Ubuntu Dapper Beta 2 Released

Ubuntu Dapper Beta 2 Released --
The Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu teams are proud to present a second Beta release of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu 6.06 LTS, codenamed "Dapper Drake". This release corrects some serious flaws in the installer present on the Desktop CD in the first Beta release.

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Junkbusters Anti-Telemarketing Script

Hillman Wonders of the World

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Portable Antivirus - Clamwin

Portable Antivirus - Clamwin --
Portable ClamWin is the popular ClamWin antivirus packaged as a portable app, so you can take your antivirus with you to scan files on the go.

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine

Get Winpooch to have the on-access real-time scanner features.

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Hundreds of FREE user manuals

Hundreds of FREE user manuals --
Did you ever buy a second-hand camera, printer, watch etc and it didn't come with the user manual? Maybe you lost your manual. Never fear, this site has hundreds of manuals for all sorts of gadgets and they are all totally free in pdf format. No registration, no mucking around!

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Slashdot | New MythTV Based PVR Available

Handy freeware programs to put on a USB stick

Handy freeware programs to put on a USB stick --
A list of free programs that do not require an installation and can be used directly from your USB stick or any other removable drive

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Computer Buying Experiences at Best Buy-Comp USA-Frys-Circuit City

Computer Buying Experiences at Best Buy-Comp USA-Frys-Circuit City --
A real "in the trenches" look at what to expect when buying a computer at a brick and mortar retailer. [H] Consumer buys four computers at four national stores and relates their experience, warranties offered, and their suggestions should you be buying a computer yourself, or helping friends or family.

This is a great article and is probably one of the best reasons for PC user groups to exist. To help users with this type of process and finding the right system and making the correct choices.

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Monitoring with Google Calendar

Seems like a cool way to do some network monitoring using Google Calendar!

Who the heck thought of this???

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195 Free Online Programming Books

195 Free Online Programming Books --
Categorized by Language, A Very Nice List

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TED Blog: Make: Magazine's First Ever Maker Faire Explodes

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Unity, Beauty, Simplicity | Symphony OS

Darwin Awards: Urban Legends

Why Linux is better

The Linux Box

Welcome! - The Apache HTTP Server Project

How to See the World: Art of Travel; European and World Backpacking; On $25 a Day or Less

edna -- an MP3 server

HTML Color Code Combination Chooser

HOWTO: Install Linux onto a USB thumb-drive with encrypted partitions

HOWTO: Install Linux onto a USB thumb-drive with encrypted partitions --
Simple instructions for anyone looking for a portable installation that they can easily carry with them for use as rescue media, system administration or as a private workstation. This is an update of the original howto (http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179), and adds support for 2.6.16, cryptsetup with LUKS support, Udev, and Yaird.

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Cbreak: Free commercial remover for AVI files

Cbreak: Free commercial remover for AVI files --
Remove commercials from recorded TV quickly and easily. Open source app. Cbreak works by scanning every frame of a video file, taking note of any black frames in the video. It uses these frames to divide the video up into segments.

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Increase download speeds with Azureus

Increase download speeds with Azureus --
Great instructions on how to increase your bittorrent download speeds.

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gTranslate - Translate any text in Firefox

gTranslate - Translate any text in Firefox --
"With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text."

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Great Freeware Squeezes More Out of Windows

Great Freeware Squeezes More Out of Windows --
Ten free programs put Windows on its best behavior and teach the old OS useful new file and interface tricks.

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MythTV + Asterisk + Home Secrity + and more = PlutoHome (TOTAL FREE)

MythTV + Asterisk + Home Secrity + and more = PlutoHome (TOTAL FREE) --
Pluto is the only all-in-one solution for your home that seamlessly combines media & entertainment, home automation, security, telecom and computing.
You can control your whole house with a mobile phone, a touch-screen tablet or a web-interface. A Pluto system is like an appliance - not a computer. It is self-configuring, maintaining and updating.

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Building a Linux home media center

Building a Linux home media center --
Nice article on how to make, build, and customize a Linux home theater setup. Based off Ubuntu Linux.

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Beautiful Tutorial MPEG-4 Compression

Beautiful Tutorial MPEG-4 Compression --
Very solid information that is most likely valuble to any proffesional video creator or if you just want to make a good quality, small file sized video of your DVD on you computer.

