"...Proprietary technologies give more control and power to the software vendors, while Open technologies (like the Open Web) give more freedom to the users. By promoting proprietary technologies, Adobe and Microsoft are trying to squeeze more value from the developers and pass it over to their shareholders.
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Name'n and Shame'n Where the Credit is Due: Setting the Record Straight on (Non)Voting in SC 34
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Those who collaborated with Microsoft's terror strike against the world's standards bodies don't deserve to be let off so lightly. How about a boycott against the gang of sycophants who participated in this international vandalism?
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Thunderbird won't open http links
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"Sometimes, in Linux, after an update or a brand new install, Thunderbird won't open http links (e.g., with Firefox). This might depend on some default configuration value of your distribution.However, the quickest, and, as far as I know, distribution independent solution, is to manually set these preferences in the prefs.js file...
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The Perl Foundation: Grants Committee elects a new Chair
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"The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the election of Alberto Simões to the position of Grants Committee Chair. Alberto was elected by the Grants Committee members from a pool of four strong candidates..."
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Give JavaScript 2 a Look
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"Last week, I attended a talk on JavaScript 2 by John Resig. John wrote jQuery, and is now the JS evangelist for Mozilla..."
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Setting up a search engine for your website
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"If you run a website and one people to be able to search it then installing a local spider to crawl your site and create a small database of your content which users may search is a relatively straightforward thing to do. Here we'll look at using mnoGoSearch - which is packaged for Debian and simple to install...
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NetApp losing 'spew dot oh' blog war to Sun
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The "Participation Age" has revealed a brand new aspect to patent lawsuits - Executive Spew Dot Oh.
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The Past 12 Linux Kernels Benchmarked
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Taking a break from our graphics excitement last week with the release of AMD's 8.42.3 Display Driver, we have finished our largest (and most time consuming) Linux performance comparison to date. We have taken the last 12 major kernel releases, from Linux 2.6.12 to Linux 2.6.23, built them from source and set out on a benchmarking escapade.
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Revenge of the activist-writers
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Brian Proffitt over at LinuxToday posted a rebuke of an InfoWorld troll experiment in which a writer purposefully tried to incite an entity known as the "Linux community" to attack him.
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Real reveals six new bugs in RealPlayer
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Unlike last week's problem, however, four of the six vulnerabilities disclosed also can be exploited on Mac and Linux machines that have RealPlayer installed. Updated editions are also available for those operating systems, with links available from the security bulletin RealNetworks posted on its site.
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Mozilla's Prism to Pull Web Apps Off the Browser
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Popular as Web-based applications are becoming, the fact remains that most of them are tightly tied to the browser. In order to run Google Docs, for instance, you have to access it through a browser like Firefox or IE7. Mozilla Labs is working on Prism, a project it says could make Web apps run with the same ease and efficiency on the desktop as those natively installed on one's hard drive.
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Three Racing Games for Ubuntu
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Here are three racing games for Linux, on this article I assume you use Ubuntu:
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Video Card Giant AMD Goes Linux
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Video card giant AMD announced the release of new Linux drivers for its popular line of video cards today. The new drivers, Linux Catalyst 7.10, provide updates and features for desktop effects and gaming.
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Endian Firewall Community version 2.2 Beta 1.
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Endian Firewall Community is an all-in-one Linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance.
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Do you Ubuntu? I do!
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I’ve always wanted to use a Linux distro without getting rid of a prior working version of Windows XP. I have now succeeded. Here’s what I did:
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