"I will take thru the following steps in order to get on-the-fly spell checking in your Emacs with flymake-js while coding JavaScript..."
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A Quickstart to Erlang
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"If any language could be said to be ideally placed to deal with the challenges of the next 10 years it's Erlang. Designed from the ground up to take advantage of parallel and multi-core architectures, and natively supporting distributed systems coding, Erlang is a valuable addition to your programming skill set..."
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Wikipedia:10 things you did not know about Wikipedia
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10 things you did not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited prior experience with the project, such as journalists, new editors, and new readers. These explanations should not surprise experienced editors, but hopefully will help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work.
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OSX-Like Widgets with Ubuntu, Screenlets, and Compiz Fusion
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Screenlets are themed mini-applications programmed in Python. They are comparable to the widgets in OSX and Windows. This post will guide you through installing Screenlets and setting them up with Compiz Fusion to work similarly to widgets in Apple’s OSX.
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Warning to check open-source licensing
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Business users of open source software should review their open-source licensing agreements, audit their use, and create formal policies for managing source code, especially mixed-source code.
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Microsoft/UNESCO Agreement: neo-colonialism in the computer era
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"On November 17th 2004, Bill Gates visited UNESCO headquarters in Paris to sign a partnership agreement with the organization..."
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Classification of Free Software as a World Cultural Heritage
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"A working group has been set up in January 7th, 2002 by APRIL and FSF France. The original idea is from Pierre Jarillon (ABUL president). The objective is to have Free Software classified as an intangible world cultural heritage by the UNESCO
Read more »Open source is apolitical
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This week a number of thinkers tried to pigeonhole open source inside political philosophy.
Thankfully they all failed.
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Did Microsoft Buy Netcraft?
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Okay, I'm not seriously suggesting Microsoft is paying off Netcraft to produce positive survey results (although this is certainly a standard operating procedure for Microsoft). But something is odd, if not rotten, in the state of Netcraft.
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BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump GNU/Linux
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Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.
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How Grey Is Your Valley: Making Money From Open Source
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Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg has spoken out against a number of open source projects for profiteering from their code.
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The beginning of the end
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"...The great point the Russell makes is that the problems with Java are cultural, and he's right, but what he doesn't seem to realize is that this makes "saving" Java impossible..."
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WHOIS privacy reform reaches dead end
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"Reforms to the WHOIS database in order to address growing privacy concerns have once again come to a halt, leaving a seven-year-old debate to continue on how much personal information should be displayed to the public..."
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WengoPhone releases: 2.1.2 and 2.2 alpha 1 - OpenWengo
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"...We also announce the release of the first preview of the next stable release, WengoPhone 2.2 alpha 1. This release is destined for community and packager testing, before a final release supercedes the current 2.1 series..."
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jQuery 1.1.4: Faster, More Tests, Ready for 1.2
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"We’re pleased to announce the latest release of jQuery: jQuery 1.1.4. Barring any horrible mistakes, this release will be the last of the 1.1.x branch - leading us up to the release of jQuery 1.2 in September..."
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