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gfa is a small and fast address book written in C and GTK+2. It uses sqlite as backend for the addresses.
Install gfa in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude gfa
This will complete the installation
Using gfa
If you want to open go to Applications—>Accessories—>gfa
Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen
If you want to view more fields click […]
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gfa is a small and fast address book written in C and GTK+2. It uses sqlite as backend for the addresses.
Install gfa in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude gfa
This will complete the installation
Using gfa
If you want to open go to Applications—>Accessories—>gfa
Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen
If you want to view more fields click […]
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addrepo is a simple command line interface for easily adding APT repositories to your sources.list
Install addrepo in Ubuntu
This is very simple process just use the following two commands
sudo wget http://mac4deb.googlepages.com/addrepo -O /usr/bin/addrepo
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/addrepo
Using addrepo
addrepo [repository]
Now you just replace ‘[repository]’ with a repository name
addrepo example
addrepo deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free
It already includes ’sudo,’ so adding […]
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fcrackzip is a fast password cracker partly written in assembler. It is able to crack password protected zip files with brute force or dictionary based attacks, optionally testing with unzip its results.
It can also crack cpmask’ed images.
Install fcrackzip in ubuntu
sudo apt-get install fcrackzip
This will complete the installation
fcrackzip Syntax
fcrackzip [-bDBchVvplum2] [–brute-force] [–dictionary] [–benchmark] [–charset characterset] [–help] […]
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Sysinfo is a GTK2 based program which can display the following computer/system information: - General information: Kernel version, Distribution release,Hostname/domainname, some important software versions.
- CPU information: Name/vendor, Frequency, L2 Cache, model/family/stepping.
- Memory information: Total, Free, Cached, Active/inactive, Swap.
- IDE information: Disks CD/DVD-roms, Model, Capacity, Cache.
- Filesystem information: Filesystem disk space usage(mounted partitions).
- […]
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durep is a perl script used for disk usage reports. It can generate text output with bar graphs to allow easy comparisons of disk usage between directories. It can also generate web pages which can be navigated through the directory structure. This allows easy visual monitoring of disk usage. durep was designed for monitoring disk […]
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AMOR stands for Automatic Machine Object Recognition. It is a toolbox built upon Orange which allows end-users as well as computer vision scientist to do object recognition. It features most of the standard object recognition algorithms (SIFT, SVM…).It provides several different characters who prance around your X screen doing tricks and giving you tips.
Note that […]
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For those, who have an Atheros 5007EG chipset and can’t get it working with ndiswrapper, I have this guide from polish ubuntuforum. This is the only solution that worked on my computer (Toshiba SAT-A210-128), and my brothers computer.This guide only works on i386 platforms, so if you’re running an x64 linux, then you’ve to try […]
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Osmo is a handy personal organizer which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules. It was designed to be a small, easy to use and good looking PIM tool to help to manage personal information. In current state the organizer is quite convenient in use - for example, user can perform nearly all operations […]
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In the latest Ubuntu weekly newsletter the Ubuntu folks announced the release of the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course. The modular course should take two days to complete all 10 of the lessons offered, but it is possible to cover topics and lessons independently of each other, learning whatever is of interest. The ten sections of […]