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Linux Distributions Bird's Eye View - a Mind Map

Linux Distributions Bird's Eye View - a Mind Map --
Here is a rather intutive mind map of mainstream GNU/Linux distributions and their relationship (if any) with each other. Really interesting.

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Half Of Corporate PCs Can't Run Vista

Half Of Corporate PCs Can't Run Vista --
If you want to get Windows Vista when it comes out, you probably should be thinking about new hardware, according to the research firm. It estimates that about half of corporate PCs aren't powerful enough to run the forthcoming operating system.

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Linux Live scripts

CSS Tutorials, Style Sheet Tutorials, Style Sheet Help

AbiWord

FEBE Firefox Extension

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GasBuddy.com - Find Low Gas Prices in Your City

Uncomplicating the Complicated | Hardware Secrets

Airfarewatchdog.com - Today's Top 30 Fares

CSS Basics - Making Cascading Style Sheets Easy to Understand

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Open Source Windows - Free, Open-Source software for Windows

Ext2 IFS For Windows

Web Design from Scratch - Free web design course - basics, layout, free tutorials, case studies, how to guides and examples

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FreeTechBooks.com - Free computer science and programming books

Useful Links to ASU sites

Welcome to SeatGuru!

Brilliant Button Maker by LucaZappa.com

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Open Source Free CD 3.0

FrozenTech's LiveCD List

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Open Source Web Design - Download and upload free web designs.

Uncomplicating the Complicated | Hardware Secrets

Build your own DVR : Lifehacker guide

Build your own DVR : Lifehacker guide --
If you want to step into the DVR market, but don't want to be a slave to TiVo, then you can build your own. Lifehacker has a pretty good guide how to setup your PC as a DVR. The guide is nicely laid out, and contains screenshots.

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The 50 Greatest Independent Films!

The 50 Greatest Independent Films! --
Check out this list. Bound to find some of the coolest movies you'd NEVER seen...

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ParallelKnoppix: Create a cluster in 5 minutes

ParallelKnoppix: Create a cluster in 5 minutes --
"You can convert a room full of machines running Windows into a Linux cluster, and when you shut down, your Windows machines are in their original state. The computers in the cluster can be homogeneous or heterogeneous. Getting the cluster up and running takes about 5 minutes.."

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Kanguru's 64GB King Kong Flash Drive

Kanguru's 64GB King Kong Flash Drive --
Kanguru has dropped the bomb on the USB 2.0 flash drive market with a whopping 64 GB of storage space on a flash drive about the size of a pack of gum. The drive is called the Kanguru Flash Drive Max. Rumor has it, that it is only a mere $2,799.

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DvdShrink For Linux - How To Install On Ubuntu

DvdShrink For Linux - How To Install On Ubuntu --
Here's a quick tutorial on how to install K9Copy on Ubuntu. K9Copy is an awesome program much like DvdShrink, which helps you back up your dvds.

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270 Free Mini Pixel Icons

270 Free Mini Pixel Icons --
"These mini icons are designed at 14x14px with transparent background. They are specially designed for header or side navigation buttons. Feel free to use these icons for your site (personal or commerical)."

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Why Boot Camp is the Beginning of the End for Windows

Why Boot Camp is the Beginning of the End for Windows --
Why Boot Camp is better for Apple and worse for Microsoft then anyone has thought

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Web Design from Scratch - Free web design course - basics, layout, free tutorials, case studies, how to guides and examples

Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator

Tips for Linux Explorers

Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial - A Beginner's handbook

Quotable Quotes

Tweak3D.net - Tweaks for Windows and hardware and software

Surprising Expiration Dates : RealSimple.com

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How to See the World: Art of Travel; European and World Backpacking; On $25 a Day or Less

Okay, you would have to say that this is SMALL... picotux - smallest Linux computer in the World

Pretty cool history of computer languages...

Computer Languages History (preview)

List of Freeware Replacements for Commonly Warez'ed Programs

List of Freeware Replacements for Commonly Warez'ed Programs -- Don't steal when you can get the good stuff for free. Great list of free apps. Bookmark it.

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HOWTO: Setup your own VPN with IPCop and OpenVPN!

HOWTO: Setup your own VPN with IPCop and OpenVPN!
This is a great little tutorial for anyone looking to set up a vpn through the linux based IPCop firewall. A must read!

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Overview of the ten major Linux distributions

Good Overview of the ten major Linux distributions--
A review of the 10 major Linux distributions out there, giving the pros and cons of each and every one of them...

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