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I stumbled upon this site when I was searching for information on how to access Windwos machine through Ubuntu using remote desktop application. GNOME-RDP is a remote desktop client for GNOME desktop. It supports RDP, VNC, SSH protocols and it requires Mono and GTK#.

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MSNBC reports that Khagendra Thapa Magar, 14, has applied to Guinness World Records to be named the shortest in the world. He is only 20 inches tall and weighs 10 pounds. There was no listing on the Guinness World Records Web site on a shortest boy category, but Thapa claimed the closest competitor was 25 inches tall.

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OpenOffice.org Premium is a free and open source enhancement of official OpenOffice.org plus some Extras for you to use. The premium edition contains

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Linux Journal has an article on using your iPod with Ubuntu. The excerpt is based on the book Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks. It explains in detail how to sync your iPod with Ubuntu using gtkpod or YamiPod, syncing your podcasts with iPodder, sharing your photos with GPixPod etc. It's worth reading the article if you have an iPod and if you use Ubuntu.

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Browzar is a new web browser that uses Internet Explorer's engine. It doesn't leave any track of the sites you surfed on the computer you used. Browzar doesn't save your web history, cookies, forms you filled etc. It deletes everything including the cache when you close the browser. Ofcourse you can do the same in Firefox and Opera if you set the options. Browzar is a very small application since it uses Internet Explorer's engine. It's only 264K. You can run Browzar from USB thumb drive also instead of installing it on your system. Ofcourse Browzar has some limitations like no tabs, no UI shortcuts etc. It's currently available for Windows platform. Mac and Linux versions are in development.

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You might have read the news all over the web about Ubuntu's update on August 21st broke the graphical interface. As per the reports and feedback, it broke only the graphical interface and users should be able to use the terminal mode. When I rebooted my desktop at home (dual boot system with Windows XP and Ubuntu with SATA drive as master and PATA as slave) the next day, my system was making a click-clack noise and the bios didn't recognize my SATA hard drive. The SATA drive had both OSes installed. The bios recognized only the PATA drive. I couldn't get the system to boot. I initially thought the hard drive went bad. I tried several options and nothing worked. I then thought the SATA controller on the motherboard went bad. I tried fixing the problem for a week and I couldn't get it to work.

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CNN apologized Tuesday after an open mike transmitted Kyra Phillips bathroom conversation with another woman live over the network as it was carrying President Bush's speech in New Orleans. Head over to HotAir blog from Bryan to see the video (and ofcourse the audio). «Live From» anchor Kyra Phillips had apparently left the set around 12:48 p.m. EDT Tuesday for a bathroom break while the news channel carried Bush's speech marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Phillips' wireless microphone was turned on and picked up about a minute and a half of a muffled conversation she had with an unidentified woman where she apparently talked about her husband, laughed and talked about her brother.

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CNet news reports that hackers broke into AT&T's system and accessed personal data of thousands of customers who used it's online store. The data includes credit card numbers. The break-in occurred during the weekend. This is the latest in the series of losing personal data by various organizations.

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AOL is offering AIMPhoneline, a free service to receive phone calls and voicemails that uses your computer and existing Internet connection. You get a local phone number called AIM Digits and people can call that number from any phone. You can answer the phone through your computer if you are online else it goes to the always on voicemail which is delivered right to your email inbox. You can use this number if you don't want to give your home phone number or your mobile phone number. It's one way to avoid marketing calls.

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