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moc, screen and figlet: A sum greater than its parts

http://kmandla.wordpress.com

moc users might know this and might not, but you can poll the moc server process to spit out information about the tune it’s playing.

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Created by brian1977 15 years 38 weeks ago
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New Papers Explain the Harms of Software Patents

http://techrights.org

Critics of the misguided scope of patents point to scholarly work that arguably supports the abolishment of software patents; Pirate Party UK promises to abolish software patents

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Top 7 Open Source Applications for Enterprise

http://blog.taragana.com

Sourceforge.net estimated that there are 230,000 open source projects on its site till Feb last year. Some of the projects are outdated, some of them do no not provide any support and others are in development phase. So, it is hard to find the right one for your need.

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Created by henrychan 15 years 38 weeks ago
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YourSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL: The MySQL Conference Report

http://redmonk.com

There has never been a time, in my opinion, that MySQL has faced a more diverse set of threats than at present. Of these, one gets a disproportionate amount of the attention: Oracle’s stewardship, and the implications this has for the future of the database.

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Created by GiTS 15 years 38 weeks ago
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24 More of the Best Linux Commercial Games (Part 3 of 3)

http://www.linuxlinks.com

There is no denying the huge selection of open source games available for Linux. Playing through all of these games would entertain many gamers for years. Nevertheless, there is still a massive market for commercial games. If Linux is ever going to usurp the desktop market, it needs a regular source of native high quality games that rival commercial games available on Windows.

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Created by sharkswithlazers 15 years 38 weeks ago
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The New Zealand Computer Society Opposes Software Patents

http://techrights.org

While groups representing the interests of foreign companies lobby for software patents, actual computer scientists from New Zealand reject them

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Created by komrad 15 years 38 weeks ago
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SCO Receives More Money From Darl McBride; Novell-SCO Resumes Monday

http://techrights.org

Updates on the SCO case, including McBride's latest cash infusion for the company and Findings and Conclusions (on the 19th)

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Created by komrad 15 years 38 weeks ago
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Company That Pays Microsoft for Unknown Patents in Linux Joins the Linux Foundation

http://techrights.org

The IBM-led Linux Foundation allows Microsoft to make money from Linux by accepting another member which engages in this questionable practice

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Created by komrad 15 years 38 weeks ago
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Stereotypes

http://techrights.org

The phrase "you’re the man!" leads to a little debate about sexism in SUSE

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Created by komrad 15 years 38 weeks ago
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How to Install Google Go in Ubuntu

http://maketecheasier.com

What do you get when you mix Python and C? According to Google, it’s Go – a new programming language developed in-house and later open sourced. Go was created by a small team inside Google, including the well known Ken Thompson, co-inventor of Unix and major influence on C.

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Created by sunny 15 years 38 weeks ago
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Choosing Open Source Solutions

http://www.linuxjournal.com

Part of my job is finding and testing open sourced solutions for already prominent commercially available software. The concept is simple: If it's open sourced, it can be customized, be platform independent, and it can be free. In the business world, this poses two key benefits.

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Created by altan 15 years 38 weeks ago
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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx beta 2 - it's pretty snappy on the desktop

http://insidesocal.com

I've been writing about such cockle-warming subjects as how Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx beta 2 and its 2.6.32 kernel handles such things as turning off kernel mode setting for Intel video that can't deal with said mode-setting, as well as the ever-moving buttons on application windows, and how the new gthumb is the best damn Linux/Unix photo-editing program for journalists.

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Created by henrychan 15 years 38 weeks ago
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Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory

http://www.ibm.com

Software engineering tends to be an evolutionary process. Problems are addressed with solutions that can create new problems and subsequently new solutions. Ideally, the new problems that are created justify the original solution. The technology discussed here is one of the secondary solutions to a problem created by server virtualization.

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Created by dogbiter 15 years 38 weeks ago
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Microsoft is Not Promoting the Open Source Community, It’s Just Exploiting It

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Embracing, extending, and extinguishing something is hardly a case of promotion, but gullible minds remain

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Created by komrad 15 years 38 weeks ago
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Hearing on Sale of the SCO's Java Patent April 20th

http://www.groklaw.net

The SCO bankruptcy hearing on the sale of the Java patent will be on April 20. That's this proposed sale to Liberty Lane for $100,000, and that's an LLC affiliated with Allied Security Trust, the anti-patent-trolls company, if you've dropped a stitch and can't keep up as SCO's assets get sold off bit by bit.

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