Finally got Ubuntu running on the T61P (which has assumed the name of my last laptop which is in the process of having the contents of its hard drive transplanted). I encountered some issues in the process of doing this.
Read more »Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty) on a Thinkpad T61P
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VeriSign's SeatBelt OpenID plugin for Firefox
"The first good example of browser integration for OpenID. It catches phishing attempts by watching out for rogue OpenID consumers that don’t redirect to the right place."
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Jim Loudenback former PC Magazine editor-in-chief down on Vista, thinking about Linux
Here’s a WOW folks! I know things aren’t good in “Vista Land” when Jim Louderback, the former editor-in-chief of PC Magazine and Microsoft Windows fan boy, expresses serious doubts about Vista as he’s writing his last column... and suggests he may even move to Linux
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Swiss Telecom Subsidiary Picks Red Hat for Linux Infrastructure
Swisscom IT Services, a subsidiary of the largest telecommunications provider in Switzerland, is using a wide variety of solutions from Red Hat for its Linux software infrastructure.
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Stop Whining: Let's All Be (C)PALS
Apparently having an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license does matter.
Companies that had once shunned the official open source label while still operating as open source entities are starting to adopt a new OSI license, the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL).
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Sourcefire Acquires ClamAV Open Source Network Anti-Virus Project
Open source innovator and SNORT creator, Sourcefire, Inc., today announced that it has acquired ClamAV™, a leading open source gateway anti-virus and anti-malware project.
Read more »Opera Uses Mozilla Fuzzer Tool To Find 'Highly Severe' Bug
Despite having competing browsers, Opera used Mozilla's JavaScript security software tool, which was recently submitted to the general software community.
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Please help Peru, my country : Mozilla Links
"As you may know, Peru was struck by a 7.9 degrees earthquake on last Wednesday’s night. As damages are being assessed we are starting to realize how big the damage has been and it has turned to be pretty serious, specially in Pisco, a small city about 93 miles south from Lima were about 127,000 people live..."
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How to download video from YouTube, convert youtube to 3gp mobile phone, ipod, iphone, pocket pc, psp, zune
Everyday, plentiful funny video clips are uploaded to YouTube.com. These videos will disappear soonest due to reasons, why not to download those good video clips and save to our computer before they're gone forever? What more convert them to watch on your favoriate players like iPod, Creative Zen Vision, Archos, iRiver, aigo MP4 player, iPhone, Zune, PSP, Pocket PC, Smart Phone etc.?
Read more »Disaster Telecom after the earthquake in Peru
"The BBC is reporting that over 500 people were killed and thousands of people left injured and homeless after the earthquakes in Peru earlier this week... TSFI (Telecoms Sans Frontières) is looking for volunteers & donors...
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SCO/Novell File Joint Status Report - PDF and text
SCO and Novell have jointly filed their Status Report [PDF], in which they answer the judge's question as to what they believe is the effect of his August 10th Memorandum Decision and Order. What's left for the trial? They've talked it over, and they don't agree.
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I Run Linux, and I Don't Hate Microsoft
Yes, you read the title correctly. I only run FOSS systems, including GNU/Linux, BSD, Open Solaris, Minix, GNU/HURD, and Plan Nine From Bell Labs. I'll even give a favorable nod to Apple hardware if I see it running FOSS software. But I am adamantly opposed to running a single byte of Microsoft code under my roof or associated with my business.
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SSH Menu - Save and Open SSH Connections from the Panel
I was looking for a replacement for SecureCRT in Ubuntu. Something that would let me save all my SSH connections and make it possible to open a connection with the least effort.
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Lesser Known Applications for Linux — Learning and Hobby Tools
This will be an ongoing series of articles highlighting lesser known applications for Linux. These articles will be a bit Ubuntu-centric, but these applications should run nicely on your distribution of choice.
Read more »Support for HTML Video element in Firefox
"The WHATWG HTML 5 working draft has a specification for a 'video' element.I briefly mentioned in a previous post that I was working on implementing this tag natively in Firefox. The intent is to display Ogg Theora encoded video without needing any plugins...
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