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Madman Music Manager Rocks

I have been using madman for indexing and organising my music and recordings for about three years. Each time a new distribution comes out I sometimes need to recompile it. Which I did recently for Fedora 7. I did at one stage write a spec file and get it all nicely...

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My Vote for Australian ISP of the Year

I have been using Exetel for a couple of years now. Why do I think they are great? The most cost effective ISP in Australia - AFAIK A fixed IP on your DSL connection means you can have your own web presence without having to resort to dynamic dns The notification...

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Linux is a Tweak Fest

If you run a flavour of Linux as your Operating System. Chances are you'll appreciate the number of little tweaks you have to make, to get it 'just how you want it' (I wonder if someone has TM'd those words yet?). I have recently moved from `Ubuntu 7.04' to `Fedora 7'...

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Configure bluefish to use exo-open

If you have a default install of bluefish on Fedora 7. It is probably configured to use mozilla as the default browser and may have some rather complex command line to launch a browser and display the file you are working on. exo-open from the XFCE4 project takes a...

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Changed Themes

Just changed wordpress themes to something a bit wider than the default. Should be a little easier to write my Linux tips in because there won't be so much word wrapping.

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dnsmasq setup Fedora Core 7

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html I do the following. Normally the local machine queries /etc/resolv.conf for DNS servers. dnsmasq in turn queries resolv.conf for it's dns servers and can serve clients on the LAN their DNS/DHCP requests I want the machine...

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