My father recently retired a 1-Ghz AMD computer with 1 Gbyte of RAM that he'd built from mail-ordered parts. He'd dropped the cash for a new Dell with Vista, which he likes quite a lot (no grousing, please, it happens), and let me have the old machine. My first move: Wipe it clean, install Linux, and prepare it for an exercise in "hand-me-down computing."
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iKog: The tiny todo manager that could
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Despite its name, iKog is not a KDE application. In fact, it's not even a GUI application. iKog is a text-based todo manager that can help you to keep tabs on your tasks from the command line. Although it lacks all the bells and whistles of a full-blown GUI task manager, it's one of those tools that make a virtue of doing a limited range of tasks well.
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End of SCO: SCO Delisted from Nasdaq
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The unofficial end to the SCO saga. [SCO] today announced it received a notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market indicating that the Company's securities will be delisted from Nasdaq on September 27, 2007, pending an appeal.
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Atompub-0.1.5 released
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FlatAtompub
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"A little while ago I decided to whip up a small Atompub server to get my head around the Atom Publishing Protocol. I called it FlatAtomPub because it was just storing stuff in flat files. I’m not committing to that name. It was also a chance to kick the tires on WebOb..."
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HTTP Basic Authentication, A Tale of AtomPub, WordPress, PHP, Apache, CGI and SSL/TLS
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"I’ve been really enjoying working with Tim Bray, Pete Lacey, Elias Torres and Sam Ruby on improving AtomPub in WordPress. This work is in WordPress 2.3, which will be released later this month. You can try it out right now by downloading the beta. Sam has also started some documentation on AtomPub in WordPress at http://codex.wordpress.org/AtomPub..."
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Another Green World: Derek Wall Keynote Speech, Liverpool 07
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"...From workers controlled factories in Latin America, to food localisation, to the free software on your computer, alternatives exist and we have to help them grow..."
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Talk at Law 2.0?: Openness, Web 2.0 and the Ethic of Sharing
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"...In the brief time available to me I have only been able to describe informally and in a brief way the benefits that open approaches knowledge can bring our society..."
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Women in the new Web 2.0 political world in Ecuador
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"...Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa pays homage to Max Headroom in a funny, low-budget YouTube clip promoting his new blog; in another video, he asks everyone to use free software. He is encouraging the entire country to start blogging and using social networks and YouTube for the power of collective action.
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Internet & ICTs for Social Justice and Development News
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"The Association for Progressive Communications has an article / interview on how communication technologies can be used for development." (and so, how free software could be used)
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Will we one day have a World Intellectual Wealth Organisation?
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what about a World Intellectual Wealth Organisation?
ref: http://www.france.fsfeurope.org/documents/wiwo.en.html
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Book on PHP Data Objects published!
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A new book on PHP Data Objects has been published by Packt Publishing. The book gives you an overview of PDO, Creating a database and connecting to it, Error Handling, Advanced features.
So, if you are a PHP developer who need to use PDO for data abstraction, this is the book for you.
More details about the book can be read at:
Read more »Dollars and CentOS 4.5: Updating Up2date
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I'm at the tail end of my CentOS 4.5 install. Once again, I continue to be impressed with the Anaconda installer. It's one of the best I've seen. It gives you a lot of freedom to pick which packages you want to install. I bulked up on the KDE -- I wanted everything to be as ready as it could be when the install finished.
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Seam Carving with Gimp plugin “Liquid Rescale”
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Seam Carving is perhaps the the most interesting image resizing technology out there. It works by changing the height and width ratio of the image without distorting the image itself by croping the image. Now Seam Carving it possible with the Gimp.
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