"Twenty-five years ago this month, I had just gotten my first computer, a Commodore 64, and was learning the very basics (quite literally) of programming. Unfortunately for my education, it would be a full eight years before I'd be permitted to see any source code to a computer program that I didn't write myself.
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September 24 Is World Day Against Software Patents
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"Brussels, 2nd September 2008 -- A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the 'World Day Against Software Patents' [...] A global petition asking to effectively stop software patents worldwide will be launched on 24 September 2008, together with specific additional requests for certain regions such as Europe, the Un
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What is hot in the open source software scene? eWorld chatted with Gery Messer, President, Red Hat Asia Pacific, for an update. Here goes:
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Adding a Nifty Conversion Calculator to OpenOffice.org
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A conversion calculator can save you a lot of time and unnecessary mouse clicks when you need to convert values in a document from the imperial to the metric system (or vice versa). Although OpenOffice.org doesn't have a built-in calculator, you can easily create your own one using OpenOffice.org Basic.
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21st Century Desktops, Linux or Windows, Does It Matter?
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It is with considerable amusement I view the verbal skirmishes between the gathering Linux and Windoze factions, almost like watching differing Religious sects gather.
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Top 7 Best-kept Linux Secrets
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As we all know, there are a vast amount of applications available for Linux. People outside the Linux scene will probably have heard and used the most famous open source apps (such as Firefox), but there are a select few programs that are either insanely cool and innovative, or just extremely polished.
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Why Linux...? You might be surprised
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ith the proliferation of Lindependence and upcoming events for that effort, HeliOS Solutions and HeliOS Solutions West will publish some basic and informative articles to guide the New Linux User.
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Deluge - free opensource Torrent Client for openSUSE
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Deluge is a full-featured free opensource BitTorrent client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it’s backend and PyGTK for it’s user interface. Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge’s functionality is available in the form of plugins.
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Running gOS 3 Beta from USB stick
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The San Francisco-based company announced the details of gOS 3 Gadgets, the newest version of its Linux operating system for consumers, this month. The main feature of gOS 3 Gadgets is its ability to instantly launch Google Gadgets for Linux on start-up, allowing users access to more than 100,000 iGoogle and Google Gadgets applications.
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Splert: Shantz Pidgin Away Alerts
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This is a simple tool I wrote a few months ago to turn Pidgin, everyone’s favourite multi-client Instant Messenger (works with gtalk, msn, yahoo, aim etc), into a customized answering machine (and more) when you are away from your computer.
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Top Free Linux Online Courses
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If you plan to get your Linux knowledge a formal nurturing, an online course may be something you would be interested in! These courses would be beneficial for people interested to master the art of Linux.
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Boxee, a media center for the modern world
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Boxee is an open, connected and social media center for Linux and OSX (Windows not supported yet).
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20 Linux apps you can't live without
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Following the success of our 25 killer apps for Linux post, we've dug deep to find the 20 must-have apps you should get your hands on today. Believe us when we say that for Linux users, they're indispensable.
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Using the PlayStation 3 as a media center with Linux
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I recently got a PlayStation 3 from my wonderful girlfriend, and one of the reasons I wanted one was for its great possibilities of being a media center. I installed MediaTomb on my Linux machine (Gentoo) and after half an hour of configurations, it was ready to stream content to the PS3.
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Removing Evolution Mail Is NOT dangerous in the slightest…
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I have noticed for a long time now, much talk of how to remove Evolution from Ubuntu, understandable, if like myself, you use another client for your mail/news. The parts of these discussions that concerned me is the number of people adamant that it will kill your installation.
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