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  • Feature:  Tweaking Ubuntu with an easy-to-use GUI.

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  • Viewer Question:  The Thermaltake BlacX only supports SATA.  Is there an IDE version?
  • Viewer Question:  I'm using RSS Player on my iPhone, but it doesn't find Category5 Technology TV through CastRoller.  Can you add your site to CastRoller?
  • Viewer Question:  Is there a good package for screen capture?
  • Feature:  Using Ubuntu Tweak to ... well, tweak Ubuntu.
  • Adding the repository for ubuntu-tweak to your Ubuntu system.
  • Installing ubuntu-tweak using the repositories.
  • Carrie's Question:  What is a repository?
  • Walking through the features of Ubuntu Tweak.
  • Disable the feature in Ubuntu that makes it add mounted items to your desktop.
  • Viewer Question:  Is there a way to backup your repository list?
  • Making a backup copy of sources.lst.
  • Viewer Question:  Is there anything you should stay away from changing on Ubuntu Tweak?
  • Setting your screen corners to trigger Show Windows, Expo, Widgit or Show Desktop on Compiz Fusion.
  • Setting up custom keyboard shortcuts to any application in Ubuntu.
  • Rotating your computer monitor on Linux with a hot key combination.
  • Turning on BurnProof and OverBurn on Ubuntu Linux.
  • Viewer Question:  Is the wobbly windows setting in Ubuntu Tweak independent of Compiz?  Or do you have to have Compiz installed?
  • Viewer Question:  Does Ubuntu Tweak have a setting to allow Mythbuntu to burn DVDs?
  • Viewer Comment:  Burning DVDs in Mythbuntu has not worked in three versions.
  • Viewer Question:  How do I determine if Emerald is running on my Ubuntu system?
  • Using system monitor in Ubuntu Linux to tell if an application is running.
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  • Viewer Question:  Could you add the installation of Java's runtime in perfectbuntu?
  • Understanding what SIL means.
  • Viewer Question:  Using alien to convert an RPM to DEB works to install Java; but is that the best way to do it?
  • Viewer Question:  Why does Handbrake not work on my Ubuntu, but it work on Windows and Mac?
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The blooper at the beginning (during the intro) is because something got pasted into Robbie's intro script--so as he was about to read it, he realized none of it made sense.

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