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Linux. Calibrate your monitor. Calibrate your monitor so that photos, videos and everything else in color looks right. Mac users have a manual calibration tool that gives very good results. Windows users have no calibration tool, but Adobe has a gamma calibration tool that's included with Photoshop that can be used for acceptable results. Manual calibration can be done on your Ubuntu desktop as well. Follow these steps. Calibration should be done on a monitor that's warmed up (turned on for 15 minutes or more). Check your screen resolution and make sure you are using the highest resolution available for your monitor. Using you monitors controls, set the color temperature (white point) to 6500K, D65, or sRGB, whichever setting your monitor uses. Then turn up contrast to the maximum setting. Next adjust the brightness control. Is a software application installed on all Ubuntu systems that can be used to change the gamma settings. 25+ Useful Linux and Unix Cheat sheets.

Faster programming gives you more time for small business website design and other projects.

25+ Useful Linux and Unix Cheat sheets

This is my first post on Cheat sheets. Actually Cheat sheet is a concise set of notes used for quick reference. Cheat sheets will contain most of the shortcuts needed to program faster. GNOME Applications Repository - GnomeFiles.org. Top 10 Apps that Boosts Ubuntu’s User Experience. 1) Ubuntu Tweak Ubuntu Tweak allows changing all the itsy-bitsy pieces of Ubuntu desktop OS.

Top 10 Apps that Boosts Ubuntu’s User Experience

It is the equivalent of TweakUI for Windows. You can achieve the same results by using the gconf-editor tool in Ubuntu. Ubuntu Tweak also helps install third-party upgrades in a simpler fashion so it definitely gives a new boost to your clumsy Ubuntu desktop and increases UserExperience. 2) Screenlets The Screenlets application provides access to hundreds of Google Gadgets and other open source widgets, like Remember the Milk or Google Calendar.

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Top 10 Linux Speed Hacks

Ah…Linux..The pinnacle of what open source can achieve today..the brainchild of Linus Torvalds has surely come a lot further and evolved to show the world what it is capable of.As an extremely reliable Operating system, Linux rarely needs to be rebooted. But when it does, it’s often slow to boot.Loads of Matrix style lines scrolling down the screen are sure to drive nuts added with boot time of GUI initialization..

Fortunately, there are ways to speed things up. Linux Newbie Guide: Shortcuts And Commands. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Linux Shortcuts and Commands: Linux Newbie Administrator Guideby Stan and Peter Klimas This is a practical selection of the commands we use most often.

Linux Newbie Guide: Shortcuts And Commands

UnixTutorials - Tutorials and howtos for Unix based operating systems (Linux, Ubuntu, BSD and more) 58 Cool Hacks - LXF Wiki. From LXF Wiki (Originally written for Linux Format issue 58, October 2004) Increase your guru points and apply these cunning hacks to boost performance, secure your system and increase productivity - or fun!

58 Cool Hacks - LXF Wiki

One of the great things about Linux is that there's usually more than one way to do something. Chances are, the way you are doing a particular task right now isn't necessarily the best way either. This collection of hacks is the result of a lot of effort: some are functional, some are fun, but they are all cool! DISCLAIMER: Obviously, anything you do to your computer is your responsibility, and while we have made every effort to test these hacks, your mileage may vary. Fix a wonky terminal Difficulty: Easy Application: bash We've all done it - accidentally used less or cat to list a file, and ended up viewing binary instead. Reset and all will be well again. Creating Mozilla keywords Difficulty: Easy Application: Firefox/Mozilla Running multiple X sessions Difficulty: Easy Application: X. Linux on Laptops. Best Linux Software.

You’ve made the switch from Windows or Mac OS X, and now you’re looking for applications to install.

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Best Linux Software. Compartilhar Conexão no UBUNTU. O criar um firewall e compartilhar conexão usando IPtables. Carlos E.

o criar um firewall e compartilhar conexão usando IPtables

Morimoto criou 9/jul/2007 às 11h00 Todo administrador de redes aprende logo que uma das coisas mais importantes para qualquer rede é um bom firewall. Embora existam muitos mitos em torno disto, os firewall não fazem milagres, apenas adicionam uma camada extra de proteção, escondendo as vulnerabilidades das máquinas. Você pode ter um servidor IIS ativo com todas as vulnerabilidades possíveis dentro da sua rede, mas ninguém poderá fazer nada se não conseguir se conectar a ele. Apt-get.org. Debian-Database.ORG - Unofficial Debian Repositories Collected. Create Your Own Graphical Web of Trust. I created my GnuPG key back in 2004, and I've been very active with it since (thank you Glen).

Create Your Own Graphical Web of Trust

I have also seen graphical representations of the Web of Trust for a specific public keyring, and I've always been curious how I could create my own. Well, last night I finally buckled down and figured it out. So, hopefully, this will be of interest for some. In case you're curious, this is what I'm talking about. First, make sure you have the gnupg, sig2dot, graphviz and imagemagick packages installed. First, the sig2dot package just provides a single Perl script that reads signatures in an OpenPGP/GPG keyring, and creates a "dot" file.

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