Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The Beauty of Linux 3-D



Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Google Website Optimizer Takes the Guess Work out of Site Design

When you make changes to your site design, it’s not always easy to figure out how the changes affect traffic and visitor behavior. That’s where the Google Website Optimizer tool comes into play. You can experiment with two or more designs and see which one works best to achieve your design goal. Best of all, this tool is free.

The typical site design process involves some people sitting together and choosing the design they think is best. The decision is usually based on a gut feeling, rather than anything close to a scientific method. What’s more, few companies have the resources to sit with focus groups to find out which design most people prefer, so it comes down to opinion, and even an informed opinion is not always right.

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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Create video animations with Linux

Want to create an animation on GNU/Linux and then convert it to a video file? Well here is one way to do it that does not involve GIMP Animation Package (GAP). While there is nothing wrong with the GIMP GAP method, you might just find it useful to know about an alternative way of doing it that might just work for you. Maybe you are running into problems with GAP or you wish greater flexibility and control over your frames.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Linux tools to convert file formats

Life would be a lot easier if we could live in a Linux-only world and if applications never required data from other sources. However, the need to get data from Windows, MS-DOS, or old Macintosh systems is all too common. This kind of import process requires some conversions to solve file format differences; otherwise, it would be impossible to share data, or file contents would be imported incorrectly.

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Friday, July 18, 2008

Manage and play audio files over the Web with Ampache

Ampache is a LAMP application that gives you a Web interface to your music collection, allowing you to search, rate, and play your music over the network. It even offers transcoding support to allow clients to play back lossless-encoded FLAC files from the server and stream them to clients as MP3 audio files.

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Saturday, July 12, 2008

How To Install SELinux on Ubuntu 8.04

1. Update /etc/apt/sources.list by appending the following:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-hardened/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-hardened/ubuntu hardy main

Update repo:
apt-get update

3. Install updated packages:
apt-get upgrade
These packages have SELinux support patches:
libpam0g
openssh-server
grub
login

4. Install selinux:
apt-get install selinux
These packages will be removed:
apparmor
apparmor-utils

5. Reboot

If using aptitude instead of apt-get, you will need to manually remove apparmor and apparmor-utils, deselect selinux-policy-dummy, and then choose selinux-policy-refpolicy.