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I Win

I did not wish to reinstall Windows XP. I tried fixing it with virus scanners and registry cleaners, recovery tools and so on, but it remained infected, slow, buggy, and increasingly weird. So I saved what I could, wiped out the hard drive, and started over... Read Rest of I Win

Ubuntu Tweak

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Ubuntu Tweak allows you to tweak various ubuntu settings in one place, clean your system and many other useful tasks. Installing Ubuntu Tweak Add following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list . deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ubuntu intrepid main And execute following commands to install ubuntu tweak . sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y --force-yes install ubuntu-tweak

Dust Theme

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Find a Linux Distro that Works for You

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Linux Distribution Chooser is a little wizard that recommends a linux distro based on your responses. Find A Linux Distro that Works for You.

playdeb - Ubuntu Gaming Repository

playdeb.net provides deb packages for games. To install games provided by playdeb.net you have to do following setup. Add following line to sources.list file. deb mirror://www.getdeb.net/playdeb-mirror/hardy/// hardy/ Now do an apt-get update. sudo apt-get update Available Games Alien Arena 2007 Alien Blaster Amoebax AssaultCube atanks Barbie Seahorse Adventures Bos Wars Charge CRRCSim DreamChess ETSwitch FreeCiv FreeCol gBrainy Glest Globulation 2 GLSFcave GridWars 2 InterLogic Irrlamb jMemorize LordsAWar ManiaDrive Mupen64Plus Monsterz Nexuiz Nimuh numptyphysics Open Tyrian Enhanced OpenArena PainTown PCSX2 Phun PipeWalker PokerTH PyChess Really Rather Good Battles In Space ri-li Sauerbraten Scorched3D ScummVM Second Life Secret Maryo Chronicles Slime Volle

auto-apt - On-demand Package Installer

auto-apt is useful to people who install things from source. Have your ever had frustration with ./configure ? because of gazillion number of dependencies which weren't already installed. Well auto-apt solves this problem by installing packages on the spot when your are doing ./configure to check perquisites. Installation As usual you have to install this if you want to use it. Use following command to install auto-apt package. sudo apt-get -y install auto-apt And execute following commands to populate its database and make it usable. sudo auto-apt update && sudo auto-apt updatedb && sudo auto-apt update-local Usage Form now on instead of executing the command ./configure use the command auto-apt run ./configure Thats it auto-apt will look for missing perquisites and installs them on demand.