Microblogging service Twitter is ever popular, and is a great way for keeping in contact with your friends in real time and seeing what they are up to.
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Splashtop “Instant On” motherboard
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So I have had on my desk for about week now a sweet little ASUS laptop containing one of the new Splashtop motherboards. Don’t know what Splashtop is? Well Splashtop is a motherboard that contains, in the onboard memory, a special version of Linux (based on Small Linux - formerly tinyX) that runs right after the bios.
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Shareware Report: GNU money versus old
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Your moolah mired in Microsoft Money? Are you ready to quit Quicken? We've stumbled across GnuCash, personal and small-business financial-accounting software that's not only free but available on multiple platforms because of its GNU/Open Source pedigree.
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First look: Adobe AIR alpha unleashed for Linux
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Adobe has announced today the public availability of an Adobe AIR alpha release for Linux. Although the alpha is not feature-complete, it is already capable of running some mainstream AIR applications and is robust enough to facilitate AIR development on the Linux platform.
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Will a Little Openness Solve Your Web Identity Crisis?
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"Identity Management" for the Internet is a long-unrealized dream; a centralized magic single sign-on for the whole Internet. The idea is to spare us Web surfers from the hassles of managing multiple logins, and instead have a single universal logon verified in some magical way by a trusted third party.
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My first impressions of Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) Beta
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It’s April, which means that it is the month of a new release of Ubuntu. Hardy Heron (8.04) is going to be the eighth release of the distribution, which has enjoyed enormous popularity in recent times.
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Ubuntu Hardy: The latest and greatest or a total mess?
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Ubuntu has become so popular, so quickly, that it is almost synonymous with the word "Linux". Common wisdom holds that it is the easiest to use, simplest, and most stable Linux based OS out there, and that it is the best hope for "Linux on the Desktop".
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WordPress 2.5 Review
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I have been blogging for many years. During that time I have used many other platforms including hosted software from BlogCity. TypePad, and Blogger.
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OOo Basic crash course: Creating a simple game using strings in a database
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Just because OpenOffice.org Basic is designed to automate mundane tasks doesn't mean that you must use it only for serious work. It's a programming language after all, and nothing stops you from using it to write something fun.
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Extensions for OpenOffice.org Impress
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Extensions have long been written for OpenOffice.org Writer. However, the fact that attention is finally being paid to other applications seems a sign that OpenOffice.org is finally starting to develop an active extension-writing community.
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Linux device downloads BitTorrent video
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A startup called Myka is accepting orders for a Linux-based device that downloads, stores, and plays BitTorrent media files on an attached TV. Myka's TorrentTV offloads BitTorrent peer-to-peer duties from a PC platform, easing the process of displaying "Torrents" on a TV.
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How to back up your Gmail on Linux in four easy steps
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I really like Gmail, but I also like having backups of my data just in case. Here’s how to use a simple program called getmail on Unix to backup your Gmail or Google Apps email. We’ll break this into four steps.
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AstroMenace: A 3D space shooter game
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AstroMenace is a 3D space shooter game. This game features include: create your own levels by using script, allow mouse, keyboard and joystick control, support Linux and Windows platform. AstroMenace is a very funny game.
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Intrusion detection with Tripwire
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It’s a myth that any system that you connect to the internet is ’safe’. No matter how vigilant you are, there are always risks out there and so having some way of detecting that something bad has happened is a vital part of any security strategy.
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Amanda 2.6 - A major new release of the Open Source Backup Software
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Amanda is the most popular open source backup and recovery software in the world, protecting more than half a million servers and desktops running various versions of Linux, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Amanda allows system administrators to set up a centralized backup server to back up multiple hosts to a tape- or disk-based storage system.
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