New PDF and Paper book with over 300 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for working with Ubuntu. Here's a link to a PDF with excerpts: http://media.pragprog.com/titles/ktuk/excerpts.pdf
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The Video and Audio element patch has landed
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"The patches in bug 382267 to add support for the WHATWG video and audio elements have been applied to the Firefox mozilla-central repository..."
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"Piggybacking" and the open-source trademark issue
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Rosetta Stone's trademark lawsuit against a competitor brought to mind the simmering issue of trademark violations in open source. One of the opportunities and challenges in open source is that presumably anyone can be an expert in Project X, Y, or Z. Because of this dispersed expertise, the opportunity to run afoul of trademark violations is rife.
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Have linux, will travel
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I had a look around at the state of the art in Linuxes that boot from USB and I come across a little gem: DSL USB Embedded. DSL is Damn Small Linux and is an old 2.4 kernel and 50 megabytes of applications, a minimal system with hand-picked useful apps.
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Flashblock - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Flashblock is an extension [...] that prevents Macromedia Flash "movies" from automatically playing when a web page is first loaded. Flashblock is primarily used to prevent banner ads that play audio or video from starting, but also to reduce load time of banner-filled pages..." --
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
* http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
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Why I Am Leaning Toward Debian
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I am looking at various options for a Linux distribution these days. Some of them I discussed in my previous post on how to choose a Linux distribution. I also discussed CentOS. Here I would like to point out some factors why I am leaning toward Debian.
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Top 4 New Feature Proposed for Fedora 10
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Since I have been writing about Ubuntu a lot recently, I thought I would look at some proposed features for Fedora 10. No features have been officially approved yet, so these are just proposals.
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Howto Install VirtualBox 1.6 in Ubuntu 8.04(Hardy Heron) including USB Support
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VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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Canadian open source community upset over proposed copyright law
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The Government of Canada has angered those who believe that a proposed copyright law threatens the country's open source business model.
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UMPCs and Linux: made for each other, and coming soon
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Who knew that the biggest desktop Linux show of 2008 would turn out to be the June Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan, where the next generation of Linux desktop hardware was put on display? In fact, Linux was at the heart of no fewer than four different ultra mobile PCs (UMPC).
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Mobile Flash becomes free - Adobe
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Today Adobe announced a series of changes to its emerging web applications platform. The changes include:
--The next version of the mobile Flash runtime will be free of license fees. Adobe also confirmed that the mobile version of the Air runtime will be free.
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GNOME 2.30 = GNOME 3.0
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This image has set the Internet on fire. No big details yet, but the main scoop is that GNOME 3 will also have GTK 3. Going by the current release schedule, that is a year and a half from now in 2010, unless things change.
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For those "oops" moments: ext3undel
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The rm command can be a powerful tool for deleting data -- until you delete the wrong files or directories. Thankfully, the ext3undel utility can recover accidently removed data on ext3 filesystems.
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Linux and Mac users alike will both know that Windows has by far the lion's share of the computer gaming market... However, I believe that from an architectural point of view, Windows is not the best platform for gaming. I
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Meet the People Who Have Trillions Riding on Linux this Fall
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If you work around Linux regularly, in some ways the latest amazing news is… not that amazing. The New York Stock Exchange, where the world’s largest public companies trade their stocks, is now running on Linux. (Microsoft is not listed on the NYSE; they trade on the NASDAQ. Now *that* would have been a fun headline…) In addition the Chicago Mercantile Exchange also runs on Linux.
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