To fully replace a Windows desktop with Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

To fully replace a Windows desktop, I want the Ubuntu desktop to have the following software installed:

Graphics:

• The GIMP - free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop
• F-Spot - full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop
• Google Picasa - application for organizing and editing digital photos

Internet:

• Firefox
• Opera
• Flash Player 10
• FileZilla - multithreaded FTP client
• Thunderbird - email and news client
• Evolution - combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions
• aMule - P2P file sharing application
• Transmission BitTorrent Client - Bittorrent client
• Azureus/Vuze - Java Bittorrent client
• Pidgin - multi-platform instant messaging client
• Skype
• Google Earth
• Xchat IRC - IRC client

Office:

• OpenOffice Writer - replacement for Microsoft Word
• OpenOffice Calc - replacement for Microsoft Excel
• Adobe Reader
• GnuCash - double-entry book-keeping personal finance system, similar to Quicken
• Scribus - open source desktop publishing (DTP) application

Sound & Video:

• Amarok - audio player
• Audacity - free, open source, cross platform digital audio editor
• Banshee - audio player, can encode/decode various formats and synchronize music with Apple iPods
• MPlayer - media player (video/audio), supports WMA
• Rhythmbox Music Player - audio player, similar to Apple's iTunes, with support for iPods
• gtkPod - software similar to Apple's iTunes, supports iPod, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod photo, and iPod mini
• XMMS - audio player similar to Winamp
• dvd::rip - full featured DVD copy program
• Kino - free digital video editor
• Sound Juicer CD Extractor - CD ripping tool, supports various audio codecs
• VLC Media Player - media player (video/audio)
• Helix Player - media player, similar to the Real Player
• Totem - media player (video/audio)
• Xine - media player, supports various formats; can play DVDs
• Brasero - CD/DVD burning program
• K3B - CD/DVD burning program
• Multimedia Codecs

Programming:

• KompoZer - WYSIWYG HTML editor, similar to Macromedia Dreamweaver, but not as feature-rich (yet)
• Bluefish - text editor, suitable for many programming and markup languages
• Quanta Plus - web development environment, including a WYSIWYG editor

Other:

• VirtualBox OSE - lets you run your old Windows desktop as a virtual machine under your Linux desktop, so you don't have to entirely abandon Windows
• TrueType fonts
• Java
• Read-/Write support for NTFS partitions

Lots of our desired applications are available in the Ubuntu repositories, and some of these applications have been contributed by the Ubuntu community.

What Ubuntu Means

The Post Newspapers Zambia - Latest News, Politics, Business, Sports, Photos, Videos » Business Post » Become an employer of choice in 2010

As we move into 2010, I want to share with you a word that most of you have heard, seen, read but may have never taken any interest to find out what it means. That word is UBUNTU, I encourage organisations not only to know what this word means but to practice UBUNTU: remember that what makes us human is the very humanity that we show to each other. UBUNTU means 'kindness, understanding, compassion, tolerance, empathy, caring, sharing, sensitivity and respect.

When you are giving of yourself and being compassionate, you stop seeing yourself or your organisation as the centre of the universe'. Whilst we focus on profits and business growth, let us not forget the very people that make our organizations move and grow, let us remember to practice UBUNTU. I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a prosperous 2010.

How to synchronize remote folder with Unison

How to synchronize with SSH | Chunhao's Blog
(Theoretically it should work, but Godaddy won't keep your connection long enough to do such sync. So I give up, HL 20100105 )

If you are using Ubuntu machine, you can install it from the repository just by one command:

sudo apt-get install unison

There is also a gtk front-end for this software: unison-gtk, but I think it's useless at most time.

Now, another problem comes to front–in order to synchronize files with SSH, both installations of Unison on client and server are required. However, at most time, you don't have the permission to install software such as unison on SSH server. Here, we attack this issue by SSHFS. It allows you to mount a remote folder on your local machine via SSH. Then you can easily sync it like local a folder with Unison.

I wrote a small script to handle the synchronization:

#!/bin/sh sshfs -o workaround=rename username@sshserver:/path/html/wiki wiki-remote/ 
echo "Synchronising with sshserver" 
unison /var/www/dokuwiki/data ./wiki-remote/data \ 
-fastcheck yes \ 
-ignore 'Path cache' \   
-ignore 'Path locks'

Modify it to fit your actual environment. Note that the argument of sshfs command "-o workaround=rename", this prevents the "renaming problem".

All things done. Excute this script. Or, you could add an cron job to run this script automatically once per day. Have fun in synchronizing files with SSH!

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Synkron - Folder synchronisation

Synkron - Folder synchronisation

Synkron is an application for folder synchronisation that allows you to configure your synchronisations in detail. Despite having many features, the user interface of Synkron is very user-friendly and easy to use.

Synkron is able to synchronise multiple folders at once, analyse folders before sync, restore overwritten or deleted files, plan synchronisations and much more.

Synkron is a cross-platform application and runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

Synkron is distributed under the terms of the GPL v2 licence.

