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Claws-Mail – Part V

I’ve been using Claws-mail for a couple of days now and I’m loving it more and more. Some of the features I love: The ability to process a folder based on rules. I set up a processing filter for...

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Claws Mail vs. Thunderbird – A comparison

If you have been reading this blog for a while you know I have recently switched over from Thunderbird to Claws Mail. After all the fuss at Mozilla concerning Thunderbird I thought I would look for a...

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Music on Linux – Searching for a manager

For a while now, actually ever since I started using Linux as my choice of operating system on my desktop, I’m struggling to find the right way to manage my music. I found my perfect way to organize it...

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Music on Linux – Taggers

I really only keep MP3 files, I have flacs as well, but usually convert them to mp3. In my humble opinion there’s only one tagger you should use on Linux, EasyTAG. I love the layout and the amount of...

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Dumping Compiz-Fusion and back to Metacity

After I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 I thought I would try the Compiz-Fusion settings. I ran the Emerald theme OrangeGlow from the start and was wowed by what my desktop looked like. So why did I dump it...

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Laptop died

Well not exactly the laptop but the screen died on me, after being able to re energize my screen by pressing in certain areas since yesterday that little trick doesn’t work anymore. So I’m writing this...

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Can’t print in evince, GEdit, Claws-Mail.

I’ve got a printer connected on my Windows machine and it’s shared so I can print from my Ubuntu Intrepid machine as well using Samba. It works pretty well. I usually only print from OpenOffice 3 but...

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Compile mplayer with VDPAU support on Ubuntu

In this article I’ll show you how you can compile mplayer with VDPAU support on Ubuntu Intrepid but first I’ll try to explain why you would want to recompile mplayer with VDPAU support. NOTICE: This...

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Adding SSL certificates to Google Chrome Linux (Ubuntu)

Google Chrome in Linux doesn’t have a SSL certificate manager, it relies on the NSS Shared DB. In order to add SSL certificates to the database you will have to use the command line. I will explain how...

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Am I really running Ubuntu?

If people ask me what distribution of Linux I run on my laptop I tell Ubuntu but in all honesty that’s not entirely true and I’ll explain that later. I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years,...

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