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Desktop tune-up. Four cool Linux tricks

10/01/2007  IIIIII
Relevance: 7.24
Kick-start your week with four easy (but still cool) tricks on your Linux desktop. Install the media server you've always wanted but never got around to, or fine-tune your hardware to squeeze out a few more hours of battery power ... All this an more in this week's How To Roundup. Oh, and send us your favourite Linux tricks.
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Advanced SSH security tips and tricks

03/30/2007  III
Relevance: 7.07
In this article I'll show you some simple tricks to help you tighten security for your secure shell (SSH) service.
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More tricks with BashDiff

10/30/2008  IIIIIII
Relevance: 6.27
Yesterday we took a look at BashDiff, a patch for the bash shell that adds new capabilities. We've already looked at some of the additions that BashDiff makes to bash's commands and string parsing abilities. Today we'll look at modifying positional parameters, parsing XML, talking to ISAM and relational databases, creating GTK+2 GUIs, and a few other tricks and issues.
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Tutorial: OpenOffice.org Tips and Tricks Part I

07/29/2008  IIIIIIIIII
Relevance: 6.22
This tutorial series will take you through some tips and tricks on migrating from MS Office to OpenOffice.org 2.4. You'll see how to replicate some of the functionality and features that are lacking in OpenOffice.org. Soon you'll be more comfortable using OpenOffice.org for just about all your desktop publishing needs.
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Tutorial: OpenOffice.org Tips and Tricks: Customization, PDFs, and Smart Image Management

09/16/2008  IIIIIIIIII
Relevance: 6.21
Eric Geier is back with more tips and tricks on transitioning to OpenOffice.org (OOo). This tutorial continues by highlighting OOo Options you may want to change, discusses the PDF exporting feature, and shows how to overcome two vexing issues you may encounter when working with images.
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Tutorial: Why Firefox Rocks: Great Firefox Tricks, Part IV

11/21/2008  II
Relevance: 6.16
Firefox is cram-full of hidden treasures, as we have learned in this series. Today Akkana Peck exposes Firefox's expertise at handling those ridiculously long URLs that plague the Web-- email clients mangle them, copy and paste is a nightmare-- but Firefox has some special tricks that make them easy.
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Asus EeePC, Part Four: A miscellany of Tips and Tricks

05/24/2008  IIIIIIIII
Relevance: 6.01
The last part of this four-parter series on the Asus EeePC deals in detail with all the tips and tricks you can use to conserve battery power, control the webcam and configure Firefox and Opera to maximize all the available screen space. Read the full story
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Puppy Linux 4.0: Has it Learned New Tricks?

05/14/2008  IIII
Relevance: 6.01
Puppy Linux 4.0 has been unleashed recently. It is a major distribution release version of this well-known mini-distro that is why I took some time to check it out. I have used Puppy Linux 3.01 before, and I have said that it was more than just a cute-named distro. So what are the improvements of this latest edition over its predecessor? Has it really learned new tricks?
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5 Simple APT Tricks for Debian and Ubuntu

10/28/2008  III
Relevance: 6.01
Here are five simple tricks for APT, the Advanced Packaging Tool used on Debian and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu.
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Four Tricks Companies Use to Feign Openness

01/11/2008  IIII
Relevance: 5.96
"Openness" may be reaching hyperbolic proportions in Silicon Valley, but the idea is relatively good natured at heart. The practice is rooted in the notion that sharing various assets (i.e., underlying code, operating and communication standards) merits both consumers and businesses. However, one could argue that the current fad of openness is little more than a Trojan horse. Take for instance these four tricks companies recently employed to convince us of their openness:
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