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In a former article we have saw how to use a terminal to check the status of a process or the resources of our machine, but sometimes (on desktop usually) it can be handy to have all the information in a corner of our screen.
With Linux this is possible and today we’ll see 2 system monitor tools: Conky and Gkrellm.
In general a system monitor is a hardware- or software- based system used to monitor resources and performance in a computer system.
Software monitors occur more commonly, sometimes as a part of a widget engine. These monitoring systems are often used to keep track of system resources, such as CPU usage and frequency , or the amount of free RAM. They are also used to display items such as free space on one or more hard drives, the temperature of the CPU and other important components, and networking information including the system IP address and current rates of upload and download. Other possible displays may include the date and time, system uptime, computer name, username, hard drive S.M.A.R.T data, fan speeds, and the voltages being provided by the power supply. Continue reading »
Today I present you an interview with Bertrand Florat the creator of Jajuk.
“Jajuk is software that organizes and plays music. It is a full-featured application geared towards advanced users with large or scattered music collections. Using multiple perspectives, the software is designed to be intuitive and provide different visions of your collection.”
Jajuk has many interesting features and being developed in Java is available for Linux (it’s available as package in the main distribution), Windows and Mac OS X.
I found this great project some time ago (I’ve been the first Italian translator), but my work and laziness brought me away, today I’ve met again with Bertrand and he’s been so kind to give me some of his time for this interview.
It happens every now and then to have to do a complete cleaning of a system. Maybe you get a computer from an employee who is gone, or a server must be abandoned, or simply you need to reassign a computer and to be sure that all data are no longer readable in any way.
Do you think that a rm or formatting is enough?
Sorry, but if you think so i must say you are wrong, a rm a fdisk or something like that could be easily canceled, so you need something better…like DBAN
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After reading the article “How to create a screencast of your Linux desktop” I started doing some test of screencast with the program recordmydesktop.
In particular, I did some testing with both the gtk frontend to the command line, but unfortunately in the first trials i was not able to get any sound in the video.
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