What is SSL?
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Pybackpack - A user friendly file backup tool for Ubuntu Linux Desktop
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A graphical tool to make file backup simpler. Provides a user-friendly interface which allows you to back up your files easily to an archive, to a CD/DVD or to a remote location using SSH.
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Firefox, the king of web browsers
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After Microsoft killed Netscape, there was no serious competitor to Internet Explorer in the browser wars. For years, Microsoft lorded its dominance of the web browser market. Then along came Firefox, the open source web browser that took the world by storm.
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Collecting Data from Web pages with OutWit
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Web scrapping is a clever idea, but extracting data from a Web page manually can be a real chore. The new OutWit extension for Firefox provides a solution to this problem. Better yet, it allows you to save and export the scrapped data, which makes it a great research tool.
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Webmin: can a graphical front end for system administration replace the command line?
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This article will tell you how to install and use Webmin, a web user interface mainly used for administering servers. If you are not a sysadmin, don't run away: Webmin can also be used on a single desktop too. You may struggle to remember all the command line operations to manage, say, run levels or various daemons and prefer to do it the GUI way.
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Charles Pancerzewski and Microsoft Fraud Revisited
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A journey into the past, with focus on allegations (from the inside) of Microsoft fraud.
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Editiorial Control and ‘Missing’ Writers
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An essay about bias in the press (which favours betrayal of Free software).
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Novell’s “Time Would be Better Spent in Doing Something Positive”
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Novell dismisses the action taken by critics rather than its own.
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Windows Vista committed suicide
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[...]He arrived at his destination. He started formatting himself (he couldn’t be discovered. It was the first and the most important rule: his code must remain secret, always. No exceptions). When he had almost being converted to NULL positions, he managed to finish with his pain, finally. Nobody will never be able to programme him again, he didn’t worth it.
Read more »Microsoft’s OEM Lock-in on the Ropes
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More action is taken against the forced inclusion of Microsoft Windows in European PCs.
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Lesson in Attacks by Proxy: Microsoft Versus Google
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Microsoft's fight against Google takes another turn (of hypocrisy).
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Download Pidgin 2.5.1 for Ubuntu (deb package)
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Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.
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Nearly Half of Amazon’s Top 10 Best Selling Notebooks Run Linux
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With the popularity of Linux netbooks, 4 out of Amazon's top 10 bestseller list for notebooks now run some form of Linux. Another four run Windows XP, not Vista. The final two (which are 2nd and 10th) are MacBooks.
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Opening the Door to Linux in the Enterprise Using Vendor-independent Formats
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An article about the need for a unified format anyone can implement (ODF)
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10 Beautiful Themes for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
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The upcoming release of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) is highly anticipated not only for the system enhancements it will likely get, but also for its new default theme.
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