The GNU/Linux desktop lacks a font manager for design work. Ideally, such a font manager should support currently used font formats, including TrueType, Type1, and OpenType, and allow sets of fonts to be activated on the fly, so that system memory is not choked with rarely used fonts. Until now, the closest to this ideal has been Fonty Python. Now, however, newcomer Fontmatrix has proved itself a contender for the role.
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Book Review: The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects - Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers by Michael J. Ha
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"Michael J. Hammel has written a clear and thorough guide to artist techniques using the GIMP..."
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For developers: we just released Blogmaker, a free blogging app for Django
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"...One thing Django didn't include: a blogging app. (That's ok; this blog is only a small part of Blogcosm.) So, we wrote Blogmaker..."
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Sourceforge Opens Marketplace For Open Source Services
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SourceForge.net (part of SourceForge, Inc., NASDAQ: LNUX), the world’s largest web site for open source development and distribution, today launched an online marketplace for technology professionals to buy and sell service and support for open source software.
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Mono: Does anybody want it?
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When you think mono, you think tired. You think sleepy. You think shut-yourself-up-in-your-bedroom-for-two-weeks-and-snooze-like-Rip-Van-Winkle. You get the idea. But that is not how it should be. Mono isn’t boring. Mono should excite people!
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Rails 2.0 is out
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"Yes, yes, I've been awfully quiet here lately. But let's blame that on the long crunch session for Rails 2.0 and call it cheers, ye? It's out, gawd dammit. Finally..."
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HTML5 As Viewed By IE8
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"...While supporting HTML5 would be nice, the fact that MSIE7 won’t allow CSS rules to apply to any of the new HTML5 elements will significantly inhibit adoption of this standard."
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W3C Video on the Web Workshop 12-13 December 2007, San Jose, California and Brussels, Belgium:
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High-level goal: Make video a first class Web citizen, including making it easy to create, link to and from, describe, and search...
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Perl: use WWW::Mechanize as a web scraper
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"...It took me about 2 days to get the script coded, working and tested. The O'Reilly book "Spidering Hacks" definitely lead me down the right path with their hack(s) on WWW::Mechanize..."
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DebConf7 Final Report
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"After a lot of work, the DebConf7 Final Report has been released. The report is intended for a large audience, and includes impressions and facts from the conference. Whether you were there or not, we hope you will find the report an interesting read! ..."
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Finding the right distro for a Thinkpad X61
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Here is an interesting comparison in which the author compares several common tasks (setting up Compiz Fusion, setting up wireless networking, and setting up a printer) on three popular distributions, Mandriva Linux 2008, Linux Mint 4.0, and PCLinuxOS 2007.
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Should IBM's OS/2 Be Open-Sourced?
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A group of die-hard OS/2 users are petitioning IBM--again--to release the operating system's source code as open-source. The question may not be whether IBM wants to do so... but if it can.
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Updating system BIOS when running Ubuntu
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I've published firmware-tools deb packages, and the latest system BIOS images for 223 Dell system types, into a new repository on linux.dell.com.
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Digitalizing vinyl discs
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I recently became interested in the topic of digitalizing vinyl discs to copy the music my family had in that format to a digital storage like the hard drive in my PC, an iPod or a CD. Doing it is actually very simple, but the amount of specialized devices, some of them with very steep prizes, cables and connectors make it look much harder. I will try to condense here the knowledge I’ve been gathering after reading several websites and listening to several experts on TV and radio shows.
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Bait and Switch
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Promises have been made. Assurances have been given. Commitments have been proffered. But far less has been delivered. Let's review the record. We start with the Ecma whitepaper, "Office Open XML Overview" [pdf] which was included in their submission to ISO
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