"This new look is much more clean, and actually a lot closer to our initial idea of what Amarok 2 should look like."
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Twittering from OpenOffice.org
Using extensions like TwitterFox and TwitBin , you can post messages to Twitter directly from within the Firefox browser. But what if you spend most of your time in OpenOffice.org and want to submit tweets without leaving the convenience of the office suite? A simple OpenOffice.org Basic macro can help you to solve this problem.
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It’s Confirmed: Microsoft Went Down to South Africa to Fight ODF
The typical tricks involve business trips with hidden motives.
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Fedora 9: Leading edge or bleeding edge?
With Fedora 9, the Fedora project continues its tradition of being the most innovative major distribution, combining new applications from other distributions as well as its own inventions. However, in no other release has Fedora walked the line between leading edge and bleeding edge so precariously.
Read more »Installing mod_python and Django on Apache
I’ve recently started learning Django for doing web development, so as part of that, I needed to also learn how to set up Django within mod_python so I could deploy my new Django applications on my server.
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Eggs Thrown at Steve Ballmer (New Video)
Eggs thrown at Microsoft's CEO in Hungary in protest of Microsoft tax... I think
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Ballot Stuffer from Redmond Stuffs Another FOSS Conference (Romania)
Microsoft invades another free open source conference (this time in Romania)
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French court orders Windows refund
ICI EN FRANCE, there has been a grande victoire for Vole-hunters, as the French consumer association, UFC-Que Choisir, has won a court case entitling consumers to return their pre-installed copies of Windows XP for a decent discount.
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Sun Wiki Publisher extension for OpenOffice.org shines
Wikis are a great way to collaborate on text documents, but different wikis sometimes use incompatible wiki markup languages, and few wikis provide simple WYSIWYG editors to shorten the learning curve. Even for those fluent in wiki markup, using a word processor to create wiki content is often more convenient -- especially for publishing existing documents and for creating complex tables.
Read more »Seeing Linux clearly: Demystifying KDE and GNOME
Ok, you have to give some kudos to Windows: everyone knows what a window is. In the Linux world, KDE and GNOME aren’t quite as obvious. A gnome stands in your garden or inhabits the World of Warcraft, and KDE doesn’t even spell a word. The truth is they’re the two major window environments for Linux today; if you don’t like one type of UI you have another.
Read more »GNU/Linux one, Microsoft nil
Another one chalked up for all the GNU/Linux operating systems out there. Proof once again that the community makes it what it is. You may be perplexed as to exactly what I am rambling on about, not more than six days ago an OpenSSH vulnerability was discovered in GNU/Linux operating systems derived from Debian, more specifically, Ubuntu. Not a matter to be taken light heartedly in the slightest:
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Tux Racer in Disney
So I’m back form vacation and what did I see Tux Racer at every Arcade in the Parks. That’s right an Arcade version of our favorite bird….and it sure was fun to play.
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How to use lzma for compression
LZMA is an improved version of famous LZ77 compression algorithm. It was improved in way of maximum increasing of compression ratio, keeping high decompression speed and low memory requirements for decompressing. lzma command line tool has a similar interface to gzip(1) and bzip2(1) and is intended to make use of LZMA compression easy for the users who are already familiar with gzip and bzip2.
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First Day of Python for my Vietnamese Students
Today is the first day my Vietnamese high school students started to use the Python Programming Language. I wanted to give them a two week introduction to Python during the remaining days of the school year.
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Free your router with Tomato
It’s a little known fact that the fimware on Linksys routers is open-source. In fact, the operating system on WRT54G’s version 4 and below is Linux. Some time ago, people took advantage of this and made their own replacement firmware images for their routers.
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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.








