To quote their TV commercial: "The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
This device does not kindle that fire -- it extinguishes it, with more of the same digital restrictions.
Amazon Kindle extinguishes the fire of learning
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Pardus 2011.2 review
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Pardus is a Linux distribution developed by the Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), an arm of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). Unlike most distributions, it is not based on another; an original, in the same sense that Debian is an original Linux distribution.
Read more »How to create your own cloud with Linux
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Apple created a lot of buzz when it announced its iCloud service earlier this year. It's designed to enable users to store content so it's accessible from all of their devices. Guess what? With Linux you can do it better.
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The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.7 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
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This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.7 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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Set up Spice-Gtk 0.7.44-3867 with usb redirection support on Ubuntu 11.10 ( beta 2)
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Following bellow is attempt to reproduce Hans de Goede blog entry
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Linux Licensing in Conflict with Secure Boot Support
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In other words, making Linux boot loaders work with secure boot would require breaking their licensing requirements, and arguably the spirit of Free Open Source Software as well.
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New open source mobile operating systems: Tizen and Meltemi
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While Intel rebrands MeeGo as Tizen and will work with Samsung and the Linux Foundation on development, Nokia is rumored to be developing another open-source OS for its low-end handsets, codenamed Meltemi.
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NeonView 0.4.0 Released With New Features
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This release, codenamed ‘Corydoras’, comes with several new features, including two rewritten modules and a graphical configuration window. Here are the most important changes for this version:
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 15
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Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 15 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
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BalaBit to Announce the High-Speed Reliable Logging Technology, With the Highest Performance Ever
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• The new High-Speed Reliable Logging (HSRL) technology, developed by BalaBit IT Security, revolutionizes the global logging market: it is capable of handling up to 1.000.000 log messages* per second
• BalaBit’s syslog-ng Premium Edition 4 F1 already contains the High-Speed Reliable Logging (HSRL) technology developments
The Document Foundation publishes details of LibreOffice 3.4.3 security fixes
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“Working on fuzzing LibreOffice import filters has been a great experience, and I am glad I could contribute in securing the computing experience of millions of users,” said Marc-André Laverdière
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Interview: Alan W. Irwin, developer of Time Ephemerides
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This week we interviewed Alan Irwin, the current developer of the Time Ephemerides project, a software and data bundle used to make time corrections in astronomical observations from the Earth’s view point. This is hardcore Astronomy friends! Enjoy the interview!
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How To Migrate Mailboxes Between IMAP Servers With imapcopy
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This guide explains how you can migrate mailboxes between IMAP servers with imapcopy. imapcopy lets you copy recursively all email messages and folders from one imap account to another. It supports the protocols imap and imaps.
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Alexandre Julliard Wineconf 2011 keynote
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Jon Parshall the COO at CodeWeavers posted a video of Alexandre Julliard's Wineconf 2011 keynote. Alexandre Julliard, is the Maintainer of the Wine Project, in his keynote he describes the current state of Wine, and what's in the works for upcoming Wine 1.4 release.
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Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked
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An astrology company has purchased the rights to a historical atlas and then sued the maintainers of Unix time-zone data for infringing their copyright by using some elements from the atlas!
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