Linux For The Rest Of Us #105 – Don't Forget The Little Things

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A Linux podcast for anyone even remotely interested in Linux!

With Steve McLaughlin, the Door to Door Geek and Cody Cooper

Episode 105 Show Notes

Basic Basic

Don’t forget the small stuff

Lego goodness

(http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1973)

Test your Hard Drives with GsmartControl! – Do you have an old hard drive that you use to store valuable data and you need to determine approximately how much of life is left in its electronic heart? Did your hard drive travel and you want to check any possible damaged that it may sustained? Do you want to see information like attributes, features, firmware version etc but you don’t know how? You should check out GsmartControl!.

(http://worldofgnome.org/test-your-hard-drives-with-gsmartcontrol/)

(http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/en/Downloads)

Ubuntu One Music Store comes to mobile and web, skips the plugins – If you’d wanted to shop Ubuntu One’s Music Store in the past, you had to use a plugin through an app like Banshee or Rhythmbox. Not very convenient, we’d say. Someone must have been listening up in Canonical’s cloud, as Ubuntu One just brought its 7digital-based store to the web and mobile devices.

(http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/12/ubuntu-one-music-store-comes-to-mobile-and-web/)

[How To] Make The Ubuntu Messaging Menu Icon Blink on New Notifications – Ubuntu‘s Messaging Menu icon turns blue when a new e-mail, tweet or IM, etc, is waiting for you. But if you find the baby-blue notification too subtle why not have it blink to attract your attention?.

(http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/how-to-make-the-messaging-menu-icon-blink-in-ubuntu)

Cleopix: A Simple Screenshot Tool for Ubuntu – Cleopix is a new screenshot app available for Ubuntu users to install from the Ubuntu Software Center.

(http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/cleopix-a-simple-screenshot-tool-for-ubuntu)

Ubuntu 12.10 Login Screen Adds Remote Desktop Access – Support for Remote Desktop Logins directly from the login screen has been enabled in Ubuntu 12.10. The feature will allow you to enter a full-screen remote login without needing to login to Ubuntu itself, or install additional apps. It all happens ‘out of the box’.

(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue283#Ubuntu_12.10_Login_Screen_Adds_Remote_Desktop_Access)

Using Fail2ban To Block Wrong ISPConfig Logins – First of all: if you’re not paranoid, you don’t need this. ISPConfig does a fine job to block any user logins that fail more than five times a minute. On the other hand, you MIGHT want to be able to fine-tune this a bit.

(http://www.howtoforge.com/using-fail2ban-to-block-wrong-ispconfig-logins)

Codethink launches little Linux ARM servers with 8 quad-core CPUs per node – Codethink, a Linux consulting company headquartered in the UK, has launched a new ARM-based server product called theBaserock Slab. Each individual node includes eight quad-core ARM CPUs. Two nodes can fit in a single 1U slot, for a total of 64 cores per rack unit.

(http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/codethink-launches-little-linux-arm-servers-with-8-quad-core-cpus-per-node/)

specs (http://www.baserock.com/servers/specifications)

Apache OpenMeetings – The plugin enables integration of Apache OpenMeetings Incubating conference rooms in the popular e-learning LMS Moodle.

(https://blogs.apache.org/openmeetings/entry/apache_openmeetings_moodle_plugin_1)

4 unix commands I abuse every day.

(http://everythingsysadmin.com/2012/09/unorthodoxunix.html)

Linux In The Shell – An exploration of Linux commands in the Bash Shell.

(http://www.linuxintheshell.org/)

Avidemux – Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

(http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/)

Email

Lightworks – Some of the finest films of the past 20 years have been edited with Lightworks.

(http://www.lwks.com/)

A Beginner愀 Guide To Linux – The Basics You Should Know.

(http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/07/a-beginner-guide-to-linux-basics-you.html)

Is Gnome making you hungry? Try Recipe Xpress! – Recipe Xpress is a fantastic recipe management tool that is completely user friendly and simple to understand and use, no matter your computer experience.

(http://worldofgnome.org/is-gnome-making-you-hungry-try-recipe-xpress/)

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