Eight must-know Linux commands that will turn any Linux novice into an apparent command line guru. Go on. Impress your friends and family.
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Why we need a World Intellectual Wealth Organisation
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"...On access to intellectual property and the much needed technology transfer that will permit to the Global South to deal with urgent mitigation and adaptation challenges, WBCSD representatives called it "completely unacceptable for industry" that a UN climate agreement would include compulsory licensing of patents.
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GNUnited Nations 0.1 (initial release)
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"I am pleased to announce the first release of GNUnited Nations (or
simply GNUN), a build system for www.gnu.org translations..."
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Yasnippet for C style comments
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"Are you using yasnippet right? No? Well, in a nutshell is an awesome template system for Emacs, I really recommend it. The template language is very easy to learn and there are templates for a lot of programming languages..."
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OOXML is Patent Trap, Royalties Render it Obsolete
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A warning from Brazil about OOXML patents; trolling mulled by patent lawyers and monopolisation dangers highlighted
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HowTo upgrade from Debian Etch to Lenny
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"Debian Lenny’s release is getting closer and closer and many people will want to upgrade their Etch servers to Lenny, maybe even before Lenny is declared stable (at RC1 at this time). Even people that don’t want to upgrade to lenny might find some useful information in this post ;-) ..."
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GNU IceCat 3.0.4-g1 released.
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"Hello! 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 the changes made in Firefox 3.0.4 ..." via info-gnu Archives
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FTF and gpl-violations release a guide to reporting and fixing licence violations
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"FSFE's Freedom Task Force (FTF) and GPL-Violations.org today released a guide to reporting and fixing licence compliance issues. This guide will help users and developers to deal with license violation reports.
Read more »Disable tap-to-click on Ubuntu-EEE for Asus EEE PC
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Looks like a lot of people have been having trouble with over the sensitive tap-to-click function of the Asus EEE PC's touchpads when using Ubuntu-EEE. I was too, until I stumbled across this article which explains precisely how to disable tap-to-click by enabling the elantech driver. The article is so low in pagerank that you can't find it by googling for the problem.
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binding keys
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"In quite some of the blog entries - past and especially, future - we define key bindings. These are discussed in details in the Emacs documentation; but what about the very useful little subset we need here for defining keybindings? ..."
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How Perl Helped the Genome Project
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"Today I want to talk about how Perl helped the Human Genome Project.
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Barack Obama promises to be the most technologically attuned U.S. president ever.
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FLOSS & the Hacked Ideology
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A poem about the impact of the process of software compilation over Freedom. Who can affirm that the meal we give you to eat is in correlation with the recipe we said it was made of ? Provocative thought.
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Firefox Nightly Beats Chrome in Speed And Webkit Nightly Eats Them For Breakfast.
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We already knew that Firefox nightly beats Chrome in speed, the gap is getting wider with the latest Firefox builds (3.2a1pre). While Google Chrome uses webkit as a layout engine it uses it’s own javascript engine called V8. On the other hand webkit developers are quietly tweaking away its SquirrelFish engine for javascript speed increase.
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Why Does Microsoft Always Get A Free Pass? Why Does Big Business Reek So Badly?
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It's a funny thing how Microsoft succeeds in getting their logo and the Windows logo plastered on everything-- computers, advertising, and even other companies' ads. That "We recommend Windows Vista!" blurb is on every darned ad and product catalog that exists, it seems.
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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.
