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Astronomy is particularly well suited to the layperson. It is a wonderful hobby which has almost no age limits, it is open to individuals of all financial means, and there is always the potential for an amateur to discover something that has eluded professional astronomers, or to help monitor stars and track asteroids. Even with the unaided eye, there is much to study in the night sky including constellations, shooting stars, planets, and of course the moon, the Earth's only natural satellite.

WinFF is a nice and simple GUI for FFmpeg which has support for almost all major multimedia file formats that include AVI, FLV, MOV, WMV, MPEG among others. I have just tried to convert an FLV video file into AVI using WinFF and it worked flawlessly.

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Control groups are really, really great. They can effectively make your system act as if it were two or more systems in one. It's like virtualization without all the overhead. I will show you how to do it manually step by step so you can learn how it works.

Con Kolivas created an lrzip archive of all the sources of all 2.6 linux kernels. And guess how much space and time it took? A hint: All sources in a tar are 10.3 GB. The 2.6.39.1 kernel is 73 MB as a tar.bz2 archive. Now it would be less than that times 39, because the first kernel was smaller (just 32 MB). He are some actual numbers: I think a bzip2 would be about 2GB. An xz archive is about 1.4 GB and takes 2 hours. Now that I gave you all these numbers let's see how much it really is... (make a guess an click the link)

So you've been futzing round in the file system, and been over vigorous with the rm command and deleted a crucial file that you or (more scarily) a significant other, can't live without. What to do? After that initial hot flush has died down, you must be calm, and work fast. You have three options:

Earlier this week there were Fedora 15 vs. Ubuntu 11.04 benchmarks looking at the overall system performance as well as the power consumption. Both of these Linux distributions had performed close to one another, as is expected considering the similarities in their kernel and other packages, but there were some discrepancies in the disk tests. Speculations in the forums were that some of the performance differences might be attributed to SELinux, so here are some tests seeing the performance impact of SELinux on Fedora 15.

Naev is a 2D space trading and combat game, taking inspiration from the Escape Velocity series.You pilot a space ship from a top-down perspective, and are more or less free to do what you want. As the genre name implies, you’re able to trade and engage in combat at will. Beyond that, there are an ever-growing number of storyline missions, equipment, and ships and a large galaxy to explore. The game is highly addictive and you will hooked to it for hours. Over 30 committers have been working on the game for last one year giving us a perfect release. Kudos to the developers.

Open source softwares have long been undervalued for their potential, nevertheless today; the scenario seems to be changing in favor of Open source softwares that not blendlogoonly do as good job (or even better) as proprietary softwares but in a matter of no penny spent at all! One of these OS softwares is Blender, used for development of 3D graphics application. In this post we wil round-up sone the mega-projects (movies and commercials) that have used Blender!

I accidently stumbled upon this feature while trying to run skype via krunner when something else I did not quite intend showed up as I was typing skype into krunner ... the fact that I could install an application via krunner caught my fancy. .. it has gone a long way to enhance my workflow on kubuntu. I can now install any package I want right from Krunner without having to open a package manager or Terminal.

Allan, who is working for several gnome applications, posted an update to the recent gnome status about the development of gnome 3.2. One of the updates planned for the latest version of the desktop is a modified overview mode. There are two important changes to the overview mode compared with the version 3.0. One is a modified buttons (windows/applications) that allow you to view the appropriate category.

HP is actively considering licensing its WebOS operating system to other manufacturers, according to industry reports. "It's not correct to believe that [WebOS] should only be on HP devices," HP CEO Leo Apotheker was said to have told an audience at AllThingsD's D9 conference.

It's official, kernel version 3.0 is on its way. Linus confirmed this both in an announcement and by checking in the first 3.0 release candidate. The new branch is not expected to include any major milestones in terms of features, but it may stimulate developers to adopt policies of cruft removal and modernization.

Ubuntu Logo Ubuntu project sponsor Canonical has announced that its Ubuntu Linux distribution will be pre-loaded on new ASUS Eee PC series netbooks. According to Canonical, the Taiwan-based computer manufacturer began shipping three new Ubuntu-based Eee PC models through its sales channels on 1 June.

So today I'll be writing about a wonderful project from an Italian programmer, named Giuseppe (aka Giuspen). As you may notice from the title, Cherrytree is a Treepad alternative, a hierarchical note taking application, and a very good one. It has a lot of advantages comparing to treepad:

Sometimes is useful to run over and over again the same command until something happen, for example you could do a ls -lrt until a file has reached a certain dimension or is created, how to do it ? Sure you can use bash history and use up arrow and return over and over again, or perhaps write some line of bash to get an infinite loop that run the same command, but there is a smarter approach to this : watch .

When it comes to tethered shooting, Rawstudio is by far the easiest and most user-friendly solution on Linux. This powerful RAW processing application sports functionality which allows you to control and monitor the connected camera with a minimum of effort.

This week the Friday 5 looks at cloud security (which is not much different from in-house), Android marketshare and EU foot-dragging on the cloud.

Over time, software developers tend to learn that micro-optimization efforts are generally not worthwhile, especially in the absence of hard data pointing out a specific problem. Performance problems are often not where we think they are, so undirected attempts to tweak things to make them go faster can be entirely ineffective. Or, indeed, they can make things worse. That is a lesson that the kernel developers have just relearned.

I have been watching the Mageia development since it was first announced. As soon as I saw that Mageia 1 had gone from a release candidate to a final release I started the Transmission torrent download of three of the ISO files to keep and used one of them (mageia-dvd-1-i586.iso) to check it out with VirtualBox. ...