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Ubuntu is dropping Rhythmbox in favor of Banshee
Banshee is developed in Mono
Fedora will no longer include applications developed in Mono
Audio comment by Klaatu of The Bad Apples.info, LinuxCranks.info, and Fedora Reloded podcasts.
Excellent Blog post about Mono on Dann Washko’s blog. Dann is a host on The Linux Link Tech Show
Xubuntu is based on Ubuntu but has the XFCE desktop environment instead of gnome
I used the Wubi Installer to put Xubuntu on my Acer Aspire One
“Portable Ubuntu for Windows” is now known as “Portable Ubuntu Remix”
Ubuntu Tweak is the TweakUI power tool for Ubuntu. You will need to follow these instructions to install Ubuntu Tweak
My daughter’s Motorola W490 somehow corrupted the MicroSD card
I was able to use “PC Inspector File Recovery” to recover every file from the corrupted MicroSD card
Another file recovery application I tried but did not work was “Zero Assumption Digital Recovery“. This app is highly rated on SnapFiles.com but was unable to recover the corrupted files. When dealing with this sort of issue don’t give up try several different apps.
UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux
Mer is an open, community-led Linux distribution for mobile devices
“ProduKey” from NirSoft and “Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder” are excellent freeware product key locators for extracting Microsoft product keys from installations before re-installation of the software.
Andrian Crenshaw from IronGeek.com asked PaulDotCom Security Weekly podcast email list asked what podcasts people are listening to. I gathered a couple of new links from that discussion, GetMon IT Security Podcast Links and this Archive of of tons and tons of past Cons. Follow the whole thread here.
Here’s TheLinuxLink.net and Monsterb’s lists of Linux related podcasts
The 4GB Sansa Clip is available from NewEgg for $34.99 and it plays OGG
Here’s the external speaker I purchased for use with my Sansa Clip, The GigaWare External Speaker
YouMail.com is an excellent free service that adds much functionality to your cell phone’s voicemail
I have the LG EnV2 cell phone
I finally got my Google Voice invite and it’s amazing!
K7.net give you Free Voicemail and FAX delievered straight to your inbox
Send Fax’s for free hundreds of formats supported
GOOG411 had improved and makes finding any service or business a snap from any phone
BullZip PDF printer is a freeware app for Windows will convert anything you can print to a PDF and it does it perfectly. It uses Ghostscript which is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
Here’s a cool bash command for a real-time clock in your terminal. You may need to install ‘figlet” for it to run
watch -t -n1 “date +%T|figlet”
Angelo Madato, the developer of the PowerPress WordPress plugin also does “Plugins, The WordPress Plugin Podcast”
Verbal’s Linux Trivia Podcast
The Ohio Linux Fest 2009
The Atlanta Linux Fest
The Florida Linux Show 2009
Picture links from “The South East Linux Fest”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeaniegal05/sets/72157619658057629/
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?page=1&aid=2340463&id=12603821
http://ahotw.com/gallery/v/linux/SELF2009/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/selinuxfest/
http://jeremysands.com/?p=126
http://imabug.net/gallery/v/CSCLUG/SELF09/
http://rlworkman.net/images/SELF-2009/index-all.html
http://www.nivex.net/gallery/self2009
http://picasaweb.google.com/marielh/SELF2009?fgl=true&pli=1#
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kudzu13/sets/72157619709521423/
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=86185&id=61835474561&ref=mf
http://www.thelinuxlink.net/~dann/self2009

