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Karmic Slide-Show Breakdown

Yes, there has been a slide-show type wallpaper(s) for Linux for a while available over at gnome-look.org (Just search for animated under the wallpaper section). But now it comes as one of the options for Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10). The process is a simple one if you want to make your ...

Conky, revisited

With lots of googling and failed attempts, not quite right attempts, and then finnaly the product I was aiming at, I have my conky the way I have been wanting it for months. It consists of 11 different files with 1 calling them all together. (Yes, 12 different files, and ...

A Random Funny Geeky Thing

originally found here: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Microsoft-Vissa,-Hey-Thats-Ours,--More-Support-Stories.aspx A few years ago, a common free email provider who we'll call "Yooha" had an outage on one of their load balanced email servers. Since it was only a problem on accounts tied to that server (and because I was in the middle of a fairly time ...

Adding Virtual Domains — The Easy Way (Ubuntu)

I wrote this script out of my need for a quick method of adding virtual domains. I hope you find this to be of great use. create a file named addomain sudo vim /usr/bin/adddomain Place this in your file: #!/bin/bash #Edit the following e-mail address: email="your@email.address" ipaddress=`ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | ...

Twitter for BASH

Thanks Linux Journal for this one: Ok, You're REALLY into Twitter, and you want a faster way to tweet, or you're frustrated at having to hunt through the log files, and you want to share that frustration with all your tweetererers. Here's a great way: First, you'll need to do one of ...

All things *nix

Hello, I'm JonsJava -- LinuxGurls hubby. I just wanted to write a post to let everybody know the future of this site. LinuxGurl will still be posting regularly, but we have 2 new contributors. They are both knowledgeable about the topics that they will be discussing. I will also begin ...

Yet another post on another website about CONKY!

Yep, I decided to share my Conky setup with the world because I have scoured several pages of different forums and websites trying to get mine just right. It all started with a simple stumble upon this page which is what I used for my base layout a few months ago. ...

The Sun has Set

In case you’ve been in a box the past few days, Oracle has bought out Sun Microsystems. While it may not seem like a big deal to some of you, you may not realize just how much Sun has contributed to the open source community, and that ...

Totaly Random Friday

I worked yesterday so no post... I will finish up my GnoMenu stuff this weekend and be on the look-out for multiple posts on Monday! .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; ...

GnoMenu How-To (Day 1 & 2)

Since yesterday's post was on a serious matter, I need to catch up on what I was planning on doing this week. First, you need to have GnoMenu downloaded before you even get started with trying to make your own theme. To each theme, there is 3 parts that are ...