"The 30 girls sitting in the Harrington Learning Center at Quinsigamond Community College yesterday were far past VCRs, however. The group of 10- to 14-year-olds was busy installing and configuring the Linux operating system on computers they had finished building. "
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Time to break up Microsoft, which has too many balls in the air
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"In Europe, where piracy is controlled, a few too many European countries and municipalities discuss using Linux on the desktop, by fiat.This is Microsoft's biggest fear. Microsoft can tolerate the Linux server platforms and all the homebrew Web servers running Linux. It just cannot let Linux migrate to the desktop."
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OpenMoko Neo 1973 developer kits available July 9
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"Dear Community! Today is the day that we've all been waiting for: We can finally take your order for the world's first freed phone. [openmoko-announce]"
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Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" on my Compaq V3000
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This weekend I decided to take the plunge and install a Linux distro on my notebook PC. The reason I not done so already is because this particular notebook is well documented as being problematic under Linux, particularly the WiFi card as it is completely propreitry with no Linux drivers being available.
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OpenArena 0.7.0 released
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It's been 8 months since the last release and we've done a lot of stuff for this release, so much it's suddenly 250mb which was way past our 177mb goal. This is our biggest release ever, to state the obvious...
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Configuring Mutt To Use An Alternate MTA : ESMTP
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Some of you may remember that I went on a Mutt kick there a while back and gave up for a few different reasons. I have been using Thunderbird 2.x series since, which has been pretty good, but I still think all mail clients suck. I don’t know exactly what it is about them– maybe I just don’t like email in general.
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QEMU: easy and fast processor emulator
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QEMU lets you emulate a machine —in other words, you can run a virtual computer on top of your real computer. This makes it perfect for trying and testing the latest release of a distribution, running older operating systems, or just testing.
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Amarok 2 Jingle contest
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As Amarok 2 will be quite a different beast compared to the 1.4 series, it will need a distinctive new first run theme. Since none of the developers are up to this task, we have teamed up with Magnatune.com and ccMixter.org to host a competition for the very best new jingle.
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Linux Performance Optimization
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Performance optimization in Linux doesn't always mean what you might think. It's not just a matter of outright speed; sometimes it's about tuning the system to fit into a small memory footprint.
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Desktop FreeBSD Part 6: User PPP Connections
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By this time, you should have guessed that running KDE takes a large chunk of machine resources. Really old machines will run this latest version of KDE quite slowly. I chose it for the FreeBSD beginner because it’s a good safe place to start, with so many built-in tools.
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How to Create Many to Many Relationships in Ruby on Rails
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Here is a step by step tutorial on how to create a many-to-many relationships with Ruby on Rails using migrations.
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Installing ModSecurity2 On Debian Etch
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This article shows how to install and configure ModSecurity (version 2) for use with Apache2 on a Debian Etch system. ModSecurity is an Apache module that provides intrusion detection and prevention for web applications. It aims at shielding web applications from known and unknown attacks, such as SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting, path traversal attacks, etc.
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Does FAR include open source software?
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An article in the latest issue of the DoD Software Tech News (free registration required) poses an interesting question: Does the Federal Acquisition Regulation demand agencies look at open source software as a possibility when procuring software?
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TrueCrypt Tutorial: Truly Portable Data Encryption
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TrueCrypt is a free software that encrypts data “on-the-fly”. Right now the newest version released is version 4.3. You can create an encrypted hard drive, a separate partition or a directory with TrueCrypt. It doesn’t simply encrypt the content of files, but their names and the names of the directories they are in as well.
Read more »NVIDIA GeForce 7050 Review
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The NVIDIA GeForce 6100 and 6150 integrated graphics processors have been relatively popular among Linux and Windows users. These IGPs have been common in HTPC setups with the NVIDIA driver working out well with MythTV.
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