Sarah and I are currently at the Libertarian Party of California Convention. So far we have been having a good time.

It's fun hanging out at the convention and seeing some friends we only get to see yearly or on rare occasion.

I wish more LP members I meet on the net would show up and put some of their energy into action.

The Linux Foundation has bought Linux.com from Sourceforge Inc. (Slashdot's corporate parent). The Linux Foundation (employer of Linus Torvalds) will take over the editorial and community stewardship for the site; Sourceforge will continue to supply advertising on it.

A couple months ago Trent Reznor publicly sounded off about the difficulties he faced with his old record company that prevented him from filming a 3D concert film. Now he's inviting fans to make their own DVD by offering over 400gb of raw HD concert footage free via NIN's own torrent tracker.

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development. It has many capabilities of other media players and the ability to add extensions like Firefox Add Ons.

Songbird 1.0.0 is a major step in the stability of the music player .

Download Songbird 1.0.0

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So, if there is something in the list of the WINE uninstaller and you want it off that list (you already deleted the physical folder where the app is installed), you can remove it from that list by doing this:

Run the registry editor:
wine .wine/drive_c/windows/regedit.exe

Then browse to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE..SOFTWARE..Microsoft..Windows..Curr entVersion..Uninstall

Each key listed there represents a listing in the WINE Application Uninstaller. If you delete the key, you will remove the application name from the list in the uninstaller.

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"Help My PC Won't Boot!!!"

We have all had friends or have had this experience ourselves. You make a system change or get a virus and suddenly your system doesn't boot. Worse yet you haven't backed up your data for a while and have some important docs and pictures that you no longer have access to.

Gufw Ubuntu Firewall.

I recently ran across a how to for installing Gufw. Gufw is an easy, intuitive, way to manage your Linux firewall. It supports common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common p2p, or individual ports port(s), and many others! Gufw is powered by ufw, runs on Ubuntu, and anywhere else Python, GTK, and Ufw are available. So far in my use of Gufw it seems to be an easy to use and a highly adaptable firewall. I'd recommend it for ease of use over Firestarter.

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This guides purpose is to give the simplest route for a computer user to get a Ubuntu LAMP server running.

A LAMP server is a computer server that runs on Linux and has Apache, MySQL and PHP available for server technologies.

1. Install the base Linux operating system. Our example will use Ubuntu.

You can find an official install guide for Ubuntu here.

2. AFter completion of the installation of Ubuntu Linux you will want to install the rest of it.

This can be done in a few clicks. Go to System > Administration > Synaptic package manager.

In the Synaptic Package Manger click Edit > Mark Packages by Task.

Need to copy and paste something? Save key strokes by highlighting the lines of text. Then go to where you want to paste and center click the scroll wheel. It should output all highlighted text to any fillable spot you click.