Wodor has hacked together an anaglyph plugin for Compiz that turns ordinary monitor into a real 3D one.
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Our view is that if there is to be a Universal Document Format, the format must be the nexus of interoperability.
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HP Backs Red Hat in Government Biz Bid
HP today released new Multi-Level Security (MLS) Services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in support of the open source OS vendor's government push.
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Linux Backups For Real People, Part 1
In this two-part series we're going to learn some nice simple methods for making regular backups on single PCs or small networks. Part 1 covers external backup media, and bending udev to your will so that your backup devices will have persistent names. Part 2 will reveal fast, easy, reliable ways to run your backups, both automated and on-demand by clicking a button.
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OLPC Makes its Entry Into India--Finally
as things have worked out, OLPC has already made an entry into India in the form of a pilot project in a rural primary school in a village in the state of Maharasthra.
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A survey of existing Linux patents
The Linux world has been all atwitter since Acacia Technologies Group filed a lawsuit against Red Hat and Novell alleging that their versions of Linux infringe on three patents.
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Data Center Managers Seek Salvation in Virtualization
More and more data center managers have begun implementing virtualization and server See the HP Proliant DL380 G5 Server with Systems Insight Manager – Click here. consolidation strategies in an effort to cope with the growing complexities they face today, according to a Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) Latest News about Symantec report released Tuesday.
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Fedora struggles with harm reduction via Codec Buddy
Fedora 8's solution is to include Codec Buddy, and point it toward's Fluendo's legal but non-free codecs. At the same time, Codec Buddy opens with a message that "Fedora does not condone the use of audio and video codec that require patent licenses to be written and/or distributed. Due to the existence of such patents,
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Acer sues HP again over patents
Acer is suing Hewlett-Packard again for patent violations. It's an escalation of the battle over the two companies' intellectual property that began earlier this year.
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Court grants injunction against new patent rules
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from enforcing new rules that would impose some roadblocks on patent applications.
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Overcoming the Fear of Linux CLI
I’m here to assist those who are suffering from CLI-phobia, or the “fear of Command Line Interface”. I will list some indispensable commands and keyboard shortcuts with their corresponding functions to guide the fearful in their journey to conquer the horror of using the Linux terminal.
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YaST Tools for Creating Installation Media and Appliances
openSUSE 10.3 contains much more tools to manipulate RPM-based software and wrap it into a numerous ways for delivery, from a simple repository to a complete appliance creation.
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Drupal Wins Packt Publishing Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award
Packt Publishing has announced the overall winner of their 2007 Open Source CMS Award and it's Drupal! This first place award comes with a cash prize of $5,000, the highest of the cash prizes offered, which will be used by the Drupal Association to help the Drupal project flourish.
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How to fix broken Firefox extensions
There are few certainties in life. Death, taxes and Microsoft FUD are three of them—and the fact that, sooner or later, upgrading Firefox is going to break one or more of your killer extensions.
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Interception of files with tcpdump
"If you're like me you want to know whats going through your home network. Here is how to use tcpdump, tcpflow and foremost to intercept and extract unencrypted files. I've never seen a tutorial on this subject before, so I figured I'd try to give a little something back to the GNU/Linux community that has taught me so much over the years..."
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