Since the early days of Linux, whenever new users and others, would go to boards and forums seeking information on a specific topic, there would be the inevitable reply "rtfm".
Read more »If one has nothing to add, being rude isn't an alternative.
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Google OpenSocial: after the hype, the holes
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Open standards always cause security problems and Google's OpenSocial API introduced last week is no exception. Not only was an early application based on the standard hacked within minutes, it quickly became evident that OpenSocial is vulnerable and offers an open door to anyone who wants to put a little effort into pushing it open.
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Weary of Wikipedia Weaknesses, Professor Assigns Edits
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Wikipedia has been vilified as a petri dish for misinformation, and the variable accuracy of its articles is a point University of Washington-Bothell professor Martha Groom readily concedes. Since the advent of the Web, she said, the quality of sources students cite has deteriorated.
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Linux Users - Not Just Feral, but Rabid
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Think about revolutions and minute-men. Think about angry libertarians. And after that, think of the settlers of the wild frontier. Because at this time in history, that's just what Linux is: the Wild, Wild West.
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Webot adds Mac, Linux support: I don’t care where my music is
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Webot adds Mac, Linux support: I don’t care where my music is
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MEDIA ADVISORY: W3C, Tim Berners-Lee To Present Mobile Web Vision at Mobile Internet World
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"W3C Director and Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee will deliver a keynote, "Escaping the Walled Garden: Growing the Mobile Web with Open Standards" at Mobile Internet World, 13-15 November at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA, USA..."
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Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery
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"jQuery is a JavaScript library which follows unobtrusive paradigm for application development using JavaScript. jQuery inherently supports Behavior driven development and is based on traversing HTML documents using CSS Selectors. On the other hand, Prototype is a JavaScript library for Class driven development which makes life easier working with JavaScript.
Read more »Firefox 3 Endgame Plan (DEFPOTEC)
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"With Firefox 3 Beta 1 just around the corner (release candidates coming soon!) it’s time to start focusing on what it will take to ship a final product which we’re all excited about; one that we’d be thrilled to recommend to our friends, our families, and the world. Shipping a great product while keeping to a schedule requires ruthless focus.
Read more »Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client
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"...Internet Message Access Protocol (Wikipedia page) enables email programs to read messages stored on the server. Unlike POP, with IMAP it's as if you're browsing a network drive of files on a remote server with an open, live connection to that server; whenever you open a folder or view a message, it's displayed from that server live.
Read more »Ubuntu - Outside the Sandbox
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I've used Ubuntu Linux now for the better part of a year; there have been some stumbles along the way, but for the most part, I'm sold.
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SeaMonkey 1.1.6 released
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"SillyDog701 moderator Edward informed us that SeaMonkey project has released update to SeaMonkey, version 1.1.6 following the Gecko security update released a few days ago..."
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/releases/1.1.6
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HOWTO Mutt and Gmail on Debian
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Mutt is a text-based e-mail client for Unix-like systems. It was originally written by Michael Elkins in 1995 and released under the GNU General Public License. -- (wikipedia)
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The Dojo Foundation Releases Dojo 1.0
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"The Dojo Foundation is proud to announce version 1.0 of Dojo, an Open Source JavaScript toolkit for Ajax development that can be used to build rich Web 2.0 applications..."
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The irrelevance of desktop Linux
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Can Google save desktop Linux? Or more accurately, can online applications?
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