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• Best Equation Editor for Linux September 27, 2009
  Shared by villagestudies Useful for people who handle lots of equations! BerkeleyLUG: "What I always wanted was an equation editor of OpenOffice that used Latex as the backend. Then, I found it, and boy is it awesome: Ekee – developed by Ronan Le Hy in France (don't you love open-source?)"
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• Top 10 Best Cheat Sheets and Tutorials for Linux / UNIX Commands November 7, 2008
  nixCraft: "Cheat sheet act as a reference tool which provides cut and paste kind of commands to complete a specific task. I often recommend following set of best cheat sheets to students and IT professionals. It include Linux / UNIX command and shell scripting."
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• Amazon's Cloud Services Move Out of Beta's Shadow October 24, 2008
  Amazon announced Thursday general availability of its Elastic Compute Cloud, part of the Internet retailer's Web service offerings. Launched in beta 26 months ago, the service provides a resizable compute capacity to businesses with varying server needs. "The appealing thing about EC2 is that instead of buying a server, you pay for it by the hour. […]
  Walaika Haskins
• how to change root password in debian October 12, 2008
  This is one of the problem faced by many person’s“what if i lost the root password”First thing that comes in mind is “use single user mode” but the answer is NO. coz debian takes the system security to one more level up and by default ask’s for the root password. (...)Read the rest of how to change root password in debian (190 words) © hey for Debian Admin, […]
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• Conversations With My Dad About Open Source August 7, 2008
  Open source PR guru Bill Baker reflects on what open source means for business.
  Bryan Richard
• Recover and Undelete files in Ubuntu the easy way! April 13, 2008
  Ok I accidentally deleted my /etc/network/interfaces file and didnt have my access point connected to a pc, its just wireless now, so what I did to recover the file was this, please note if you delete the file shutdown your pc immediately or unmount your drive as fast as possible to avoid overwriting the deleted data. This method can be used to find unencryp […]
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• Backing up in Ubuntu is Finally Made Simple: TimeVault - An In-Depth Review with Screenshots January 29, 2008
  While it's always been possible to use tools such as cron and rsync to backup files in Linux, there has never previously been an easy-to-use program that end-users and beginners could feel comfortable configuring, until now! TimeVault allows you to backup your system with snapshots; this means that if you loose a file (or an entire file system), or want […]
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• Using GNU screen's multiuser feature for remote support January 9, 2008
  It is often a waste of time for the person on the other end of the phone to listen to the support guy without really seeing what goes on. Using GNU screen two people can watch what is happening, and we'll show how here
  mikhailian
• Backups with Bacula: A cross-platform system to archive your data November 27, 2007
  Whether you have tens of gigabytes or hundreds of terabytes, the Bacula system makes backups easy. Here's a hands-on primer.
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• Secure Remote Access from Your Desktop December 3, 2007
  Connecting to your home computer from work, a friend's house, or while on vacation in another country is very simple — if you know how to use a small handful of tools. Ken Hess shows you how to connect securely and tunnel traffic using SSH.
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