The company also said it would resume selling systems "in the coming days." Those machines will run Linux rather than Mac OS X.
Read more »Psystar Drops Mac Clones for Linux
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How to get the Windows 7 look in Linux
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Linux fanboys will probably have had one thought when they saw this article's title: 'Why would you go to the trouble of making Linux look like Windows when Linux already looks pretty good?' Well, there are a few good reasons.
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A Bit of Welcomed Scumm on Your Linux Machine
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This might make me sound like an old fogey, but I really do miss the old games like Space Quest, The Curse of Monkey Island and Return to Zork. The problem isn't that I don't have the games anymore, but rather that they were designed for my 386 computer running DOS. Thankfully, I'm not alone in my fits of nostalgia.
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2009: A Linux year in review
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Vincent Danen looks back over the year 2009 at developments in the world of Linux and Open Source. What do you think are the big stories?
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Random Number Between Two Integers
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This is a topic that is quite easy and doesn't need much explanation but still many people manage to mess it up. Not going into a hyperbole, I'll get straight to the point...Basically, given any random number, if you take its modulus with a, you will obviously get a number between 0 and a -1. This is all fine and dandy, so now someone asks you to generate a random number between a and b (a < b).
Read more »Running World of Warcraft in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
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Over my Christmas break, I decided to try out the latest version of Wine with my most frequently used Windows application, which is called World of Warcraft (or WoW).
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mintCast Wallpaper Challenge
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The mintCast team has announced a “Wallpaper Challenge.” Create an original mintCast inspired wallpaper and win prizes. First and second place will win a laptop.
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Alien Arena 7.33 Brings Headshots & More
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For those of you that still have time off of work from the holidays, there is a new release of the Alien Arena first-person shooter if that piques your interest. Alien Arena 7.33 has been released, which is coming just two months after Alien Arena 7.32.
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How Google and the cloud changed my company
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A couple of years ago, I made one of the hardest calls I have ever had to make as a CEO... I asked my employees to pull the Microsoft feeding tube out of their noses and move to The Google.
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First KMyMoney Beta Version Available for KDE 4 Platform
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The KMyMoney team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.95. After 8 months of hard work, this release is the first version developed upon the KDE 4 Platform. We are confident that it is stable enough for use by early adopters. We would like to get much needed feedback from the community in order to make the new KMyMoney as rock-solid as previous releases.
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Globalize your Web Applications: PHP's Locale Formatting Classes
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Today, we'll be covering PHP's two remaining I18N Libraries, the I18N_Number and I18N_Currency classes, both of which are subclasses of the I18N_DateTime function.
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Complete database administration package MySQL Workbench
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Although this is sad news for a tool that had recently become my standard for working with databases, this death knoll has lead me to another, even better, tool MySQL Workbench.
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KDE Community Invited to FOSS Nigeria 2010
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A few days ago The Dot received an invite for the KDE community to FOSS Nigeria. FOSS Nigeria 2010 will be the second Free Software conference in Nigeria, following the successful event last year (as reported on The Dot).
Read more »Google Chrome Netbook Specifications Leaked?
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OK, so it might not be quite as talked about as the mythical Apple iTablet, but the Google Chrome OS-based netbook is also creating quite a stir - especially now the tech specs have seen the light of day.
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Cringely: Microsoft Deserves to Lose the i4i Case
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Microsoft has lied about OOXML patents and willfully infringed patents with it, only to be denounced years down the line
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