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Mount ISO’s easely in gnome - nautilus

http://www.ubuntugeek.com

If you want to be able to rightclick on .iso files and be able to simply select "mount" to mount them, then this is the guide for you.

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Created by giantrobot 17 years 41 weeks ago
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Free router distro gains wild WiFi features

http://www.linuxdevices.com

A project developing a free Linux distribution for x86-based network appliances has achieved a new release with some intriguing wireless access point features. Zeroshell 1.0.beta8 lets one physical radio support multiple logical SSIDs, each with a different encryption and authentication scheme, VLAN, and function (client/AP).

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Created by giantrobot 17 years 41 weeks ago
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concerning a number of tools

http://technomancy.us

"Today's post is going to consist of a roundup of a bunch of small tools that may not deserve their own post but are still quite useful in their own way with a short bonus round at the end for a micro-project I cooked up yesterday. Perhaps I'll throw in a preview of another in-progress project if I don't forget by the time I'm done writing this post. To start with: ..."

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Created by can.axis 17 years 41 weeks ago
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The silver lining in OOXML approval

http://blogs.the451group.com

I kept waiting to weigh in on the ISO approval of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) format, searching for some kind of silver lining for open source. Sure, there are those that say technical and interoperability issues will limit uptake of the standard. But this is Microsoft and Office we’re talking about, so it seems clear that there will be some pretty widespread adoption.

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Created by komrad 17 years 41 weeks ago
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thinking about tex

http://www.futureofthebook.org

"...TeX famously began its life as a distraction. In 1977, Donald Knuth, a computer scientist, wanted a better way to typeset his mammoth book about computer science, The Art of Computer Science, a book which he is still in the process of writing.

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Created by can.axis 17 years 41 weeks ago
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How to filter spam with Spamassassin and Postfix in Debian

http://www.debianadmin.com

Apache SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter that is used to identify spam. Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering. It provides a command line tool to perform filtering, a client-server system to filter large volumes of mail, and Mail::SpamAssassin, a set of Perl modules allowing Apache SpamAssassin to be used in a wide variety of email systems.

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Created by serdar 17 years 41 weeks ago
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Open Source Meets Unified Communications

http://www.thevarguy.com

Watch out, Cisco. Move over, Microsoft. Unified communications and the Asterisk open source platform are on a collision course. In fact, a startup called Worxbox hopes to accelerate that convergence. Here’s why anyone interested in the unified communications market should care.

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Created by asterisk 17 years 41 weeks ago
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Red Hat gets into the fast lane

http://www.itwire.com

Max McLaren sounds very satisified these days. Not to say that the man who's been managing Red Hat's affairs in Australia and New Zealand for nearly two years has sounded disconsolate at any time when I've spoken to him. But right now he has very good reason to be feeling a trifle smug - Red Hat recently released an extraordinary set of figures for the first US quarter.

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Created by switchpin 17 years 41 weeks ago
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In memoriam: free software projects of 2007

http://www.linux.com

Recently I looked in on the project Web site for a small application I use, only to find the wiki completely filled with spam. The project itself was clearly in disrepair, and the code abandoned for six months or more. I wondered: how many other apps that I use have halted development without my realizing it?

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Created by switchpin 17 years 41 weeks ago
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Packaging with DVCSes

http://vcs-pkg.org

"The aim of the vcs-pkg project is to investigate the use of version control for distro package maintenance. We bring together people interested in taking the next step in distro package maintenance: the proper integration of version control into the package maintenance workflow..."

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Created by can.axis 17 years 41 weeks ago
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Package Faves: js2-mode

http://www.emacsblog.org

"I just played with Stevey’s new js2-mode. So many previous javascript modes for emacs just didn’t cut it, but now finally, I’m proud to see a javascript mode that works. Steve did a great job with this package..."

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Created by can.axis 17 years 41 weeks ago
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Rails is moving from SVN to Git

http://weblog.rubyonrails.com

"We’ve been preparing for Rails to move the official source repository from Subversion to Git for some time now and it seems that it’ll happen over the next week or so..."

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Created by can.axis 17 years 41 weeks ago
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Intel Vs. The XO

http://www.forbes.com

For months, computer chip maker Intel and Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child program have fought bitterly over which could sell more cheap, rugged laptops to schools in Asia, Africa and South America. Now Intel is instead turning its focus onto a long neglected market for affordable PCs: American children.

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Created by giantrobot 17 years 41 weeks ago
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A Brave New World for Linux Newbies

http://techticker.net

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes over at ZDNet seems to have insighted a small firestorm of debate on a recent post “Is Ubuntu becoming the generic Linux distro?” in which he observes

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Created by chimera 17 years 41 weeks ago
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Protect Your Files With TrueCrypt 5 On Fedora 8

http://www.howtoforge.com

This document describes how to set up TrueCrypt 5 on Fedora 8. Taken from the TrueCrypt page: "TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention.

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