I get a lot of questions about where can I go to get more information on linux before I start the install? Well folks I have found a site for you. It’s called Really Linux and yes it has articles from some knowledgeable folks on many different distros on everything from how to install to [...]
In this cursory overview, Mark Rais, provides some of the common reasons why people brand new to Linux have installation failures. The brief article covers issues with Fedora, Gentoo, Mepis, PCLinuxOS, and Ubuntu.
Let me begin by declaring that this is a basic summary for beginners. I do not try to clarify solutions [...]
Desktop software maker Parallels on Feb. 27 launched the final, stable version of its virtualization software for Intel-powered Apple Macs. “Desktop for Mac” aims to enable users to easily install and seamlessly run Linux, Windows, and other operating systems alongside Mac OS X on their Mac desktops — without re-booting.
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Availability
Parallels Desktop for Mac is immediately [...]
Learn how PHP5 has vastly improved how you work with XML in PHP
Level: Intermediate
This first article of a three-part series introduces PHP5’s XML implementation and help those relatively new to using XML with PHP to read, parse, and manipulate, and write a short and uncomplicated XML file using the DOM and SimpleXML in a PHP [...]
Scenario: You want to install XP on your machine alongside your existing Linux installation, on the same drive. You have installed Ubuntu already. (If you have already have XP installed, keep an eye out for our upcoming tutorial on how to dual-boot Linux with XP, with XP installed first.)
Source: apcmag.com
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This is a quick howto on a not-so-well-known feature of beryl - drag and drop using the scale plugin. Under a normal window manager, you can drag and drop files/text between applications no problem at all. If the target window is hidden behind others, usually you drag the file/text up to the taskbar, wait for [...]
t is a distant second to Intel Corp., but Silicon Valley’s Advanced Micro Devices Inc. promised to build a “processing powerhouse” when it bought Canada’s largest computer chip player last year.
Wednesday, AMD unveiled the first product from its acquisition of graphics chip designer ATI Technologies Inc., saying it represents the initial step toward fulfilling the [...]
If you listen to music on CD much, you’ll notice that some CDs sound much louder than others, and I’m not talking about Ministry’s The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste versus Sarah McLachlan’s Touch. Two CDs of the same genre, when played on the same CD player, at the same volume, can have [...]
One of the risks of trying to find a niche to build a startup is that the big guys can land on your face at any time. That’s why all of these startups are going to be in serious trouble when Adobe releases a free, ad supported online version of Photoshop in six months.
This announcement [...]
Gmail offers a few clever features that make it more than just an email service. You can use your Gmail account as a document viewer, a file storage, and even as a full-blown Getting Things Done solution. You can also turn Gmail into a nifty backup solution for your OpenOffice.org documents using a simple OOoBasic [...]
