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Read more »PCLinuxOS 2010 is Shaping Up
While browsing pclinuxos repos I came across "http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.main". The version label "2010" in that ftp URL caught my attention.
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Where are the Linux tablets?
With the release of Apples’ iPad the tablet is the new netbook. How will Linux and the open source community respond?
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The Microsoft Apologists and Boosters Really, Really Like Novell!
A complete list of news articles about Moonlight 3.0 preview shows that its biggest fans are Microsoft fans
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Microsoft Shows Yet Again That It is Allergic to GNU/Linux
Microsoft's hatred of GNU/Linux, as demonstrated in this weekend's news
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Why I won't use KDE 4
KDE always stood for being free to do whatever you want. Surely that’s the philosophy of free software as a whole? If I want to use my machine to herd cats in my garden whilst terrorising them with a giant torch? However, today my objections to KDE 4 were met with an unbelievable barrier of closed-mindedness.
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GTalX - Google Voice Chat has arrived in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
Ever since I moved to Ubuntu, my only problem was that I couldn't use GTalk in Ubuntu.Here comes the solution - GTalx. It works flawlessly on my Ubuntu 9.10 karmic running on Dell Inspiron 1525.
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Oracle loses some MySQL mojo
Ever since Oracle closed on its acquisition of MySQL, the open-source world has been wondering where the code has gone. Many people searched, fruitlessly, for the formerly available MySQL source code.
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Covert .mp3 to .wav and .ogg from command
I have a ton of various music files on my machine that are in various states of migrating from .mp3 to different formats. The primary reason for this is because of the issue of licensing between Linux and the MP3 format.
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Linus Happy with Nexus One
I broke down and bought a Nexus One last week. I generally hate phones - they are irritating and disturb you as you work, but I have to admit, the Nexus One is a winner.
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Portable Ubuntu
Last week, I made note of one of the more intriguing software packages I have come across in a long time: Portable Ubuntu.
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Indicator and memenu, lucid looking awesome
Ive been testing out lucid since a little before alpha 1 and all is well from what I can see. What landed recently was the me menu and I have say that its cool.
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Waste plenty of time with Frozen Bubble and gnubik
Let’s face it, we sit at our computers for hours on end. Be it administrating, working, or just plain killing time. But what happens, gasp, when those interwebs are down and you’ve no way to pass time? You waste your time coding, writing, or playing games!
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The data cruncher rides again
As you may remember from my previous post, I simply wanted to import three spreadsheets into an MS-Access equivalent, use the "Query By Example" (QBE) mode to create a simple report and export the result to another spreadsheet. I did the whole thing in MS-Access as well and it took me about twenty minutes. This time I decided to give Kexi 1.1.3 and Knoda 0.8.3 a go.
Read more »It looks like a divide and conqueror plan to me
Going through my Saturday morning news articles I came across a title guaranteed to catch my eye. It is an article on Yahoo news titled "Microsoft to Drop Linux, Unix Versions of Enterprise Search". Naturally I had to read this article.
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