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Scroogle is a search engine that use Google but anonymizes your searches
Rhythmbox is a pod catcher that comes with Ubuntu but does not allow you to export your feeds
gpodder is a nice pod catcher that allows you to save your feeds to their web site at my.gpodder.org. There is also a version of gpodder for the Nokia N800 and N810
What is Mono?
PenguinTV is not just another RSS feed reader. It is designed from the ground up to work seamlessly with podcasts and video blogs, allowing you to easily enjoy the audio, music, and video published around the web in RSS format.
BurnAtOnce is a one-click .iso burner for Windows
The Creative MuVo portable audio player does not play ogg files
The Sansa Clip portable audio player does play ogg files
Linux in the HAM Shack podcast
Resonant Frequency Amateur Radio podcast
The Dayton HAMvention sponsored by The Dayton Amateur Radio Association
My very first email address was an AMPR.ORG address
The Linux Link Tech Show
The Sylvania Meso netbook
The Asus eeePC netbook
The Acer Aspire One netbook
I was a guest on The Great Tech Debate on the Podnutz podcast network. Download the show here
The Tech-Vets podcast by Mike Smith of The Mike Tech Show and Carey Holzman from The Computer America radio show
What is the Metric network setting?
The ‘route’ command is a Windows command and a Linux command
HTML Dog is an awesome tutorial web site for HTML and CSS for all levels of experience
KompoZer is a free cross platform HTML editor
Download Windows 7 RC-1 and give it a try in a VirtualBox virtual machine
Awesome walk through for install Windows 7 RC-1 in VirtualBox
LogMeIn Free is an indispensable tool for remotely administrating Windows boxes
Maximum PC magazine free download of past issues in PDF
SuperScan 3.0 is my favorite IP network scanner for Windows
LookAtLAN is another excellent IP network scanner for Windows
‘arp-scan‘ is a handy Linux command line command for finding IP’s on your network
(wired network, make the appropriate changes specific to your network)
sudo arp-scan –interface=eth0 192.168.0.0/24
(wireless network, make the appropriate changes specific to your network)
sudo arp-scan –interface=wlan0 192.168.0.0/24

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The South East Linux Fest
gpodder is a nice pod catcher that allows you to save your feeds to their web site at my.gpodder.org. There is also a version of gpodder for the Nokia N800 and N810
Rhythmbox is a pod catcher that comes with Ubuntu but does not allow you to export your feeds
“The Great Tech Debate” and “Podnutz”
iRiver T7 Volcano plays OGG files as does the Sansa Clip
Red Hat Linux, openSUSE, and Ubuntu
Is unmounting and Ejecting a USB device the same thing?
Mr. Gadgets blog and his Utterli site
K7.net get your free voice mail and FAX account
Asus eeePC 701
Acer Aspire One
What’s a Hackint0sh?
NDISwrapper allows the use of Windows drivers in Linux
HP mini 1000 netbook
The Dell Mini
MSI Wind
The new Asus 1008HA Seashell netbook
The Asus 1000HE claims to have 9.5 hours of battery life
The Asus 901 claims to have 8 hours of battery life
“Spotlight on Windows” is freeware monitoring software
WinSCP is a freeware GUI app for using scp (Secure Copy)
FileZilla can be used in SSH mode (SFTP)
System76 Starling netbook
Ubuntu Netbook Remix is a Linux distro for netbooks
Total Commander is a pay-for file manager for Windows
Free Commander is an excellent freeware file manager for Windows
Verbal’s Podcast, “The Linux Trivia Podcast” (Verbal’s ToDo List)
The Bible by “The Bible Experience” for your portable player. My two favorite Christian podcast sites OnePlace and CCphilly
Kon-Boot is an app that allows you to login to a Linux box or Windows box without the correct password
Here’s a link to the thread on my LUG’s email list about Kon-Boot (click view entire thread)
Addonics device turns any USB device into a Network Attached device or NAS
Pogoplug is awesome allowing you to SSH in but it needs some fireware updates to be perfect.
What are Newgroups and Warez?
binsearch.info is a search engine for Newsgroups
Xnews is a free news reader for Windows
pan is a news reader for Linux
Scroogle is a search engine that use Google but anonymizes your searches
still loving CommandLinefu.com for learning the command line.
command using ffmpeg that removes audio from movies and drops them in an audio file
command for forwarding X over SSH
cool command for displaying your WAN IP on the command line
DropBox gives you 2GB of free online storage that syncs between your cross-platform boxes
Kellys-Korner-XP has lots of help for XP users
ActiveISO Burner for Windows makes burning Linux distros easy. (The best use of Windows is for downloading and burning Linux

