Peter told you how to quickly set desktop effects in KDE with the press of a button if you’re using KWin. A similar trick is available for GNOME’s Metacity.
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More Computer Comics To Round Out The Weekend
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Are computers funny, or is it really the cartoonist? ;)
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Ron Hovsepian’s 15 Seconds of Silliness
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Firefox 3.0.6 security and stability release now available
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As part of the Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing security and stability process, Firefox 3.0.6 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users as a free download from getfirefox.com.
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Microsoft: Deal with Brother Similar to Novell’s
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Microsoft's new patent deal with Brother is similar to Novell's, according to a spokesperson
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Breadbin frees open source
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Breadbin Interactive, a local open source software company, is looking to use its Freedom Toaster platform to promote and expand open source software into the rest of Africa.
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Install Ubuntu on your USB Drive
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Did you know that is ridiculously simple to install Ubuntu onto an external USB flash drive? If you have a copy of the latest version of Ubuntu (at the time of writing that is 8.10), there is a very simple program that does it all for you.
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How Novell Helps Microsoft Attack GNU/Linux (Except for SUSE)
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Repeat of the threats of Mono to GNU/Linux and the problems with Go-OO
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Vista 7 is Should be… KDE4?
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The Lesser-covered Side of the Big Stories
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Leitch lecture hosts insightful and anarchistic Copyleft creator
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"February 6, 2009 - Edmonton-Richard Stallman wants you to watch your words. And your personal information. And your freedom. In short, Stallman wants you to make a statement to government and corporations that you will not accept unfair and unethical copyright laws.
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5 Less Known PHP Functions
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As all of you know that PHP has a large set of functions for the programmers. The list is so huge that we keep on learning each one of them day by day. There are some cases you would like to know them beforehand to use them in your app. These are those functions which may be famous for some, but largely people are ignorant about their existance. Here goes the list.
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Microsoft Pursues Digium Asterisk Partners
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Instead of ignoring open source conferences, Microsoft continues to invade them. The latest example: John Frederiksen (pictured), general manager of Microsoft’s Response Point business, is scheduled to speak at Digium AsteriskWorld on February 3. Why is Microsoft paying such close attention to an event for open source IP PBX advocates? The answer is obvious.
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IBM to build massive supercomputer for U.S. government
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The U.S. government has hired IBM to build a supercomputer [Sequoia] with more power than all the supercomputers on the Top500 supercomputer list combined. Sequoia will use approximately 1.6 million processing cores, all IBM Power chips, running Linux, which dominates high-performance computing at this scale.
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Google: Friend or Foe of Ubuntu?
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Google enjoys a pretty favorable image within the free-software community. In some respects, it deserves this reputation, as it strongly supports many open-source projects. On the other hand, Google is reluctant to open the code of most of its own software. Given this hesitancy, can we trust the company to be always on Ubuntu’s side?
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