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Compiz Support For Multi-Pointer X
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In May we shared that Multi-Pointer X (or MPX for short) was entering the mainline X server. While it was merged to master that month, X Server 1.5 wa ... ![]()
SilverStone Decathlon 800W
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Over the years we have looked at several power supplies from SilverStone through their Strider, Element, and Zeus series. All of these power supplies ... ![]()
GeForce 9600 GSO in Linux
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The 9600 GSO is nVidia's latest foray in the mid-level 9000 series of GeForce cards, and is also the cheapest for a performance card. BIOSLEVEL.com lo ... ![]()
Automatically Unlock LUKS Encrypted Drives With A Keyfile
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This howto shows how to unlock multiple devices in the intial ramdisk remotely. I suggest to use a keyfile for automatic unlocking. The keyfile should ... ![]()
Which Is Faster - an Android or a LiMo?
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Google has made a habit of throwing its considerable weight behind a project and making it succeed. The company's Android project, its effort at creat ... ![]()
Theory: Why EMC Gave VMWare to Microsoft (Employee)
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Diane Greene thrown out just a week or so after EMC became Microsoft's Partner of the Year ... ![]()
Fast, powerful Geany editor offers IDE features
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Geany is a lightweight text editor for Linux based on the GTK2 toolkit. Geany supports internal and external plugins, and it excels as a source code e ... ![]()
Can Open Source Drive Sustainable Innovation?
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Sustainable innovationâ?? creating lots of new things again and againâ?? is challenging. The VAR Guy wonders: Is open source the key to sust ... ![]()
Linux examined: OpenSUSE 11.0
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A few weeks ago, the OpenSUSE Project announced the release of OpenSUSE 11.0, the"community" edition of SUSE Linux, Novell's commercial Linux distribu ... ![]()
School switches to Linux, hopes to keep MS funds
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Warrington School, in Otago, has decided to jump ship and deploy the GNU/Linux operating system with free software across the board by a target date o ... ![]()
Microsoft gags UK schools
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The threat of reprisals from Microsoft lawyers has stopped Becta, the UK's technology quango for schools, from publishing the details of the three-yea ... ![]()
This week at LWN: Symbian to be another open mobile platform
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The already crowded open source mobile phone software market just got more so as Nokia has announced plans to open up the Symbian operating system. Sy ... ![]()
*NIXEDCAST Coming to An Ear Near You
07/09/2008 ![]()
With the combined might of WordPress and Audacity, I am now able to do OGGcasting. I'll be doing some regular shows on a weekly basis at the very leas ... ![]()
Using Traps Outside Of Shell Scripts On Unix Or Linux
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How to set, and reset, traps at the command line, and login, level to enhance system security. ... ![]()
Community to Gilliard: 'Consider Open Source'
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The Australian Open Source community has called for the consideration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the implementation of the Rudd Govern ... ![]()
Pictures And Details Of Ubuntu Being Sold At Best Buy
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Best Buy is now selling a boxed version of Ubuntu in stores. Though the placement could be better, the marketing on the box is really good. ... ![]()
The full skinny: all the text, of all the letters, between Icahn, Microsoft and Yahoo!
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With the failed Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo! given a fresh injection of oomph by Carl Icahn we reveal just who said what to whom in the ongoing war ... ![]()
OLPC Oceania's Lessons Learned for XO Laptop Expansion
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As David Lemming explained to us in describing OLPC Oceania's participatory development model, the area colloquially referred to as"Oceania" is really ... ![]()
Installing applications in Linux (part II)
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In my last article I discussed two ways of installing applications on Ubuntu Linux. In this article I will be discussing two other methods for install ... ![]()
Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products
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Not Linux, but pertinent, I think....In what appears to be either a common scenario of"when the security solution ends up the security problem itself" ... ![]()
Add an Auto-Incrementing Build-Number to Your Build Process
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When building software it's often useful to give each iteration of your build process a unique number. Many IDEs and RAD tools do this for you automat ... ![]()
Alfresco founder says open source makes software better
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In 2005, Alfresco was the first open source software company in the UK to capture venture funding, for its collection of enterprise document managemen ... ![]()
VMware Ousts CEO Diane Greene
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VMware ended a long-running battle over its strategic direction on July 8, ousting co-founder and CEO Diane Greene and installing Microsoft veteran Pa ... ![]()
Open source systems management: Two conferences, two talks
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I had the privilege of giving not one but two talks at the Red Hat Summit, both about open source systems management topics. A good deal of this conte ... ![]()
Post-Gates: Microsoft, Competition and the Semantic Web
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Microsoft achieved its dominance on the desktop in part by adding more and more features into Windows and Office - for free - that others wereselling ... ![]()
How To Setup Debian / Ubuntu Linux IPv6 Tunnel Using tspc
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You can easily configure IPv6 Tunnel under Debian or Ubuntu Linux to browse IPv6 ready websites and use IPv6 utilities. If your ISP is not ready with ... ![]()
Maemo 4.1 bring mail and packaging improvements to Nokia's Linux-based tablets
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Nokia released version 4.1 of it's Linux-based Internet Tablet platform Maemo last month. 4.1 is a minor update to the operating system, but it boasts ... ![]()
Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 3 Released
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Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 1 was released a month and a half ago, but arriving this afternoon was Mesa 7.1 RC2, which was quickly outdone by Mesa 7.1 ... ![]()
Google Open-sources Data Exchange Language
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Google has open-sourced its protocol buffers, the company's lingua franca for encoding various types of data, in order to set the stage for a wave of ... ![]()
Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.
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The computer proletariat is rising up - and computing will never be the same. Tiny, sub-$500â??netbooksâ?? like the Asus Eee are the hottest ... ![]()
It's Time to Thank Felton
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In his latest blog post, helios called for positive letters to the residents of Felton, California. I am also offering a place where people can write ... ![]()
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