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17 useful Google Chrome Extensions

Written by Unixmen | 06 October 2009
Posted in News - Software

Google Chrome’s support for third party extensions might be still in it’s infancy, but already dozens of different extensions has been written. If you are a regular chrome user, you must try extensions just like you must try extensions in Firefox. As you might be aware, the stable version of Chrome doesn’t support extensions yet. You have to use the developer channel version of Chrome to install plug-ins.

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The babylon project -A space combat simulation game for Linux

Written by Zinovsky | 04 February 2010
Posted in Linux Gaming - Gaming On Linux

The 'Babylon Project' is a group of dedicated individuals who are trying to bring the essence of Babylon 5 space combat to FreeSpace 2, an award winning space combat simulation from Volition Incorporated. The goal of this project are to provide a space sim experience using the FreeSpace 2 engine and incorporating the Babylon 5 universe, to give the player the ability to fly many Babylon 5 universe ships including the StarFury, Thunderbolt, Frazi, Sentri, and Nial.

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Serious security problem on Ubuntu- Advise to upgrade your kernel

Written by Zinovsky | 08 February 2010
Posted in News - News

The problem itself appear to be in the kernel from version 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10. 7.xx versions are not affected . This is a serious problem because it could allow full system access among others.

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Recover from a frozen system with the magic SysRq key| Tips

Written by Zinovsky | 07 February 2010
Posted in Linux tutorials - Linux tutorials

The magic SysRq key is an old tip to be used to recover from a frozen system, it is advised to be used when the system absolutely locks up - freeze, and when using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does nothing .

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How to upgrade from Mandriva 2009 to the new Mandriva 2009 Spring

Written by Zinovsky | 30 April 2009
Posted in Linux distributions - Mandriva

Mandriva 2009 spring is the new release of Mandriva, this one come with new updates and run faster than the previous release, and the boot time is faster than before. In this tutorial we will show you step by step to how upgrade from Mandriva 2009 to the new Mandriva 2009 spring.

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