Everex is popping off a new gOS powered box tonight, given the unfortunate monicker of MyMiniPC.
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Microsoft OOXML Pollutes More Than Just Document Formats
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Just to state or perhaps even emphasise the obvious, OOXML is a very large stack of proprietary Microsoft technologies, which directly contradict and antagonise existing standards, and not by coincidence. Microsoft has always established itself separately from the rest of the industry...
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The ugliness of it all
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I shall not complain that much about what happened with OOXML. In fact, the act of standardizing OOXML has not really brought any significant advantages to OOXML. ODF is an ISO standard and so is OOXML.
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Review: Dream Linux 3.0
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Dream Linux is a unique distribution in the fact that few other distributions ship with more than one window manager. Most choose just one window manager and stick with it. If you want something different, you'll need to install it yourself. In Dream Linux, the first thing you're greeted with when you boot the live cd is the choice between booting into Gnome, or XFCE.
Read more »Identify and verify users based on how they type
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Modify the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) to support user verification through keystroke-dynamics processing. Create and store a one-way encrypted hash of your keystroke patterns when entering your user name. Add code to GDM to read current keystroke patterns and permit a user to log in when the characteristics are a match.
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Foresight Linux (Because your desktop should be cool!)
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Foresight is my first venture outside of the traditional “Major” distros - but I’m impressed. I’ve never done a “review” before but I’m so impressed, I’m gonna give it a shot - here goes!
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Open source the biggest potential game changer for government: Senator Lundy
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Senator Kate Lundy hosted a pre-2020 Summit event in Canberra last week to generate ideas on how open source technology, open standards and open access to information might transform the way government departments and the business world operate.
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IFPI Erases Evidence Of Fascist Roots For 75th Anniversary
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"Any organization reaching a major anniversary would be proud of this fact, with press releases, interviews and celebration. The IFPI hasn’t said anything about reaching its 75th birthday. Instead, one of their staff has edited their Wikipedia page to keep their roots a secret. So what exactly do they want to hide? ..."
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How BarCamp works
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The people who attend BarCamp and similar events don't limit their involvement to just those events. Many are programmers, but there are other constituencies as well: Authors of open-source code, bloggers, Twitterers, students, and corporate employees with "real" jobs. All can sense a grassroots technology groundswell and they want to be a part of it.
Read more »IBM's EnterpriseDB stake: not what you think
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Ever since Sun anteed up a billion in cold cash for MySQL a couple months back, we wondered when the next shoe would drop. Recently, EnterpriseDB announced that IBM was one of several venture backers to fund its third $10m round of financing.
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More Theme Changes in Ubuntu 8.04
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If you’ve been running the Ubuntu 8.04 Beta, you’ll have noticed that the default theme has been changed from the new Human-Murrine back to the same Human theme from previous releases.
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Ubuntu UK Podcast - Episode 3 Out
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I’m happy to announce that the Ubuntu UK LoCo has put together their third episode of their podcast. This one includes a discussion on Command line versus GUI, Mythbuntu and due to demand, how the podcast is put together. This is followed by a news section.
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Hammering on the Heron
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Reports of beta testing for 8.04 LTS seem very positive all round, to the great credit of the desktop and server teams who have been working so hard to make Hardy Heron rock. I have been running Hardy on my laptop through most of the cycle, but took the plunge on my home firewall and desktop (Kubuntu) machine this weekend.
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Conservatives press for open-source push
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David Cameron has declared that a Conservative government would favour a greater use of open-source software.
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25 Reasons to use Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows
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Lots of people argue why I should use Linux (any distro, I prefer Ubuntu) when I am currently using Windows or Mac.
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