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The SouthEast Linux Fest
The Ohio Linux Fest
The Great Tech Debate
Laptop Repair Videos by Steve Cherbino from Podnutz
Podnutz at Night
My Hard Drive Died Podcast with Steve Moulton
Who are RSM and ESR?
Which netbook should I buy?
HPR Ep 335 on netbooks
Dann Wasko’s blog post about his Meso
Pandora Internet Radio streaming music
Last FM streaming music
Free Music Archive
The DeadPod Grateful Dead podcast
Nokia N800 and N810
Sansa Clip 4GB refrub here at Buy.com
FreeCommander is an awesome freeware file manager for Windows
OpenSUSE Build Service lets you build any flavor of distro you want
Harvard University Extension School Unix System Programming with professor Bruce Molay the author of “Understanding Unix/Linux Programming”
Berkeley Online Courses
Free online education list on JimmyR
Great old online book: “Illustrated UNIX System V/BSD”
Debian Package of the Day
Extract audio from YouTube or Flash
SolidWorks
KVM
Synergy software KVM
SMS411.net helps you find email addresses for cell phones
ReactOS is a FOSS implemention of Windows
Free VirtualBox image of ReactOS
GNU screen and irssi for IRC
Turbo IRC 7 is an awesome freeware IRC client for Windows
Search for trusted medical information on the Internet (the .ch extension is Switzerland)
“Spotlight on Windows” is a free Windows monitor
SandBoxie is a software sandbox for Windows
DropBox is free for up to 2GB and allows you to sync files between computers and is cross-platform
UbuntuOne is free for up to 2GB and is for syncing files across Ubuntu computers
Juice is a podcatcher for Windows
Robert’s Podcatcher is a new and promising podcatcher for Windows
WINE for runnng Windows software in Linux
Crossover Office is an excellent non-free application for running Windows software in Linux.  Codeweavers is the main supporter of WINE
TweeTree is an awesome way to watch your twitter feed
Twitter micro-blogging site
Indentica F/OSS micro-blogging site
What is Rick Rolling?

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David Abbott from LinuxCrazy Podcast joins me in this episode.
irssi: Here are some good irssi cheat sheets here and here and here
GNU Screen, Linux Reality Ep 49 on GNU Screen
Pidgin is cross a platform chat client for Linux, Mac, and Windows
Xchat My Xchat crashed when I selected to use transparent. David recommends removing hidden folders in you home directory after un-installing an application.
Mibbt.com
configure sshd.conf to keep your ssh connection alive
w command
How to make irssi notify you that you were just pinged
free shell accounts (let me know if you find one that works well with screen and irssi)
Portable Ubuntu for Windows
Terminator lets you divide a Linux terminal windows horizontally and vertically
David talks about installing Ubuntu 9.04 on an IBM T61 laptop
GSynaptics allows you to turn off touchpad tapping

Stop Compiz in Ubuntu from loading on start up by:  Right click on the menu bar and click on Edit Menu. Under system tools, check Configuration Editor. Now go to Applications>System tools>Configuration Editor. There go to ‘/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager’. There change the values of ‘current’ and default’ to ‘/usr/bin/metacity’
Edit: logoff and login again (by vishzilla Ubuntu forums)

Updating Gentoo
David’s LinuxCrazy screencast on updating Gentoo
David explains our Asterisk setup
Find David ‘comprookie2000′ and me ‘Russ_W’ in the #linuxcrazy chat room on irc.freenode.net

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Time Warner Band Caps
Portable Ubuntu for Windows might be a Cygwin killer
Geeknic.org lists “Picnics for Geeks”, here’s the link to the first ever Geeknic sponsored by the PA Ubuntu Team.
Thank you for your concerns for my daughter regarding the Italy Earthquake
Mibbit.com
Irssi
Xchat
Pidgin
Ultimate Irssi guide for beginners
Linux Reality Episode 49 on Screen
My favorite Firefox add-ons: TabMixPlus, Colorful Tabs, DownThemAll!, X-Marks (formerly FoxMarks), Delicious, StumbleUpon
Boxoh lets you check any tracking number from one web site
Hak5
System76 come pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux
COMMAND to fix Ubuntu Audio Server without rebooting: ’sudo killall -9 pulseaudio; pulseaudio >/dev/null 2>&1 &’
The post on CommandLinefu.com is here
COMMAND: press Alt+F2 and paste in ‘metacity –replace &’ to stop Compiz in Ubuntu
“We’re Linux” Video Contest Winners!
Academic Earth, Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars
The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!
GlobalSources.com lets you find a vendor sources for just about anything
PogoPlug is sweeping the Internet
Totally Cool Tech Podcast unboxes the PogoPlug
Freenode Podcast

