""Wikipedia's citizen journalism sister site, Wikinews, has a long and interesting interview with Robert Cailliau, who worked with Tim Berners-Lee to create the World Wide Web..."
Read more »Robert Cailliau Talks With WikiNews
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Canonical Resorts to Tough Love Over Server Outage
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Ubuntu, a Debian-based Linux distribution, had to shut down more than half of its community servers recently because they appeared to have been commandeered by hackers, who could then launch attacks. According to Ubuntu community accounts, the members first learned that one of the machines had been compromised and was being used to try to hack other machines.
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Hackers Have A Bone to Pick with Linux
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Many parts of the official Gentoo website have been taken down due to hacker attacks. There is no telling when their website will be fully back online.
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Please Answer this Survey about the FUTURE of Internet Scale Identity
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"If you read this blog I would like input into the slice of scenario planning exercise that I am working on for the Sunday prior to Digital Identity World September 23.We would like you to answer some or all of the questions here about the future of Internet scale identity..."
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Perl Foundation needs you to chair the Grant Committee
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"After a running the Perl Foundation Grant Committee for almost two years, Ovid has decided he needs to step down. Naturally, this means we need someone to step into this role and we're hoping to get new people into the Perl Foundation..."
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8000 Ruby and Rails developers and counting...
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"The popularity of Ruby on Rails continues to grow - the number of developers now listed on WWR has just risen past the 8000 mark..."
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Two hours after trying Ubuntu
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Finally I got some time away from my work and I decided to explore something new. I decided to install Ubuntu. I am familiar with Windows and the Mac but I haven’t really touched Ubuntu. So I shrink my Windows Vista partition by 60 GB and throw in Ubuntu to dual-boot.
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Stallman survives Peruvian quake
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"More than 500 people were killed when Peru was hit with by an enormous earthquake last week. When we learned that Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and author of the GPL under which the GNU/Linux operating system is licensed, was in Peru during the quake, we asked if he would share his experiences with us. Here's his report..."
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And So it Begins
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I will be starting with The Power Hour tomorrow by calling in and suggesting that they start talking about FOSS. If you listen to other forms of radio, such as mainstream AM/FM, XM, or Sirius, call in to their shows. I don’t care if it’s Alex Jones or Rush Limbaugh. I don’t care if it’s Fox Radio or Air America!
Read more »SCO and quantum
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This is pretty funny. A comic strip about what SCO is doing now...
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The weekly open source news podcast
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Including: Novell Isn't As Stupid As SCO, MySQL Won't Share Tarballs, UT3 For Linux and more
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Infotropism – There’s a new Perl blog in town
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"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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Infotropism – Freebase: crack for information nerds
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"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.
Read more »A user-friendly version of Linux renders Microsoft obsolete
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I have been borrowing a laptop that runs a version of the free and open-source operating system Linux. The operating system is called Ubuntu
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Mozilla 24: A 24-hour Worldwide Community Event
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"Our good friends over at Mozilla are hosting the Mozilla 24 conference on Sept. 14th - 16th, spanning many continents and time zones. This event will feature presentations by industry leaders on the trends and technologies that will help shape the future of the Web..."
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