THERE are those Linux distributions which will install in a coffee break, with little intervention required from the user.
And there are those which demand plentiful reading beforehand, a thorough knowledge of one's hardware and a calm, clear mind.
Arch Of The Penguins
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CSIRO WiFi Ruling Upheld
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"...The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) was awarded patents relating to several widely-used IEEE wireless standards (such as 802.11 which is used in wireless networking) back in 1996, after which it began to negotiate royalties with companies that had embraced the new technology..." via http://w
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Building a Rural Wireless Mesh Network
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"Introduction: In rural Africa the penetration of telecommunication services, for example telephony and internet access, is low and in some regions non-existent.
Read more »FSCONS: Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit
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"Free Culture, Free Software, and Free Content will join forces under the banner of “Free Society” at FSCONS on October 24-26 at the IT University of Götheborg, Sweden.
Read more »Listen To Your Users
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I would rather write something about the idea of comparing Linux to Windows or MacOS. According to Ryan, such comparisons are pointless. He tried to prove this, but I cannot agree with him in this area, so I decided to write this rebuttal.
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Insert Page Numbers in Openoffice Writer
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Nothing is more frustrating than needing to change something very simple only to find yourself waste precious time figuring out where to find it or how to do it. If you want to insert page numbers into your OpenOffice Writer document you came to the right place. I’ll be using OpenOffice 3.0 RC1 to explain page numbering in a few quick steps.
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Making grub menu to wait for you -change timeout-
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On my PC I have installed, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Sabayon and Debian (my main Linux operating system), but when I turn it on, usually I did not get the grub menu, and I am forwarded directly to Debian, sometimes I have to restart the system to start another Linux flavor.
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IBM's New IT Standards Policy: ISO Is Not Exclusive
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IBM declared in a new corporate policy that it was establishing new IT standards and redefining its ties with the International Standards Organization (ISO). If developing countries want to develop their own standards, IBM is willing to support them. Ramifications are clear regarding the turbulent debate around acceptance of Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) data format.
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Easily displaying two-dimensional data with GtkDatabox
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Many applications need to graphically display the relation between two data axes. Common examples are how one resource such as CPU load or an exchange rate varies over time. GtkDatabox makes presenting such information in a GTK+ desktop application much simpler.
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Eye on Microsoft: Assortment of Key Observations
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Process monitoring with ps-watcher
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You can monitor your computers in a wide variety of ways. When you need to address smaller problems with process data on a system, the process monitoring tool ps-watcher comes in handy.
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Do-it-yourself Konqueror commands
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KDE's Konqueror is as multifunctional as a Swiss Army knife. It works as both a file manager and a Web browser, and you can enhance it even further by adding new commands to its repertoire by means of service menus.
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Firefox 3.0.3 update available now
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"As announced, and earlier than expected, a quick Firefox update has been released to fix a single bug that prevented some users accessing their saved passwords..."
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Manou Chen of Open.Amsterdam (video interview)
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Open.Amsterdam (in Dutch; English PDF download available here) is working to convert most of the city of Amsterdam's computers to GNU/Linux and open source software, and to make sure that any remaining proprietary-OS computers owned by the city use open file formats instead of closed, proprietary ones.
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