Health is personal. Health Care is not. The term is a euphemism for Condition Treatment, and it's not about patients. It's about systems, and most of those are both proprietary and closed.
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Am I missing something?
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I'm looking at the latest batch of updates for Ubuntu 8.04, 17 in all. One set of updates is for the kernel. That's right, yet another kernel update. And why are we updating the kernel this time? So that we can shave 3 seconds off the boot-up sequence, from 36 seconds to 33 seconds. Here's the bug (240938).
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Sun: We screwed up on open source
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Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up".
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It’s Launched! Now use it!
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What is the field which you create in (photography, writing, movies, music, etc)? Do you want to read stories and interviews of people who produce similar content and release it under a CC license? We now have many such writeups on the Case Studies page. As you will see, that page and all of the case studies linked from it, are in a wiki.
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Twitter is down? Use bilboBlog, it's free
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A new version of BilboBlog, the free Php micro-bloging application used for my mini-blog, has just been released. This article summarises the new features.
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ASUS backs down on anti-Linux pricing
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Asus has quietly ditched its ludicrous policy of charging $50 more for the Linux-based Eee PC 901 than the XP one.
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Will the internet really improve the way we think?
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In a recent interview with the British Sunday Observer, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, claimed that “it’s the next billion [internet users] who will change the way we think”. Such a big claim deserves some critical house room. Will the internet really change the way we think? Or are we just getting carried away?
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Microsoft’s Open Source Land Grab Continues
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Microsoft's continued escapades with the Free/Open Source software world
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How to scan and OCR like a pro with open source tools
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With optical character recognition (OCR), you can scan the contents of a document into a single file of editable text. This article, which focuses on scanning books, describes the steps you need to take to prepare pages for optimal OCR results, and compares various free OCR tools to determine which is the best at extracting the text.
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Firefox 3.0 boosts Mozilla's market share
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On the back of the release last week of Firefox 3.0, Mozilla's open-source browser gained market share at the expense of rivals Internet Explorer (IE) and Safari, Net Applications said Monday.
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Ubuntu 8.04 & Compiz
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Video showing Ubuntu 8.04 running Compiz. This is a good one to show your loser MS loving friends.
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Nokia buys Symbian, will open Symbian OS
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Symbian, the company behind the popular proprietary mobile/embedded operating system of the same name, just turned 10, but it won't see its next birthday. Nokia, which had long owned a substantial portion of Symbian, announced today that it would be buying the rest of the company, 52% for about 264 million euros, or approximately $410 million.
Read more »A Date with Elyssa
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After dating Cassandra and Daryna, I spend some time with the newest Mint girl in town. Elyssa is her name or you can simply call her Mint 5.I was really impressed with the past versions of Mint, so I made a vow to always keep track of its latest development.
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How-To keep busy : Ten things to do this summer
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Summer holiday boredom won't set in if you keep this list handy. :)
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GPL Project Watch List for Week of 06/20/08
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The GPL v3 Watch List is intended to give you a snapshot of the GPLv3/LGPLv3 adoption for June 14th through June 20th, 2008.
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