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Linux /tmp size for DVD burning

I was just trying to burn the Fedora 11 Preview DVD in XUbuntu and the default burning application logically uses /tmp as the location for temporary image files. However my /tmp only had about 2.9 GB free space The DVD is 3.8G and so the DVD burn failed due to lack of...

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Organic Feast Cafe

Went to Organic Feast for a Coffee on the weekend. As you do at Cafe's you grab a magazine. My wife found me a magazine named "The Owner Builder". I loved it. So many real life experiences of people building low cost but very interesting structures. By the end of the...

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KDE4

So I have haunted the linux-users mailing list for about um (1999-2009) 10 years. And the discussion turned to KDE4 and well frankly there wasn't many people saying it 'completes me'. Quite the opposite. So seeing I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 I though I would install...

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Ubuntu – PuTTY GTK2 Package

I wrote some stuff on compiling PuTTY with GTK2. Here is a deb for Ubuntu (I compiled it on 8.04 and have tried it on 9.04) putty_20090326-1_i386 md5sum: 2f0926105d949dcb7fc7ce0c818b2088 I think I did it with checkinstall and if it's broken you get to keep both peices...

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