Quick and easy shell script to help setup openssl, openssh and zlib, while creating new ssh host keys, network-wide using rsh.
Read more »Tale of a codec optimisation: doing things the GNU/Linux way
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Encoding is a CPU-intensive operation. Whilst encoding, using optimised code is crucial. In this short article I will explain how I gained a 300% speed boost when encoding DVDs and will show how having the program’s sources and being able to talk to the maintainers sometimes really, really helps. Welcome to doing things “the GNU/Linux way”.
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IBM releases ODF-based Office killer
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IBM has officially launched the commercial version of its Lotus Symphony suite of productivity applications, and looks set amount a challenge to Microsoft Office in its enterprise heartland.
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Pentaho Releases Business Intelligence Platform Under GPL License
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Pentaho Corp., the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced that its current version 2 alpha release of the Pentaho BI Platform, as well as future versions, will be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2).
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Acer sees Linux as key to low-cost laptops
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Acer, the world's third-largest PC maker, believes that Linux software is a key to the low-cost laptop computer movement and hopes to create a community around the devices, a top executive said.
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Controlling your camera from your computer with gPhoto
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Both of the big powerhouses in the digital SLR camera market -- Canon and Nikon -- make software with which you can control your camera from your PC through an attached USB cable. It is a nice tool for situations when manually triggering the shutter might cause shake (such as long exposures), or for automating multiple shots at timed intervals.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 8
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Here's the latest comic strip from FSM's the Bizarre Cathedral...
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Software Patents Again and Trolls on the Offensive
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A roundup of software patent news that Free software watchers need to know about
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Mozilla says Firefox 3.0 bug-free, launches RC2
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Mozilla late Wednesday unveiled the second release candidate of Firefox 3.0 and said all of the issues that remain are on the server or site side, not in the application itself.
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Be Careful Who You Trust (on Document Standards)
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The post highlights some of the latest disinformation you ought to watch out for
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Using Perl To Handle Mass Mailing In Linux Or Unix
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Simple Perl Script To Do Mass Emailing From Lists Running Any Mail Agent On Linux Or Unix.
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How To Make a Fully Customized Live KDE CD/DVD Using Kubuntu
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There are tools available to allow anyone to create and distribute a completely customized Ubuntu Based distribution using the Gnome Desktop.
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ASUS teases with photo of iMac-like Eee PC
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ASUS today has provided PC World and other guests at a company-run seminar their first glimpse of its Eee Monitor all-in-one PC and confirms an iMac-like design that should cost less than half the price of its Apple-made rival.
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Linux Got Game: Warzone 2100
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Warzone 2100 is a free and open source real-time strategy computer game developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. It is often compared to Earth 2150, a Windows-only RTS game known as one of the first commercial full-3D games of its kind.
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An Angry Racist Rabbi Vs. Ubuntu
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I have no idea whether this is satire, but there seems to be an influx of dumb posts about Ubuntu lately. This seems to take the cake.
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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.
