A recent bug report for Ubuntu Linux has confirmed that both the Feisty and Gutsy versions of Ubuntu cause some unnecessary wear and tear on a hard drive
Read more »Explanation of Ubuntu Hard Drive Wear and Tear
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DSL v4.0 released.
After several months and 5 release candidates of upgrades and retooling DSL to additionally provide drag-n-drop document centric computing I present v4.0
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Calendar Weblog: Lightning 0.7 & Sunbird 0.7 have been released
"I am happy to report, that the 0.7 of Lightning and Sunbird has been completed and is now available via AMO and the Calendar Project website..."
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Wubi = super easy Linux installation
I don’t have the patience to go through a full install of Ubuntu but I also don’t think that running the Live CD does the operating system justice. If only there were an easy-to-use Windows installer that didn’t "require you to modify the partitions of your PC or to use a different bootloader." Enter Wubi.
Read more »Goals For SeaMonkey 2 - My View
"...We'll probably do an Alpha when we're far enough on all the tasks that we can encourage testing by a broad audience, and we'll go into beta when have the feature set completed and only stabilizing and cleanup work is left.
Read more »EXI stance
"...The goal of EXI is to provide an encoding of an XML document, along with an additional compression technique..."
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Try ruby! (in your browser)
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AMD 8.42 Driver Brings Fixes, AIGLX!
For ATI Linux customers, last month was certainly a very exciting time from AMD announcing open specifications (and the subsequent delivery of the first batch and the creation of the RadeonHD driver) to the release of the fglrx 8.41 display driver.
Read more »Virtual Browsers: Disposable Security
If users are working on a virtualized PC, or at least a virtualized Web browser, then throwing it out is trivial. So is replacing it with a fresh, uncluttered, uninfected version. Virtual IT is built to be disposable. OK, you've heard about this virtualization magic before. However, it seems too good to be true, and it sounds complicated and expensive.
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Why Ubuntu (Still) Sucks - Part 1: Search
How bout this, Randall Kennedy: YOU SUCK. Of course, the most interesting bit is the comment responses...
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Conversation with CSS 3 team
"CSS 3 is arguably the most eagerly anticipated specification in the works at W3C. CSS 3 promises to make it easier to create page layout and to support formatting that is currently only achievable through hacks.
Read more »Debian way to make tiny change to package
"Have you ever had to make a one-line correction (or customization) in a big package? If so how did you manage it? The obvious way is to rebuild a package and serve it locally, but is there some other approach? ..."
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Backport of MySQL 5.1 package for etch
"For those of you who want to use MySQL 5.1 on etch, I prepared a backport from the experimental package of MySQL 5.1.22-rc..."
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Get USB devices mounted on your Virtualbox XP machine in Gutsy (Ubuntu 7.10)
There’s nothing more frustrating than not being able to mount your USB devices in your virtual machines. Well, maybe there are lots of things that are more frustrating but this morning my inability to do something that should be simple, easy and fun was driving me nuts.
So I figured out how to do it. It’s not terribly pretty but here’s what you need to do.
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gNewSense | HowToHelp
gNewSense is a GNU/Linux project that aims to take all of the binary blobs and non-Free software out of Ubuntu and Debian to make a 100% Free Software distribution.
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