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Today torrentfreak.com published an article on how to setup bittorrent based system ugprades . Now you can get intrepid ibex upgrades over bittorrent. apt-p2p ubuntu thread.

This guide explains how to find rootkits, worms, Loadable Kernel Modules(LKMs) using chkrootkit. But first we need to install chkroot package before we start using it. sudo apt-get -y install chkrootkit Now run the following command to check for presence of infected binaries. sudo chkroot chkroot command checks for following worms, rootkits and LKMs lrk3, lrk4, lrk5, lrk6 (and variants) Solaris rootkit FreeBSD rootkit t0rn (and variants) Ambient's Rootkit (ARK) Ramen Worm rh[67]-shaper RSHA Romanian rootkit RK17 Lion Worm Adore Worm LPD Worm kenny-rk Adore LKM ShitC Worm Omega Worm Wormkit Worm Maniac-RK dsc-rootkit Ducoci rootkit x.c Worm RST.b trojan duarawkz knark LKM Monkit Hidrootkit Bobkit Pizdakit t0rn v8.0 Showtee Optickit T.R.K MithRa's Rootkit George SucKIT Scalper Slapper A, B, C and D OpenBSD rk v1 Illogic rootkit SK rootkit sebek LKM Romanian rootkit LOC rootkit shv4 rootkit Aquatica rootkit ZK rootkit 55808....

Installation Add following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pyroom-dev/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/pyroom-dev/ubuntu hardy main Now install pyroom. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install pyroom

This live DVD contains native Linux games which can be run directly without installation. Game state can be saved to a USB stick. Supported Games Astromenace - Astromenace is a brilliant 3d scroll-shooter allowing you to feel the adrenalin rush of a fierce space battle against relentless swarms of alien invaders. Blobby2 - Blobby2 is the gpl-ed sequel of Blobby Volley, a very famous freeware game. Boswars - Boswars is a futuristic real time strategy game (RTS). Btanks - Btanks is a funny battle on your desk, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using the whole arsenal of weapons. BzFLag - BzFlag is a free online multi player cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game. Foobillard - Foobillard FooBillard is a free billiard game for Linux using OpenGL and comes with realistic physics for a great billiard experience. gl-117 - gl-117 is an action flight simulator for Linux/Unix and MS-Windows. Glest - Glest is a real time strategy game...

The widget factory is a small application that allows previewing gtk themes without applying them system wide. Installation Install the package thewidgetfactory . sudo apt-get -y install thewidgetfactory Use following command to launch the widget factory. twf

MonoDevelop is an IDE for developing .Net compatible applications for *nix & windows platforms. It support .Net, C++, C#, Java and several other languages. Offers code completion, project management, build management, Database management, Version control, and Add-In support for implementing other features. Installation You need to install the package MonoDevelop . sudo apt-get -y install monodevelop Fetaures Workbench - Offers different types of pads for project management to deployment. Customization - Offers different layouts just like eclipse so that you can have different views when doing different things.(debugging, editing, GUI building) Database management. Version control. Visual Studio integration. Inbuilt .Net C#, Gtk# documentation. Language translation support. Package and deployment for different operating systems. Gui builder "GTK# Designer".

Execute following command and restart your gui session to enable autohinting. sudo ln -sf /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

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Default Ubuntu media players ship with boring and very minimal visualizations. Here is the guide to get bucket load of visualizations on Ubuntu. libvisual plugins This package adds around 8 more visualizations to Rhythmbox. BTW visualizations shipped with this package doesn't work in totem at least for me. To install this package execute following command. sudo apt-get -y install libvisual-0.4-plugins

To temporarly disable system beep for current session use following command. sudo rmmod pcspkr To perminently disable system beep add following line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file. blacklist pcspkr

For Intrepid deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main For hardy deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu hardy main Download OpenOffice 3.0 Another way is to directly download relevant OpenOffice 3.0 binary deb archive from this download page and install it. Make sure you uninstall previous version of OpenOffice before installing newer one.

You can configure Rhythmbox to act as central media server using its built in plugin support. Using this ability you can access your media(music or videos) from remote location. Installation First you need to install python-coherence package. sudo apt-get -y install python-coherence Now open Rhythmbox >> Edit >> Plugins and check DLNA/UPnP sharing and control support . From now onwards when ever you start rhythmbox all of your UPnP compatiable devices and software applications will show the Rhythmbox served media server.

Gimp 2.6 just released and you can install it right away. For hardy deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/getdeb.packages/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/getdeb.packages/ubuntu hardy main getdeb.net has latest gimp 32bit deb packages for ubuntu hardy. 32bit GIMP 2.6 packages for ubuntu hardy. For intrepid deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu intrepid main Paste above repo section that corresponds to your Ubuntu version inside file /etc/apt/sources.list . Make sure you add these lines at the top of sources.list . Then do an apt-get update and reinstall gimp.