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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Linux driver

Good news for owners of Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series as manufacturer's binary Linux drivers are available for free downloading. The driver is compatible with ALSA. Bad news: it's available only for x86_64 Linux. ... →

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XFCE based KateOS 3.6 released

New version of nice Polish Linux distribution KateOS that is based on XFCE is released. KateOS is currently the best Polish(ed) Linux distro. It is developed dynamically by Kate team, and actively supported by a well... →

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Fun: best hosting provider ever

Just found very nice web hosting provider that that offers unbelievably stable service: nouptime.com: Our Redundant Department of Redundancy has a Redundant Server Failover System that will initiate a failover hosting i... →

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Make squid to mark cache hits and misses (rpm package for Fedora 5)

Squid is a proxy server and web cache daemon. It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharin... →

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Convert WMV into AVI with Ubuntu

Actually this tip is applicable to any Linux distribution mencoder can be run at (like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Suse and even Slackware :) ) MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool rel... →

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Disable double hyphen to dash wordpress replacements

As we know latest wordpress.org blog publishing system includes feature that allows to replace double hyphens into single dash: -- into — or –. It's rather trivial issue but Linux Screw blog contains a lot of shell code ... →

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Network Traffic Generator: hping

hping3 is a network tool able to send custom TCP/IP packets and to display target replies like ping program does with ICMP replies. hping3 handles fragmentation, arbitrary packets body and size and can be used in orde... →

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Dump ipcad output into sqlite3

ipcad is IP accounting daemon with Cisco-like ip accounting export. It runs in background, listens traffic on the specified interfaces, and records the traffic for later retrieval and analysis. Here is a piece of shel... →