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Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1546796

Hi, I am an owner of an iPhone 3G 4.0 and i use Rhythmbox to manage my music on it. Recently ive had a problem with music transfers where i would transfer the music but then the music would not show up on the iPhone, but after plugging into a mac or pc and starting itunes, only then would the iPhone see it. I finnaly found a fix and here it is.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1494027

Greetings All,
I recently had the need to install SAS 9.2 TS1M0 on my Toshiba Laptop which is running Ubuntu 9.10 and thought I would share the results.

I know SAS is not a hugely popular piece of software for 'open-sourcers' since it is so expensive BUT it ubiquitous to business and statistics people. SAS supports SUSE and RedHat but they will help if you say you are also using OpenSuse and Fedora Core. ;))

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1456756

What pdfocr is for

Suppose you have a PDF document that was made using a scanner, or otherwise consists of image data but doesn't have text data. Such a PDF can't be searched by PDF readers or desktop search applications. pdfocr is a simple utility I made that takes a PDF file, then generates a new one that has the text layer added, so it's searchable by your PDF reader and can be indexed by your desktop search application, but is still identical when printed.

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/when_javascript_became_world...

The computing world is always very unpredictable. That must be why there is a small number of people who make large amounts of money from it: they are in the right (unpredictable) place, at the right (unpredictable) time. Who would have ever guessed that Javascript, a simple scripting language initially thought as a simple means to make web pages “cooler”, would become… drum roll… the world’s new CPU?

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/moving_ide_programming_eclip...

In the past, I’ve always shied away from integrated development environments (IDEs), but I recently had a strong enough motivation to finally learn how to use Eclipse — one of the most widely-used free software IDEs available today. Eclipse is known mainly as a Java IDE and it does require Java itself, but it is also a powerful and flexible multi-purpose platform, and adaptations exist for programming in many languages, including Java, C/C++, Lisp, and Python. Python support is available with an Eclipse package called “PyDev”, and I have found it to be a big step up.

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/make_your_own_time_machine_i...

A good backup system can help you recover from a lot of different kinds of situations: a botched upgrade (requiring re-installation), a hard drive crash, or even thumb-fingered users deleting the wrong file. In practice, though I’ve experienced all of these, it’s the last sort of problem that causes me the most pain. Sometimes you just wish you could go back a few days in time and grab that file. What you want is something like the Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine”, but for your own system. Here’s how to set one up using the rsnapshot package (included in the Debian and Ubuntu distributions).

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/durian_coming_blenders_third...

Blender third open movie project, code-named “Durian” is ramping up to production, and time is running out for the pre-sale campaign if you want to get your spot in the credits. This time the project is focusing on an adolescent audience with an epic-fantasy setting and a female protagonist (my son aptly dubbed this the “Chicks in Chainmail” genre). The only art yet available from Durian itself is the series of banner ads (by concept artist, David Revoy), but an impressive creative team has already been announced.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1241830

This video is will show you how to install Chromium Browser with Flash support on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty).

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/skype_shutdown_where_are_fre...

Free software is definitely going strong in some areas, especially in the server market. However, there are other areas where free software and free protocols have failed. Internet based voice and video communication is one of those areas. The market is basically fully owned by Skype, a piece of proprietary software based on a proprietary (and abusive) protocol in the hands the same company that runs eBay. Free software advocates have been saying “what if Skype was discontinued?” for years. Then I read about eBay considering shutting Skype down. Pardon?