Filling my Technological Void|Learning to Adapt to new Technology…… The Hard Way.

There a quite a few ways to view system stats in Linux like CPU or Hard Disk temperature. The usual ways include using gdesklets and screenlets to get the same. Although the benefit of the above is that you get rather neat looking little applets which you can place all over your desktop, they come with the disadvantage of using quite a bit more memory. With the decreasing prices of Memory this shouldn’t be an issue for most. However for those resource conscious folks who would like to view all those system stats at a low memory usage overhead then Conky is definitely the way to go.

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I’ve frequently heard the question over and over again that someone couldn’t get MP3’s to play in Amarok or whichever program the person is using. I’m going to try to give you the most easiest way you could possibly accomplish this.

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