Scientists are repressed further by lawyers, so there are new calls to fight back and restore freedom of thought
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Lighttpd by Andre Bogus- Book Review
This book guides you to everything you will need to know to installing, maintaining and getting the best out of Lighttpd (or "Lighty" if you will). This piece of software is named correctly for its purpose, being a lightweight webserver. There are chapters about building Lighttpd, but even more interesting the book goes in depth about optimizing and securing the software.
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Take the Gnome 3.0 General Sociological Research Survey
This research aims at finding the needs, and practices of users of Gnome 2.x. Analyzing that data will give the Gnome Usability Team very precious information that will shape up the form of Gnome 3.0.
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From “Microsoft Religion” to “Mono Religion”
LAST YEAR we mentioned Microsoft's "Jihad" talk (the term it uses a lot internally, even Bill Gates). The Microsoft ecosystem is said to be working very closely together and some call it "the Microsoft movement" (a term which is usually used in private conversations). Others even call it a/the "Microsoft religion", so the following new post hit a certain nerve.
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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: New Features in Postgres 8.4
Looking for a mature, open source database that’s not owned by Oracle? Whether you’re already a fan or are looking for alternatives, now might be a good time to take a look PostgreSQL.
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Microsoft’s Profits Down Sharply, Microsoft’s FUD Up Sharply
Reaffirmation of Microsoft's problems comes from its sympathisers; Microsoft FUD ensues
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It’s Unofficial: Microsoft Pays ASUS (Kickbacks) to Block GNU/Linux. Will EU Commission Step in?
"Microsoft is actually paying for using Windows [...] Asus speaker confirmed this in Germany," says an informant
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IBM Does Not Support OOXML
Response to new disinformation from the Microsoft camp. Microsoft cheerleaders like Alex Brown and Jesper Lund Stocholm are quite deliberately misinterpreting or mis-presenting a vote related to OOXML by claiming that IBM "supports" OOXML.
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GNU IceCat 3.0.9-g1 released
"I am pleased to announce the new version of the GNU IceCat web browser. GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox browser. This new version includes all the changes made in Firefox 3.0.9 ..."
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Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit 2009, Malta
"I'm on my way back home from Red Hat's EMEA Partner Summit in Malta, the second annual partner summit in EMEA, while I'm writing this.
Read more »More Funny Applications Errors From Linux, Unix And Elsewhere
Your Computer makin' you crazy? These error messages may or may not help you out ;)
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Presentations of Erik Josefsson and Pontus Nyman for Idépriset ‘09
"on wednesday the 29th (next week) at 14.00, I have invited Erik Josefsson (v) and Pontus Nyman to the IT University in Gothenburg for a mini-presentation of two interesting projects. Erik and Pontus were two of the winners of Idépriset ‘09 organised by Föreningen fri kultur och programvara, and they are invited to talk about the projects with which they won..."
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Some prefer marathoning... I prefer going to my old workplace
"I was invited to talk about Free Software at yesterday's FLISOL. Yesterday? Aren't FLISOLs organized on Saturday? Well, not this one, for various reasons which I won't quote here. And no, I am not a supporter of the installfests idea, but I went gladly to talk about what is Free Software all about - The philosophy behind Free Software.."
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Vista 7 Security “Cannot be Fixed. It’s a Design Problem.”
Yet another vector of compromise found in Vista 7; new damage control and PR dissected
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List of Linux Live CDs with Anonymous Internet Browsing Capability
A list of all the linux Live CDs known to come configured by default with the possibility of browsing the internet anonymous through the tor proxy network.
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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.




