We're on the verge of a serious evolution on the web. Right now, the common way to include video on the web is by use of Flash, a closed-source technology that is a massive resource hog. The answer is the HTML5 video tag
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Interview with Daniel Schmitt from WikiLeaks
Daniel Schmitt is one of the people behind the whistle blower project Wiki Leaks. In the interview he encourages all readers and warns his opponents. They have the means to make our society better, to create a world which stands united and strong against abuse - locally and nationally as well as globally. Modern, fast, world-wide technology makes it possible.
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GAP for GIMP 2.6 released
GAP is a collection of GIMP plugins that make it possible to create animations as sequences of single frames. The result can be saved as animated GIF, AVI or MPEG file (external libraries are used for this).
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Creating Secure Tunnels With ssh
If you manage remote servers or if you have more than one computer you most likely have used the ssh command. A simple description of ssh is that it's a secure version of telnet, but that's like saying a Porsche is a just a better version of a Volkswagen bug.
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Debian developer "clarifies" Mono position
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, a Debian developer who stated Debian's position on Mono in the default Debian install last week, has clarified his statement on the issue in a new posting.
Read more »Howto Install LAMP server in Jaunty
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is an open source Web development platform that uses Linux as operating system, Apache as the Web server,MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language.
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Thunar File Manager Review - Good, Lightweight Alternative to Nautilus
Thunar is a lightweight file manager included in the Xfce desktop environment. It has a simpler interface compared to Nautilus, the default file manager which ships with GNOME. So, what are the features which come with Thunar, and what makes it a viable alternative to Nautilus?
Read more »Advocates say open-source software is better
Advocates for open-source software are urging governments to embrace the concept, which they argue will save money, offer more flexibility and create better computer programs by encouraging collaboration.
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Future of Open Source: Hack This Gadget
The open source movement gave rise to Linux and spawned a generation of collaborative coders. Now it's extending its reach to the hardware industry.
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India Does What the United States Can't
Here, would everybody like some positive Linux news for a change? The Indian government launches the FOSSEducation initiative. The details are there in the link, but I'd just like to point out a few phrases in the article which, as an American, just taste good to say out loud for a change.
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Subtitle Applications & Tutorials for GNU/Linux
In this post I tried to gather programs and tutorials written for GNU/Linux that manipulate subtitles (rip, edit, embed subs and more) as simply as possible, through a friendly Graphic User Interface (GUI).
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Ogg Theora and HTML 5 Support
HTML 5's support of using the Ogg Theora video format in the upcoming tag looked really promising for innovation in the web video area, but not everyone agrees on the new spec.
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The Mono Firefight
An in-depth investigation of the Mono controversy. And yes, before you complain, I wrote it. After seeing how much work I'd put into it, I thought it would be nice to have someone other than Microsoft trolls leaving comments .
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How to limit the download speed of apt-get
Learn how to limit the download speed of the APT package manager in Kubuntu, Ubuntu or any Debian-based Linux system.
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Apt-p2p for peer-to-peer Debian package downloads
Apt-p2p gives you the ability to download Debian packages via a peer-to-peer protocol. Apt-p2p will try to get the packages from peers before it resorts to pulling them from the repository. This saves bandwidth for the repository servers, can speed up your download speed, and ads to the sense of community which Debian is so rich with.
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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.










