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  • Play wormux on Ubuntu

    Play wormux on Ubuntu

     Wormix is a  clone of classic arcade game worm. It is under active development under a free licence. Recently, wormix project has released version 0.9.1 of this beautiful game. It is available for ubuntu on a PPA. You can try out wormix  installing it from PPA.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wormux/ppa sudo apt-add-ppa repository: wormux / ppa
     Then update the packages and install wormix.

           $sudo apt-get update & & sudo apt-get install wormux
      
      A demo of wormix can be seen on the following video.


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  • Monitoring System Usage with systat

    Monitoring System Usage with systat

    An overburdened CPU is another obvious place to look for performance problems on your system. Similarly io can be a bottleneck in proper system performance. You can watch various parameters if you install sysstat package.

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  • Nautilus Image Converter

    Nautilus Image Converter

    A nautilus extension to mass resize or rotate images.

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  • tar.gz, tgz and tar.bz2

    tar.gz, tgz and tar.bz2

    On linux distributions we commonly see files named tar, tgz, tar.gz and tar.bz2. This note tries to explain common operations on such files.

    tar
    tar is used to create a Tape ARchive. ( tar is from the old unix era) The resulting file is known as a tarball. A tar ball concatenates files to a a sin get the files out of a tarball, you can extract a tarball using

    tar -xvf something.tar

    To create a tar archive , the following command can be used.

    tar -c /home/mydir > mydir.tar

    tgz and tar.gz

    If the tarball has also been gzipped (compressed), the file will be named tar.gz or tgz .You can use the following command to extract it.

    tar -xvfz something.tar.gz

    If you want to create a tgz as below.
    tar czvf myfolder.tar.gz myfolder/

    tar.bz2

    A tar.bz2 uses bzip2 compression on a tarball. Generally the size will be less that a tar.gz file .If you have a .tar.bz2 file , issue this command: ( You need bzip2 installed)

    tar -xvjf file-1.0.tar.bz2
    If you want to create a tar.bz2 as below.
    tar cjvf myfolder.tar.bz2 myfolder/


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  • Clearing junk with BleachBit

    Clearing junk with BleachBit

    Bleach bit is a utility which can free disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. It can erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files.

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  • ZFS And The Sexieness That Follows

    ZFS And The Sexieness That Follows

    First off I’d like to apologize for the lack of updates lately, I’ve been dealing with some dire problems on my file server.  Good news is however all my data is safe so, I’ll be able to focus again without that frighting thought in the...

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  • PostgreSQL 9 Beta 1 Released!

    PostgreSQL 9 Beta 1 Released!

    The first beta release of PostgreSQL version 9.0 is now available. Version 9.0 is the first version of PostgreSQL to include built-in real-time binary database replication with query scale-out, consisting of two features, Hot Standby and Streaming Replication. Combined with its other major features, version 9.0 will expand adoption of PostgreSQL by new users and in new types of applications.

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  • Fix Spotify 0.4.3 To Work With Ubuntu (Facebook And Local Files Not Playing)

    Fix Spotify 0.4.3 To Work With Ubuntu (Facebook And Local Files Not Playing)

    As most of you probably know, Spotify released a new version of its client - 0.4.3 (more info, here) which now includes Facebook and local files support (among other things). But using the Windows Spotify client under Ubuntu using Wine, you won't be ab...

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  • Install Nautilus Elementary 2.30 Via PPA Repository for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Only

    Install Nautilus Elementary 2.30 Via PPA Repository for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Only

    We already covered Nautilus Elementary and how to install it in Lucid but the instructions in that post required you to compile it.But starting a few minutes ago, Nautilus Elementary 2.30 is available to install for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx users via a ...

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  • Install JDownloader Via PPA Repository

    Install JDownloader Via PPA Repository

    JDownloader is a a java-based tool that completely automates the downloading process. It can be very helpful for websites such as Rapidshare.com or Megaupload.com for both premium and free users.Among JDownloader features are: captcha recognition, mult...

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