Andre Klapper was a busy man at the Gnome Asia summit. Maybe it was the aura of the hackfest that got to him. Or maybe it was the spicy Indian food. Whatever it might be, Andre was unstoppable, giving one talk after another. We caught him off stage to do some more, um, talking.
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SOPA Gets Taiwanese News Animation Treatment
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Want to know when a bit of news has really hit the mainstream? It's when the Taiwanese company Next Media Animation does a computer generated animation of the story. ... Yup, the battle over SOPA, which they animate by showing Hollywood lobbyists seeking to attack the internet, and showing not only how tech companies teamed up to fight this, but that internet users are pushing back.
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Portuguese government orders Open Sauce on older computers
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The Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) has told school boards across the country that it will not be shelling out huge amounts of dosh for Microsoft software this year.
It wants schools to keep their old computers and install free Linux software instead as part of an austerity measure.
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The WebM Community Cross-License (CCL) initiative enables the web community to further support the WebM Project. Google, Matroska and the Xiph.Org Foundation make the various components of WebM openly available on royalty-free terms. By joining the CCL, member organizations likewise agree to license patents they may have that are essential to WebM technologies to other members of the CCL.
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GNU PDF project leaves FSF High Priority Projects list; mission complete!
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The goal of the GNU PDF project from its beginning in 2007 was to provide a complete implementation of the emerging ISO standard for PDF, ISO 32000-1.
Read more »Chakra GNU Linux review
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Chakra is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It evolved from a hobby project to what is now, from my initial assessment, a very solid desktop distribution with features not yet available on established Linux distributions.
Read more »Graphviz+Jessyink: Alternative to Prezi and Mindmap Presentations (How to Beat MS PowerPoint)
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For those of us who prefer spending more time with content than visual effects and prefer fiddling with texts than mouse/button/graphics, graphviz and jessyink could be a latex-style potential alternative to Prezi and Mindmap presentations -- if a few improvements are made. ...
Read more »Mageia 1.0 review
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Mageia is a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva Linux by former contributors and members of Mandriva. The official announcement of the project was on September 18, 2010, and the first stable release June 1, 2011. The article is a combination review of the GNOME and KDE desktop editions.
Read more »Interview: Jesper Schmidt Hansen, author of GNU Octave Beginner’s Guide
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This week’s FLOSS4Science interview is with Jesper Schmidt Hansen, nanofluidics scientist and author of the GNU Octave Beginner’s Guide, one of the few books on GNU Octave besides the official GNU Octave manuals.
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How to customize Chakra 2011.11
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Chakra 2011.11 is the second maintenance release of Chakra Linux, a KDE (desktop) distribution originally derived from Arch Linux. A detailed review of it will be published later tonight. While we await that publication, this article gives some customization tips. And there is much to customize because a new installation of Chakra 2011.11 is like bringing something home from IKEA.
Read more »Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 5.7
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In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 5.7 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers.
Read more »How to delete DigiNotar CA certificate from Firefox
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DigiNotar B.V., a unit of VASCO Data Security International, Inc., is an Internet Trust Service Provider based in the Netherlands. Part of their business involves issuing digital certificates.
Read more »Alter Your Environment with Functions
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The user can alter the Bash shell environment by adding functions to their .bash_profile or by editing the global /etc/profile script for all users. This feature provides a great deal of flexibility for the administrator and user.
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Looping Through a List
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This is an example of a Bash shell script used to loop through a list to compare to text strings found in logs. The script is used to detect and block attacks on a web site.
Read more »Enabling Compiz On Xubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
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This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Xubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment which is a fast and stable alternative for those that are not happy with Unity or Gnome 3.
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