioramenti, tra cui il supporto nativo per una varietà maggiore di filesystem, una configurazione modulare, il supporto per il ripristino automatico delle impostazioni in caso di necessità e, [...]

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If desktop real estate is valuable to you there is a simple way to get rid of the windows decorations

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XBMC was born as a Linux Media Center interface for the XBox, however it turned to be one of the best media centers interfaces also for linux desktops.

In order for you to install it you have to add the XBMC PPA repositories.
Read here on how to do that: xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?p=185738
One of the less trivial configuration aspects [...]

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Starting from next Ubuntu version Karmic 9.10 new GRUB2 boot loader in installed by default. GRUB2 comes with a bunch of technical enhancements, most notably support for new filesystems, a modularized settings configuration, recovery support and indeed better background image support.

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Conky developers have added a bunch of cool new features in recent versions (direct managing of nvidia GPU data/clock/temp, audacious media player support, entropy indicator, ecc.), however the version shipped with Ubuntu is dated august 2008. Do you dare compiling it by yourself?

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Despite the slightly higher resolution (800 vs 768) vertical space is always a bit constrained on widescreens. This is even more noticeable with Gnome which has two panels, at the top and at the bottom, that use at minimum size 50 pixels both. Some other 20 px get wasted in the application titlebar, around 15 [...]

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HP Pavilion multimedia buttons configuration under Linux
How to setup the HP QuickPlay Linux equivalent: Elisa Media Center
In this howto you’ll learn how to customize the applications associated to the sensitive buttons above the keyboard of HP Pavilion laptops. This way you would be able to run Elisa Media Center (HP QuickPlay Linux equivalent) simply touching [...]

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Configurazione dei tasti multimediali degli HP Pavilion in Linux
Come impostare l’equivalente di HP QuickPlay su Linux: Elisa Media Center
In questo post vedremo come personalizzare le applicazioni associate ai tastini sensibili al tatto presenti sulla tastiera dei portatili HP Pavilion. Così facendo potremo avviare Elisa Media Center (equivalente per linux di HP QuickPlay) premendo semplicemente l’apposito [...]

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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 into the white [...]

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