Since 1989, the USTR has used the Special 301 Report to intimidate other countries into adopting more stringent copyright and patent laws by singling out particular countries for their "bad" intellectual property policies, naming them on a tiered set of "watch lists,"
Read more »Shaping IP Laws by Not-So-Gentle Persuasion: The Special 301 Report
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What to Install After Installing Ubuntu Lucid?
As Ubuntu Lucid is preparing for its grand launch on 29th April 2010, I am sure you should have already known what to expect in this release.
Read more »8 of the best tiny Linux distros
There are plenty of reasons for wanting a low-resource distro running on your computer. Maybe you have some ancient hardware that you need to breathe new life into. Perhaps you want something that will fit on a modestly sized memory stick. Or it might be that you want to run 200 virtual machines simultaneously on your desktop.
Read more »Basenji - Media indexing tool designed for easy and fast indexing of media collections
Basenji is a media indexing tool designed for easy and fast indexing of media collections. It currently supports indexing of removable media such as CDs and USB sticks and stores them as volume objects in a database. After being stored in this database, volumes can be browsed and searched through for specific files very quickly.
Read more »Ubuntu 10.04: How to remove chat and mail icons (indicators) from system tray
The 10.04 LTS release of Ubuntu seems to be very, very good. However, for some strange reason, creators of this release made some strange decisions about Ubuntu's look-and-feel. One of the things that annoyed me was the assumption that every Ubuntu user, uses Twitter, Facebook or other social network.
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PCLinuxOS 2010 review
I was very excited about this release of PCLOS and have been waiting for it to hit for a while now. PCLinuxOS (PCLOS for short) was my second Linux distro I ever used and I really liked it.
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The First Benchmarks Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0
The first beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 was made available yesterday morning. RHEL 6.0 is set to offer many virtualization enhancements, power management improvements, new security features, many package updates, and even some reported performance enhancements.
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WhiteHouse.gov open sources custom Drupal code
During a keynote speech at this year's DrupalCon in San Francisco, David Cole, a Senior Advisor to the CIO of the Executive Office of the President, announced that the US Presidential web site developers are contributing some of their custom code to the Drupal project
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Canonical open sources Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On code
Ubuntu sponsor Canonical has announced that the Canonical Identity Provider code is now available as open source
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Version 3.3 of the Kajona CMS released
Kajona version 3.3 offers many new features including a SQLite database driver and a tree view in the administration interface for faster navigation
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Software and the Singularity
Futurists talk about the “Singularity”, the time when computational capacity will surpass the capacity of human intelligence. Ray Kurzweil predicts it will happen in 2045.
Read more »Open vs. Closed: Ubuntu Walks the Line
Any debate over open vs. closed systems has to touch on open-source software and the ways in which companies are attempting to build code as a community effort, while still profiting from it in some way.
Read more »Android OS gets loaded onto the Iphone
IPHONE USERS looking for a fully functioning operating system now have the option of loading Google's open source Android operating system on their shiny Apple smartphone.
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Open source training more attractive
Schools are heeding the call from organizations seeking IT personnel skilled in open source, but such efforts must involve broader industry participation and greater integration across the curriculum, according to an analyst.
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Five handy tools in the GIMP toolbox
For many Linux users, The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Project) seems to mostly be a tool of mystery and confusion. The biggest reason for this is lack of exposure. Most users that complain about The GIMP’s interface really only need to get to know the interface.
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