"I spend most of my day working on or near a computer: writing, replying to e-mail, making phone calls, and so on. [...] I use Emacs to keep track of what I need to do, because it makes planning my day so much easier..."
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If you're surprised, you're not paying attention
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Everything you know about networking just changed
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I was sure that Microsoft would find some way to wiggle out of the European Union deal to reveal its trade secrets. At the very least, I thought the company would find a way to keep its intellectual property goodies away from open-source groups such as Samba.
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Computing in the Cloud
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"...I'm going to talk about the AGPL 3.0, why it's important that we put effort into figuring out what freedom for different technologies means, and what the components of freedom for web services might be."
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EC2 Firefox Extension is now Open Source
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OK, but EC2 is an example of the lack of freedom in 'Cloud computing'... http://www.amazon.com/AWS-License-home-page-Money/b/ref=sc_fe_c_0_201590...
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The Weakest Link :)
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"Test yourself with these questions from The Weakest Link. [..]
17. Name the hacker and political campaigner who founded The Free Software Foundation, and whose name is frequently abbreviated to RMS.
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Syncing your BlackBerry on Linux
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If you use Linux on your desktop, and you also happen to have a BlackBerry handheld device, you're probably aware that Research in Motion, the company that develops the BlackBerry platform, offers nothing in the way of support for its devices on Linux -- but the intrepid geeks in the free software world do. Thanks to to the efforts of the Barry and OpenSync projects, I just finished syncing my BlackBerry 8800 with my Evolution contacts on my Ubuntu 7.10 desktop.
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How a Linux Download Topped YouTube's Hit List
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The hottest thing on YouTube this month isn't The Dark Knight trailer or that clip of a baby giving an evil eye. It's video of somebody downloading a copy of Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system.
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How the web began
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"...In such contest, an essential point was that the Web should remain an open standard for all to use and for no-one to lock up into a proprietary system..."
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Emacs: lisplog, an extension to create and manage your blog
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"...I love programming in Emacs Lisp and do everything with this powerful editor. Because of that I wrote an extension to create and manage my blog in it. It is called lisplog and you can find it here in emacswiki or http://www.salug.it/~fabioviola/lisplog-0.1.el ..."
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Nokia Wants W3C to Remove Ogg from Upcoming HTML5
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"... 'The new Nokia is a company that wants to sell you a mobile device that you’ll use to purchase lots of music and other forthcoming content (N-Gage games) and lock you into their portals and services (navigation subscriptions). The device is only a means to an end, and giving customers choices by making the devices open limits Nokia’s future revenue.' ..."
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Nokia N810 Internet Tablet gains remote media player
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A San Francisco-based startup selling media-sharing software for home PCs and mobile devices has ported its flagship application to Nokia's Linux-based Internet tablet. Webot says its "Webot" software lets Nokia's WiFi-connected N8x0 Internet Tablets render music or photos stored on remote Linux, Windows, or Mac PCs.
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Cute little MicroTCA box comes with Linux
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Kontron has announced a cute little 3U, five-slot MicroTCA system that will ship pre-installed with Wind River Linux. The OM6040 boasts "single-star" PCI Express (PCIe) and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) backplanes, and support for either PowerPC- or IA-based AMC (advanced mezzanine card) processor modules.
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Steve Yegge on JavaScript as an IDE Extension Language for Emacs
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"...he's working on a 'JavaScript environment in Emacs-Lisp, with two goals: (1) create a world-class JavaScript IDE for Emacs, and (2) permit writing Emacs extensions in JavaScript' ..."
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Christmas Short Works Collection 2007
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"Christmas Short Works Collection 2007 containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, recorded by a variety of LibriVox members..."
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