Direct MP3 Download: Linux For The Rest Of Us #128 – The Diagnosis Is Low Data Usage
A Linux podcast for anyone even remotely interested in Linux!
With Steve McLaughlin, the DoorToDoorGeek and Cody Cooper
Episode 128 Show Notes
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– Improved structure and layout – makes customers more likely to take action and call you!
– Ability to add as many pages as you want to the site!
– Brand new Google Adwords tutorial – to reflect any changes made to the Adwords system
– Tutorial on setting up Google Places and Bing Business!
– Add a blog to your site to improve and expand your content!
– Just as easy to set up as the original!
– Steve was going to give a 20% discount but he just told me he raised it to a 40% discount
The link is (www.techsitebuilder.com/linux
Basic Basic – “home partitioning” – Thoughts on Linux partitioning.
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Steve,
I just watch your segment on segment on using a separate home partition on #125 via G+ post. I have been doing this for about three years. Benefits are:
1. reinstall are painless like you stated
2. upgrades are worry free.
make a folder in your home directory call “dot_files” copy and then delete your “.folder and .config” files to “dot_config”, had a couple of bad experiences with the move command
upgrade your distro, fresh install, to next version
copy the files and folder from “dot_files” to back to home partition
reinstall programs
if fresh upgrade fails just reinstall previous version of distro and restore “dot_files” back to home directory
Ike or Clem should make a script for their upgrade option for distro upgrades to detect separate home partition upgrade and recovery options
3. Your can compare different desktop environments (DE) on the same hardware and exact config files to see which better suits your needs/workflow using links (got idea GNU World order podcast). This requires and additional partition for another “/” partition
pick a primary “/” partition that is associated with the “/home” partition and the primary grub/lilo boot loader. This distro should be installed lasted for grub/lilo.
install the test DE/Distro first
delete all the preinstalled folders in home directory. In some distros you can’t delete the desktop folder.
make links to you folders in “/home” i.e. documents, picturs videos, .mozilla, .thunderbird, ./config/chromium, etc
install your programs on test DE/Distro
install the primary DE/Distro
install primary DE/Distro programs
Lastly dual boot and evaluate which DE is for you
Rod
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Google Reader’s sunset is the dawn of ownCloud News – Google has decided to power down Google Reader. This is a sad news for the users of the Reader, but it’s a great opportunity for ownCloud!
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LAMP Stack – Web Stack (MySQL) – LAMP stack is a popular open source web platform commonly used to run dynamic web sites and servers. It includes Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Python/Perl and is considered by many the platform of choice for development and deployment of high performance web applications which require a solid and reliable foundation.
(http://www.turnkeylinux.org/
Weekend Project: Replacing Google Reader with Tiny Tiny RSS – If you are like a lot of Linux users, you get more and more of your information through RSS and Atom feeds: news sites, friends’ blogs, projects’ Planet feeds, automatic content delivered from search engines, and so on. Although there are desktop feed aggregators to help you keep up-to-date, Web services like Google Reader or Bloglines are often more convenient. But what if you don’t feel comfortable putting that much personal information in the hands of a commercial third party, or you simply prefer to use free software? Simple: just fire up a LAMP server, roll up your sleeves, and migrate to a feed reader entirely under your control.
rss2imap is a tool which gets RSS (RDF Site Summary) from web and delivers to the IMAP server as an e-mail message. – rss2imap is a tool which gets RSS (RDF Site Summary) from web and delivers to the IMAP server as an e-mail message. rss2imap enables you to use IMAP supported MUA as a RSS reader and to use IMAP functionality effectively such as unread mail management. You can choose mail format, either text/plain or text/html. if you are tired of maintaining rss with more than one distributed client and DISLIKE web interface like google reader or bloglines, this software may be for you. rss2imap is an easy to use, preferable software for those who maintain imap server.
(http://rss2imap.sourceforge.
Python command line oneliners – There is list of pretty useful python small command line oneliners available out of the box. That means if you already have installed python on your system (most Linux, *BSD, including OSX) then you can use it even if you are not python developer.
(http://www.vurt.ru/2013/02/
Instant WebKiosk/UB, Unrestricted Browsing – Instant WebKiosk/UB, alias Unrestricted Browsing flavour, is a free operating system designed for web kiosks and multi-user web workstations (cafès, offices, schools, hotels, hospitals, libraries) on standard (even diskless) PC hardware. It is suitable for secure and private personal Internet browsing purposes, too.
(http://www.binaryemotions.
The Perfect Media Server – Ubuntu 11.10 [Sabnzbd+/Sickbeard/Couch Potato/Headphones/Serviio] – This tutorial shows how to install Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and all the programs needed for the perfect media server to download all your media and stream it to your PS3. This setup includes Sabnzbd+ (an Open Source Binary Newsreader written in Python), Sickbeard (a PVR for newsgroup users), Couch Potato (an automatic NZB and torrent downloader), Headphones (automatic music downloader for SABnzbd), and Serviio (a free media server).
Serviio – Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.
Another new Humble Bunde! – Double the bundles: Humble Mobile Bundle and Humble Weekly Sale featuring THQ!
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How to add swap to your Chromebook – Majority of Chromebooks are limited to 2GB RAM, with no option to upgrade the memory. With a dozen tabs open, you can easily fill your available memory. In this How-To, we will show you how to increase your available memory.
(http://www.omgchrome.com/how-
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