Deleting a file is a pretty simple task, right? Whether you’re in a GUI or on the command line, it’s really simple to delete a file. Once you’ve deleted it, it’s gone. Except - no it’s not.
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Changing distribution remotely -- HOWTO
How to completely change your distribution on a remote box without a boot disk, with only ssh access, using only one partition, and with only one reboot at the very end of the conversion process. And by completely, I mean completely. You can delete every single file of the old distro if you want.
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Why do we use Linux as Home Users?
When a home user switches over to GNU/Linux, the major idea behind this change is enjoying and supporting Open Source freedom. People want to use Freeware. It's free for everyone and follows the philosophy of the free exchange of ideas between everyone.
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Celestia - 3D Earth and Sky visualization
Celestia is a real-time space simulation which lets you experience the universe in three dimensions. Celestia does not confine you to the
surface of the Earth only, but Celestia allows you to travel throughout the entire solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
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Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal
Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute.
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EU court dismisses most of Microsoft's appeal
A European Union court upheld most of a landmark 2004 European Commission antitrust decision against Microsoft
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Cya, Thunderbird
After a few months of toying with Thunderbird (in conjunction with Gmail, which I've had since July 2004), I've decided to remove it.
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Terminal Emulators
I work a lot at the console level, I even lauch some programs directly from there, and I know there are a lot of users like me.
Somtimes I also open two or even three terminals to monitor differente processes on the same machine or even on different PCs using ssh connection.
Read more »Monitoring Network Latency With Smokeping (Debian Etch)
This guide shows how to install and configure Smokeping on Debian Etch to monitor network latency.
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Inna Kuznetsova, Global Executive for Linux, IBM
The fact that Linux is big business for IBM should come as no surprise to those who follow Big Blue. During the last decade IBM has steadily ramped up its Linux efforts to the point where it has now become a core offering across IBM's server and software product lines.
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Xen Cluster Management With Ganeti On Debian Etch
Ganeti is a cluster virtualization management system based on Xen. In this tutorial I will explain how to create one virtual Xen machine (called an instance) on a cluster of two physical nodes, and how to manage and failover this instance between the two physical nodes.
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Mozilla Online Presenting at Beijing Software Freedom Day
"On Saturday 09/15/2007, Mozilla Online sponsored and participated in Software Freedom Day in Beijing, which was part of a gloabl event held around the world. The Beijing event was held at the FIT building at Tsinghua University..."
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There is not only Mozilla Firefox
In this Italian post, I'd like to describe the main alternatives to Mozilla Firefox. I'm not thinking of leaving it, obviously! I just think that knowing the alternatives is important to choose what we think is better. Also the other browser have nice features :-) Happy reading!
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FSFE, Samba: A triumph for freedom of choice and competition
"Through tactics that successfully derailed antitrust processes in other parts of the world, including the United States, Microsoft has managed to postpone this day for almost a decade. But thanks to the perseverance and excellent work of the European Commission, these tactics have now failed in Europe,"
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WAKA - A little REST and Relaxation in November?
"Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style that I developed while improving the core Web protocols (URI, HTTP, and HTML) and leading them through the IETF standardization process. I later described REST as the primary example in my dissertation.
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