It isn’t very difficult to crimp your own CAT5 cabling. You can repair and re-use old cable, cut cable to exact lengths, and save money. Aaron Weiss shows how, with lots of good pictures.
Okay now there is no excuse for you to make your own, Baldy
How to Crimp Your Own Ethernet Cables
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Even if your camera doesn’t support geotagging, you can easily add geographical coordinates to your photos using digiKam.
Well I’ll be darned, this is a new trick for me and a great read for those that wish they could geo-tag their vacation pics or that of the family reunion, Baldy.
Geotagging Photos with digiKam
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Most people nowadays have more than one computer. Often, you are using one, and would like to do something in another. In this video, I will explain how trivial it is to do that without leaving your seat in a modern Linux using KDE.
Darn and after reading this you are going to say, “That’s [...]
In my last post, I covered some of the features in Dolphin that I find particularly useful. In this post, you will learn about some very basic features that everyone uses, but you may not know all of the various easy methods of accomplishing them. In KDE, there are several ways to copy, move, rename, [...]
10 mistakes new Linux administrators make | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
For many, migrating to Linux is a rite of passage that equates to a thing of joy. For others, it’s a nightmare waiting to happen. It’s wonderful when it’s the former; it’s a real show stopper when it’s the latter. But that nightmare doesn’t have [...]
Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With CloneZilla Live | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with CloneZilla Live. CloneZilla Live is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer; it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar [...]
Today’s Linux/Unix bash shell script is probably not the last follow up to the growing stable of scripts we’ve written to mine the knowledge on tap online. Today’s info is grabbed from WeatherBug.com. If you missed any of the others scripts we’ve jammed out, you can still find them in our older bash script posts [...]
KDE’s Konqueror is as multifunctional as a Swiss Army knife. It works as both a file manager and a Web browser, and you can enhance it even further by adding new commands to its repertoire by means of service menus. The new commands appear in Konqueror’s context menu when you right-click a file. Here’s how [...]
What’s Flickr doing to you now?
Pondering a possible purchase at the hands of Microsoft? Threatening to add more features like support 90-second video clips? Withholding those free doughnuts you were promised?
Sounds like now might be a good time to make a backup of you Flickr images. Actually, even without the paranoia of a Microsoft takeover [...]
With fires, thefts, and natural disasters it is a good idea to have a home inventory. In this video I am going to show you how to inventory your house using a digital camera and F-Spot on a Linux desktop.
Creating a Home Inventory with F-Spot (video)
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