Google's Engineering Director has promised that its forthcoming Chrome OS will see 'the end of malware'.
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Claws Mail: What an email client SHOULD be like
In its place was a powerful, flexible, fast, reliable email client that epitomizes what good software should be: Powerful enough to entice power-users yet easy enough for newbies.
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Wine release 1.1.26
The Wine development release 1.1.26 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): Still more translation updates; Faster bitmap stretching using XRender ; Proxy support in WinHTTP; Many more JScript functions; Various bug fixes.
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Using open-source data backup software
Many people who use open-source data backup software become quite attached to a program, whether it's Amanda, BackupPC or Bacula. Administrators responsible for protecting data at SMBs or at the departmental level typically gravitate to these free programs because they're comfortable writing custom scripts and working with Unix and Linux.
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How-To: Compile and Install Audacious 2.1 in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
Audacious is a GTK music player similar with the older XMMS (X Multimedia System) player. Ubuntu 9.04 ships with Audacious 1.5.1, which is a little old. However, you can easily install and set up the latest Audacious (currently 2.1) following the steps below:
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Symbian signed malware - does signing matter? (F-Secure approved a virus)
The Symbian mobile OS is used by millions of phones globally and thanks to a (now corrected) oversight they could have potentially installed malware - with Symbian's approval.
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GeeXboX 1.2.3 released
Version 1.2.3.of GeeXboX is released. GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a Home Theater PC, or Media Center.
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VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3 On A Fedora 11 Server
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on a headless Fedora 11 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment.
Read more »First Look: Firefox 3.7’s New Design
It hasn’t even been a month since Firefox 3.5 was released to the masses, but Mozilla is already hard at work on Firefox 3.7.
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Howto install amarok 1.4 in Ubuntu Jaunty
Some users are not happy with amarok 2 and they want to install amarok 1.4. This tutorial will help them to install amarok1.4 version.
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Common Keyring: KDE and GNOME Combine Password Management Efforts
KDE and GNOME developers drafted a secret storage API designed to be a common interface for desktop applications that need to store passwords and other confidential data.
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Mozilla awards best new Tab ideas
In their recent Mozilla Labs "Design Challenge Summer 09" competition, Mozilla posed the question – "How can we create, navigate and manage multiple web sites within the same browser instance?". Out of the 128 submitted concepts, four "Best in Class" honors were chosen and a "People's Choice" award was bestowed.
Read more »Comparing the transport simulation games | OpenTTD vs Simutrans
Transport Simulations are a genre that has not translated to the high gloss, high production 3d game market now seen on PC and console games. However, they retain a huge following and command a niche.
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Exploring Advanced Math with Maxima
When I took Calculus in college, my Professor would give us substantial partial credit for test problems that we got wrong for minor arithmetic errors, and rightfully so, too. Sometimes even simple-sounding problems resulted in a full page, or more, of calculations. Simply changing a -1 to a +1 early on in a problem could be completely devastating.
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Fix Fonts in Firefox 3.5 and Ubuntu
In Ubuntu, some people have experienced some issue with the subpixel smoothing of fonts for Firefox 3.5. To fix this font issue in Firefox 3.5 there are 2 possible solutions:
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