One of the first things I do upon installing a Linux distribution is put the Network Monitor applet on my GNOME panel. Watching the blue lights twinkle on and off makes me aware of network traffic.
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Interview with Adam Williamson - Mandriva Community Manager
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In this interview we talk with Adam. In specific, we talk about: * What’s new in the latest Mandriva release * Relating directly to the users instead of the developer community * Differences between user priorities and developer priorities * Deciding what should be included in the distribution * What will become of the “year of the Linux desktop” idea?
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Fedora 10 Multiple Network Connections Video
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Fedora 10 users are allowed to enable wired, wireless, mobile broadband, VPN and DSL network connections and then switch back and forth right on the Fedora desktop panel.
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Creating your perfect Linux system.
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If you are looking for step by step instructions to creating your perfect Linux system then stop reading now. How can I know what your perfect system is? All I can give are step by step instructions for what I think is a perfect system. Which I am not going to do.
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Set up a SSH-based point to point connection
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OpenSSH version 4.3 introduced a new feature: the ability to create on-the-fly "Virtual Private Networks" via the tunnel driver (the so-called "tun" driver). This allows you to create a network interface that bridges two physically disparate network segments in different locations.
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Why Ubuntu and Too Much Trust Can Be Bad
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One of desktop Linux’s chief selling points is its near-immunity to malware. Whether this superiority is due to the Unix security measures that Windows lacks, or to the mere fact that comparatively few people use Linux on desktop computers, it makes Linux attractive in an era when all manner of nasty things can be done to computer users by exploiting bugs in the software they run.
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Antitrust Complaint About Microsoft, a So-called ‘Pirate’
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Microsoft is reported to the EC for overcharging, media contains a lot of Microsoft-imposed daemonisation
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German's Federal Government introduces ODF
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Short note: Germany's new IT-Council announced today that they will introduce ODF in the federal public administration. All federal public administrations should be able to receive, sent, read, and modify ODF documents until beginning of 2010.
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Exploring the BECTA-Microsoft Relationship
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Boycott Novell takes a look at who runs BECTA and how BECTA's judgment is made
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The H3v web browser. Is it a Dillo killer?
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When it comes to browsers, the Unix community is positively spoiled for choice: Firefox, Konqueror, Flock, Opera, Epiphany, Galeon, Kazehakase, Links, Elinks, Lynx, W3m and Dillo. From the minimal to the relatively bloated all life is there.
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Leaked: Microsoft Pays Companies to Recommend Windows
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Confidential documents were leaked to us and they show how Microsoft controls advertisements even in the channel
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Analysis on balance:Standardisation and Patents
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Following up on the "IPR in ICT Standardisation" Workshop two weeks ago in Brussels, FSFE president Georg Greve analysed the conflicts between patents and standards. The resulting is paper about the most harmful effects of patents on standards, the effectiveness of current remedies, and potential future remedies.
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Shred and secure-delete: tools for wiping files, partitions and disks in GNU/Linux
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I carry a small, laminated card indicating my subscription to the IUSP (International Union of the Super Paranoid, tin hat division). Well, you can't be too careful. After all, we live in a dangerous world and computers are just an extension of that.
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Nectarine City Handbook of C Programming Style
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"For nearly every company or group I've worked for, I have written a programming style guide. I've spent some time re-thinking all of these old style guides, and have written a new one, the Nectarine City Handbook of C Programming Style..."
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eproject
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«For a long time, I've had a hack in my local elisp directory that let me easily visit related files in my perl projects [...] Now that I've started programming more frequently in other languages, I've missed having this feature. Instead of hacking something together for every other language I might use, I decided to generalize the concept of a "project" and "related files".
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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.
