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Linux Open Source

KNemo – Monitor your Internet usage…

KNemo is a Network monitoring program for Linux. The program stores information wrt the amount of data communicated thru your various LAN connections and also provides a way to automatically disable the internet on certain conditions.

KNemo is a simple addon program to your network management enabling you to control your internet usage. It also provides methods to disable internet in case you exceed the monthly bandwidth limit of your plan. Its an excellent tool to study your usage of internet over time.

To install Knemo on a ubuntu system, use the following command:
sudo apt-get install knemo

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Linux Media Open Source

Managing Collections with Tellico

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Tellico is a versatile collection manager for Linux. The KDE based application is designed to handle almost any type of perceivable collection and convert it to a easily manageable solution. If you have a huge collection of movies, music, books, comics ect and regularly lend them out, Tellico is the perfect program to keep track of your collections.

Tellico has pre-designed support for collections of: Books, Comics, Movies, Music, Coins, Stamps, Board Games, Wines. Cards and Games. The databases are designed to make data entry and search both relevant and easy.

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Open Source Web

Threaded Comments in WordPress

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WordPress has a builtin feature of allowing threaded comments for your posts. This feature is by default disabled and has to be “enabled”… Here is how to do that:

  • Login to your WordPress install as Admin(or a user with Admin permissions).
  • Navigate to the “Settings” menu and the “Discussions” option in that menu.
  • Under “Other Comment Settings” section, you will find the option: Enable threaded (nested) comments.
  • Check the option and provide the maximum depth of a thread.

Now nested comments should be enabled on your WordPress Blog.

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Hardware Open Source Solutions Ubuntu

Playing DVDs in Ubuntu

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Ubuntu by default does not play encrypted DVDs. This is because most commercial DVDs are encrypted with CSS (Content Scrambling System), which restricts the software that can play a DVD.

To enable you must install the libdvdcss2 package to allow Ubuntu to play DVDs. For that you need to run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

Followed by:

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

That will install the required libraries and now your encrypted DVDs will be readable.

Please Note: Check with your local laws to make sure that usage of libdvdcss2 would be legal in your area.

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Open Source Solutions Web

Firefox: Spell Check Single Line Fields

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Firefox by default spell checks text fields, it has the built in ability to spell check single line fields(search bars ect) but that is disabled by default.

To activate the ability of firefox to spell check single line fields, do the following:

  • Bring up your about:config page. You can do this by typing “about:config” in your address bar and clicking on “I’ll be careful, I promise” button
  • In the “Filter” field type layout.spellcheckDefault.
  • As you can see, the integer value is 1. Double-click on it, then enter 2 as its new value.
  • Click OK.
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