Human development has many bad impacts over the world. Either concerning our environment or ourselves. As time flows, ice becomes water, water becomes black. Forests are ripped off, grounds are polluted.
Read more »Freedom will not be brought by Free Software
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Flash and Java on 64bit Ubuntu and Kubuntu
There exists no official flash package available for the 64bit architecture with Ubuntu and Kubuntu. If you click the add plugin button when visiting a page with flash, you are taken to the official Flash site and will soon notice that there are no available 64bit downloads here either. There are some workarounds on ubuntu forums, however, they don't always seem to work and get complicated if you have compiled your own 32bit Firefox. We have been using both the official 64bit Firefox package from the Kubuntu repositories as well as a modified 32bit version I built quite a while ago to get around some stability issues with the 64bit version. So after about a year without flash support, we finally took the plunge and have built a quick and easy solution.
Read more »First Meeting of 2008
"...We’ll be discussing the latest and greatest happenings in the world of free culture, Creative Commons, and Free software. We’ll also be talking our future plans for the semester..."
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PlayOnLinux 2.0.7 released
PlayOnLinux 2.0.7 is out with some minor changes. Polish translation, Russian translation, Italian language fixes. The problem with the --run command should now be fixed.
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Wine-Doors ditches IEs4Linux
We’ve used code from the original IEs4Linux script and trimmed it down and involved wine-doors dependencies rather than a full out overwriting of everything. We’ll probably still need to trim the registry down a bit, and we’ll offer another package for “FakeIE” soon.
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Volume: Money or Misdirection?
In the wake of the billion dollar valuation of MySQL, a number of intelligent folks have been crunching the estimated numbers in search of an equation that makes sense in the context of the market economics and come up wanting (as predicted). Jeff Gould states it most clearly, asking:
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ATI Linux & X-Plane: It Works
X-Plane is marketed as the "most thorough, flexible, and realistic flight simulator available for personal computers" and ships not only for Windows and Macintosh platforms but also for Linux.
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SLAX on USB Drive
On the other hand, I couldn’t resist citing the old saying as it fits here well in defining, in short, the problems that emerge when one decides to use USB media to distribute LiveCD distros.
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Secure your Network and Diagnose Problems with nmapFE: the Network Mapper Front-End
Nmap, or the Network Mapper, is a powerful command-line tool for diagnosing network problems, finding security vulnerabilities, and host of other uses. Its many options and scanning methods can be daunting to even the most experienced of end users, but nmapFE is a graphical interface for nmap that makes it easy to use even the most powerful aspects of the network mapper, and can be a life-saver when you run into networking problems.
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Implementation of a blog in Common Lisp: Part 3
"Part 3 of the blog/webapp tutorial is now up. Enjoy! Comments and suggestions for improvements are welcome..."
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Tweaking Hidden Ubuntu Settings With Ubuntu Tweak
Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets you change hidden Ubuntu settings, for example: hide or change the splash screen, show or hide the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network icons, change Metacity, Nautilus, power management, and security settings, etc. Currently Ubuntu Tweak is available only for the Ubuntu GNOME desktop, i.e., it will not work on Kubuntu or Xubuntu. This short guide shows how to install and use Ubuntu Tweak.
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Shift Linux 0.6.2 released
"...There are three editions released at this time: Shift Linux 0.6 GNOME, Shift Linux 0.6 KDE4, and Shift Linux 0.6 Lite (for older computers)..."
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Bonjour Plugin For Kopete Status
Yesterday, my exams finished so I went back to working on my pet project, the Bonjour Plugin for Kopete.
I commited Revision 758598, and with it comes a very functional plugin, which completely supports chatting (at least with pidgin).
Read it to see how you can help.
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Can LoopFuse crack the open source conversion conundrum?
The merits of the open source distribution model in generating sales leads have been well documented but it’s always good to see statistics that back up the theory. I recently talked with a new open source software vendor (who will remain nameless, although in the interests of avoiding confusion I should state it was not LoopFuse) that shared with me some statistics about its first year distributing open source code and the comparative cost of lead generation using the proprietary model.
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Ubuntu Dell Inspiron 6400 : a quick review
A month ago I ordered one of the new Ubuntu Dell on the Dell France website : the Inspiron 6400. The base price was around 450 euros, and I took almost all the upgrades, for a final price of around 750 euros. The specs are : a Intel dual proc, 2Gb of RAM, 160Gb HD, 15′4 inch screen, i965 video chipset, DVD+RW burner, 9-cell battery, and a 4-year-warranty. That’s it for the laptop itself. I will now focus on Dell’s integration of Ubuntu (more specifically feisty), something that intrigued me.
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