Howto make Ubuntu to read feeds for you
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Akregator is a KDE application for reading online news feeds. Install Akregator using the following command,
sudo apt-get install akregator
kttsd (KDE Text-to-Speech Deamon) is a non-gui application that runs in the background, providing TTS support to KDE applications. To install this use the following command,
sudo apt-get install kttsd
Festival is a general multi-lingual speech syntheses system and it offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. To install this use the following command,
sudo apt-get install festival
Run kttsd using by executing the following command,
kttsd
Go to Application –> Internet –> Akregator
After getting the Akregator,
Go to Settings –> Toolbars and select Speech Toolbar(Akregator).
Now you can see a parrot icon in the toolbar.
Yeah, now select the articles whatever you want to read and click the “parrot” icon in the toolbar. Hope it starts reading feeds for you.
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Watching Your Power Consumption With Powertop On Fedora 7
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Watching Your Power Consumption With Powertop On Fedora 7
Powertop
is a command-line tool released by Intel that shows you the power
consumption of the applications running on your system. It works best
on notebooks with Intel mobile processors and can help you find out the
programs that put a strain on your notebook battery. It requires kernel
2.6.21 or newer with tickless idle
enabled (CONFIG_NO_HZ) (which is currently available for 32-bit kernels
only). Fedora 7 comes with a 2.6.21 kernel by default, so we can use Powertop on it.
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Howto Turn Off Auto-Play of CDs,DVDs and iPods in Ubuntu
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Ubuntu automatically starts playing audio or video discs when you insert them into CD/DVD drive.If you want to turnoff this use the following tip.
Go to System—>Preferences—>Removable Drives and Media
Once it Opens You should see the following screen
Now you need to click on Multimedia tab you can just uncheck the box for the disc type you don’t want to autoplay
Once you unselect all the options you should see similar to the following screen now you need to click on close
If you are using Feisty by default this is unchecked.
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Preventing Brute Force Attacks With BlockHosts On Debian Etch
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Preventing Brute Force Attacks With BlockHosts On Debian Etch
In this article I will show how to install and configure BlockHosts
on a Debian Etch system. BlockHosts is a Python tool that observes
login attempts to various services, e.g. SSH, FTP, etc., and if it
finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address or
host, it stops further login attempts from that IP address/host. By
default, BlockHosts supports services that use TCP_WRAPPERS, such as
SSH, i.e. services, that use /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny, but it can also block other services using iproute or iptables.
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How To Install VMware Server + MUI 1.0.4 On Ubuntu 7.04
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How To Install VMware Server + MUI 1.0.4 On Ubuntu 7.04
VMware Server is a proprietary virtualization software package made available for no cost from the VMware website. VMware Server allows you to run entire operating systems in a virtual machine. This step-by-step guide provides
instructions on installing, configuring and running VMware Server and
VMware Management Interface (MUI) on a (Ed/K/X)Ubuntu Feisty Fawn host.
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openSUSE and “Bullet-Proof-X”
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A discussion on #kde-devel reminded me of Bullet-Proof-X. As usual, there’s been a lot of hype from our friends in the Ubuntu camp over the Bullet-Proof-X feature which really, as Benji notes, utilises an existing feature in GDM; basically a failsafe mode, should X fail to start.
There must, however, be some light irony in reading the extensive proposal and then taking a look on the factory mailing list to read:
> > Ubuntu's "bulletproofX" is mostly hype as they're just utilising an > > existing functionality of GDM, but it would be nice to have the same > > functionality. > > So in order to "test and integrate", you'd first have to implement the same > functionality in a way suitable for openSUSE. Volunteers anyone? It was oneliner. Wed Sep 5 17:45:26 CEST 2007 - sbrabec@xxxxxxx - Search for SaX2 in XKeepsCrashing. Just done.
Though, it’s like this mainly because openSUSE has had the wonderful SaX2 for many years now, with all types of X11 configurations (even xinerama, tablet PCs, etc) in a nice way. Perhaps it’s a bigger achievement however since Ubuntu had to create a new X11 configuration tool themselves, which is really just a GTK port of KDE Guidance.
Congratulations to both camps for implementing this, anyhow. This type of perspective on computing for new users is something that’s really needed in free software. Hopefully KDM can implement a similar hook soon, as well.
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Howto install Wine,µTorrent,Native Tray Icon in Debian
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This HOWTO will describe how to install uTorrent on your Debian Linux desktop using wine and how to get a more suitable tray icon using alltray.
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.
µTorrent is a lightweight and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows with many features.
First of all we need to add a new repo for this you need to edit the sources.list file
#vi /etc/apt/sources.list
Add this to the end of the file, save and quit:
deb http://eclipxe.com.mx/debian/ ./
deb-src http://eclipxe.com.mx/debian ./
Update the source list using the following command
# apt-get update
Now we will install Wine and Alltray
# apt-get install alltray wine
Download latest µTorrent from here
create a dir using the following command
#mkdir utorrent
go in to the utorrent directory
#cd utorrent
#wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.6.1/utorrent.exe
Get icon using the following command
#wget http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/5093/utorrenteh8.png
Now we will create a menu entry for uTorrent, so su to root again:
# vi /usr/share/applications/utorrent.desktop
You should now have an empty file, copy and paste this (and replace “USERNAME” with your actual username:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=uTorrent
GenericName=BitTorrent Client
Icon=/home/”USERNAME”/.utorrent/utorrenteh8.png
Exec=alltray --icon /home/”USERNAME”/.utorrent/utorrenteh8.png wine /home/”USERNAME”/utorrent/utorrent.exe
Path=
Terminal=false
MimeType=
Categories=Application;Network;
Save the file and exit.
You need to provide the Exe path according to where you want to keep utorrent .exe file
To refresh gnome-panel, issue this command
killall gnome-panel
µTorrent should now be found in the “Applications—>Internet” menu.
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Integrating eAccelerator Into PHP5 (Debian Etch)
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Integrating eAccelerator Into PHP5 (Debian Etch)
This guide explains how to integrate eAccelerator into PHP5 on a Debian Etch system. From the eAccelerator project page: “eAccelerator
is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content
cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in
their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost
completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their
execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the
speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.”
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Installing Debian Etch From A Windows System With "Debian-Installer Loader"
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Installing Debian Etch From A Windows System With “Debian-Installer Loader”
Debian-Installer Loader
is a Debian Etch installer for Windows which adds an entry to the boot
menu that allows you to start the Debian installation. Unlike the Ubuntu installation with Wubi, real Debian partitions are created during the installation. In the end, you have a dual-boot system (Windows/Debian).
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How-To Recover password under Ubuntu
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If you forgot you password for your ubuntu system you can recover using the following steps
Press ESC at the grub prompt.
Press e for edit.
Highlight the line that begins kernel ………, press e
Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash
press enter, then press b to boot your system.
Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell.
Type in passwd username
Set your password.
Type in reboot
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