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Humble Indie Bundle 3 it’s now available !

Jul 272011

humble indie bundle Once again this incredible offer it’s available for a limited time (it ends in 13 days).
Pay what you want. If you bought these five games separately, it would cost around $50, but with this offer you can set the price!
You choose exactly how your purchase is divided: game developers, foundations (the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or the Child’s Play Charity), or the company organizing this (Humble Bundle, Inc).

All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

The games don’t use DRM. When you buy these games, they are yours. Feel free to play them without an internet connection, back them up, and install them on all of your Macs and PCs freely. There is no time-limit on your downloads.

chage : control your users “age” on Linux

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Jul 252011

terminal If you think that the operations about users are only: creation, deletion and change of the passwords you are in error, in the standard GNU/Linux system about authentication and authorization of users there are some interesting flags regarding the age of an account.

These parameters are usually ignored, but can be very useful in particular situations, or to help enforce internal policies on the use of personal accounts.

All these parameters are stored in /etc/shadow can be viewed and modified with the command chage
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A look at StuntRally on Linux

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Jul 232011

StuntRally is a great driving game available on Linux and Windows, the game is released under the GNU GPL license v3 .

The game features 54 tracks in 8 sceneries, 7 cars and a Track Editor.
It focuses on closed rally tracks with possible stunt elements (jumps, loops, pipes).
The game and editor both run on Windows and Linux. The Windows installer has all tracks included.

How to free some space with apt-get

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Jul 222011

debian-tux
Original article By Monica Aguilar on usemoslinux.blogspot.com

Problems of space? Perhaps the fault is not entirely of your music files, images and video, but installation packages and unnecessary dependencies in the system. But do not despair, there are some options of apt-get that can help solve these problems.

Apt

APT is Advanced Packing Tool , which is responsible for managing the packages to install and UNINSTALL, and their respective dependencies. <APT was created for Debian , and designed to work with dpkg , but now somemodifications have been done to work with the package manager RPM with apt-rpm.