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Is there a better way waking up, than listening to your favourite music? If you're one of those guys, that leave their computer running even if they go to bed, this post may be useful for you... We'll use a script and cron to create a "really geek" alarm clock...
We'll start creating the script, that'll be responsible for playing the music files and turning up the volume gradually...
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First we'll need to change our Bluetooth administrator (bluez-gnome) to blueman. So we'll need to add repositories to our source.list, by executing the following command:

echo -e "\n## Blueman\ndeb http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main\ndeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

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Today we're going to talk once again about an old known and wide topic:  remote administration. Which, fortunately, is well-developed for GNU/Linux. Though there are several ways to achieving the remote administration on a Ubuntu running computer, such as Secure Shell (SSH) or remote desktop softwares (VINO or VNC, FreeNX), we're really into Webmin, a remote administration software based on the world wide Web, and thats what we are going to talk in this post about. But before starting we'll need to make use of two more tools, that you may already know from our site: Read the rest of this entry »