May 12, 2007 · General · 96 comments

It's quite a pain to get dual monitors working your first time using Linux, however I hope this guide will make the process relatively quick and painless.

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May 11, 2007 · General · 15 comments

MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE (2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text- based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It’s also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.

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May 10, 2007 · General · 16 comments

Introduction

ext3 Filesystem

The ext3 or third extended filesystem is a journalled file system that is commonly used by the Linux operating system. It is the default file system for many popular Linux distributions

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May 8, 2007 · General · 35 comments

Automatix is a graphical interface for automating the installation of the most commonly requested applications in Debian based Linux operating systems.

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May 6, 2007 · General · 22 comments

If you are using OpenOffice it is very easy to create documents there is an option in the File menu ‘Export as PDF'.For other applications, you will need to do the following procedure

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