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Keep your disk clean with BleachBit

Aug 242011

This is an utility to clean junk to free disk space and to maintain privacy deleting in a secure way files and directory.

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, OpenOffice, Safari,and more

Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. BleachBit it is open source.
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Enable automatic security update in Debian/Ubuntu

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Aug 232011

The thought that a server update itself (and maybe even execute a reboot) is not actually something that makes me feel so confident, but it is certainly better than not applying patches to serious security bugs that could expose services to large risks.

So today we’ll see how to use the package unattended-upgrades, it’s available in Debian and Ubuntu and can help you schedule what and when update automatically on your machines.

3 Puzzle game on Linux

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Aug 222011

tux-puzzle Today we’ll take a quick look at some puzzle game for Linux.

Pushover,
Pushover is a platform puzzle game developed by Red Rat Software in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, DOS and Super NES.
And there is a fresh and maintained remake released as GPL that work perfectly on Linux.

Atomic Worm
Atomic Worm has flown into the light.
It takes the snake genre to a new dimension.

Cube Escape
You are inside a cube made up of numerous shells, with a maze etched on the surface of each shell.
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OpenELEC, a media center based on XBMC

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Aug 192011

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OpenELEC is an embedded operating system built specifically to run XBMC, the open source entertainment media hub. The idea behind OpenELEC is to allow people to use their Home Theatre PC (HTPC) like any other device you might have attached to your TV, like a DVD player or Sky box.

But before continuing with OpenELEC i do a step back and say a few words about XBMC.
Xbox Media Center (XBMC) is an open source program created for the Xbox and now available on xbmc.org for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, Apple TV and Xbox. On all platforms other than Xbox, XBMC acts as an application, possibly launched at boot time or later.

XBMC can play most formats of audio/video, and if there is an internet connection it’s able to use network services, such as getting movie and album reviews, or view movies in streaming.
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Dead Cyborg Ep 1 released

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Aug 182011

DeadCyborg it’s a free, donation based hard-sci-fi adventure game for Windows, Mac and Linux.

The plot:

You are a human being who has waken up in a cryotank… you have no memories, but you find some messages from the past… from yourself…
You don’t feel good… maybe this is a radioactive and toxic place … you may not have much time… You find some stupid robots… with strange answers to your questions.

The game is a donateware with the following episodes only released if enough funding is made, so if you download this game and enjoy it please show your support.

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