"Hi, I am releasing version 6.17 of Org-mode. Besides the footnote support discussed already extensively here, this release also contains a new feature to make Org-mode more usable for writing tutorials and similar documents with code examples..."
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India gets its own operating system
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Father of free software Richard Stallman is visiting Hyderabad to oversee the migration of thousands of computers to a new "Indian" operating system.
Read more »Novell’s Mono: Imitating a Failing Technology
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Mono's dangers and its newest attempts to enter GNU/Linux distributions, desktop environments
Read more »Disabling Firefox's yellow plugin bar
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"I hate Flash. But that is a rant for a different post. I don't have Flash installed, and I don't want to have Flash installed. That means I get Firefox's yellow "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page" bar on many pages with Flash content.
Read more »Using The Unix Or Linux CLI To Find Your Ask.com Index Rank
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Now that the big 4 are done, we can get on with our lives ;)
Read more »FSFE announces New Year's Resolution Fellowship campaign
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Free Software Foundation Europe is asking people what they can do in 2009 to improve things for themselves and others in the sphere of software freedoms. The best way is to join the successful Fellowship programme, through which Fellows work to support software freedoms - and have fun doing it! Have a look at the site for more reasons to join!
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Free Software And Proprietary Dead-ends
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"...There’s nothing wrong with charging money for the redistribution of this code either. Noone says anybody should provide stuff for free, just because it is GPL’ed “free” software. What the freedom in “free software” means is that anyone who obtains the code also remains at liberty to redistribute the GPL’ed code and charge for it too, if he or she wishes to do so..."
Read more »IT Giants Conference Kraków 2009 - January 14 2009
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" For all the fans and enthusiasts of FREE SOFTWARE as well as for students and specialists of IT and related disciplines Special Guest Star: Richard Stallman ..."
Read more »Evolution vs Kontact - Part 2 - Kontact & Conclusion
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Welcome back to Part 2 of this series - pitting GNOME's Evolution Personal Information Manager (PIM) suite against KDE's Kontact.
Read more »Did Microsoft Scheme Financial Strangulations Against OLPC?
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Antitrust exhibits show how Microsoft was treating -- internally -- the OLPC threat (with GNU/Linux)
Read more »An Update on the Terminal Test
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Just a few days ago I began the Terminal Test. The idea is to put up a tweet/ident (what do you call an update on Identi.ca?) every time I use the terminal explaining what I used it for and how it could be avoided. Since then, I have used the terminal a number of times. The experiment is not over, but I wanted to give an update on what is going on.
Read more »Full Circle Magazine #Issue 20 December 2008
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This Month :
Command And Conquer :
The Daunting Terminal
How To:
Program in C - part 4
Web Development - part 1
Backup and Sync Your Music
My Story :
Making Money with FOSS
Book Review :
Ubuntu Kungfu
Read more »Speed up Firefox by mounting the profile in tmpfs
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tmpfs is a virtual, RAM-backed filesystem. It’s lightning-fast, but since it’s RAM-backed, any file written to tmpfs uses precious memory while it’s there, and the entire contents of the virtual partition are lost on shutdown or crash. The good news is that these detriments can be minimized, making tmpfs a viable choice for your profile directory.
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Get The Gimp 2.6.4 .deb (for Ubuntu)
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GIMP or GNU Image Manipulation Program is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc.
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New United States Government Already in Microsoft’s Pocket
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Microsoft funds are swinging from the Republicans to the Democrats as the parties swap positions
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Popular contentIBM Turns To Linux In Desktop Campaign Against Microsoft
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The company plans to ship Ubuntu and Red Hat versions of its "Open Collaboration Client," a combination of Lotus Notes 8 and Symphony. Read more »Teachers becoming Free Software advocates as GNU/Linux finds its perfect home in Kerala's schools
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I am inviting you to see the schools in my district.There you can see how reachers handling linux .Of course there is some problems in Printer Driver but it can be solved in the new versions .You must realise the Propreitory Rights .It is a new OS it will take some time to establish .You are listing the problems are your problems only Read more »Global Server Load Balancing with Open Source tools
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Global Server Load Balancing is the automatic routing of users to the nearest / fastest server to them based on their source IP. Typically a GSLB solution requires expensive application switches at each site, and additional software licenses that run into the thousands of dollars. Read more »Category: High End Tags: |
Popular content continuedA Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen... this is Microsoft we’re talking about, and if its proposed acquisition of Yahoo signals anything, it serves as a confirmation that Microsoft’s glory days are in the past. Read more »The Non-Revocable GPL
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I know by now you've seen the notice by the guy claiming to "revoke" the GPL license on his code, because I'm getting email about it. Read more »Free voice recognition software that works
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If you are considering adding voice recognition to your AI or robotics project then you are probably looking for a free implementation that works well. Read more » Category: Industry Tags: |
