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The green side of the fence!

There are alternatives to the constant drip, drip, drip of money being used to upgrade Microsoft products to “the next best thing” and to the constant fear of viruses, malware, spam and hackers...

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Why I use Linux.

This is one of those things that’s always difficult to explain. The bits of Linux that I miss on other platforms are not things that you immediately see as being of particular importance. The best...

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On free software.

Much has been written about free software, yet many people still think: What good is it for regular users? They buy or copy software, not caring if doing so is legal, and they have no need for source...

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Whaaw media player

I’ve mentioned this before, when I was talking about ‘user.menu’ for fluxbox, back in but having just configured it to use the root menu I’ll explain further. It describes itself as ‘A media player...

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GreatLittleRadioPlayer – streaming radio!

I’ve just discovered ‘GreatLittleRadioPlayer’ which has quite probably got the longest programme name I’ve ever seen! But its a streaming radio player for ubuntu and fedora, but I’ve got the 32-bit...

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Update on ‘linux counter’.

I’ve found that the ‘linux counter’ has changed from when I last wrote about it on the 20th June 2011 the ‘old’ linux counter.It is now at linuxcounter.net where you can register yourself and download...

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Protecting files and folders from unwanted deletion.

Protecting files from unwanted deletion is very important security on the tasklist of Unix Administrators. On Linux boxes you can use the chattr command.Let’s give you some examples how chattr work...

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A new host!

This is the first post on a new hosts server, as I’ve moved this site from 1and1 to cassidywebservices.co.uk . The reason for the move was that with every post that I made to this blog I was hitting...

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A ‘super’ command – want.

For a long time I’ve been using various formats of apt-cache search and stuff, and its such a crushing bore having to type in commands one after another, so I’ve written a script to do it all for me,...

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Evernote and ….. a linux client? NixNote or Everpad?

I’ve long been a fan of ‘Evernote’ and last wrote about it on 19-11-2012 [New phone and Evernote]. But today someone on IRC suggested that I have a look at ‘Everpad’ [Everpad] which is a linux client...

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