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Read more »USPTO Leaves People Dead. Is the Intellectual Monopoly Doctrine Practically Dead Too?
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Red Hat Sues Switzerland Over Microsoft Monopoly
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Linux vendor Red Hat, and 17 other vendors, have protested a Swiss government contract given to Microsoft without any public bidding.
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Kpackagekit - First Impressions and Troubleshoots
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Kpackagekit is the default package manager on Kubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)..These are some first impressions and troubleshoots..
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In 2010 Asia and Latin America will be leading the use of free software... Africa lags behind
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"Researchers from Seville -María Dolores Gallego, Salvador Bueno (of Pablo de Olavide University) and Paula Luna (University of Seville)- carried out a report, published in the magazine Technological Forecasting & Social Change, stating that the use of free software in South America and Asia will be around 70% in 2010, with a special relevance in the education sector..."
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Limit CPU Usage By Process [Linux]
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cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much cpu. It does not act on the nice value or other scheduling priority stuff, but on the real cpu usage. Also, it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly.
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Bought a Win License, only to wipe it for Linux? Take the Survey! See what others have to say.
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Survey from my blog on Linux.com, Wiped Win licenses for Linux install, Virtualization choices, Netbook, Mono etc.. Uses Google-docs for storage..fun!
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Northeast Free Software Meeting in Bahía will discuss the economic and social role of free software
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Presenting the free software model as a way to provide viable and sustainable access to new information technologies while encouraging the economic and social development of a region is part of the goals of III ENSL, the Northeast Free Software Meeting and the Fourth Bahia Free Software Festival, happening on May 29-30 at the campus of Bahia State University (UNEB) in Salvador, Bahia’s capital.
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espresso-mode 7
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"espresso-mode is a Javascript-mode for GNU Emacs. Its features include: ..."
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Up close and personal with Debian 5.0
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The latest Debian version – 5.0, codenamed Lenny – was released on 14 February. To mark the release, Linux Format magazine talked to some of the developers involved and took a look at the new stuff on offer.
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Securing PHP
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PHP is the most popular scripting language used on the Internet and is a necessary component to many of the blogs and content management systems today. One of the important steps in securing your website is to disable those insecure options that are possible on PHP.
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Perl 6 training in Lisbon in August
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"I am happy to announce that on 1-2 August, 2009, the week-end before YAPC::EU I am going to give a Perl 6 training in Lisbon, Portugal..."
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GNU'S NOT UNIX - Richard Stallman with BYTE editors, July 1986
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«... Richard Stallman has undertaken probably the most ambitious free software development project to date, the GNU system. In his GNU Manifesto, published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, Stallman described GNU as a "complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it...
Read more »Ex-Microsoftie: Free software will kill Redmond
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Bill Gates probably will not sing the praises of Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who's now left the fold and written a book about why the Redmond way will fail. Oh yeah, Curtis is not afraid to speak his mind as a Linux guru, either.
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Fedora 11 Includes a Simple Firewall
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Firewalls need to be simple and firewalls need to be complex….yes, this is a dilemma of huge consequence. However, Fedora has accomplished both in one firewall. This new option in System/Administration/Firewall provides two layers of set up for the firewall.
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[FSF] Free Software Action Alert!
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"The upcoming European parliament elections give the free software movement an opportunity to educate the candidates to the importance of protecting free software from bad legislation involving software patents, interoperability and net neutrality. The French free software association April has organized the Free Software Pact initiative, but they need your help.
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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.
