In this, our final instalment, we will look at the screen terminal multiplexing program. What the heck is a "terminal multiplexing program?" I'm glad you asked.
Read more »Project: Building An All-Text Linux Workstation - Part 14
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GNU IceCat 3.6.2 released
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This new version of IceCat -- GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox browser, includes all changes made upstream in Firefox 3.6.2 plus some other small bug fixes.
Read more »Ryan Szrama, From The Commerce Guys, On Drupal-Based E-Commerce
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The annual DrupalCon conference is coming up, April 19th to 21st at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Drupal, of course, is the increasingly popular open source content management system founded by Dries Buytaert, and OStatic itself runs on the platform.
Read more »First Version XO-3 Laptop to be Released by Marvell
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According to this press release, Marvell is announcing the $99 Moby Tablet for Education. You've seen my video of Marvell's 4.3? Tablet prototype shown at CES based on the Marvell Armada 600 processor. The Moby tablet is based on the same Armada 600 platform but comes with a larger screen (probably 10?).
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Making Sense of DNS
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Domain Name Service (DNS) was created in 1983 out of the necessity to convert IP Addresses like 192.168.9.2 to domain names like example.com. DNS is a distributed database, what this means is that no one computer is used to maintain a complete database of all of the domains on the Internet. Instead this information is distributed across many computers.
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Microsoft, where did you get those data about ODF?
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Six months ago I got a request to check what Microsoft had said in a report about Italian public administrations rejecting OpenDocument as mandatory format, so I tried to contact MS Italy to know more. Since I'm still waiting for them, and in general Microsoft asking for "file format neutrality" is a bit ridiculous, I've decided to ask again, in public
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KDE Partying Around the World for New Release
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On February 9th 2010 the KDE community released the a new major version of the KDE Software Compilation to the world. As this provided an excellent excuse for throwing a good party, the last 7 weeks have seen hundreds of KDE enthusiasts gather at over thirty release parties around the world.
Read more »Atom-based tablet runs Android, targets publishers
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A Berlin-based software company is preparing an Intel Atom N450-based e-reader that runs Linux with Android extensions. Billed as the "tablet PC for publishing houses," Neofonie GmbH's "WePad" tablet sports an 11.6-inch touchscreen, 16GB of flash storage, a SD card, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB, and a webcam, says Neofonie.
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Conroy's internet censorship agenda slammed by tech giants
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Australia's biggest technology companies, communications academics and many lobby groups have delivered a withering critique of the government's plans to censor the internet.
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Mozilla drops Firefox for Windows Mobile development
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Stuart Parmenter, from the Firefox for mobile devices team, has announced that Mozilla will stop development of Firefox for Windows Mobile, expected to be released in final form later this year.
Read more »Why we must kill the Digital Economy Bill
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With crushing inevitability, the House of Lords did nothing to stop the deeply flawed Digital Economy Bill yesterday -- and that means a badly written and potentially disastrous new law is nearly on the statute books. We have just two weeks to stop it -- and stop it we must.
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Free Software is a democracy, NOT!
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As a developer you want your product to be useful, not only to yourself, but also to your community. It may be a vanity thing, but that's how it works." ... "When I slowly constructed my project and my community I delved deeply into the way FOSS works. I learned a lot from Linus and the way he makes his kernel tick.
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Novell Says Elliott Offer "Inadequate" - It's "business as usual"
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"President and CEO, Novell has put out a statement that it has considered the Elliott Management offer but finds it "inadequate". It's "business as usual at Novell". Here's the press release.
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Trisquel 3.5 Awen release
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This release is a fully free Ubuntu 9.10 derivative that includes extra software, better multimedia support, more translations and a faster configuration. For this release we used Ext4 for the root filesystem and XFS for the home one, to have a balance between speed and usability. Some important features include a much faster boot process and the ability to encrypt the home directory.
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Tech Tip: Caffeine for Your Monitor
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I am sure most of the people out there are having trouble with their monitor going to sleep or in screen saver mode while they are watching movies or flash videos on sites like hulu. So, here is the solution.
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