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By: Joe Barr
This week we'll take a look at a very simple command called watch. You know what they say, a watched pot never boils. That's why it makes good sense to take advantage of this little tool to watch it for you. Waiting for mail? Want to see if a job has completed? Watch can help. At the CLI, of course. Climb down out of your GUI and take a look.
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By: Nathan Willis
Chances are that your email program supports LDAP among its address book options. This article will show you how to set up a basic LDAP directory for use as an address book server in your home or small office.
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By: Andy Channelle
Ever since development of PixiePlus stalled, the average Linux user has been left short of a decent image management application. KimDaBa showed some early promise, but it needs some work on its often confusing interface to compete with iPhoto and Picasa, where ease of use is king. Hoping to fill the space is F-Spot, a new photo manager created by Larry Ewing, the man best known for having created the ubiquitous Linux mascot Tux.
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By: Michael Oliveri
I can't count the times I've set up my laptop, only to forget to plug in the network cable. If I do this on my Slackware laptop, I have to open a terminal and configure the interface manually with the ifconfig and route commands. Every time, I think, "Gee, it would be nice if Slackware took care of this automatically." If that sounds familiar to you, I have good news.
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By: Joe Barr
If you're like most Linux desktop users, there will come a day when you will want or need a program that isn't included or supported by your distribution of choice. If you build the needed app from source code, you might still not be able to run it because of missing dependencies. But nothing is more frustrating than fighting your way through that unsupported landscape, including finding and building the missing libraries, only to still get an error message like this one: "error while loading shared libraries: libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory."
That's where ldconfig comes in, and why it pays to know a little about what it does and how to use it.
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By: Benjamin D. Thomas
This week, advisories were released for squid, smail, XFree86, lapack, system-config-bind,
gnutls, util-linux, libexif, ethereal, postgresql, gaim, pygtk, GnuTLS, gzip,
TCPDump, libTIFF, HT, and openmotif. The distributors include Debian, Fedora,
Gentoo, and Red Hat.
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