This past week we were inundated by PCs with viruses. Either people were bringing their infected machines to the office or calling us to come and get them. It was a madhouse. It wasn’t until I pulled out all the stops, with the help of my good old friend Linux, that I was able to finally say goodbye to those infections. But how?
Read more »Saving PCs from viruses - the Linux way
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A Picture-Happy Overview of Ubuntu 10.04
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The recently announced visual rebranding of the world's numero uno Linux distribution caused quite a bit of stir. Here's a short visual tour with some of the new things that are coming straight to your Ubuntu machines at the end of April.
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The Case Of Nexuiz
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The founder of the Nexuiz project with many of it’s major contributors agreed to “sell” their domain and GPLed sources to IllFonic, LLC. While the GPLed Nexuiz will remain free the “New” Nexuiz (which is developed for the consoles) will be closed source.
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Security Disinformation
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Latest OpenSSL FUD and Microsoft's Howard Schmidt's role informing the public about cyber-security risks
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Broken Laws
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Microsoft Catch-up, Apple Lock-up, and GNU/Linux Freedom
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The upper hand of GNU/Linux (and to a degree Google/Android/Chome OS) compared to consumerised production+marketing from those other two contenders
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Vulture Fund Still the Only Bidder for Novell
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Updates from the news regarding what seems like Novell's imminent sale
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Ubuntu UK Podcast: Their Purple Moment
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We interview the awesome Stuart Langridge and discuss the Ubuntu One Music Store, beta testing, record tokens, Rhythmbox, MP3s, Britney Spears, file syncing, customer service, getting music into the store and Severed Fifth, Frequently Asked Questions, vinyl, reaching "real" people and Shot of Jaq.
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A shared object is (not) enough
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When building shared objects for plugin usage, like the case for NSS I noted, PAM plugins or extensions for languages like Ruby, Python, Perl, Java… you don’t need static libraries at all, so a shared object is enough!
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Rename Them All - A simple and easy to use batch renaming utility
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SCALE 8x: Moving the needle
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There are lots of ongoing efforts to increase the number of women participating in free software, but reports on how those efforts have fared are few and far between. Sarah Mei spoke at the Women in Open Source (WIOS) conference, which preceded SCALE 8x, to report on what she and other members of the San Francisco Ruby community have been doing to bring more women into that community.
Read more »FreeBSD webcam support: video4bsd
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Hans Petter has been working hard recently on webcamd, making Linux webcam drivers work on FreeBSD.
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wicd is good stuff
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The other thing I wanted to mention about my brief interlude with Arch a day ago, was my surprise at using wicd. I have frustrations with Windows 7 and something like this is just the ticket.
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New Ubuntu Design Created on Apple Mac
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Many designers of the Ubuntu's new logo and theme worked on Mac platform using proprietary software. Are Ubuntu and free software like GIMP and Inkscape not good enough for graphic design?
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