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Howto install and configure gDesklets in Ubuntu hardy

Posted by admin on 3rd July 2008

gDesklets is a system for bringing mini programs (desklets), such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or music player controls, onto your desktop, where they are sitting there in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. The possibilities are really endless and they are always
there to serve you whenever you need them, just one key-press away. The system is not restricted to one desktop environment, but currently works on most of the modern Unix desktops (including GNOME, KDE, Xfce).

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cpipe - Determine the throughput of a pipe command

Posted by admin on 1st July 2008

If you want to Determine the throughput of a pipe you need to use cpipe.Cpipe copies its standard input to its standard output while measuring the time it takes to read an input buffer and write an output buffer. Statistics of average throughput and the total amount of bytes copied are printed to the standard error output.

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LXDE - Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment for Ubuntu

Posted by admin on 29th June 2008

LXDE is a new project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It’s not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low. Different from other desktop environments, we don’t tightly integrate every component. Instead, we tried to make all components independent, and each of them can be used independently with few dependencies.

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How to convert CHM files into PDF files in Ubuntu

Posted by admin on 27th June 2008

If you want to convert .chm file to .pdf file you need to install chm2pdf application.This is A Python script that converts CHM files into PDF files. The package supports batch conversion, command line, PDF security options, password protection and compression modes. The program has Explorer-like interface.

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List of FTP Clients Available in Ubuntu Linux

Posted by admin on 25th June 2008

FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging files over any TCP/IP based network to manipulate files on another computer on that network regardless of which operating systems are involved (if the computers
permit FTP access). There are many existing FTP client and server programs. FTP servers can be set up
anywhere between game servers, voice servers, internet hosts, and other physical servers.

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