"I didn't get to announce properly the releases of the Markup Validator 0.8.0 and 0.8.1 here, so these will be bulked with today's special: the Validator version 0.8.2 is out..."
Read more »Linux Not Ready for the Desktop? Really?
I was somewhat amused to read Michael Gartenberg's comments that Linux is still not ready for the desktop. Please don't tell that to any of the people who last year logged in 40,000 times to the 28 Linux computers at our small town library and community center in Takoma Park, Maryland. These people are using a Linux solution called Userful, which puts up with robust use day in and day out.
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Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion 1.4.2
Version 1.4.2 of Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion (http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/), a cross-platform source port of Hexen II, is released. This release adds support for 64 bit platforms, provides compatibility with older Hexen II protocols, fixes several opengl problems, fixes some security issues, updates the software renderer to support non-intel processors, among many other things.
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DSNP (Django Start New Project)
"DSNP is a shell script that automatically creates Django’s new projects..."
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Choosing Windows vs. Linux - Which One & Why & What Lies Ahead!
With the arrival of Windows Vista , lots of people are looking for alternatives. And Linux has emerged as the best contender. As I have used Windows XP and Linux for last 5 years, and Vista since its release. I thought why not write an article for the people who may want to know/use/switch to Linux from Windows.
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What are microformats?
“Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in web pages.”
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Ubuntu 7.10rc1 - Fixing Compiz (Related Ati cards, but some Nv stuff)
This article explains in a general sense the basic troubleshooting of Ubuntu 7.10's compiz 3d Desktop. This tutorial of sorts helps troubleshoot Nvidia cards and Ati cards. I would like to clarify the section "Possible problems for ATI users" this should be abit more clearer on new installs:
0)Install Gusty's Compiz updates ( in Add/Remove App's )
Read more »Review: Amarok Live CD 1.3
Amarok is a fairly new, but well known music management and playback program designed to help you organize and listen to all of your music in a simple, yet powerful interface full of nearly every tool you will need. But few people outside of the Linux community know of this program.
Read more »From Microformats to RDF
"...microformats are not an alternative for RDF, not even a “poor man’s version”. But that was not a design goal at any time. What’s more: microformats are no first class semantic web objects in any way either. Rather, they are the simplest imaginable solution for semantically correct markup, limited to the most common data formats out there..."
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Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 Screenshots and Review
Ubuntu Gutsy has just been released after 6 months of development and testing. Although Ubuntu is known to be as user-friendly as possible and this is not a LTS release, Canonical made a lot of progress for this release on the server side too.
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Free Software: Sometimes You Get More Than You Pay For
All the cooler kids may be Firefox devotees, but I'll happily admit to being a fan of Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista. I like almost everything about it, from its layout to its tools to the way it handles tabs. There is, however, one thing about Firefox I really love and wish was in IE7.
Read more »kde4 perfectly usable
I am now running a full KDE4 session, from a svn checkout from yesterday. That's 10+ days after the tagging of beta3, and at the current pace of bugfixing, this means a lot of improvements.
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Firebug Tutorial : Section 4 - Net, CSS and DOM tabs
"This is the last post of Firebug tutorial series. I’m going to explain about Net panel, CSS panel and DOM panel in this tutorial. As there are not so much things to say about that, I’m gonna write up about all three panels in one post."
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Linux development: Too fast, too furious?
Is Linux pushing the envelope a bit too far, too fast? That's the question posed by Charlie Babcock's interesting article on the pace and scope of Linux development. Dan Frye argues that Linux represents a "first-of-a-kind developer community." Most people don't recognize this, thinking that all open-source projects are similar to Linux... Not at all.
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Your Linux Computer Can Support A Different Window Manager!
If you have ever read my comments on the PC World forum, it is obvious that I love Linux. But many people are afraid to use a new operating system because they are so attached to Windows. They are scared of the possibility of having to use the command line!
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