Earlier this week I’ve read this article: “Defragmentation of Linux Filesystems“. The title and the headline made me interested enough, to go ahead and read it and see if there was something there to show me that linux filesystems do need defragmentation.
Read more »Linux filesystem defragmentation flame war
Refactoring Erlang
"I’ve been playing around a bit with Wrangler—an Erlang refactoring package for Emacs. [...] So I whipped up a function to toggle Wrangler on and off: ..." -- Wrangler -- http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/forse/wrangler/doc/overview-summary.html
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Buntu Family Theater
Linux Journal's own Shawn Powers tells the story of Ubuntu and his family of distributions as they search for their identities.
Read more »Emacs Gnus: Searching Mail
"There are several ways to find messages in Emacs. From the summary buffer, you can use / o (gnus-summary-insert-old-articles) to display all or some old messages. You can then scan through the headers in the summary buffer by using C-s (isearch-forward), or you can limit the displayed messages with these commands: ..."
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Give Me 3 Synths, Part 3
In this final installment to the series I'll double your reading pleasure by presenting two new Linux softsynths. Such a deal, two reviews for the price of one!
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PlayOnLinux v3.0 a.k.a Arietis Released
Here is PlayOnLinux version 3.0 as announced, the release of your favorite front-end to Wine, PlayOnLinux.
This is a major version. Here is what's new:
A whole range of new functions
I want to point out that v2 scripts are still compatible with this version. But we decided to re-design the installation programs nevertheless. Here is the new interface:
Updated scripts
Read more »Listadmin - Command line tool to manipulate the queues of messages
listadmin is a command line tool to manipulate the queues of messages held for moderator approval by mailman. It is designed to keep user interaction to a minimum, in theory you could run it from cron to prune the queue. It can use the score from a header added by SpamAssassin to filter, or it can match specific senders, subjects, or reasons.
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The Meaning of Open Source
I began searching online for solutions to my various minor difficulties. And I was amazed at what I found. In every case, others had had similar problems, and in every case people had offered helpful suggestions as to how to fix them. It was a wonderful vindication of the entire open source way, of people helping each other by passing on their personal discoveries.
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Make that Three: India Appeals Adoption of OOXML
Last night was the deadline for filing appeals to the adoption of OOXML by ISO/IEC JTC 1. This morning, a spokesman for the IEC acknowledged the receipt of a total of three appeals by the deadline, with the third and final appeal being filed by India, as reported by Peter Sayers, of the IDG News Service.
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Bling your browser with PimpMyCamino
As the Mozilla-based OS X Web browser project Camino continues to grow, so do the number of add-ons and plugins at PimpMy Camino. Although PimpMyCamino is not officially endorsed by the Camino developers, the project's Web site calls it "your one-stop shop for Camino add-ons."
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Susan Hauser, FUDMeister Extraordinaire
Watch how a Microsoft marketing rep is throwing FUD at GNU/Linux, even in an open source Web site
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Financial Games: Novell’s Main Strength?
An analysis of Novell's real financial state, which the news seems to voluntarily cover in a shallow way
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Ballnux Laptops Falter Again (Better Off with GNU/Linux)
Novell's GNU/Linux distribution on H-P laptops falls short (compared to other GNU/Linux laptops)
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Top 5 ways not to be a Linux evangelist
As I ate dinner at a recent LUG meeting, I found myself pleasantly surrounded by a group of people with the same intense passion. We all shared a thorough love for the beneficial and effective Linux operating system.
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Will We Ever Have a GPL Test Case?
The GNU General Public License is nearly 20 years old (version 1 came out in 1989). In that time there have been at least 100 million lawsuits filed in the US (and that's a conservative estimate). Amazingly enough, not one of those millions of court cases has actually tested the GPL's validity. How can that be - and is it a problem for the open source software movement?
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