Even the most cautious among us can fall victim to laptop theft. Learn the importance of password protection, encryption, and other strategies for protecting your data--and some tools that may even help you recover your system.
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Open source game console --- build your own games
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Based on Linux, the GP2X Wiz (nice name!) is a completely open multi-functional handheld entertainment device. The makers, GamePark Holding from Korea, say it's different than other shanzhai video game consoles in that it uses a completely "open source" approach.
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Lucid Lynx Alpha 2 Released; Software Center Changes, Less Games, and New Applets
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Get your bug report hat on because Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 2 is ready for testing. What's new in this release?
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Facebook Is Now an Apache Software Foundation Gold Sponsor
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Facebook just announced that it has become a Gold sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation.
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Fedora 12 -- A 'Must Consider' Distro
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New and improved features for Fedora 12 fall into one of three categories: applications, installation and administration, and core OS improvements.
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Is this for real?
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When I was in high school, during IT classes we worked with DOS, WordPerfect for DOS and BASIC. When my sister showed me her school textbook ‘Information technologies for gymnasium’, I was expecting tons of Windows screenshots. But, I was surprised.
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OpenOffice.org Thumbnail plugin 1.0 released
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The new version 1.0 from OpenOffice.org Thumbnail plugin has been released. OpenOffice.org Thumbnail plugin is a plugin for KDE file managers (Dolphin and Konqueror) to preview OpenOffice.org files (Open Document Format) as Thumbnails. You do not need to install OpenOffice.org for it to work (it only uses KDE API).
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Why Linux on the Desktop is Wrong
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If we want to see 2010 as a major movement year for desktop Linux deployments, we need to stop talking about it as if it "has not been ready" but "could now be ready." ... No one is willing to give up their favorite applications, or key tools, to move to a new environment -- even if it is far superior in quality, stability and cost.
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The Unlicense: A License for No License
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The GNU General Public License (GPL) is often described as "Copyleft" because it turns traditional copyright on its head to make code freer than traditional proprietary copyright licenses. Taking that a step further, some developers are embracing the Unlicense, a license that "disclaims" copyright interest in a piece of code altogether.
Read more »Is Extreme Programming Dying? Is Agile Growing in Popularity?
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It’s interesting to compare the interest over time in various software development methodologies and practices. Google Trends is a great tool for this, although it’s not without limitations, especially since so many programming terms have other meanings. For instance, you can use it to visually show how interest in eXtreme programming has (sadly) been waning for many years now:
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When will GIMP 2.8 be released?
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While the developers still work continuous on the next version of GIMP there comes, of course, the question of a release date. Will GIMP 2.8 yet reach us in 2010?
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Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution
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RMS: « Free Software can be summarized in three simple words: Liberté, égalité, fraternité».
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Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 9.10
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This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 9.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 9.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.
Read more »Distributed Development with Mercurial
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"Every clone of a Mercurial repository can act as a consistent, fully functional repository itself.This is a very useful property of a DVCS; one that you can take advantage of to make development a lot easier, especially for teams that are dispersed in multiple places of the globe..." — Mercu
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Due to a recent change I am re-entering the world of consultancy. Because I have the luxury of making this re-entry slowly (and possibly joining a local firm), I am taking my time. . While on these shadow calls I am watching and, in a pinch, helping. Many times what I am seeing is putting a “I told you so”-like smile on my face.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
