A simple shell script to grab information from an online thesaurus. Had I used it, this tagline might be more colorful ;)
Read more »Google Gadgets for Linux
Google Gadgets for Linux are simple HTML and JavaScript applications that can be embedded in web pages and other applications. By all accounts, Gadget support for Linux was a major undertaking for the Google team as it is an entire platform for mini applications. You can check out the source code for it on Google's Gadget for Linux project page.
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New mobile browsers bringing real Web to handhelds
A new generation of mobile Web browsers is finally making the Web a reality on handheld devices.
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what is KDE?
whenever people ask me that question, I have trouble answering. what is KDE?
Read more »Is Open Source Development Insecure?
A leading application security firm issues research report alleging that open source software developers are missing the security boat.
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Portage now supports building multiple packages in parallel
"In >=portage-2.2_rc2 there are a few new emerge options that many Gentoo users will probably be interested in: ..."
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Why Linux is Not on the Desktop
Let me start by saying that I love Linux. It is a great server OS. I use it at home to host two Wordpress blogs and a Joomla project I'm working on. There are many, many configuration options, lots of useful and free applications (including Joomla and Wordpress), and several distributions to choose from.
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IBM nears a decade of Linux and open source
After nearly a decade of active involvement in open source, IBM's commitment to Linux is broad and deep, said Inna Kuznetsova, the director of IBM Linux strategy. This vision of IBM's rapport with Linux is shared by most, but not all, IBM observers.
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Are you using the latest web browser?
In view of mass defacements of hundreds of thousand of web pages - with the intent to misuse them to launch drive-by download attacks - security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM Internet Security Systems were interested in looking at the other side of the attack: the web browser.
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Web service idea: helping identify outdated web browsers
Google, ETH, and IBM released a paper about how 59.1% of users are running the most up-to-date browser available to them, and that a decent number of people were not running fully-patched versions. From a security and standards-compliance position, this is bad.
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NTT Donates IPv6 Bandwidth to Open Source
ISC, a host of the Linux kernel, Mozilla and FreeBSD, receives free transit from the Tier 1 carrier, with an eye to spurring IPv6 adoption.
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ISO is being challenged
I’ve meant to blog on several topics but just didn’t have the time to do so. I’m putting an end to more than a month of silence to highlight some interesting news from India.
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Mark Shuttleworth: life on Mars, Ubuntu in emerging markets
After the technical sessions concluded on the first day of OSCON, some attendees headed across town to see Mark Shuttleworth, the charismatic founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, give a presentation to local Portland group Legion of Tech. This took place at McMenamins, an unusual venue where theater and pub converge to provide an atmosphere that is emblematic of Portland's unique culture.
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Why windows why??
If you don't want to read about me slagging off on windows then don't read this because I am going on a rant.
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Gaming on Ubuntu (Linux)
Well, welcome back to the site everyone, I am a new writer here, and I hope to help you all in your transition to a better (in my humble opinion) operating system.
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