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Understanding Network Address Translation, NAT
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Network Address Translation (NAT) is one of the basic functions of a circuit level gateway. The simple purpose of NAT is to hide the IP addresses of a private network from the outside world.
Read more »The EDGIfication of the Philippines
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Microsoft is dumping 'free' software on the Philippines to suppress Free software adoption
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Good reasons not to use IE
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If you're using IE, then either you don't care or you don't know about all the vulnerabilities that IE has.
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Vista: Microsoft's biggest failure yet?
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"...Contrast this to the development and release model in the GNU/Linux world. Take a popular distro like Ubuntu, for example. Every six months whatever nice improvements have been made in the last half year are packaged up into a new release and made available to the user community.
Read more »A GNU/Linux Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
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"..The first post in this series is going to be about not so well known GNU/Linux program called Pipe Viewer or pv for short. Pipe viewer is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline.
Read more »Helpful Tips from Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
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I recently finished the book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt, co-author of the seminal book The Pragmatic Programmer. In this book Hunt discusses how people (specifically software developers) learn and offers tips on how we can set out to learn more effectively. Here are some useful tips I stumbled upon while reading Pragmatic Thinking and Learning:
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Microsoft's Web Sandbox is now open source
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Microsoft's Web Sandbox Live Labs project is now available under an open source license. Microsoft chose the Apache 2.0 license for the project, but pointed out that the project will not become an Apache project, although the vendor has been a member of the Apache Software Foundation since July 2008.
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Neverball and Neverputt
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It's been some time since the last Games post here at FOSSwire. Free software isn't all work and no play, right? We have briefly mentioned both subjects of this Games post before, in a round-up of 13 great open source games, but never in much detail - Neverball and Neverputt.
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Version 1.2 of GNU ed released
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"I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.2. GNU ed is an 8-bit clean, more or less POSIX-compliant implementation of the standard Unix line editor..."
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ODF Alliance Newsletter January 2009
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Linux also affected by hole in Ralink's Wi-fi driver
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The flaw discovered in Ralink's Wi-fi drivers for Windows last weekend also affects the Linux drivers – as already suspected. Attackers can exploit the hole to crash a computer remotely or possibly even inject and execute arbitrary code. Debian has released new packages for the rt2400, rt2500 and rt2570 models, but the packages need to be compiled by the user for the time being.
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Open Source and Copyleft in a Copyright, Closed Source World.
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What does online community mean to you? Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu community organizer, is working on a new project The Art of Community. This new project revolves around the creation of, and discussion of a book, which Jono is releasing under that same title, and licensing with a Creative Commons Liscence.
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Are you an "average" user?
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Everybody uses in their arguments the yardstick of the average user. This is the user that people measure the suitability of an operating system and form their arguments around. This brought a few questions to my mind. What exactly is an average user? How are they defined? What criteria are needed to put people in an "average user" box?
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FSFE launches Free PDF Readers campaign
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The Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe is proud to announce its latest initiative: pdfreaders.org, a site providing information about PDF with links to Free Software PDF readers for all major operating systems.
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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.
