Social Media Monitoring (sometimes called social media listening or conversation monitoring) is widely recognized as one of the first social media best practices. It is the first step in getting to know and understand the behavior and needs of an online audience. Most companies that are engaged in this activity have an internal team or outsource the effort to their agency.

Recently, the discussion whether to make KDE the default desktop on openSUSE has been raised. The situation bears some historical meaning, and has also brought up some misconceptions. Let me try to give a bit of an overview of it, and put things into context.

Good command line tools are more important than ever and not just a relict of ancient times in comparison to RIA or GUI applications. Experienced system administrators appreciate their power. The question is how can we make command line tools smarter and more powerful than today?

What normally happens is that there is some blurb on what the problem is, then a single line which can be typed or pasted into a console session to implement that tip or solution. Then they make some inane statement about how this could be done easier with some graphical based program.

People's lives are put at risk due to Apple's and Microsoft's greed and secrecy

Processor.com indicates that the Melco deal was a result of Microsoft suing; Microsoft gets slapped by VirnetX

I just returned from attending the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2009 in San Jose, CA. I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I got there... there were no CAD vendors, per se, at the conference. I asked myself, “Why not?”

openbytes.wordpress: Lets face it, the days of shelves bowing under the weight of DVD cases & CD’s is coming to an end. Whilst GCstar won’t put all your CD’s into their correct boxes, nor will it put them in an alphabetical order on your shelves, what it will do is allow you to document your entire collection on a database.
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