"...If you are old enough, you may remember the Mozilla Application Suite that preceded standalone Firefox and Thunderbird. The Mozilla suite featured an integrated browser, email/news client, IRC chat client, and HTML page editor. When the Mozilla Foundation officially stopped developing the suite in 2003, the first three components lived on in Firefox, Thunderbird, and ChatZilla.
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SamePlace: A Jabber client for Firefox
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If you spend most of your computing life in Firefox, it makes sense to consolidate other online activities in your browser. There are extensions that can help you to do just that: you can manage your bookmarks with the del.icio.us extension, chat on IRC channels using Chatzilla, and read RSS feeds in Sage.
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Watching Your Power Consumption With Powertop On Fedora 7
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Powertop is a command-line tool released by Intel that shows you the power consumption of the applications running on your system. It works best on notebooks with Intel mobile processors and can help you find out the programs that put a strain on your notebook battery.
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Ubuntu with Elegance
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I have used Linux Mint Celena for some time and here is my review of this excellent distribution.
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Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web
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"I think Operator is giving people a new way to interact with data on the Web," Kaply told InternetNews.com. "It's a variation on what some people call 'instant mashups.' The idea is that rather than having to rely on other people to integrate data on multiple Web sites via traditional mashups, tools like Operator can provide the end-user a way to instantly pass data between multiple Web sites."
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Richard Dice talks about changes and projects at the Perl Foundation
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"I talked today with Richard Dice, the newly-elected president of the Perl Foundation, about the recent changes in TPF, and what TPF has been working on lately. If you've asked "What does TPF do? Why should I support it?", this interview should help answer that."
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Hello JS-CTYPES, Goodbye Binary Components
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A project that will allow JavaScript to call binary libraries without C++ XPCOM wrappers!
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The Real Value of Ohio (GNU)LinuxFest
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Saturday night, as I was leaving the Ohio LinuxFest after party, One of the organizers shared with me her aphrensions about the value of the event, and how the community resoundingly put those apprehensions to rest.
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Ease of use: But for who?
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Over the weekend I was writing an article for TechRepublic about two alternative Linux word processors (Abiword and KWord.) As I was writing this article, I discovered something that might lend a hand to not only the developers of those tools but to Linux developers in general. This discovery is simply a matter of target audience.
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Are 'naked PCs' good for businesses?
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UK businesses have backed calls for computers to be sold 'naked'--without a bundled Microsoft Windows operating system.
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The Winux Initiative – Bringing Linux to the Windows Masses
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With the Winux installers, there is no "host" and "guest" operating systems. It's two dissimilar operating systems sharing the same common space through a little technical slight of hand. This is where the relationship between operating system emulation and the Winux installers come in.
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Main Menu Applet: Preferences and Administration
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The gnome main menu applet was created as another effort for people to try and use awn and get rid of all their gnome bars. Well as another stride in this direction more has been added to this applet.
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Export Writer documents into any wiki format
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One of the most welcome additions to OpenOffice.org 2.3 is a new export filter that allows you to save Writer documents as MediaWiki-formatted pages. That's all fine and dandy if you are using MediaWiki, but what about other wiki systems? The answer to this question comes in the form of the OpenOffice2UniWakka export filter.
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How To Set Up VMware Tools On Various Linux Distributions
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This document explains how to set up the VMware Tools in the following guest operating systems: Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, PCLinuxOS 2007 and Debian Etch. Installing VMware Tools in your guest operating systems will help maximize performance, provide mouse synchronization and copy & paste functionality.
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How long service providers will be tolerated as open source vacuums?
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"...So, the question of the day is how long service providers will be tolerated as open source vacuums. The Free Software Foundation avoided this issue with GPLv3 but has produced the Affero General Public License (AGPL) to cover the use of code that's delivered over a network, as opposed to on disk or by download as in the past.
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