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Report: Must-Haves For The Linux Road Warrior

08/22/2006  
Relevance: 7.37
Network-centric services are connecting users to some truly valuable data. For the price of a computer, a network connection, and a browser, you can find information on just about anything, from anywhere on the planet. Rob Reilly takes time from his travels to demo two valuable road warrior tools.
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Online pirates: valuable resources

09/08/2006  
Relevance: 7.09
According to the corporate cartels, so-called p2p 'pirates' are the scourge of the Net,"devastating" honest, hard-pressed the entertainment and software companies and forcing helpless support workers into hard times. However, David Choi and Arturo Perez have a somewhat different view, suggesting the phenonmenon of online piracy is a valuable source of innovation to the industries, as well as to entrepreneurs.
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Micro$oft threatens its Most Valuable Professional

06/06/2007  
Relevance: 5.84
What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program? Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach. He had the temerity to make Redmond's software better. As a hobby, Cansdale developed an add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio. TestDriven.NET allows unit test suites to be run directly from within the Microsoft IDE. Cansdale gave away this gadget on his website, and initially received the praises of Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft was so pleased with him, it gave him a Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) award, which it says it gives to"exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their high quality, real world expertise with others". However, his cherished status did not last.
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Tips for Taming SELinux

11/27/2007  
Relevance: 5.68
But in these modern times it's not necessary to gain root privileges to commit nefarious deeds, yet the primary purpose of most security schemes is still to protect root. Users are considered dispensable, like the red-shirted crewmen on the original Star Trek series. As soon as a guy in a red shirt appeared, you knew he was going to be toast before the second commercial break. Think about it—what's the most important stuff on your computer? The system files? You can easily replace those. An attacker might still want to acquire root privileges so they can replace key system binaries to try to cover their tracks. But the system files themselves are not valuable. The valuable stuff sits in your home and other data directories. If you're storing sensitive data of any kind, such as databases full of customer data, that's what an attacker wants.
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Google Mashups get their Groovy on

03/29/2008  
Relevance: 4.85
Once again Groovy scripting has proven to be a huge time saver when it comes to putting RESTful APIs in front of valuable services and data. The server-side code in this article can also support any other features that you want to add on.
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Opinion: Put The Power of Linux Into Your Business

05/15/2007  
Relevance: 4.83
So, Mr. Small- and Medium-Businessman, what's holding you up? Don't you need to run a Web site, be able to transfer files around your office, or automate some processes so they run 24/7? Wouldn't you like to put the worry of a virus wiping out your valuable data out of your mind? Have you ever thought about how nice it would be to buy one DVD and be able to load it on all the machines in your company?
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FOSS Is More Valuable Than $60 Billion

08/23/2008  
Relevance: 4.67
FOSS is rather like a good sourdough culture, because a properly cared-for sourdough culture will live and feed people forever. You can't take from it without giving it a little something back because then it will die.
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News: The Value of Freedom: Linux Kernel Worth $1.4 Billion

10/27/2008  
Relevance: 4.48
A Linux Foundation study attempts to calculate the value of the Linux kernel and Linux distributions, and comes to the conclusion that free as in freedom is mighty valuable.
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Hands on: Linux disaster recovery

03/09/2007  
Relevance: 4.45
The time you come to realise just how dependent you have become on your computer is when things go terribly wrong. Your partitions won’t mount, your files seem corrupt or, worst of all, your entire hard drive seems to have become unreadable. The first and most obvious piece of advice, as anyone would tell you, is to make regular backups. It is surprising how many people who have years worth of valuable files have few or none of them backed up.
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KDE Launches User Forums

10/13/2008  
Relevance: 4.32
The KDE Community today launches the new KDE Forum. The new forum uses the bulletin board software MyBB offering users, developers and people interested in KDE a place to help each other, discuss KDE-related topics and exchange ideas. The KDE Forum complements KDE's UserBase, the home for KDE users as a valuable support resource.
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