"...In all this Semantic Web news, though, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The benefit of the Semantic Web is that data may be re-used in ways unexpected by the original publisher. That is the value added.
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Subscriptions to Surge for Open-Source Licensing
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One out of five applications will be licensed by subscription within five years, respondents said, thanks to goodies such as remote management, security monitoring and more.
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Mozilla fixes 10 Firefox flaws, half seen as 'critical'
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Mozilla Corp. yesterday patched 10 vulnerabilities, half of them marked "critical," in its open-source browser as it updated Firefox to Version 2.0.0.13. The new Mozilla Messaging Inc. spin-off, however, was not able to provide a matching update to its Thunderbird e-mail client, which shares five of the Firefox flaws that were fixed.
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How to Install Mozilla Prism in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
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Prism is a simple XULRunner-based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is based on a concept called Site-Specific Browsers (SSB).
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Humanitarian projects and open source: Working together to revitalize computer sciences
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Ralph Morelli, professor of computer science at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., has a double motive in spearheading the Humanitarian FOSS Project (HFOSS).
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Erik Naggum on learning Emacs
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"...novice-friendly software has a despicable habit of piling feature upon feature without really getting any more advanced -- it's the same stupid dog learning more and more tricks. those tricks are just long, automated sequences of manual commands. Emacs isn't like that. Emacs tricks have to do with algorithmically modifiable and parametrically adjustable behavior.
Read more »Emacs: Turning Day into Night
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"...I spend most of my time in Emacs so I needed a way to change the colour of the background and the text easily. Below is some Emacs Lisp code that lets you switch between light-green text on a black background and black text on a white background. When the F12 key is pressed it will switch between the two modes..."
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Introduction BackupPC part 1
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"This HOWTO will describe how to install BackupPC and how to create a simple backup using backuppc. BackupPC can offer a nice solution for both simple and complex backups..."
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What does IBM mean for an open source start-up?
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News that IBM is among the new investors in EnterpriseDB has already been remarked upon by our own Matt Asay.
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Microsoft Files Complaint About India's No Vote on OOXML
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Microsoft has filed a complaint about the OOXML disapprove vote in India, according to a report on Open Source India by Venkatesh Hariharan
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Matthias Ettrich: The KDE-Man!
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Nobody in their right mind would choose Windows over GNU/Linux based on the desktop experience alone, says Matthias Ettrich.
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10 ways that Linux is outgrowing the stereotype and becoming the best OS
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Linux has a negative image associated with it; a most unfortunate affliction when that image is contrary to the truth. I'm occasionally asked "why do you bother with Linux?" by people who haven't used it recently under the assumption that it's difficult to use, counter intuitive, geeky, nerdy and any number of other adjectives.
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Creating your own streaming music server with Ubuntu and Ampache.
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The main focus of this article is to get you setup with a solid Linux server and a streaming media application called Ampache. If you follow my guide verbatim, you will have exactly that. Let's get started!
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Windows Application Emulation: Wine vs VirtualBox
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No matter how hard you try, unless you've committed yourself to giving up any and all Windows based applications, you tend to find yourself stuck in a situation where you must emulate at least one of these applications inside of Linux. This is where emulators such as Virtual Box and Wine come in handy to help you bridge that divide.
Read more »Bit Torrent Solutions For Linux
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Utorrent has been indisputably the best Bit-Torrent client for Windows due to it's light-weight resource friendly interface and simple usability almost since the 1.5.0 release, or perhaps since even much before. When it comes to linux, selecting the "best" Bit-Torrent client has always been a n-sided affair.
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