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Stellarium
This is a lovely new open source planetarium app, for Mac and Windows (and source for Linux). Once you realise there are 2 menus one on the lower left edge, and one on the left of the bottom edge, it is a dream to get started.
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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Jungle Disk :: View topic - Network Drive does not work but can from My Network Places
Localhost web access is a useful workaround if the Jungle Disk fails to mount
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type the following in windows explorer I can get to my data:
http://localhost:2667/
WE ARE *NIXED!: You only know good when you've seen bad...
this will make you laugh or cry
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One thing I specifically didn't do was install Wine, or even mention it existed. Given their amazing ability to attract malware, I think it is just too dangerous.
Save YouTube Videos To Your Hard Drive - Wired How-To Wiki
Here are some techniques that can not only help you take a YouTube video on the road, but also perhaps get around the excessive CPU usage of Adobe's Flash video player on Linux (this problem causes heat, fan noise, jumpy video and CO2 emissions.)
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Alternately you can just use an FLV capable media player like the excellent and free VLC (all platforms).
How do I configure the new Version of Xlite? - gradwell
This guide got version 3 of X-Lite (the former Eyebeam) working for me.
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select Use local IP address at the top. Click apply on the bottom right hand corner and we would expect it to immediately work with Gradwell.
Dial 160 to try the echo test.
Odf - Converter
An open source converter
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interoperability between applications based on ODF (OpenDocument) 1.0 standards and Microsoft OpenXML based Office applications.
Sun ODF Plugin 1.1 for Microsoft Office - Get It
This free-of-charge plug-in for Microsoft Office allows is to be compatible with the standard file format of the open source OpenOffice.org, Sun's StarOffice, and the new IBM Symphony Suite.
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Download the ODF Plugin to be compatible with the ISO standard ODF file format
HFSExplorer
Unlike the MacDrive shareware, this app seems to be read-only.
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HFSExplorer is a useful application for extracting files from an HFS+ volume (Mac OS Extended) located either on a physical disk, on a .dmg disk image, or in a raw file.
MacBook TripleBoot Instructions
Multiple boot a MacBook with GRUB and LVM, and with rEFIt instead of Boot Camp. Sounds very encouraging, as grub is not working for me right now. I am not sure how or why his Linux does not have an EXT2 /boot partition, as seemed to be default with Fedo
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#hiddenmenu
title Fedora 6
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
BackupPC Information
Uninspiring name - very interesting product.
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backup a large number of machines onto a server's local disk or network storage. This is what BackupPC does. For some sites, this might be the complete backup solution. For other sites, additional permanent archives could be created by periodically backing up the server to tape.
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older file recovery techniques
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be helpful when you're looking for interesting files in general. To start up the browser just have it open up the main HTML file you created previously with lazarus - it'll have a name like "unrm_output.frame.html" if the original data was called "unrm_output". If done correctly you'll see large map of your disk made up from letters, and a small HTML frame that shows what all the letters in the large map mean. You can use your browser's internal search function or simply browse through the map looking for things of interest.
The Sleuth Kit Informer - May 2004
saving my skin - I got a nice movie clip back with this
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The final three cases represent fragmented files where the clusters in between the fragments are also unallocated. There is not a test case in this test image of a fragmented file with allocated clusters in between the fragments. In hindsight, the test image should have included that scenario. For reference, none of the analysis tools were able to recover the final three files.
WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics
very slick free software Windows clone of KDirStat - to help you find out where all your disk space has gone (mostly GPL)
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WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:
* The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
* The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
* The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.
Blue Security's Anti-Spam Community
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Reshef is a startup veteran (if there is such a thing) and this is his third company. Founded in 2004, the company raised $3 million from Benchmark Capital in April, 2005 in its "seed round" and might well be able to raise more money in the future, if necessary.
Our immediate question was a simple one: "How will you make money?"
If he can prove that it works, Reshef expects that corporations will pay for the service. Meanwhile, the company plans to be in beta for a long time.
SurfSafely.com, Family Friendly Search Engine, Child Internet safety through informed content filtering.
interesting
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Early testing has been extremely successful. Some very large and well known spammers have agreed to comply with the DNIR and stop spamming members of Blue Security. But I won't kid you. Recently, a small minority of rebel spammers who are feeling the intense heat the growing community of BlueFroggers has created to comply have found a way to extrapolate Blue Security member addresses. With this list they have launched an all out campaign to try and discourage the growth of the BlueFrog community by sending threatening email and just plain bulk nonsense. This misguided course of action is certain to have the exact opposite effect that they hoped for and be very short lived. As a direct result Blue Security membership is growing exponentially
How can I find the XP installation CD key used on my system without having the CD? - Ask Leo!
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There are a couple of freeware utilities that will do that for you. I just tried Keyfinder from Magical Jelly Bean,
enum.at: SIP TAPI
an open source dialer for IP phones for Windows
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This software is in an early stage - thus, it may happen that your TAPI applications or Windows crashes :-(
As the SIP TAPI is under the GPL license, you are welcome to improve it.
EmacsW32 Home Page
sounds useful; there are binaries for ntemacs here also. This helps get over hurdles of printing and file assocation for example.
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EmacsW32 is a collection of Emacs lisp modules and MS Windows programs you can use from Emacs. It can make the keyboard and other things in Emacs function more like they do usually in MS Windows programs.
Inno Setup
a popular way for open source fans to make those infamous setup.exe
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Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability.
CPU-Z
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freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.CPU
* Name and number.
* Core stepping and process....Mainboard
* Vendor, model and revision.
* BIOS model and date....
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