I am a fan of affordable technology. I like relatively cheap gadgets, and I like open source. When I heard about Asus’ Eee PC, I took it with a certain grain of salt. I thought that maybe it was just another company trying to take a piece of the pie from the One Laptop Per Child initiative.
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Krazy Kubuntu Annoyances
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I'm running Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) on one of my main workstations. As with its sibling Ubuntu, it's an endlessly-entertaining blend of really nice stuff and really irritating stuff. The nice stuff is nearly-current releases of fast-moving applications like KDE, Digikam, Krita, KWord, and other apps that I use a lot, easy-on-the-eyes graphics, a good set of default applications, and nicely-organized menus. The irritating stuff is they still don't pay enough attention to delivering reliable basic functionality in core functions like networking and printing.
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Pimp your desktop: automate desktop wallpaper with Webilder
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They say that you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and if you want to make a good impression with computer lovers with artistic pretensions, a fancy wallpaper is a pretty good place to start. It can be a real ice breaker. Why stop there? Why spend fruitless hours dredging through the art galleries of cyberspace to retrieve a few hard-won digital morsels to decorate your miserable desktop? Just automate the tedious process with Webilder and free up some valuable time to hone your other more valuable Unix skills. Webilder won’t make you rich, improve your productivity or make you irresistibly attractive to the opposite sex (much) but it’s clever, fun and cool. What more reason do you need to use it?
Read more »A special day?
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Hmmm - my son reminded me that today is considered a very special day for millions of people around the world. Almost forgot. So let’s ask one of our favourite mascots, and ask what day it is
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Debian Mail Server Setup with Postfix + Dovecot + SASL + Squirrel Mail
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Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP.
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How To Set Up Mailman With Debian And ISPConfig
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Pretty self-explanatory: a howto on setting up mailman with debian and ispconfig. Looks good.
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How to keep track of fast-changing Linux OS
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Change is inevitable, and how we deal with it defines us. In the Linux world change happens fast, probably faster than any other kernel in history. The Penguin is Evolving. How should we deal with this high-speed development?
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Sun SPOTs Go Open Source
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Recently Sun Microsystems announced that it would open source both the hardware and operating system for Sun SPOTs, its sensor networking product based on Java technology. CT talked with Arshan Poursohi, a staff researcher in the Sun SPOTs lab on Sun's Menlo Park, CA campus to find out how higher education institutions can incorporate Sun SPOTs in research and instruction.
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Red Hat unveils three new open source projects
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Red Hat Thursday said its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform would be available later this month and introduced three new open source projects designed to infuse transaction, management and other capabilities into its middleware software lineup.
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Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike
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Linpus Technologies has long been known in Taiwan for its Linux distributions. Now, it wants to become a player in the global Linux market with its new Linux distribution Linpus Linux Lite, which features a dual-mode user interface. One mode is for people who may never have used a computer before; the other is for experienced Linux users.
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ATI Linux Display Driver 8.2 : Fixes X Server Bugs
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A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release fixes some important X server bugs, such as:
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Debian / Ubuntu Linux Install and Configure Remote Filesystem Snapshot with rsnapshot Incremental Backup Utility
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Q. I’d like to configure my Debian box to backup two remote servers using rsnapshot software. It should make incremental snapshots of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines on 2nd hard disk located at /disk1 ( /dev/sdb2).
A. rsnapshot is perfect open source solution for making backups on local system.
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CEO says Sangoma cards made Asterisk great
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Sangoma produces telephony cards and writes drivers that work with open source applications such as Asterisk, Yate, FreeSwitch, and CallWeaver. Sangoma CEO and founder David Mandelstam says that before Sangoma started producing cards to work with Asterisk, the open source project was "kind of a toy for hobbyists."
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Bay Area Techies: Help Schools with Your Old Hardware and Free Software
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"On March 1st, the Alameda County Computer Resource Center and Untangle are pairing up to run a massive installfest, pairing donated computer hardware with Ubuntu GNU/Linux..."
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Public Beta Open For “Ultimate N00b SLIME/Emacs Cheat Sheet”
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Peter Christensen created a one-page SLIME/Emacs cheat sheet => http://www.pchristensen.com/slimecommands.pdf
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