Friday, August 22, 2008

Why Linux Continues to Evade Mainstream Users

Winpass. Repair lost access due to a lost or corrupted password issue with this software? Again, as this is designed to bail out Windows users, one must admit there is a certain pride to be taken in using a Linux distro to crack a lost Windows password.

CloneXP. Cloning a Windows partition easily, over a home network is something that will definitely save you a lot of time. No worries, though, it will be at a Linux command prompt where all of this magic happens.

Trk2usb. One of the most requested items of business for any rescue CD is the ability to forgo the CD and use a USB Flash drive, instead. Thankfully, Trinity allows for using this script.

Ntfsundeleteall. Nothing is worse than finding out your PC has lost all of its data. Considering how easy it is to have a hosed Windows system, there is certain logic to using a script that can act as a recovery agent for any lost NTFS files. Again, the entire process is done from a Linux command line.

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Friday, August 15, 2008

Canonical to Offer Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop through Ubuntu

Zimbra has announced that Canonical, sponsors of Ubuntu, the fastest growing Linux distribution, will give users direct access to Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop, which provides a centralized hub to manage multiple e-mail accounts and calendars online and offline, through the Ubuntu Partner Repository. Zimbra, a Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) company, is a leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software.

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Saturday, August 09, 2008

Turn OpenOffice.org into a Web-editing tool, it's like a live FrontPage.

Imagine being able to open any Web page on your server in OpenOffice.org, edit it, and save the changes back to the server by pressing the Save button. It may sound too good to be true, but that's exactly what the ODF@WWW project is set to achieve.

Started as a relatively simple hack, ODF@WWW has become a nifty solution that allows end users to create and edit Web pages in OpenOffice.org.

The good news is that end users don't need to know anything about all the technicalities. Once installed and configured, ODF@WWW does the job in the background, providing seamless integration between the user's Web server and OpenOffice.org.

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Sunday, August 03, 2008

Ultamatix a successor to Automatix for new Ubuntu and Debian users.

Some Ubuntu fans out there may remember Automatix, a tool for Ubuntu that allowed easy access to many popular non-free applications and commonly-used audio and video codecs. It debuted a few years ago, and got negative reviews from Ubuntu developers and experienced users due to the risk of breaking dependencies, but it offered an easy solution for beginners who weren't familiar with the way deb packages worked. Automatix was discontinued in March, when its developers moved on to other projects. Now Ultamatix hopes to continue where Automatix left off.

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