I’ve always been a PIM junkie. A PIM is a Personal Information Manager, and what has interested me are systems that help you organise information, not those little calendar and contacts programs that are often called “PIMs”.
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Waldo's Been Found In The PI
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There is but ONE Waldo in the PI puzzle - Still with no hat ;)
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German Design Firm Calls Its Car Concept "Open Source"
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If you're a fan of offbeat applications of open source principles, you'll definitely want to take a gander at the "EDAG open source Light Car" from German design firm EDAG. Shown here and below, it's slated to debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March, and is based on a core chassis which can accommodate many modular types of exterior designs.
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Conkeror: Emacs insprired browser
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"...When I started Conkeror, I was a bit surprised. The browser is stripped down to the very basics and you have to configure it yourself. It comes with a brief tutorial on how to do the very basic things and you can find a lot of configuration tips at the Conkeror Wiki.
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Tutorial: Using K3b
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This simple tutorial goes through all the basics of using K3b on Linux. K3b is one of the best graphical burning programs on Linux, and also one of the best know in the Linux community. However, it's existence is somewhat of a mystery among new users.
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EU Might Force OEMs to Offer Choice of Browsers During Setup
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Earlier this month, news got out that the European Commission is charging Microsoft with unlawful competition regarding its bundling of the Internet Explorer web bowser with Windows. At the time, information was scarce, but thanks to Microsoft's quarterly filing at the Securities and Exchange Commission. we now have a little more insight into what the EU might force Microsoft to do.
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PCLinuxOS: Big update coming
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Once again, we do apologize for the long wait and size of this update, but many hiccups along the way conspired against us. The Rippers have been working for months on this to make it as trouble free as humanly possible. We're hoping there won't be too many problems.
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What vendors really mean by 'open source'
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Like me, you've probably read articles on how free software, or open source, is going to thrive in 2009, and how businesses everywhere are going to survive the recession by migrating to it. Perhaps you agree with those views; perhaps you don't. However, what I find most interesting is what people mean by the words "open source" and, to be even more specific, what business model they have in mind.
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EU proposal puts confidential communications data at risk
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«Civil liberties groups La Quadrature du Net, European Digital Rights (EDRi), AK Vorrat, and Netzpolitik.org are urging the European Parliament to heed advice given by the European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx and scrap plans dubbed "voluntary data retention"...»
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A conversation with Bdale Garbee
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When I spoke to him, early on the Tuesday of conference week, he still had his beard. We talked at length about the Debian GNU/Linux project - he has been a part of it since 1994, is chairman of the technical committee, and, at the time we spoke, was acting secretary.
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An Explanation of .bashrc and .bash_profile
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Both the ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile are scripts that might be executed when bash is invoked. The ~/.bashrc file gets executed when you run bash using an interactive shell that is not a login shell. The ~/.bash_profile only gets executed during a login shell. What does this all mean?
Read more »10 Things a Power User Will Love about Linux
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If you’re a power user but haven’t yet given Linux a shot, you should definitely try it out. Here are 10 things that you will love about Linux over Windows or OS X.
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Open-Source at school
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Since we got handed a HP Mini-note from school 3 weeks ago, I’m busy getting the school to use Linux and other Open-Source software.
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Gnome vs KDE in Ubuntu - 2009
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I believe the best way to summarize the difference is a few words is hard, but I'll give it a try :
- Gnome is very user friendly , easy to use , and very intuitive
- KDE is for advance user, it's different, it's eye candy
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Mark Shuttleworth Strikes the Right Tone On Windows 7
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Some people are scratching their heads over recent Windows 7-related comments attributed to Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth. But Shuttleworth’s words provide an important reminder that innovation and competition from Microsoft will help to propel Ubuntu and Linux forward. Skeptical? Read on.
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