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Linux For The Rest Of Us #107 – Ask For Help

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Episode 107 Show Notes

Basic Basic

Don’t forget the small stuff

For millennia humans have standed on the shoulders of past generations accomplishments, lets do that same thing with learning

Many people have documented many solutions and many tips and tricks, just search for “Linux Forums”, “Linux Manuals”, “Linux Tutorials”, “Linux Videos” yada yada

Without community we have no Linux, period

New section “The top yada yada”

Best Ways to Read E-books on Ubuntu

(http://www.junauza.com/2012/10/best-ways-to-read-e-books-on-ubuntu.html)

PDF maker.

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

Humble eBook Bundle – Humble eBook Bundle features eight masterful works from a prodigious league of award-winning authors.

(https://www.humblebundle.com/)

Coverting wma to mp3.

(http://forum.linuxbasix.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1213&p=6011#p6011)

A Beginner愀 Guide To Linux – The Basics You Should Know – Linux is an operating system that basically acts as a platform for your computer to run on. Despite Linux having advanced capabilities than other operating systems, Linux is not as widely used as its peers Windows, Mac OS X and Android. However, IT geeks and technicians are becoming increasingly frustrated with the shortcomings of the industry leader and are turning to Linux to improve the personal computer systems.

(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/)

Solus Eveline 1.2: good for newbies.

(http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/10/solus-eveline-12-good-for-newbies.html?m=1)

Build a file server with the Raspberry Pi – The Raspberry Pi is small, silent and energy efficient, so let’s turn it into the ultimate file server!.

(http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/build-a-file-server-with-the-raspberry-pi)

Manage and Edit your photographs with Fotoxx – Navigate a large image collection with a thumbnail browser, click on images to view or edit. Import RAW files and edit with deep color. Save revised images as JPEG, BMP, PNG (8/16 bits), or TIFF (8/16). Select an object or area within an image (outline, follow edges, spread into matching tones), apply retouch functions, copy and paste, resize, blend, warp, etc. without using layers. Edit functions have fast feedback using the full image. A comprehensive set of retouch and transform functions is available.

(http://worldofgnome.org/manage-and-edit-your-photographs-with-fotoxx/)

Take your project management application open source with ProjectLibre – Microsoft Project’s expensive licensing and intimidating reputation in some circles hampers its adoption, opening the door to alternatives; the team behind ProjectLibre aims to make that alternative open source. ProjectLibre is still in beta at the time of this writing; the developer promises compatibility with Microsoft Project 2010.

(http://m.techrepublic.com/blog/project-management/take-your-project-management-application-open-source-with-projectlibre/5052)

pfSense – Squid + Squidguard / Traffic Shapping Tutorial (This type of configuration would be useful for people who want to set up wireless hot spots or Internet cafe’s etc).

(http://www.howtoforge.com/pfsense-squid-squidguard-traffic-shaping-tutorial)

Regular Expression editor.

Definition – In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means to “match” (specify and recognize) strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Common abbreviations for “regular expression” include regex and regexp.

(http://podnutz.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=8229&p=44558#p44558)

Vandals break into congressman’s office, install Linux on PCs – A US congressmen has been left incensed after miscreants installed Linux on computers at his campaign office, possibly thrashing some data in the process.

(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/26/vandals_install_linux_on_congressman_office_computers/)

The Free Universal Construction Kit – Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10 popular construction toys.

(http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/)

This is a example of “Freedom for the users”

The Command Line Crash Course – Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal.

(http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/)

Linux In The Shell

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

(http://www.indiegogo.com/nexphone)

(http://brewpi.com/)

(http://www.indiegogo.com/Linuxonandroid)

(http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2)

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