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Configuring a Vodafone 3G modem on Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

Vodafone 3G modems like the Huawei E220 USB 3G can be set up on most distributions of Linux using these instructions.

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Configuring widescreen resolutions in Ubuntu 9.04 on an Acer AL1916W LCD with an Intel 915GM/910GML Graphics Controller

Ubuntu 9.04 includes drivers for Intel 915GM / 910GML mobile graphics controllers, but it will not detect that an Acer AL1916W Monitor supports widescreen output.

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Editing, Validating and Querying XML with the XMLStarlet command line utility

XMLStarlet is a free multi-platform command line utility built on top of the libxml2 and libxslt libraries that can be used to query, edit, validate and format XML files.

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Ubuntu Linux Quick Tip – Mount a Samba (Windows) file share to a folder

To mount a Samba (Windows) file share to a folder in Ubuntu Linux, you need to have Samba Filesystem Support installed, then use the ‘mount’ command.

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Portable Ubuntu for Windows

Portable Ubuntu is a distribution that can run off of a flash drive as a Windows application with access to your Windows files and persistent system changes.

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A Python script to check Google rankings for a specific domain and search term

Using Python’s pycurl (cURL) and re (Regular Expression) libraries, it’s possible to write a script to check Google rankings for specific domains and search terms.

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Linux Quick Tip: Renew a machine’s DHCP lease with dhclient

DHCP allows machines on an IP-based network to automatically obtain configuration information such as IP addresses, subnet masks, router addresses, etc.

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Extracting Audio, Video and Subtitle tracks from Matroska Video (MKV) files

mkvtoolnix is a set of cross-platform command line tools (mkvmerge, mkvextract, and mkvinfo) for extracting audio, video and subtitle tracks as well as attachments from MKV files.

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