South East Linux Fest

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South East Linux Fest
OS X is partially based on BSD Unix
Podnutz Episode 31 with guest Ben Burrows the creator of “The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows”
The non-Windows Ultimate Boot CD
The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
MemTest86
Lucifer CPU test burner
List of tools for UBCD
List of tools for UBCDforWin
BartPE
Download Microsoft XP Service Pack 3
Walk-Through for creating a Slip Stream XP CD with AutoStreamer
Walk-Through for creating a “Ultimate Boot CD for Windows”
EZ-PC-Fix
Deep Burner
Index.dat Suite
Xplorer2 Lite
Disk Investigator
Floppy Repair
Explorer2fs for explorer Linux partitions
R-Linux for exploring ext2 and ext3 formatted partitions
TeamViewer for free Windows or Mac remote control
DNS Swiss Army Knife at robtex.com
Command-Line-fu
GIMP tutorials
subnetmask.info
COOL IMAGE of Tux
Bash command line commands that you’ll actually use
101 PHP Tutorials for PHP Programmer Wannabe
50 Ways to Impress your Geeky Linux Friends
29 Music-making Apps for Linux
Videos at Linux Foundation
Send FREE Faxes from MyFax.com/free
EasyTag for fix audio tags
The Sansa Clip is an awesome audio player that can play MP3 and OGG
KeePassX for Linux opens the Windows KeePass database files
RunTime software makes GetDataBack
RemoteByMail is a free program to remote control machines by sending them emails
Tech-Vets podcast with Mike Smith of The Mike Tech Show and Carey Holzman from Computer America
Glary Utilities
CCleaner
Listen to the new hosts Sonny and Carl of the DistroWatch Weekly Podcast

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Samba How-To tutorial by listener Kevin Wisher. Download it here
OpenSSH server and FileZilla using SFTP are still my favorite way to get access too ALL my stuff on my Linux box when accessing it from my Windows box
WinMerge is a free GPL program for Windows that makes comparing log files easy. It also works und CodeWeavers Crossover Office Professional. It will probably work well under WINE too but I haven’t tested it yet.
diff is a command utility in Linux that does the same thine. Do you know of a good GUI version of diff for Linux? Let me know.
Gnome Cheese web cam application now works on my Systen76 Pangolin laptop after a recent Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 update. As far as I know everything works on my laptop. I haven’t tried the modem, HDMI, SATA, or PCMCIA port yet.
Google Hack Generator
ShmooCon speakers
The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives
Come join the Linux Study Group at learn.linuxbasement.com. Here’s a link to the LPI study book we’re using
Here’s 2 PDFs to help you study PDF-1 and PDF-2. Also download ELPICX 2 here which is a Linux Live DVD for studying for the LPI
Checkout Twitterholic if you love Twitter
I like Indentica too
Check out some of my favorite Windows podcasts. The Mike Tech Show, Podnutz, and Tech Vets
Head over to MyHardDriveDied.com and read Steve Moulton’s awesome presentations
Email me if you are interested in helping with “The DistroWatch Weekly Podcast” The rss feeds are here MP3 and OGG
Check out these awesome Windows apps Crystal Disk Info, AusLogic Defrag, JKDefrag, and for defraging your page file PageDefrag from SysInternals
Here’s the talks from Defcon 16 Check out these very cool videos at IronGeek.com.

Regarding Public Service Announcement: If you have a working laptop computer you want to donate please send an email to “noel.saliba AT gmail.com” or drop in the IRC chat room #linuxcrazy on freenode.net and ask “weidedout” your questions. Check out these links “Hear Say Spoken English Tutor” and “Grow Church Promo PDF“. Thank you.

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Get your own System76 computer with 64-Ubuntu pre installed
Install Webmin on all your Linux machines to make administering them easy
Install OpenSSH server on you Linux machines. You can install OpenSSH server on you Windows machines but its not exactly native, I suggest just installing it on your Linux machines until your comfortable with it. Consider changing your default SSH from 22 to something else, see this link for some help. (It’s easy to do in Webmin too)
Use FileZilla in SFTP mode to securely transfer files between your Windows and Linux machines
Use FreeNX and and the free cross-platform NX client app from NoMachine
I also like using TightVNC for remote controlling machines
“The Linux Alternative Project” shows you Windows equivalent programs are available in Linux (more than you think!).  Find a whole Googles-worth here
Get a little help switching from Windows to Linux over at Win2Lin.info

Regarding Public Service Announcement: If you have a working laptop computer you want to donate please send an email to “noel.saliba AT gmail.com” or drop in the IRC chat room #linuxcrazy on freenode.net and ask “weidedout” your questions. Check out these links “Hear Say Spoken English Tutor” and “Grow Church Promo PDF“. Thank you.

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Linux Laptops from System76, ZaReason, EmperorLinux, and Dell.
Check out pics of the unboxing of the System76 Pangolin laptop
eBay seller with excellent solid wood laptop tables
Tab Mix Plus is the killer Firefox add on
Colorful Tabs is the Firefox add on that makes finding your open tabs easy
Webmin is the must have killer app for administering Linux
Rhythmbox is a great music player and podcatcher for Gnome

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