After last week's near-collapse of the social networks, such as Twitter, due to a Windows-based, botnet DDoS attack, I made a modest proposal: Throw Windows off the Internet. Here's how we can do it.
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Laptops in extreme and unusual locations
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The truly great thing about laptops and netbooks is that you’re not bound to your desk. You can bring them with you anywhere. Some people are taking that to the extreme, bringing their laptops with them to places where most of us wouldn’t.
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Ubuntu Support for Non-Geeks
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As WorksWithU reported last week and Canonical announced the following day, the company has released a new set of support services targeted at Windows and Mac OS X expatriates migrating to Ubuntu.
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ARM netbooks may lack hardware-accelerated graphics
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In announcing its newly shipping touchscreen-equipped "Touchbook," Start-up Always Innovating said that "over time, in 2009," it will support "interesting projects such as Moblin."
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Linux Monday: Updating the Old Boxes
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How many computers is too many? According to me, I have a 16 port hub and I still have slots left. The flexibility of Linux means you can install a full-featured desktop, or a minimalist system.
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Is too much choice getting in the way of Linux' acceptance?
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During this discussion we discussed what it would take to create a “definitive manual” for new Linux users migrating from Windows.. It became all too clear that there is one issue at the heart. That issue? Too many choices.
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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6 Alpha, Codenamed 'Namoroka'
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Firefox 3.6 is scheduled for release as a stable version in November 2009, so this release is just a preview, the starting point for development of Firefox 3.6.
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Mozilla’s Chris Beard Versus Software Patents (Video)
Map your network with Zenmap
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For Nmap you can use the user-friend Zenmap. And how can you get up to speed quickly with Zenmap? Easy...you read this tutorial on how to run a scan on your entire LAN and then read the results.
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Microsoft's magnificent 7 open source options
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Joining the open source club has many benefits. How many Microsoft receives depends on how far it wants to go. Compare your salaryUse the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions.
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Keep an eye on your own open source cloud environment
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Want to live in the cloud but don’t quite trust it? SourceForge's open source project of the month for August may be for you! eyeos is a self-hosted cloud operating environment for business, schools and home built in PHP.
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Samba News And New Team Blog
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Starting today, we're going to try and create semi-regular updates on what is going on in the fast moving world of Samba development, what we're all up to, and where the code is going in the future. This will be a technical blog, with details on the internal changes in Samba code. We hope you enjoy it !
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Fedora 11 Intel Poulsbo (GMA500) Graphic Drivers Repository
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Adam Williamson has made available a repository containing a full set of packages to install the driver for Intel Poulsbo (GMA500) graphics chipsets (found in the Dell Mini 12, Sony Vaio P and other systems) on Fedora 11 (i586 only, not working for x86_64).
Read more »Make applications remember their last state in Ubuntu
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If you want your most-used applications already opened when you boot up into your Ubuntu box, all you have to do is go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications and in the Options tab check the box next to “Automatically remember running applications when logging out“.
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SUSE Studio: Too Good To Be True?
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I just built my own Linux distribution through my browser. It can be ran as a Live CD or installed on your system. No, you did read that correctly. I actually used Firefox to build my own SUSE-based distro.
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