I HATE PYTHON! I also very much wish that people would quite writing large applications in Python. Python is incredibly slow for being as new and small as it is. I cannot subclass things like dict or list without overriding every single method in them.
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Four More Cool Word Processors
If you've seen one online word processor--or even a handful of them--you haven't seen them all, not by a longshot. In addition to Google Docs, Zoho Writer, and emerging competitors such as EtherPad, other online offerings you might want to try include AjaxWrite, Writeboard, picoWrite and MonkeyTeX, to name a few.
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full circle magazine - issue #28 released
Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our twenty-eighth issue.
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How To Configure SquirrelMail To Allow Users To Change Their Email Passwords On
This guide explains how you can configure your SquirrelMail webmail application on an ISPConfig 3 server so that email users can change their passwords themselves directly in SquirrelMail.
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MegaPanzer: Parts of Possible Govware Trojan Released under GPL
The name Ruben Unteregger may well become more newsworthy in the next few days. Unteregger has been working at the Swiss ERA IT Solutions company to develop the trojans MegaPanzer and MiniPanzer and has released the code under GPL.
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Managing User Names And Passwords
Revelation is a password manager for the GNOME 2 desktop. It stores accounts and passwords in a single, secure place, and gives access to them through a user-friendly graphical interface.
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Make Ubuntu remember the applications you had open when you last logged out
You can make Ubuntu remember the applications you had open when you last logged out, so that when you log back in again you’ll find all those applications running and you can resume right from where you left off.
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Advocating And Supporting Insecure Practices
By default, the root account password is locked in Ubuntu - Canonical neither supports nor advocates enabling the root account. This means that you cannot login as root directly or use the su command to become the root user. However, since the root account physically exists it is still possible to run programs with root-level privileges.
Read more »SSH Key compromise takes Apache.org offline - Update 2
The Apache.org web-site is currently displaying a message that the service is off line. The Infrastructure team at the Apache Software Foundation have taken the systems off line while investigating a compromise on one of their servers. According to the message, the problem relates to a compromised SSH key and "not due to any software exploits in Apache itself".
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Popping GNU/Linux out of the Virtual Machine
At work I'm tied to a windows machine, however I have been able to use GNU/Linux which is where I'm most productive. First, I tried working with Portable Ubuntu. It works pretty well, however the latency can be a little high sometimes (Firefox being the most obvious case that I noticed).
Read more »Enterprise Technologies Will Change the Consumer PC Market
The average consumer might not know much - if anything - about high-end technologies like pNFS, PCIe and 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE), but they could revolutionize the consumer PC market in ways that most consumers can't even begin to imagine.
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Howto install Nvidia 190.25 (beta) drivers in ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy
190.25 (beta) is currently under development and most notably it brings support for OpenGL 3.2.
Read more »Tuxera Closes ExFAT Patent Agreement with Microsoft
Tuxera, the Finnish company behind the NTFS-3G open source driver, on its own initiative entered into an agreement with Microsoft over exFAT drivers.
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3 Linux distros you would love to laugh at
I must say that the number of Linux distributions is greater than one can imagine and it is growing every day. Every time I see some geek coming out with a distro of his own as if it is trendy to do so.
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A New Development Release Of GNOME Shell
GNOME 3.0 will not be rolling out until the first half of 2010, but work is already underway on this major GNOME update that is the first to bring some radical changes in a long time.
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