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Documentary Filmmaker Wins in Tax Court
from Media Alliance
(2012/7/11 15:57)
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Lee Storey, an attorney in the area of water rights and a documentary filmmaker, learned today that her documentary film Smile
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Using the Synaptic Package Manager to Clone Installed Software to Another Computer
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/7/11 5:37)
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The GNU/Linux ecosystem is blessed with many tools to clone a hard drive image which can be used to reinstall your Debian-based distro in an emergency or duplicate on another machine, but sometimes you might want to do a clean install of Ubuntu on another machine and then add in the extra software you installed in the original distro. For that you need a combination of Synaptic, the GUI frontend for apt-get and a little command line magic. Category: End users Tagging: synaptic backups repositories ppa License: GPL
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Backing up Your Desktop Settings with Ubuntu-Tweak
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/7/10 6:05)
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There is no shortage of backup software in GNU/Linux. From full clones of hard drives to browser bookmarks there's something for everyone. However, sometimes you just need to be more selective about what you backup. If you want to backup your precious desktop settings, you should try Ubuntu Tweak : it is bundled with a host of really useful features, it's been around for a while and it's up to version seven. You might find a version in your distro's repositories but if you're out of luck, download it from the official site. Category: End users Tagging: ubuntu gnome desktop tweaks License: CC-BY-NC
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Court Challenge to Fleeting Expletives
from Media Alliance
(2012/7/6 6:33)
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Update: On June 21st, the Supreme Court overturned indecency penalties against Fox Broadcasting and ABC broadcasting, but declined to overturn the larger indecency regulatory structure initiated in the 1978 Pacifica vs FCC case immortalized by George Carlin as"The Seven Dirty Words". See below a press release from the Center for Creative Voices in Media.
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MA and NLG-Committee on Democratic Communications File LPFM Comments
from Media Alliance
(2012/7/6 6:33)
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Media Alliance and the National Lawyers Guild Committee on Democratic Communications File Comments in Final LPFM Rule Making.
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Ubuntu's HUD: fixing the keyboard binding conflicts
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/7/2 23:22)
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Last week I finally took the leap and did an online upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). To my relief it was a flawless operation and one of the things I wanted to experiment with the much hyped HUD feature which is being slated as a replacement/supplement to application menus. It's a Marmite feature. You either love it or loathe it but what caught my attention was the keybinding used to launch it and how this interacts with its"near neighbours". Category: End users Tagging: ubuntu hud keyboard shortcuts unity License: Other
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The Dolphin File Manager: Smarter and Faster with Keyboard Shortcuts
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/7/2 3:29)
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People like Dolphins. They're fast and smart and swimming with them is on many people's"ten things to do before you die"list. Not me though. The nearest I'll ever get to a Dolphin is the one sitting on my laptop -- the Dolphin file manager that is. It's nippy too but I find that I can speed it up even more by using keybaord shortcuts. Category: End users Tagging: keyboard filemanager shortcuts kde nepomuk License: CC-BY-NC-SA
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Four Smart Things to do with the ALT+F2 Run Command in KDE
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/6/29 7:32)
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One of the first things that newcomers to GNU/Linux learn to do is to bypass big Start menus and blank screens (like Fluxbox) and use ALT+F2 to launch an application by simply typing in its name. Every desktop ecosystem has its own way of implementing this feature and I was pleasantly surprised, after a long absense from the KDE desktop, to see how it could be used to do some really clever things. Here's five of them. Category: End users Tagging: kde desktop search shortcuts License: CC-BY-NC-SA
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Adding Context Menus in the Dolphin File Manager
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/6/27 7:32)
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The concept of the right-click context menu has been around since forever but you don't have to be content with the defaults that come with your software, especially file managers. KDE's Dolphin and Konqueror are no exceptions. It's a complete no brainer to install more contextual menus, so let's do it. Adding menus works exactly the same way in both managers (the only difference is that Konqueror is also a web browser too). I'm using Dolphin today. So, fire it up and select Configure Dolphin from the drop-down Settings menu. Category: End users Tagging: dolphin konqueror filemanagers menus kde License: CC-BY-NC-SA
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Checking a website for incorrect links
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/6/25 3:08)
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When you build or update a website, it's a good idea to check that all the links on your webpages are OK. An excellent tool for doing this under Linux is the aptly named linkchecker , a GPL-licensed, command-line program. However,'OK'has more than one meaning. While linkchecker can check the URL you specify to see if it's properly formed and not broken, it can't tell you if the link points to the wrong URL. Category: Hacking Tagging: website hyperlink License: Verbatim only
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