Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world’s poorest children. And then the fat-cat multinationals got scared and broke it...
Read more »Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop
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Richard Stallman Saw Microsoft’s Plans Against GNU/Linux Back in 2004
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"The following interview from Digital Tipping Point is a quite fascinating. Towards its end and a couple of minutes after the beginning, Stallman mentions that the Linux kernel, which makes up about 0.25% of the GNU/Linux system according to him, was found to have been covered by 286 different US patents. It is not necessarily news that there was such a study, but watch this video..."
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PatientOS Open Source EMR - Acute Care Documentation released
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PatientOS is an Open Source GPLv3 Helathcare Information System in the making. PatientOS version 0.82 brings together Acute Care Documentation, a rewrite of the Scheduling UI and the introduction of user defined Order States.
The documentation includes editable flowsheets, image uploads, graphs and charts as well as inked forms.
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Configuring Folding@home for Linux
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Today we will show how to configure and run folding@home, and use a GUI frontend called Prothink to observe progress. I am sure there are others but we will focus on Prothink.
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Gnome has Empathy for You
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Well, the Gnome 2.24 freeze is on, and something happened that I never imagined. Just after 2.22 was released, I took a look at the upcoming Gnome release, and I said, for probably the fifth time, that I wish Empathy and Telepathy would make it into Gnome, but...
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How Microsoft and Intel Conspired Against the GNU/Linux/AMD Laptops
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A truthful new article about OLPC and some of the subsequent steps to replicate these ill tactics
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Free-OpenServer. What a Concept!
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In case SCO tries to resurrect any methods and concepts claims to OpenServer or UnixWare, let me remind the world that beginning in 1996, they gave that away themselves when they offered Unix enthusiasts free licenses to what they called Free-OpenServer.
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Recovering Deleted Files By Inode Number In Linux And Unix
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Sometimes, you can recover that big oops! How to recover a deleted file in Linux or Unix... sometimes.
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scuba diving trip
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Sunreef Five star PADI scuba diving facility on the wonderful Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia, specialising in scuba diving trips to the great barrier reef, exotic locations and the HMAS Brisbane Wreck.
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GNU coreutils security update on Red Hat GNU systems
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"...This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team [...] All users of coreutils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolve this issue..." --
* Coreutils - GNU core utilities
Creating an Audio CD with mp3cd
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I guess the title tells you too much. The reality is that I was given some MP3 files and wanted to put them on a normal audio CD so the non-geeks here could listen to them. Thus, consider this a geek to non-geek conversion article.
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Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum, Creator of MINIX
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I recently had the opportunity to interview Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of the extremely secure Unix-like operating sytem MINIX 3. Andrew is also the author of Operating Systems Design and Implementation, the must-have book on programming and designing operating systems, and the man whose work inspired Linus Torvalds to create Linux.
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Manage HD partitions with GParted
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GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) is a wonderful open source application that will allow you to easily work with the partitions of your HD. You can add, delete, resize, copy, and move partitions all with an easy interface.
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Acquia: Counting Down to Commercially Supported Drupal
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The folks from Acquia were in San Francisco for the LinuxWorld conference this week. Acquia, as we've covered before, has been working away on an array of support offerings and services for the powerful open source Drupal content management system (CMS).
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Ruby 1.8.6 on Openmoko Freerunner
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"I finally got around to building ruby 1.8.6 for my FR [...] I also built jove, my favorite mini-emacs editor..."
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