References may belong in an encyclopedia, but what purpose do they serve in Perl?
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Microsoft Keeps ‘Taking Over’ VMware
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VMware's new COO is... a former Microsoft executive, just like the new CEO
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Novell Obtains Some More Software Patents, Legitimising Broken System
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Novell gets some new intellectual monopolies and Microsoft gets sued over patent infringement
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Quick Mention: Microsoft’s OLPC is About Selfishness, Gain, Neither Children Nor Education
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OLPC News about how Microsoft duped, mistreated or exploited MIT Media Lab
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Intellectual Monopolies @ Microsoft, Counter-Productive Monopolies
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Proponent of Free Software gets marching orders
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WITH M.Arun, special officer of the proposed International Centre For
Free And Open Source Software(ICFOSS), also getting marching orders,
free software exponents in the state suspect the entry of a dreaded
virus allegedly spread by Microsoft to shutdown the free software
movement in the state.
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Internet & Creation
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« “Internet & Creation : how to recognize non-market exchanges over the internet while funding creation” has been published in French on 28 October 2008 by InLibroVeritas. See the French page for details. An English-speaking version adapted for global readership is in the works. An English summary can be found below... »
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Firebug 1.3.0 Final Released
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"As the subject says, Firebug 1.3.0 Final is now up on addons.mozilla.org. Release notes are here. As mentioned previously, this version will not be compatible with Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) and up. For that you’ll need a Firebug 1.4 alpha, soon to be dubbed beta available on getfirebug.com’s releases directory. Notes are on the releases page..."
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ELisp best practices?
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"I’ve spent some time looking at Emacs Lisp lately and there’s a weird ecosystem going on there. ELisp (and I’m thinking primarily about Emacs configuration here) tends to grow organically, because it’s paced by a person’s learning of the editor. Every now and then someone needs a new function, and they either search or ask around for something similar.
Read more »proposing rel-vcs
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"I'm working on designing a microformat that can be used to indicate the location of VCS (git, svn, etc) repositories related to a web page. I'd appreciate some web standards-savvy eyes on my rel-vcs microformat rfc..."
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Latha Jishnu: Kerala's inspiring new revolution
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"Across classrooms, government departments and public undertakings in Kerala, a quiet but radical shift is taking place. Students, teachers and bureaucrats have thrown proprietary software out of the windows and switched to free software.
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Another Reason to Run GNU/Linux...
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...And a pretty important one: "The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant." So why might GNU/Linux help? Well...
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Debian Etch Gateway/Router/Firewall with Layer7 and IPP2P for P2P Blocking
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If you are in a local area network environment with a host of running Bittorrent or Gnutella, the speed of the network is significantly reduced.
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More Perl Security Through Obfuscation For Linux and Unix
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Shepherding the safety of your data by keeping the sheep confused ;)
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GRUB 2 Receives New Font Engine
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GRUB 2, the next-generation Linux boot loader, has received a new font engine. Version 2 of the GRand Unified Bootloader introduces this new font engine that's written in C and with a font tool in Java. This engine will allow for better internationalization support including non-ASCII character codes and support for multiple fonts.
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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.