ReadWriteWeb's Best Products of 2009

ReadWriteWeb: ReadWriteWeb's Best Products of 2009

Every December ReadWriteWeb publishes a series of annual review posts: comprising our picks for best products, our analysis of the top companies and our predictions for the coming year.

Check out ReadWriteWeb's selection for Best BigCo of 2009 and Best LittleCo of 2009 & Most Promising for 2010.

In late December the ReadWriteWeb team made a set of predictions for 2010, which we encourage you to comment on and add to.

ReadWriteWeb Readers Pick The Top 10 Products of 2009

As voted by our readers in December, these were the best products of the year:

1. Twitter

2. Google Chrome

3. Google Maps

4. Facebook

5. WordPress

6. iPhone platform

7. Google Apps

8. Adobe AIR

9. Hulu

10. TweetDeck

The top 10 was voted on by our readers, based on the following lists of products:

1. Top 10 Mobile Web Products
2. Top 10 Consumer Web Apps
3. Top 10 Semantic Web Products
4. Top 10 International Web Products
5. Top 10 RSS & Syndication Technologies
6. Top 10 Enterprise Products
7. Top 10 Internet of Things Products
8. Top 10 Real-Time Technologies
9. Top 10 Startup Products
10. Top 10 Web Platforms

Top 100 Web Products of 2009, Alphabetical

Aardvark

ActivityStreams

Adobe AIR

Amazon EC2

Android platform

Appsfire

Apture

Arduino

Basecamp

BBC's Semantic Music Project

Bing

Blip.fm

BNO (Breaking News Online)

box.net

Boxee

Brightkite

ChartBeat

Cisco Collaboration

Citysense

Clicker

Cliqset

Collecta

Data.gov

DBpedia

Echo (JS-Kit)

Evernote

Evri

Facebook

Facebook iPhone app

Fedex SenseAware

Feedly

Fever

Foursquare

Freebase

FreshBooks

Glue

Google App Engine

Google Apps

Google Chrome

Google Maps

Google Search Options and Rich Snippets

Google Voice

Hootsuite

HP CeNSE

Hulu

IBM's sensor solutions

ioBridge

iPhone platform

Jimdo

Jive Software SBS 4.0

Jolicloud

Layar

Microsoft Windows Azure

MindTouch

Mint

Mir:ror

MOG

Moshi Monsters

Mozilla Raindrop

New York Times APIs

OneForty

Open Calais

OrSiSo

Outside.in

Pachube

Posterous

Postrank

present.ly

PubSubHubbub

Rackspace Cloud Drive

Regator

Ribbit

RSSCloud

Salesforce.com

Seesmic

Shazam

SocialCast

Socialtext

Spotify

StockTwits

Superfeedr

Tornado (FriendFeed framework)

Tumblr

TweetDeck

Tweetie

Tweetmeme

Twidroid

Twingly

Twitter

Vuze

Wetoku

WideNoise

Wikitude

Wolfram Alpha

Woopra

WordPress

Yahoo Query Language (YQL)

Yelp

Zemanta

Zoho CRM

See also our 2008 top 10s and Top 100.

Why doesn't my new Favicon display?

Why doesn't my new Favicon display? - GoDaddy Help Center, Search the GoDaddy Knowledge Base

If you are using Firefox® and you're using an .ICO file as your favicon, you may need to do a "Force Refresh" to get the icon to display properly.

To Perform a Force Refresh in Firefox

1. Using Firefox, navigate to your website.
2. Change the URL to point directly at your favicon image file at the root of your site. For example, www.coolexample.com/favicon.ico.
3. Right-click in the browser window and select Refresh.

The forced refresh prompts Firefox to reload the icon instead of a cached version. The updated icon displays in the address bar. However, you may need to restart Firefox to get the icon to display on tabs and in Favorites.

For information on applying your favicon to your Quick Shopping Cart, see Uploading a Favicon.

How do I change or reset my Zen Cart Admin Password?

Zen Cart(tm) Tutorials and FAQs - How do I change or reset my Admin Password? (I...

1. If you can log in to your Zen Cart admin using another account, please do so, and reset/modify the other admin password as needed via Admin->Tools->Admin Settings

2. If you can't remember your admin account or password, there's still hope.

The first thing you can try is to click the "Resend Password" button and enter the admin email address.

If for some reason that doesn't work for you, you can create a temporary admin account in order to log in.

Open your phpMyAdmin (supplied by your hosting company), click the "SQL" tab and run this query:

DELETE FROM admin WHERE admin_name = 'Admin';
INSERT INTO admin (admin_name, admin_email, admin_pass, admin_level)
VALUES ('Admin', 'admin@localhost', '351683ea4e19efe34874b501fdbf9792:9b', 1);

If you are using a prefix for your database tables, you'll naturally need to add that prefix to the table name above. ie. "... FROM/INTO prefix_admin ...".

You should now be able to login using the following details:

Username: Admin
Password: admin

Be sure to use proper case. ie. 'Admin' for username, not 'admin'.

After you log in, remember to delete this temporary admin account and create a new one from Admin->Tools->Admin Settings