"I hate Flash. But that is a rant for a different post. I don't have Flash installed, and I don't want to have Flash installed. That means I get Firefox's yellow "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page" bar on many pages with Flash content.
Read more »Using The Unix Or Linux CLI To Find Your Ask.com Index Rank
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Now that the big 4 are done, we can get on with our lives ;)
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FSFE announces New Year's Resolution Fellowship campaign
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Free Software Foundation Europe is asking people what they can do in 2009 to improve things for themselves and others in the sphere of software freedoms. The best way is to join the successful Fellowship programme, through which Fellows work to support software freedoms - and have fun doing it! Have a look at the site for more reasons to join!
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Free Software And Proprietary Dead-ends
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"...There’s nothing wrong with charging money for the redistribution of this code either. Noone says anybody should provide stuff for free, just because it is GPL’ed “free” software. What the freedom in “free software” means is that anyone who obtains the code also remains at liberty to redistribute the GPL’ed code and charge for it too, if he or she wishes to do so..."
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IT Giants Conference Kraków 2009 - January 14 2009
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" For all the fans and enthusiasts of FREE SOFTWARE as well as for students and specialists of IT and related disciplines Special Guest Star: Richard Stallman ..."
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Evolution vs Kontact - Part 2 - Kontact & Conclusion
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Welcome back to Part 2 of this series - pitting GNOME's Evolution Personal Information Manager (PIM) suite against KDE's Kontact.
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Did Microsoft Scheme Financial Strangulations Against OLPC?
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Antitrust exhibits show how Microsoft was treating -- internally -- the OLPC threat (with GNU/Linux)
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An Update on the Terminal Test
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Just a few days ago I began the Terminal Test. The idea is to put up a tweet/ident (what do you call an update on Identi.ca?) every time I use the terminal explaining what I used it for and how it could be avoided. Since then, I have used the terminal a number of times. The experiment is not over, but I wanted to give an update on what is going on.
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Full Circle Magazine #Issue 20 December 2008
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This Month :
Command And Conquer :
The Daunting Terminal
How To:
Program in C - part 4
Web Development - part 1
Backup and Sync Your Music
My Story :
Making Money with FOSS
Book Review :
Ubuntu Kungfu
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Speed up Firefox by mounting the profile in tmpfs
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tmpfs is a virtual, RAM-backed filesystem. It’s lightning-fast, but since it’s RAM-backed, any file written to tmpfs uses precious memory while it’s there, and the entire contents of the virtual partition are lost on shutdown or crash. The good news is that these detriments can be minimized, making tmpfs a viable choice for your profile directory.
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Get The Gimp 2.6.4 .deb (for Ubuntu)
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GIMP or GNU Image Manipulation Program is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc.
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New United States Government Already in Microsoft’s Pocket
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Microsoft funds are swinging from the Republicans to the Democrats as the parties swap positions
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Why “open source” misses the point of Free Software
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"25 years after Stallman first set the GNU project in motion, what have these ideals achieved, and what can we do to ensure the future of free software? Linux Format spoke to him to find out..."
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Planting Seeds of Doubt in Microsoft’s Future
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An article published on-line (CC'ed By-SA) about Microsoft's posturing and demise, then offered to us
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It’s Not a Donation, It’s Addictionware
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Microsoft claims to be doing a favour to people who receive temporary access to non-Free software
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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.
