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Medibuntu if you don’t already know is the Ubuntu repository for non-free packages which can’t be bundled with Ubuntu for regal reasons. Acrobat reader, quick time player, windows specific video/audio codecs, DVD support and the list goes on. Adding the Medibuntu repository into your Ubuntu 8.10 is easy. Fire up your terminal and run, sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list Install the GPG keys. While still in the terminal run, sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update Install support for Windows codecs. sudo apt-get install w32codecs ...

Google’s Gmail finally has support for themes. There are currently 31 themes to choose from. My favorite is the Ninja theme seen the in the screen shot. To see your themes in action simply go to your settings page and select your desired theme from the themes tab. Gource: GmailBlog

SitePoint’s giving away their famous eBook “The Art $ Science of CSS” free of charge for 14 days. Do download simply follow Sitepoint on twiter for a DM with the download link or drop them an email to get the download link by mail instead. The giveaway ends in 8 days so hurry. Source: SitePoint | Abinesh

A friend needed to re-size his Windows NT OS partition from the default 4GB to 8GB. The easiest way to do this is with Linux, specifically with the GParted LiveCD. GParted is a Gnome based partition editor which uses the libparted library from the popular GNU Parted package to do all it’s fancy partitioning stuff. Current supported file systems are ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiser-4, reiserfs, ufs and xfs. GParted lets you detect, read, create, grow, shrink, move ,copy, check and label your partitions. However, not all the features will work across all file systems. See table below. ...

I’ve finally managed to upload my pics from foss.my 2008. Check em out, not the best of quality but they’ll work. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannyportal/sets/72157609213966387/detail/