Want the latest version of KDE 4 in Ubuntu? See Five Steps to Install KDE 4.0 in Ubuntu 7.10 to install the latest version. Live CDs and virtual machines are easy ways to try out the new KDE 4. But I have been wanting to try out the new 3d effects, which makes running an [...]

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Don’t want to wait for you terminal application to load, and don’t want to have to switch between it and your other windows? Tilda is a terminal similar to those found in first person shooter games such as Quake. Tilda runs constantly in the background until it is triggered to appear by a shortcut key. [...]

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Back in the summer I wrote about two programs that allow Windows to read and write to Ext3 partitions as if they were native filesystems. DiskInternals Linux Reader is a similar program for read-only access. Linux Reader is not a driver, and it does not integrate with Window’s file manager. It’s a separate program that [...]

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A friend had an interesting problem for me to solve; he wanted to know how to turn off his laptop’s monitor without shutting down the system or waiting for it to go off. He wanted to leave it working during the night on the desk in his room, without the light from the LCD bothering [...]

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Linux has plenty of powerful encryption software, but what can you use if you just want to secure a couple files quickly? The OpenSSL toolkit works well for this. It comes installed with Ubuntu and can provide stronger encryption than you would ever need. This is the basic command to encrypt a file: openssl aes-256-cbc [...]

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