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Nvidia have released their 9xxx series drivers.This allows compiz/beryl to now run directly on an x server (xorg7.1) without separate aiglx or xgl.

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If the below produces lm (long mode) flags, then the cpu has support for x86_64 architecture.

I have seen quite a few dedicated servers with support for x86_64 architecture, but i386 installed instead.

When doing a `uname -a`, the output misleads you to think that x86_64 is not supported. Such machines do not fully utilize the hardware resources and decreases performance of you box.

Dpkg is the Debian package manager dpkg is a medium-level tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. The primary and more user-friendly front-end for dpkg is dselect.dpkg itself is controlled entirely via command line parameters,which consist of exactly one action and zero or more options. The action-parameter tells dpkg what to do and options control the behavior of the action in some way.

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Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to native machine code for execution.

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Automatix is a graphical interface for automating the installation of the most commonly requested applications in Debian based Linux operating systems.

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Bandwidth in computer networking refers to the data rate supported by a network connection or interface. One most commonly expresses bandwidth in terms of bits per second (bps).This is hude list of Monitoring Tools For Linux Users.

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Doodle is a tool to quickly search the documents on a computer. Doodle builds an index using meta-data contained in
the documents and allows fast searches on the resulting database. Doodle uses libextractor to support obtaining meta-
data from various file-formats. The database used by doodle is a suffix tree, resulting in fast lookups.

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If you have a large music collection then streaming it across a LAN, or the internet, is a logical thing to do with it. This is simple guide how to setup Streaming Media Server in Ubuntu GNU/Linux

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OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries.

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There are several programs fulfilling the same or similar functions to be installed on a single system at the same time. For example, many systems have several text editors or different web browsers installed,Multimedia players,graphics editors at once.

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