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Communicating With the Other Half: NTFS Support in Linux

http://www.linux-mag.com

NTFS support has been slow in coming to Linux. But new drivers are now available that enable you to read from, and even to write to, NTFS partitions, including removable media formatted with NTFS. We show you how.

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Created by serdar 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Full-throttle Productivity and Web-Work With Ubuntu

http://www.anywired.com

If blogs are to be believed, it would seem that every aspect of the web worker’s life revolves around one Apple product or another. The image of the hip MacBook Pro-clad designer has become a meme to the point of becoming clichė. As a web worker, it seems like I should be subscribing to digg’s Apple feed, drinking copious amount of tea, and listening to bands that no one has heard of.

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Created by bluecheese 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Using your Linux box for volunteer computing

http://www.linux.com

You can do your part to help tackle such global issues as disease control and climate prediction simply by volunteering your computer's resources to solve complex computational problems.

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Created by switchpin 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Firefly extension turns Firefox into a file browser

http://www.linux.com

Nowadays, Web browsers can act as front ends to many other kinds of applications. For instance, if you want to browse and open the files on your hard drive from within Firefox, turn to the Firefly extension.

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Created by switchpin 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Internet Explorer: A Browser Breaks

http://www.microsoft-watch.com

"IE is vulnerable to aggressive competition right now and likely still will be through early 2009. Only Mozilla's unwillingness to act—to make Firefox deployments easier—would prevent the browser from making even greater enterprise gains against Internet Explorer..."

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Created by cpoliticas 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Sarkozy intervenes in France to revert the OOXML position

http://www.noooxml.org

"Confidential sources say that President Sarkozy has intervened himself in the French position on Microsoft OOXML, asking members of the committee to revert their position, and support an abstention. Our sources say he was approached by a lobbyist during his 3-days trip in England.

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Created by can.axis 17 years 45 weeks ago
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If you have to ask, you shouldn’t try it

http://kmandla.wordpress.com

This is that time of year (or twice a year, I guess I should say), when a lot of eager, well-meaning but somewhat out-of-their-league Ubuntu users get crazy and start installing the beta of the next release.

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Created by giantrobot 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Twitux - a GNOME Twitter client

http://fosswire.com

Microblogging service Twitter is ever popular, and is a great way for keeping in contact with your friends in real time and seeing what they are up to.

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Created by anna 17 years 45 weeks ago
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AbiWord v2.6.0 Released

http://abisource.com

AbiWord 2.6 is a multi-platform word processor that combines state-of-the-art usability, powerful features, and excellent interoperability. Furthermore, it features a powerful framework for supporting custom extensions. AbiWord 2.6 is the most stable and capable AbiWord release ever. In addition to fixing hundreds of bugs reported by our users, it contains several exciting new features.

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Created by anna 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Splashtop “Instant On” motherboard

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com

So I have had on my desk for about week now a sweet little ASUS laptop containing one of the new Splashtop motherboards. Don’t know what Splashtop is? Well Splashtop is a motherboard that contains, in the onboard memory, a special version of Linux (based on Small Linux - formerly tinyX) that runs right after the bios.

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Created by docsmartz 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Laptop Training Begins in Peru

http://www.technologyreview.com

This week, teachers from remote rural villages in Peru are gathering in several regional cities to learn how to do their jobs via One Laptop per Child (OLPC) machines distributed to their pupils.

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Created by extra 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Microsoft's Great Besmirching

http://www.linuxjournal.com

I have been covering Microsoft for over 25 years - I've even written a few books about Windows. During that time, I've developed a certain respect for a company that just doesn't give up, and whose ability to spin surpasses even that of politicians.

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Created by greengrass 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Formal Protest Filed Asking that Norway's Vote Be Annulled & KEI Statement

http://www.groklaw.net

The uproar over OOXML just won't quit. There has now been a formal protest filed, stating that due to irregularities, Norway's Yes vote should be changed to No and informing ISO that there has been a request for an investigation by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry:

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Created by peacemaker 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Hackers "open source" Vista

http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz

Microsoft reacted swiftly this morning to close down a site distributing the complete source code of its flagship Vista operating system -- but not before dozens of other sites had mirrored the code.

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Created by missgeek 17 years 45 weeks ago
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Shareware Report: GNU money versus old

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com

Your moolah mired in Microsoft Money? Are you ready to quit Quicken? We've stumbled across GnuCash, personal and small-business financial-accounting software that's not only free but available on multiple platforms because of its GNU/Open Source pedigree.

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Created by mark 17 years 45 weeks ago
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