"There's something you won't see mentioned by too many advocates of cloud computing – the main attraction is making money from you..."
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Mirroring Web sites with wget
...once I heard the site might be going down, it was a mad rush between myself and many other security researchers to obtain a local mirror of the contents of the site for ourselves.
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Microsoft Teaches the Public That Free is Illegal
Shameless tactics from Microsoft describe Free software as "piracy" and now an "endemic problem"
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What's New In Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Alpha 5 (With Screenshots)
The Ubuntu development team unleashed the fifth alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), due for release in late October this year.
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Why Cron Is Better Than a String Around Your Finger
I've occasionally found it useful to set up reminders to be emailed to myself on a regular basis. The most straightforward tool to use for this is cron with mail.
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Linux is losing its stable title
Linux has a reputation for stability. Because it is based on the Unix framework it has an inbuilt stability where if one process crashes, other processes are not effected. Pure Linux is still supremely stable. Then along came Jones.
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Migrating a live system from ext3 to ext4 filesystem
This article is meant to serve as a guide for migrating a live system from ext3 to an ext4 filesystem, including migration of files to use extents, a major feature in ext4.
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Convert various media formats to Vorbis in Linux
Over the past month I have made it my goal to stop using the proprietary MP3 format for audio in favor of the free, open standard Ogg Vorbis format.
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An introduction to GNUnet
Anonymity and deniability in distributing information are two of the goals of the GNUnet project. At its heart, GNUnet is a mechanism to share content with others without revealing who generated the content or who accessed it. It also provides intermediate nodes in the network with the ability to deny knowledge of the contents of any traffic they forward because they are unable to decrypt it.
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Why Linux does not look like Windows
One interesting remark I read in some comments is that Linux distribution are not successful because they don't look enough like Windows. Apparently if someone completely copied the interface of Windows and slapped that on top of Linux, Windows users would migrate in droves and Microsoft would be bankrupt. Well, not really. Let me explain.
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4 + 1 ways to celebrate the Software Freedom Day
With the Software Freedom Day fast approaching, the Free Software Foundation and communities across the world are planning their activities and are preparing to celebrate and promote Free Software in their region.
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Microsoft brings "Worldwide Innovative Teachers Forum" to a country whose schools abandon Windows en masse
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What about KUI -- Keyword User Interface?
I wanted to share this idea for a long time. Upon reading "Linux guru: interface innovation is the challenge" from linuxtoday, I realize that I can postpone no longer. My suggestion is simple: give users a simple entry box much like a google search box with cues (or possible keyword completions that get automatically displayed, if you are command-line-interface oriented like me).
Read more »OLPC Deployment in the Greek Village of Sminthi
From September 2009 students in the Greek high school of Sminthi will use OLPC XO-1 laptops inside and outside the classroom.
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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.




