Bill Gates is mostly gone, and the company's strategy is increasingly driven by folks who seem to understand open source.
Read more »Microsoft's New OSS Strategy, What's Cool at Computex, HTC Touch Trumps iPhone
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Lunch break diversions: PONG! Multiplayer and Lost Labyrinth
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Sometimes the simplest game can be every bit as addictive and fun as monster games like Halo 3 or Gears of War. This is probably the reason why games like Pong still remain popular to this day and continue to inspire developers. While there are probably hundreds of versions of Pong-inspired games out there, one that will appeal to hardcore Pong fans and casual players alike is PONG!
Read more »Turn Vim into a bash IDE
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By itself, Vim is one of the best editors for shell scripting. With a little tweaking, however, you can turn Vim into a full-fledged IDE for writing scripts. You could do it yourself, or you can just install Fritz Mehner's Bash Support plugin.
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aKademy 2007 Keynote Speakers Announced
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The opening talk will be from Lars Knoll of Trolltech who will tell us about their plans for Qt 4.4 and their relationship with KDE. Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical will be talking on the 10 Challenges to Open Source. On Sunday, Dan Kohn of The Linux Foundation will talk on the state of Linux Standardisation on the Desktop.
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Distributed versus centralized version control systems
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Version control systems, sometimes called revision control systems or source code management systems, are programs whose purpose is to let you track changes made to a set of, usually, plain text files. They are mainly used to track changes in the source code of programs, but they may be used for other purposes.
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KOffice 1.6.3 released with major updates to Kexi
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KOffice 1.6.3 is out with a long list of changes, particularly for database management tool Kexi, the KOffice answer to Microsoft Access.
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Fedora 7 - A Review
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A review of Fedora 7, based heavily only the out-of-the-box functionality. Fedora 7 has some great things to offer, but also has a few shortfalls. However, these shortfalls should be seen as a very ethical decision on part of the Fedora group.
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Watchdog group pans Google's privacy policies as worst on the Web
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A privacy ranking lower than Microsoft? Remember the jailed Chinese blogger? Can Google be trusted?
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How To Block Spam Before It Enters The Server (Postfix)
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Estimates say that spam makes now up for 80 - 90% of all emails, and many mail servers have difficulties in managing the additional load caused by the latest spam, and spam filters such as SpamAssassin do not recognize large parts of that spam as they did before.
Read more »Apache Log file analyzer Using Awstats in Debian
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AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics,graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages.
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Blu-ray burning for Linux
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Phoenix Software and Nero have announced that Nero Linux 3 is now available in South Africa. Nero Linux 3 offers Blu-ray disc and HD DVD data burning support.
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Camino browser revision walks onto Mac OS desktops
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Mac-owning free software fans got a treat this week with the release of Camino 1.5, a major upgrade of the Mozilla-based, OS X-native Web browser.
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Scorched 3D makes tank battles fun
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Whether or not you remember the days when DOS was DOS and real geeks played Scorched Earth, a turn-based warfare game with tanks trading shots at each other until one was destroyed, you might find Scorched 3D, a modern remake of the old classic, just as addicting today as those playing the original did then. Not only that, it is the Project of the Month for May on SourceForge.net.
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"Strengths of Open Source opposing Microsoft patent threats"
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"I have the impression that open source to challenge it in a justice court is exactly what Microsoft desires, so we should not get into this dangerous and expensive game. Therefore, I propose another game, in which the open source is strong where Microsoft is weak."
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Getting the most from open source
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Link to a BBC "online" programme that is all about linux, F/OSS, etc etc. Good to see "them" telling the masses that there are alternatives, not so good that the actual programme this is related too (available online and broadcast on the BBC "News24" channel) treats this whole subject with a little too much (for my liking) stigmatisation/levity (mentions of "bearded techies" and similar).
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