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Well first step is to make sure you have Wine installed (if you do not have it installed just type ‘sudo apt-get install wine‘ in your terminal) and it is the latest version. You can check it by opening up the terminal and typing ‘wine –version‘, or if you just want to make sure [...]

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Well Twitter seems to be popular now, and it’s documented that you can use it via terminal if CURL is installed.  The below is how to install CURL and be able to ‘tweet’ from your terminal.  Obviously you will need a Twitter account.
Step One:
Install CURL by opening the terminal and run the following command:
sudo aptitude [...]

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Well I stumbled across this thanks to my buddy Vo. It is a python script that works the same as the pizza tracker on the Domino’s website. Long story short here is the link to download it -> dominos.py <- Now onto how to use it.
Step One:

Obviously download the script above (right click, save as) [...]

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Well another nice tidbit I picked up from searching the web for the Compiz update I found a way to update my Pidgin and Firefox without having to compile the latest one each time until Ubuntu adds it to the repositories. Since Ubuntu comes with Pidgin 2.4.1 and Firefox 3.0 Beta5 by default (as of [...]

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Being how I am, I wanted to install all the new little effects that come with Compiz 0.7.6. Well after stumbling around the net I found a few little tidbits (https://launchpad.net/~compiz/+archive) and this is how I managed to install Compiz 0.7.7 (yes .7 not .6, which I personally thought was odd but cool) on my [...]

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Well the ‘mint experiment’ didn’t pan as I had hoped since the only nice thing about it is that it comes with envy. Well ‘Hardy Heron’ came out a few days ago, I decided to go for a clean install and so far there are many improvements especially in stability. Everything installed cleanly and nicely. [...]

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Well my first impressions are looks like a mac sorta’, installs clean, works nice, it’s grub has a stupid wallpaper that makes you look like a mint whore, but if you like ubuntu and want something else with some more driver support off the bat, check it out. it just reminds me of Ubuntu laid [...]

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Well as the sub-text to the title sort of says this is a bit of a documentation of finding the perfect OS amongst other stuff. As I was downloading Gentoo 2008 Beta 1, my friend was installing Gentoo 2007. Well after it started we learned one plus and one minus. The plus : smaller install [...]

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