Microsoft's plan for making money from Windows is not working out
Read more »System 76: Making pre-installed Linux hardware a reality
Recently I came upon a company called System 76 promising to bring pre-installed Linux hardware to the masses. At first I was a bit skeptical as I’ve seen this promise time and time again. So I requested review hardware thinking it would be nothing more than vapor ware. Surprisingly, however, the hardware arrived.
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The Open Database Alliance and the Future of MySQL
Given that I wrote the above back in December, I obviously could not have known that the Open Database Alliance would launch this week. But if by some miracle you’d had a vision of the future and relayed it to me, I confess that I would not have been terribly surprised.
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Mandriva's answer to Ubuntu One : Click'n' Backup
Ever since the launch of Ubuntu One there has been a lot of speculation about it.. Unlike other Ubuntu/Canonical offering Ubuntu One didn't received good response from audience..There are many reasons for it..
Read more »How To Be More Efficient With Firefox Keywords
A feature of Firefox that often gets overlooked is the keyword system. Firefox can be set up to accept keywords to do things like open a favorite page or search a particular website. Today we’ll try out some of the things you can do with keywords.
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Ubuntu 9.04 Cleanup With Computer Janitor
The idea behind Computer Janitor is that it will help you clean up those files that you no longer need, thus saving space on your computer. Now, before you begin…note that this program has the potential of doing damage if used incorrectly so be sure your critical data is backed up.
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Ubuntu SSH: How To Enable Secure Shell in Ubuntu
SSH (Secure SHell) is possibly the best way to remotely access a Unix system - it's very secure thanks to automatic encryption of all the traffic, and it's also quite universal because you can do all sorts of things: access remote command line shell, forward graphics session output, establish network tunnels and set up port redirections.
Read more »Block Advertisements in ANY Browser via /etc/hosts
I have been getting more and more tired of Firefox lately. Tired of the bloat. The unreliability. The gecko engine. I’ve been tinkering with alternate browsers such as Midori (which is *great*, assuming you can get >=0.1.6), Arora and Chromium. I think WebKit is the browser engine of the future, and with these browsers it is nearly a reality.
Read more »New Thoughts on the UK Government Open Source Action Plan
Remember when, back in late February, the Cabinet Office released their “Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan”? Myself and many other FOSS commentators were obviously heartily encouraged and have talked about it and examined the policy in some detail.
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KDE 4.3 Beta 1 - looking pretty
PolicyKit integration is the most notable back-end change: this framework lets application developers request privileges from the OS without needing the all-or-nothing 'su'. On the user-visible side, 4.3 Beta 1 sports a new tree view option for System Settings, a fading desktop switcher, and new window animations.
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Microsoft Patents Are Not About Collaboration, They Are About Racketeering
Microsoft spins its patent battle against Linux as a positive thing
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Microsoft Goes Political
The importance of technological independence is demonstrated by Microsoft's latest nationalist move
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Memorial Day ASCII Art For Linux And Unix
Finally, a Holiday ASCII art post that isn't a day late!
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Saving SELinux from Mono Before It’s Too Late?
SEAdmin gets hit by the Mono fever. IT MAY not be so hard to protect Linux from malicious attacks, but it becomes hard to protect it from Novell, Microsoft, and Mono.
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Hack’n Ur Crap: Cleaning A Keyboard
Your keyboard is disgusting. You, and probably other people's, hands touch it every day, and those food crumbs don't help either. If you have a cat that thinks the keyboard is an excellent place to sit, you will be amazed how much cat hair manages to get under the keys. Luckily, or unluckily, it's fairly straight forward to clean your keyboard and remove all that cat hair.
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