Ben Yarbrough has seen it. Bob Walters has seen it. And now, hundreds of managed service providers are starting to see it. What exactly is “it”? The simple answer: The convergence of open source with managed services.
Read more »Managed Services: Built On Open Source?
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How To Set Up Internet Access Control And Internet Filtering With SafeSquid Proxy Server
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SafeSquid - Content Filtering Internet Proxy, has many content filtering features that can be used to decide who is allowed what, when and how much on the net. In this tutorial I will describe how to create user profiles, and give them access to specific websites only, while blocking access to all other websites.
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Conkeror
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"I've recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension, but nowadays it's a standalone app built on top of Mozilla's xulrunner, so it uses the Gecko rendering engine.
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Windows XP vs. Vista vs. Linux
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Microsoft may be able to brow-beat the world into using Vista on fully functional PCs, but if they walk away from XP on simple, cheap computers and cede the market to Linux, they are a dead man walking.
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Don't Work Downstream from Redmond
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As long as the company offers only jingoistic pats on the head to us misguided little hackers laboring part time in our basements with no commercial aspirations, there’s little point in considering anything that comes out of Redmond as useful.
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CrossOver Games adds firepower to Linux
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CodeWeavers, developer of software that makes it possible to run Windows applications on Mac and Linux operating systems, yesterday announced CrossOver Games.
Read more »15 Open-Source Business Influencers
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This is a slide show that runs through the 15 most influential people of the FOSS business world according to eweek.com. There are brief bios given for each. No RMS though... I guess he doesn't count as influencing business or maybe it's because he isn't a businessman. Or maybe it's because it's "Open Source business influencers" not "free software business influencers".
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Creating a Home Inventory with F-Spot (video)
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With fires, thefts, and natural disasters it is a good idea to have a home inventory. In this video I am going to show you how to inventory your house using a digital camera and F-Spot on a Linux desktop.
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Red Hat posts great 2008 fiscal year earnings
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Anyone under the delusion that you can't make money from open source and Linux should have been on Red Hat's 2008 fiscal year earnings call on March 27.
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Contest: Talk Like Richard Stallman!
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Well, post rather.
I’ve decided to put together a little contest for our regulars, although newcomers are welcomed, too.
This is a lesson in both history, who’s who, and the roots of Linux.
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Local Government Urged to Consider Open Source
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The Shire of Busselton’s senior IT officer says open source software offers many opportunities for councils suffering budgetary constraints
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Home automation system gains Linux-based controller
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Control4 has added to its line of Linux-based, ZigBee-compatible home automation/media networking products with a new controller. The Control4 Home Controller HC-500 interfaces with home theater appliances, multi-room music access, lighting, thermostats, and security systems, and comes with a Linux software development kit (SDK).
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Yahoo is the Reason for Microsoft's New Open Source Stance
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It's not every day that a Microsoft executive as highly placed as senior vice president, corporate secretary and general counsel Brad Smith shows up at an open source conference, but he made an appearance at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco this week. I enjoyed the title of InfoWorld's summary of his visit: Microsot's Brad Smith Tries to Make Nice with Open Source Community.
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In Close Vote, Germany Stays in the OOXML "Yes" Column as More Reports Dribble in
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OpenDocument and OOXMLWith fewer than 48 hours to go throughout most of the world, only a small percentage of the 87 countries that voted last summer on OOXML have announced whether they will stand by, or change, the votes that they cast during the original six month voting period.
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FOSSFA urges African nations to abstain in OOXML ballot
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The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) has called on African governments and standards bodies to abstain in the balloting, due to close Saturday, on whether a file format based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) should be an international standard.
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