This is an essay that I did for my English class recently. It was supposed to be informative, what do you think?
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The Permission Problem
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In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to build an airplane in the United States.
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Why browse the Web in Emacs?
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"With Emacs' reputation for including everything _and_ the kitchen sink, you probably won't be surprised to hear that there's more than one way to surf the Internet using your text editor. With today's Javascript- and image-heavy websites, it can be hard to believe that anyone would use a text-based browser with limited support for many of the things we take for granted.
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Mono striving to reach more parts of GNU/Linux; Moonlight revisited
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Bill Gates is Still Fighting Against Free/Libre Software, Quietly
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Gates is now working to ensure youngsters in China are glued to Microsoft software.
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Ruby 1.9: What To Expect
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"Ruby 1.9: What To Expect is an online slideshow by Sam Ruby that covers a lot of the differences between the Ruby 1.8 that we all know and love and the currently experimental Ruby 1.9. Sam's examples are to the point, easily digestible, and span 47 slides..."
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Marble provides basic engine for free Google Earth replacement
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The Free Software Foundation can cross off another item on its high priority list of applications that free software needs in order to compete. Version 0.6 of Marble, which ships with KDE 4.1, may not rival Google Earth just yet, but the underlying engine has the potential to do so in future versions.
Read more »How to Change MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) of network interface in Ubuntu Linux
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Maximum Transmission Unit(MTU), the largest physical packet size, measured in bytes, that a network can transmit. Any messages larger than the MTU are divided into smaller packets before being sent.By optimizing the MTU setting you can gain substantial network performance increases, especially when using dial-up modem connections.
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Why the Web is Defective by Design!
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RMS: «If you are talking about the practice of installing non-free software into a browser, the only thing that is good to offer is the reminder that you must refuse to do that.» --
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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Files Motion to Modify Terms of TRO
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The lawyers for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority have just filed a motion asking for a modification of the terms, but not the duration, of the temporary restraining order [PDF] it won against the MIT students who had wanted to present a security paper at DEFCON on vulnerabilities in Boston transit cards.
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Tutorial - An Introduction to Linux CLI
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The shell, basic commands and concepts, shell built ins, and directory structures.
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Radio New Zealand interview with Richard Stallman
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Full interview available in Ogg Format: http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Free...
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GNU needs to embrace the web !!
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Thomas Lord: «...The more urgent issue concerns the emerging W3C-based world: what will GNU have to offer there?» -- *
Read more »Richard Stallman Saw Microsoft’s Plans Against GNU/Linux Back in 2004
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An old video interview with Stallman reveals early expectations
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Free Software, Free Society: convenience vs freedom (was "My disagreement with Richard Stallman")
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* RMS: «We cater to them (people who don't care about software freedom) to the extent it doesn't interfere with more important goals, such as establishing a free society.»
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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.
