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Ubuntu can really save your love live and you will easily get the girlfriend you always wanted. All you have to do is to open up your terminal and type the following command: sudo apt-get girlfriend I know the correct command would be sudo apt-get install girlfriend but this t-shirt is just too funny not [...]

Solving budget crises at the local level may not be so complicated after all, if the French Gendarmerie Nationale police force is any indication. By switching to open source software, such as the Ubuntu operating system and OpenOffice instead of Windows and Microsoft Office, the force has saved roughly EUR50 million since 2004. The best [...]

I used to keep Windows on my home PC just for playing Utopia. Utopia is a medieval fantasy game played on the web directly through your browser – no downloads necessary. It is one of the most long-standing games online, and has been available to play for free since 1998. To make your life easier [...]

Linux is everywhere right now. Even my server has linux on it and I bet yours does to. But have you ever thought if it’s maskot is everywhere ? Let’s see … Tux can be on a plane or in your ear on your pet on your desk on a train in your bathroom at [...]

% cat “food in cans” cat: can’t open food in cans % nice man woman No manual entry for woman. % rm God rm: God nonexistent % ar t God ar: God does not exist] % ar r God ar: creating God % “How would you rate George Bush’s incompetence? Unmatched “. % [Where is [...]

Today I installed Ubuntu in a friends PC. He is not new into computers but he wanted some pointers first on using Ubuntu. We went through all the install steps really quickly as he knows that sort of stuff. Because his keyboard is a lot different than mine I made a mistake when entering the [...]

I just found a cool video on YouTube. It’s a small tutorial on how to build your very own multi touch pad. All you need is a cardboard box, a sheet of paper and a glass, plexiglass prefered and a web camera. All you have to do is to put the web camera in box, [...]

1. Upgrade to the newest version legally and without paying money 2. Have the latest version of the operating system run faster than the previous version on the same hardware 3. Easily install and run different graphical interfaces if I don’t like the default setup 4. Install twenty programs with one command 5. Have the [...]

To ease the use of your Ubuntu machine you can easily add shortcuts for your favorite programs just by moving your mouse cursor to every corner of the desktop. You can easily do this with Brightside. First .. let’s install it. Open up your terminal and type: sudo apt-get install brightside   After that run: [...]

This is the best news I’ve heard in 2008. Beginning from next term, all computers at schools in the Swiss canton of Geneva will be switched to Ubuntu Linux only. Geneva newspaper Tribune de Geneve reports today that from September 2008 all computers at schools that currently are dual-boot MS Windows and Linux will have [...]