Microsoft Corp. will soon be free of a U.S. court decree imposed for anti-competitive behavior, just in time for a showdown with Google Inc. and others seeking domination in the ever-changing software industry.
Read more »Microsoft-Google Showdown Heats Up as Court Rule Ends
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Can CVS save the landline phone?
A third of U.S. households will migrate to mobile-only phone services by 2011, resulting in an annual loss of $13 billion in fixed-line voice revenues to wireless substitutions, In-Stat forecasts. However, technologies are available to create next-generation "converged voice services" (CVS) that can breathe new life into fixed-line networks, the market research firm suggests.
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This is Vector. This is Vector on Fluxbox.
Fluxbox seems like an afterthought in most distros. You can add it, sure, but it doesn't look or function that great without some work. On one of my Debian installs, Fluxbox is excellent, on the other not so much. Slackware has a nice Fluxbox setup as well.
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Aggregate, collaborate, participate...
It is hard to make sense of the amount of information available on the web today, yet it is critical to listen and engage. We developped the BuzzMonitor, an open source application that "listens" to what people are saying about the World Bank across blogs and other sites in order to help the organization understand and engage in social media.
Read more »Python 3.0a1 released
"The first alpha release of Python 3.0 is available; see the release page for details and downloads..."
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Promoting the change to Linux?
Or not...
What is your opinion on this kind of materials circulating?
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How public money should not be spent
The article is in portuguese and is about a decision of the portuguese government to decided to launch a conflict mediation court on Second Life.
It would be interesting if our country had a spectacular justice system that worked.
Read more »Becoming a part of the Firefox quality assurance process
"Mozilla has a great team of QA engineers working on Firefox 3, but it depends on broader community involvement to get the job done. One important way that Firefox users can become a part of the quality assurance process is by participating in test days..."
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Towards a "World Intellectual Wealth Organisation"
"...We need a World Intellectual Wealth Organisation, dedicated to the research and promotion of novel and imaginative ways to encourage the production and dissemination of knowledge..."
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Administering phpGroupware: The Admin Module
We previously installed phpGroupware, and now we need to configure it so our users can do their work. This will be more of an overview to help you get up and running, than an in-depth tutorial.
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Stellarium - watch the sky from Linux
Stellarium is a real-time 3D photo-realistic nightsky renderer. It can generate images of the sky as seen through the Earth's atmosphere with more than one hundred thousand stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue, constellations, planets, major satellites and nebulas.
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Partners to Microsoft: Don't Make Us Licensing Police
Microsoft partners think it's great that the vendor has been aggressively battling software piracy. But some partners say the task of ensuring that their clients are in compliance with Microsoft's Byzantine software licensing structure is steadily growing more difficult.
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Using PCLinux2007: A good-bad report
This is a brief report on my usage-experience with PCLinux2007 (or PCLOS for short). It’s just an op-ed piece, and some of the comments would reflect my ignorance rather than the ability of the operating system. However, considering I am still a linux beginner, a post like this documents the kind of positive experiences and challenges a user can face once he/she is actually using PCLOS.
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Troubleshooting Linux Audio, Part 3b
In this final section I'll present some MIDI-specific troubleshooting tips, along with a brief description of the setup here at StudioDave, a few closing remarks, and of course some links to the Linux music-maker du jour.
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How-To: PCLinuxOS 2007 and MythTV
For those of you who always thought PCLinuxOS and MythTV would go together...you’re quite right, they do fit well together...though there are a few bumps on the road. Hopefully, this how-to will help you along the way.
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