The Aleutia is a small desktop PC that is powered by a roll-up solar panel and uses just 8W. It comes with Puppy Linux, a small Linux distributions that is designed for older hardware.
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Glipper: Clipboard Management for GNOME
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One of the things that has annoyed me most about GNOME as I've played with it lately is the lack of a clipboard manager comparable to Klipper on KDE. However, as I was looking for a package in Synaptic, I managed to come across a program that does the job quite well: Glipper.
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Wikimedia and the Free Culture Movement
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"While communication technologies have created a world flush with knowledge, creativity, and communication, works of culture are more tightly controlled and restricted today than ever before. A rapidly expanding copyright regime makes the use, modification and distribution of almost all documented human expression the exclusive right of its creator. Copyright today is automatic, extensive, and lasts for more than a century. Our culture today, is owned..."
via copyrighteous http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20071211-00
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Drupal Founder Dries Buytaert (Finally) Enters Start-Up Life With Acquia
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Dries Buytaert - his recent announcement that he’s going to start a company called Acquia now that he’s in the final stage of completing his PhD from the University of Ghent.
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ClarkConnect: Turns an Average PC into a Powerful Network Server
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Ever wondered if it’s possible to get a full-featured server for your network that provides all the popular daemons (apache, mysql, ftp, mail, samba)? How about acting as a gateway at the same time by offering a secure firewall, intrusion detection and prevention rules, traffic shaping and bandwidth monitoring tools? Well, it is possible but unfortunately the time to install all of this takes an overwhelmingly long time - about 30 minutes.
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Break That Warranty Sticker: ASUS Says It’s OK!
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ASUS released a press release yesterday clarifying their position on the yellow “Warranty void if removed” sticker on the bottom of the Eee PC devices that covers the RAM slot:
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Conserve Space in Firefox by Combining Toolbars
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he subject today is how to consolidate the Firefox toolbars down to just the items we actually use, to save space for the 45 tabs I like to have open.
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Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: an outrageous disaster
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"Nokia and Apple have privately pushed to give Ogg the noose treatment (and so far succeeded) in HTML5. This destroyed all hope of having free (as in freedom) media embedded in HTML5 in an interoperable way..." -- via slashdot http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251&from=rss
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Top 10 free Linux 3D games
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Addictive 3D games for Linux users to fill their time with. These games are really good and some have won awards or have been featured on magazines. Most are cross platform and all of them completely free. You don’t have to use ‘Wine’ to be able to play as they come with Linux installers.
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The Average Week of a Linux Guy in an MS Windows World
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Getting along with MS Windows users who do not even know you are not an MS Windows user, starring Mint 4.0.
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Engineering Industry support for OOXML - Novell
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The Open XML support of "the industry" argument is weak and does not belong into technical discussions at this stage.
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Netherlands: Microsoft wants open standards
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This week the Dutch government will discuss a proposal to switch as much as possible to open standards and open source software. The Microsoft director for the Netherlands, Theo Rinsema, responded that Microsoft is not objecting to open standards, but the proposal excludes too many not open standards, like PDF, MP3 and GSM, which are widely accepted standards.
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OpenID 2.0 Specification Approved
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It looks like the OpenID Authentication 2.0 specification has finally been released, along with OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0. While there are some questionable features in the new specification (namely XRIs), it seems like a worthwhile improvement over the previous specification. It will be interesting to see how quickly the new specification gains adoption.
While this is certainly an important milestone, there are still areas for improvement.
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Nokia on Ogg
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Slashdot linked this weekend to a Nokia position paper on the use of Ogg in the HTML5 proposal for the media elements. For those of us who have followed the HTML5 discussion for some time there is little new in the position paper, he is simply regurgitating the same arguments that Apple Safari people came up with.
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Ubuntu on the Asus Eee PC: Part 1 (or How to run a functional Ubuntu install off a USB drive)
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installing Ubuntu on the Asus Eee PCmahalo - I don’t have a USB CD-ROM to install from and opted for a USB flash drive instead
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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.
