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Global, Mac-like Menubar on GNOME with gnome2-globalmenu

Caught the introduction of this story over on OS News — apparently folks have been voting on the addition of a global, application-context sensitive menubar in Gnome for a while. The design of the bar is very similar to the way the global bar in Mac works. For those that don’t know, there is a [...]

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Setting up Apache Tomcat 6.x and ZK in Ubuntu

Apache Tomcat is the name in JSP, and you’ll need to get a copy before being able to try out the many cool web applications and frameworks out there (like ZKoss’s ZK). Finding a development need to run JSP pages (and wanting to try out ZK), I decided to get the latest Tomcat version [...]

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Linux Alternatives to Apple’s Time Machine

Have you ever caught yourself drooling over Apples Time Machine, but just couldn’t bare jumping ship to MacOS X? You are in luck because you have a few projects to choose from. Most of these applications use rsync (a filesyncing program for *nix) and cron (a task scheduler) to mimic the characteristics of [...]

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Quick Printer Setup with system-config-printer

After being quite fed up with the cups web-admin app, I decided to go on a little hunt. I’m sure the CUPS admin page is great for some people but you never quite know if the back button will wreak havoc on your crazy LDAP-authenticated, SSL-encrypted setup that shares a printer from the basement [...]

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