The idea behind the contextual web was to bring together content, in what was back then largely a disconnected web. And if it was disconnected back then, it's been shredded to pieces and separated in silos now. This is the age of the social network.
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Daily dose of Scribus trunk
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We'll be using Scribus for much of the DTP internal to Canonical. Our templates etc will be published in Scribus, so folks who need to knock up a flyer or brochure have the pieces they need ready to hand. However, there's a problem, in that the stable Scribus package is really quite old.
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.1 Spring (LAMP)
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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Mandriva 2010.1 Spring server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Linux backlight control
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Backlight control is one of those things that you'd think would be simple, but ha ha this is computing so of course it's an utter disaster and everything is a huge mess.
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Best 3D Graphics Software for Linux
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3D computer graphics software refers to programs used to create 3D computer-generated imagery. This article only covers some of the software used.
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Something is Drupally in the State of Denmark
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Now that I am fully recovered from jet lag, I am able to reflect on how enjoyable the recent Copenhagen DrupalCon was.
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More Eyecandy On Its Way For Ubuntu 10.10 Installer Slideshow
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Ubuntu 10.10 Installer is going through massive changes. Canonical is leaving no stones unturned and now even the installer slideshow is getting fair amount of attention. Installer slideshow was introduced during the Ubuntu Lucid release and Canonical aims to bring more polish and simplicity to the slideshow feature.
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Minitube 1.2 Beta Released, Adds Video Downloads, Gnome Multimedia Keys Support
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Minitube is an application for watching YouTube without Flash. Minitube 1.2 beta was just released, bringing a much requested feature: Gnome multimedia keys support as well as YouTube video downloads.
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Magic Trackpad drivers land in Ubuntu Maverick and Upstream!
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I’ve been spending some time adding Magic Trackpad functionality to the current Magic Mouse driver in the kernel. I’m pleased to report that the changes have landed both in Ubuntu and upstream in Jiri Kosina’s HID tree as it awaits merging into Linus’ tree. It will be available in Ubuntu 10.10 and hopefully in Linux 2.6.37.
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Banshee 1.7.5 Review in Ubuntu Maverick Beta
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Being actively developed, feature-rich, providing access to several useful Internet service and a pretty decent media library, Banshee has a pretty fair share of users, and it is definitely a powerful music player not be ignored.
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Mozilla Asks, ‘Are We Fast Yet?'
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These charts show the performance of JavaScript engines across different architectures. The tests shown are the common SunSpider and V8 JavaScript benchmarks, with output measured in milliseconds. The tests are run once a day, and the graphs show the last five weeks or so of results.
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Linux desktop market share: Small no matter how you measure
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It doesn't give me any pleasure in saying this, but the evidence is overwhelming that Linux is not huge on the desktop. Saying it has maybe 1% of the desktop marketshare is probably not realistic, but not as far off the mark as we'd like.
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Mageia is the future of Mandriva
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Now a few weeks after my first article about Mandriva’s future things have even more moved in a negative direction. The new management has decided to close down Edge-IT, a company which was bought by Mandriva several years ago. Apparently lots of the employees working on the distribution, were in fact Edge-IT employees and so they now have to leave the sinking ship.
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Creating Custom Man Pages
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Man pages have been the primary source for UN*x documentation for a long time. Whenever I create a script that's going to be around for a while, I create documentation in the form of a section 1 man page. This stops my cell phone from ringing on the weekends when the junior sysadmins are looking for my notes.
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Source code for Dell Streak unveiled
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Thanks to Android’s open-source agreements handsets are having their source codes released left and right. If you’re similar to me, I get quite excited that they released the source code, download the file, and realize… I have no idea what I am doing. Although I am still eager about what our developers will come up with to take advantage of this large screen.
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