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This is a short tutorial explaining how to post to Twitter using command-line in Linux, without needing to even open up your web browser.

In one of my previous posts I mentioned I had the game Crysis running successfully under Cedega with a few native dll over rides. Today I am going to detail the few hoops you will need to jump through if you wish to get Crysis running on Linux.

On Ubuntu I have a user account "administrator" which is in the admin group. It has a complicated password for security. OpenSSH by default allows all users to attempt to login remotely. Since user accounts often have weak passwords it's unsafe to allow this.

An article which overviews 10 useful commands for using command-line in Linux.

As a Christmas (or holiday) gift to all Linux users, Linus Torvalds last night put out the Linux 2.6.33-rc2 kernel release. This is the second release candidate since the closing of the Linux 2.6.33 kernel merge window, that brought the long-awaited Nouveau driver, many other graphics improvements, and other exciting changes.

The holiday 2.6.33-rc2 release announcement from Linus Torvalds can be read at LKML.org. While I may be away on a sabbatical for Windows, you can continue to see how the performance of the Linux 2.6.33 kernel continues to evolve on a daily basis using the Phoromatic Tracker's kernel tracker...

I bet many of us have been trying to pound square pegs into round holes at one time or another. It's the same for me with operating systems. I made the semi-conscious decision to run Ubuntu at least in part because so many others run it, the articles I wrote about it would theoretically have a larger audience, and didn't Ubuntu's commitment to the desktop mean that things would work better than in (fill in the blank)?

Carla Schroder recently published an article called "Hug your favorite FOSS contributors today". I have a problem with both that title and the intention. I don't feel like hugging some bearded nerd and if they're anything like me, I don't think they really want to be hugged anyway. Some of them are really grumpy old geeks..

This Postfix tutorial explains the vacation message option of Postfixadmin which allows you to conveniently send an automatic reply when you're not available. This installation is for Ubuntu 9.10 but should work for just about any Linux distro.

Dreamwidth, the community-based open-source blog service, has been highlighted for the diversity of its developer community, and its newbie-friendly dev culture. Juliet Kemp talks to founders Mark Smith and Denise Paolucci about how the project has taken off.

What once started as an mediacenter project for hacked Xboxes is now grown into one of the best mediacenter applications: XBMC. XBMC is now upgraded to version 9.11.

In the previous article on Creating a Web Application on JBoss AS 5, we saw how to install JSF on JBoss AS and we enhanced the Appstore Enterpirse application by adding a web layer to it. In this article we will cover in detail how to properly configure JBoss Web Server. Apache Tomcat provides the core functionality of JBoss Web Server. Its embedded engine allows seamless integration with JBoss components, by using the underlying Microkernel system.

Google's Chrome OS does not run local applications or store local data. Everything is handled inside the browser. But when the much-hyped operating system debuts on netbooks at the end of next year, you can bet it will execute native code on behalf of online Google applications such as Gmail or Docs and Spreadsheets. In other words, Google apps will tap directly into the netbook's processor in an effort to close the performance gap that separates them from the local software offered by its bête noire, Steve Ballmer's Microsoft. And this being Google, they won't use Java, Flash, or Silverlight.

Freeciv is a turn-based strategy game, with some real-time elements, in which each player is the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goals of a nation: The extinction of all other nations, being the first nation to plant a colony in another star system, or survival to the end of the game.

After loading Ubuntu, which sensed the correct resolution for the display, the Sony VAIO FW proved itself a capable multimedia laptop, appropriate for developers working on video, photo and gaming applications...

In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache,MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.The LAMP option means you don’t have to install and integrate each of the four separate LAMP components, a process which can take hours and requires someone who is skilled in the installation and configuration of the individual applications. Instead, you get increased security, reduced time-to-install, and reduced risk of misconfiguration, all of which results in a lower cost of ownership.

If you yearn for the operating systems or arcade games of the past, and are willing to make the effort to bring them back to life, free and open source software is definitely the way to go. Green screens and might-have beens, operating systems and games, BeOS, Amiga OS or DOS can be relived and replayed through a host of emulators, simulators or rewrites in varying stages of completion.

If you're thinking of investing or just investigating new technologies in 2010, take a look at this list of 10 that should get your blood a-pumping.

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) has issued a call for proposals for its annual conference. Scheduled for July 19-23, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OSCON 2010 is looking for sessions and tutorials covering everything from open source developments in smartphones to virtualization to open source in education.

Speed Dreams is an open source, multi platform (works on Windows and Linux) motorsport simulator. It was forked in late 2008 from the famous open racing car simulator TORCS, in order to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents, to make a more enjoyable game for the player, as well as constantly improving visual and physics realism.

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