For the sake of free software, please help defend Taiwan from Microsoft's docx file format invasion. Please help odf plugin for firefox more than you do with the docx plugin. Otherwise, you could be hurting open file format as you contribute to one controversial piece of free software, and ultimately hurt the entire FS landscape as a whole.
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NimbleX Linux - 94% satisfaction
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On the surface, NimbleX is another Linux distribution, shipping as a live CD, meant to be used primarily as a live CD, with the optional installation. It is based on Slackware and designed to fit under 256MB to allow it to be used from small USB thumb drives... Hey, why not 100%, you ask? Well, read on to find out.
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Why is Firefox so popular?
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Over the last 4 years, firefox is becoming more and more popular, and its market share is increasing by 5% each year over the last 4 years. But since one hasto actively download and install the program (on Mac and Windows), why do people choose to download and install Firefox? Why not Opera, Safari, Konqueror or any other browser?
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Fedora Rust Wallpaper
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Fedora Rust Wallpaper by techhead89. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
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Linux On One HP Desktop: A Small Step, But Still A Step
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Today HP has announced they will ship Linux on their HP Compaq DC5850. If you're like me, your first reaction as soon as you saw it was a small business PC was "yawn." One desktop and not even a consumer one? Big deal, right? Well, it might not be. It seems that HP is toying with Linux more and more.
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10 Newbie Mistakes, and What's Broken in Linux?
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The Linux faithful took exception to an Infoweek article criticizing perceived shortcomings in our OS of choice, ripping into the author for his apparent lack of knowledge. Commenters also had a field day with a TechRepublic post on newbie admin mistakes.
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Smart mobile can turn on heating
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A [linux-based] system that could eventually control heating, home security cameras and draw curtains has been demonstrated by phone maker Nokia.
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YouTube and GNU/Linux: download and convert videos the easy way
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YouTube has a rather frivolous reputation, the sort of site you might visit to see a video of snowboarding hamsters or jetpacking gerbils. It wasn't until I started re-learning the guitar, learning to play the piano too and sight reading sheet music that I began to realize that YouTube was a great source of online tutorials.
Read more »Having trouble with your internet connexion in Ubuntu (and most linux distro’s)? Try Wicd
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The Gnome Network Manager is really buggy and a lot of people are having trouble configuring the network connexion and getting it to work. Rather it’s wireless, static or dinamic ip, it’s just a pain in the a**.
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Quick Mention: Mozilla Detoxicated from Microsoft Influence
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Petition to stop software patents in Europe
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"Our petition aims to unify the voices of concerned Europeans, associations and companies, and calls on our politicians in Europe to stop patents on software with legislative clarifications..."
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Brutal Lessons And Hopefully Positive Outcomes
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I was not going to talk about this in my blog initially. There was no real need to at first, when this storm started as it was Slashdotted and I myself created links to it as well so people would find it.
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Network Civilization: Peer-to-Peer and the Rise of Green Capitalism.
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"Just as the three quarters of oil engineers now agree that Peak Oil is in sight within the next decade (after that, oil production can only decline), can we also posit that we may have reached a moment of Peak Hierarchy, a moment in history in which it is no longer large centralized organizations that are most efficient or productive, but rather those that are organized as distributed networks an
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