Nov 19, 2008 GMT
Need to create a screencast to demonstrate an application feature or nifty software technique? The easiest way to do this is to install the recordMyDesktop screen recording utility and the gtk-recordMyDesktop graphical front-end to it. Most mainstream Linux distributions include both packages in their repositories, so you can quickly install them using your system's package manager. On Debian-based distros like Sidux, installing both packages is a matter of running the apt-get install recordMyDesktop gtk-recordMyDesktop command. The utility saves the recorded video as a .ogv file, which is fine if you want to share it with other Linux users. But if you want to share the screencast with...Productivity Sauce
Nov 14, 2008 GMT
While Amazon S3 provides reliable and cheap backup, you need a third-party application to put the service to some practical use. JungleDisk is one of the most popular Amazon S3-based backup solutions out there, but it's not the only fish in the sea. If you are looking for a no-frills tool which can help you to manage the Amazon S3 service, try s3cmd -- a simple command-line utility written in Python. Before you start, you have to sign up for the Amazon S3 service, if you haven't already done that. To install s3cmd on your machine, download the latest release of the utility, unpack the downloaded archive, use the terminal to switch to the resulting directory and run the python setup.py...Nov 11, 2008 GMT
If you are looking for a no-frills Web-based task manager, you might want to take MyToDoListPHP tool for a spin. Based on the PHP/MySQL stack and sprinkled with AJAX, this simple task management utility allows you to add and delete tasks, assign them to different users, add notes to tasks, and mark them as completed. Nothing earth-shattering, just a simple and effective application you can install on your local network or integrate into your own solutions.Nov 07, 2008 GMT
Want to analyze your GnuCash data using OpenOffice.org Calc? This guide provides step-by-step instructions of how to pull financial data from GnuCash and work with them in OpenOffice.org Calc. In addition to that, the guide demonstrates how to use Calc's Data Pilot feature to make sense of the extracted data.Nov 05, 2008 GMT
rsync is an excellent and versatile backup tool, but it does have one drawback: you have to run it manually when you want to back up your data. Sure, you can use cron to create scheduled backups, but even this solution cannot provide seamless live synchronization. If this is what you want, then you need the lsyncd tool, a command-line utility which uses rsync to synchronize (or rather mirror) local directories with a remote machine in real time. To install lsyncd on your machine, download the latest .tar.gz archive from the project's Web site, unpack it, and use the terminal to switch to the resulted directory. Run then the ./configure command followed by make, and make install (the...Oct 27, 2008 GMT
Although OpenOffice.org is an open source project with its own community, the core team that does the bulk of the actual coding and quality assurance is based in Hamburg, Germany. Recently, I had a chance to visit the developers behind this key open source project. The Sun offices in Hamburg occupy three floors of a rather large business complex in an industrial area not far from downtown Hamburg. It's a surprisingly quiet and green area with a couple of decent restaurants around, which local businesses, including Sun, use for lunch breaks. The atmosphere in Sun's offices was relaxed, and I, in my shirt and shiny shoes, was definitely overdressed for the occasion. I was greeted by Ocke...Oct 23, 2008 GMT
Let's face it, tabbing through cells in a Calc spreadsheet is not the most efficient way to populate them with data. The DataForm extension provides a faster, and more intuitive way to enter data into cells, and sports a couple of other useful features to boot. To enable the form in a spreadsheet, you have to add at least two rows in it: one row containing column headers and another one with the actual data. For example: First Name Last Name Phone Number Wilhelmina Winterbottom 679 849 50 Now place the cursor in any cell within these three columns, and choose Data -> Form. This opens a form you can use to add a...Subscribe to our Linux Newsletters
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Vulnerability Discovered in xz Libraries
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Canonical Bumps LTS Support to 12 years
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