"...We'll wait to see what other add-ons Firefox bundles with its campus edition before passing judgment, but it looks like you might as well just download and install Firefox 2.0.0.6 and install the appropriate add-ons yourself..."
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Freebase - public alpha
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"Freebase, a cutting-edge service that could turn out to be a milestone in semantic web technologies, is now in “public alpha”... [...] Freebase gatheres its data from open accessible data sources such as wikipedia and does an obviously highly sophisticated semantic analysis on it, which means this database/searchengine “knows” the data it handles..."
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Turn ChatZilla into an Universal Instant Messaging Client
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"Considering shortcomings of various universal IM clients, be they feature or technical (see below), I opted to use a basic client of my choice with the hopes of increasing its interoperability. I was successful. [...]Without further reading, this is how to get Bitlbee and ChatZilla to connect to your IM accounts.
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Firefox 3 - XUL Application Runtime
http://starkravingfinkle.org –
"Firefox 3 will be able to launch full blown XUL applications - running in their own separate processes and separate profiles. Up until now, XULRunner was the only way to deploy XUL-based applications..."
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Resource Representation
http://jooto.com –
"Software developers seem largely incapable of understanding the difference between resources and their representation. Understanding that difference is absolutely vital in understanding REST and the Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA).[...]Understanding this distinction is vitally important if we are to move forward successfully in building the functional web of information..."
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2007 Desktop Linux Survey results revealed
http://www.desktoplinux.com –
According to DesktopLinux.com's just completed survey, the number of Desktop Linux users has more than doubled in the past year, and Ubuntu remains their Linux distribution of choice.
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Parrot 0.4.15 "Augean Stable" Released!
http://www.parrotcode.org –
"The Parrot team is proud to announce Parrot 0.4.15 "Augean Stable." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages..."
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Infotropism – Freebase: crack for information nerds
http://infotrope.net –
"I have discovered something more crack-like than Wikipedia. Freebase is a collection of user-contributed and -edited data about everything. Like Wikipedia, you can put just about anything in there. Unlike Wikipedia, you don’t just provide text, but can provide structured data. For instance, for a topic of type “person”, there are fields for date of birth and so forth.
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http://infotrope.net –
"One of the things I’ve been doing, in my current state of unemployment, is pondering the world of Perl blogs.A month or so back, I happened to google for perl blogs and found almost nothing of use on the front page..."
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A guide to better understanding the KDE 3.5 Konsole
http://www.raiden.net –
One of the greatest tools of any Linux or BSD system is the console. There are numerous different shells that go with it as well as graphical interfaces to allow you to make use of it. In this overview we will be covering just one of those applications, namely the KDE "Konsole" graphical console interface application.
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Back At Louderback: Why I'm Sticking With Windows Vista
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More bs/fud from Alexander Wolfe. Posted so that the fsdaily community can go post comments at this fool. As always on DISinformationweekly, the comments are the most informative part.
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The Apache Modules Book: Is this the missing Apache manual?
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"Subtitled Application Development With Apache, this is a book for web developers who want to take their web applications to the next level – running them inside their web servers..."
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Why XSserver 1.4 won't make it into Ubuntu Gutsy
http://www.desktoplinux.com –
If everything goes well, Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon, the next community version of the popular Linux distribution, will appear in October. It will not, however, include the latest and greatest X window server and utilities: Xserver 1.4 and X.Org 7.3.
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How to make a GTK theme that uses multiple theme engines
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Since the publication of my Pidgin review a few months ago, I've received a steady stream of e-mails and instant messages with requests for my GTK theme. To my great surprise, readers actually seem to think that I have good taste.
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