"Chumby, a venture-backed San Diego startup, is readying a soft, leather-covered Linux-powered gadget conceived as an Internet-era replacement for clock and table radios."
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Converting All Your MS Outlook PST Files To Maildir Format
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"One of the challenges you may face when converting an office from Microsoft Windows to Linux is that many people archive their e-mail in PST files. There are PST tools available, but most of them are commercial, since the PST file format is closed and protected by Microsoft."
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Mac Video Converter & Mac DVD Software
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Mac Video Converter & Mac DVD Software(http://blog.videoconverterdownload.com/) helps you find mac the ripper, mac dvd burner, nac dvd copy, mac dvd ripper, dvd shrink for mac, dvd backup mac, authoring dvd mac software, mac video converter, mp4 onverter for mac, mac dvd to ipod/divx video converter etc.
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The Persistence of Unix
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"It is tough to argue that the collective Unix platform reigns supreme in the data center, but it is safe to say that the remaining Unix platforms are certainly a preferred platform..."
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Visuwords: WordNet goes graphical
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WordNet is one of the best English language references available, but its command-line and rather primitive graphical interfaces don't really do it justice. WordNet would greatly benefit from a graphical front-end similar to Visual Thesaurus that allows you to view and explore the connections between different words. Fortunately, there is a tool that does exactly that.
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OSS helps give voice to beach condition reporting system
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Designed to give residents and visitors twice-daily red tide updates for local beaches, the reporting system uses Google Maps as its user interface, making access to a computer and the Internet mandatory. While initial comments were enthusiastic, Mote researchers heard concerns about access from a vocal group of people who didn't own a computer or have Internet access.
Read more »OpenFiler turns any server with attached storage into SAN or NAS appliance
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Many administrators who want to set up a NAS or SAN appliance opt to get the software from the same company that makes the SAN or NAS hardware. But the cost of this convenience (aside from the price tag) is being locked into using a particular vendor's management package.
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Setting up a Ubuntu VM Guest on a Linux VMware Server Host
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These are short and easy things to do which can make your Linux desktop even more convenient than it currently is. Trying Ubuntu out without changing your distribution or creating a new drive partition or installing it on another HD, setting up OpenOffice so ability to read/write Windows Office 2007 word processor documents are what you'll learn how to do today.
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Java theory and practice: Managing volatility
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The Java™ language contains two intrinsic synchronization mechanisms: synchronized blocks (and methods) and volatile variables. Both are provided for the purpose of rendering code thread-safe. Volatile variables are the weaker (but sometimes simpler or less expensive) of the two -- but also easier to use incorrectly.
Read more »New KDE 4 Plasma screencast: Phase/Animator
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Aaron J. Seigo presents new graphical effects for KDE 4 desktop Plasma. He shows fade-in and fade-out effects on icons. Aaron also talks about how easy these animations can be implemented by using the Phase/Animator framework. It also makes animations consistent across the desktop and makes them easy to change.
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Write and deploy portlets to Apache Geronimo with Apache Pluto
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Portlets are powerful tools for aggregating data from multiple locations, integrating different applications, and providing a collaborative workspace for groups of users. Apache Pluto is the reference implementation of the Portlet specification, so it's a good choice for testing portlets that are in development.
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More about Nepomuk-KDE: Soprano and KDE integration
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After the last post about Nepomuk-KDE many people discussed the pros and cons of a central storage of meta data. Additionally, alternative solutions like using file system capabilities (xarguments, etc.) where often mentioned and discussed.
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Splitting Apache Logs With vlogger
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Vlogger is a little tool with which you can write Apache logs broken down by virtual hosts and days. With vlogger, we need to put just one CustomLog directive into our global Apache configuration, and it will write access logs for each virtual host and day.
Read more »Top Five Amarok Tips
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Amarok is one of the best audio players for Linux, but there is a lot more it can do than just play your tunes. We are taking a look at our top five tips of things you can do with this amazing player.
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Blocking ad servers with dnsmasq
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I was chatting with a colleague over IRC on Tuesday and he was complaining about the new update for Bind9 that broke his automatic blocking of ad servers. Naturally I was curious and asked him what he was talking about...
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