Heard the joke about the three engineers riding in a car that starts sputtering along the highway? The electrical engineer suggests they check the ignition. The mechanical engineer suggests they check the transmission. The computer engineer suggests they pull over, turn the car off and start it up again.
Read more »Open the Windows; the Stench is Unbearable
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Patents Trolls Gaining More Momentum
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Familiar patent trolls, including Ray Niro and Acacia, make another appearance
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“I Have Spoken with Maureen O’Gara (Based on go Ahead from BrianV) and Planted the Story”
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Practical Common Lisp Japanese translation
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"I was recently notified – somewhat to my suprise – that the Japanese publisher Ohmsha is publishing a Japanese translation of Practical Common Lisp which should now be avaliable in bookstores and on amazon.co.jp..." --
* Practical Common Lisp: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
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Linux User Here
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Color me surprised. Dana Blankenhorn, a well-known writer about Linux and open source recently asked for someone—anyone–to send him a loaner Linux laptop to replace his now dead Windows laptop. What, he didn’t already have one?
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Exploring Freedom: the book
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"Coming this October, Exploring Freedom: the book. [...] Our first product will be our book, Exploring Freedom. Based on the articles from our blogs, plus new material from Matt Lee, Rob Myers and others..." --
* [FSF] Interview with Rob Myers by Matt Lee: http://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2007/fall/rob-myers/
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zock! - The Free Betting Office
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Finally, a free software for organizing betting games that rocks! It's name is zock!
It is a betting office targeted at cliques of friends or co-workers which would like to organize a betting game for a sport event.
Altough it is only version 0.5.1, it is already quit sophisticated and allows a lot of parameters in a betting game installation.
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Why I stick with Perl
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"I noticed a discussion about Perl on Hacker News this morning. The linked article is about why the author likes Perl. As with all articles of this type, it attracted the usual "Ruby is better!!" comments.
Read more »Open Source is not about freedom, nor is it about licenses.
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Open Source is not about freedom, nor is it about licenses. It's about community. Of course everyone knows about Richard Stallman's concern about having the freedom to modify all software on his machine. Tim O'Reilly has had a concern for many years that Open Source licenses do not keep software Open Source when it is not being distributed but instead performed as in Web 2.0 applications.
Read more »Emacs and Gnus: zomg, new chapter out the door!
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Sacha Chua (Reading Mail with Gnus): "...Yes, you can read mail in Emacs. In fact, there are more than five mail clients to choose from, ranging from simple message readers to complex mail clients that integrate with many other modules. In this chapter, you'll learn how to set up and use Gnus, a feature-rich mail client that comes with Emacs 22.
Read more »Microsoft Calls Firefox Competitor To Windows
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The report shows that Microsoft is aware of its own important balancing act as the company strives to maintain its relevance and dominance in the services era.
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GNU Hurd wiki: git repo now available though Savannah
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"...There is read-only access for everyone and read-write access for people that are registered with the Hurd Savannah group..." --
* git repo: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=hurd/wiki.git
* web-commits: http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/
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Manage Your Music Efficiently in Linux
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Today PC's have become a major source of entertainment ... Whether its listening Music, watching Movies , playing Games or chatting in past time.. PC has does it all to keep you entertained for a long period of time.. PC has now turned to a jukebox now apart from what they are mainly meant for !
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Mandriva Spring 2008: The new “definitive” Linux?
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Jack Wallen of TechRepublic tried Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring, and he liked what he saw: "This is, without a doubt, the finest release of any Linux distribution I have ever experienced in my 10+ years of using Linux."
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MS-OOXML: A format without a future?
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Judged by its technical merits, or common standards of interoperability and usefulness, OOXML is a dead duck. But Microsoft is first and foremost a successful marketing organisation with a long reach into government circles.
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