Facebook made its first acquisition, picking up Parakey, a startup founded by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, a pair who created Mozilla's Firefox browser. Although specifics about what exactly Parakey is are few, it is described as a way to bridge the gap between desktop applications and Web functions.
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Free Guitar Hero clone really rocks
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Music fans and video gamers alike can rock out – for free – with a clever Guitar Hero clone downloadable for your Windows, Mac or Linux-based PC.
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Debian Software RAID Setup
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Over the past few years space on my server would increase based on the deals found on sites like Slickdeals. After some time this lead to a mishmash of two PATAs and one SATA at 120Gb, 160Gb, and 200Gb respectively on my personal media server. Glad as I was to have all this space it started to become disk management issue since I wanted the bulk of the space consolidated for media.
Read more »Ubuntu Live and OSCON: Open-Source Software Heads Northwest
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There are two big open-source software gatherings happening over the next week, as both Ubuntu Live and O'Reilly OSCON descend upon the Oregon Convention Center in Portland (which even has a moat!).
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Schedule Tasks Using Gnome-schedule (A cron & at GUI) in Ubuntu
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Gnome-schedule is a grapichal user interface to ‘crontab’ and ‘at’, both used to schedule tasks. It supports periodical tasks and tasks that happens once in the future. It is written in python using pygtk.
Read more »Gnome panel mania
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If you’re a GNOME user I expect you’re more than familiar with the panels that come as standard with your desktop; if you use openSUSE you’re probably also familiar with the slab menu that Novell have developed. There are, however, several other applications out there that can extend and beautify your Gnome panels.
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German T3N Magazine for Open Source & Web, releases five current TYPO3 Articles in English
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The topics include offshore development and international partnerships, details about the long-awaited TYPO3 Commerce extension and first-hand insights into the development of TYPO3 5.0. Additionally, you get the chance to read the quarterly TYPO3 association activity report and an article by Kasper about his farewell from TYPO3 development.
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Optaros EOS will take the licensing question seriously
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Optaros has launched its Enterprise Open Source Directory. It is a very good thing, better than a plate of Martha Stewart bran muffins. That is partly because it has listing criteria, including only those projects which are truly enterprise class.
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HP and MIT form worldwide digital archiving group
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HP and MIT have formed an independent organization to support the work of digital archivists who use the DSpace open source archiving software.
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openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 6 Report
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openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 6 appeared yesterday, the same day as the unveiling of the new openSUSE News portal. And that right after the big announcement that Andreas was handing over the reins of project manager to Coolo.
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Alfresco: Competing in the Enterprise
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John Newton, CTO and chairman of open source enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Alfresco, is certainly no stranger to the industry.
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Managing disk space with LVM
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Now a days, when one installs Linux on ones machine, in more cases than one, there is a trend to create a logical volume and create the file system on this volume rather than creating the file system in individual partitions.
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Setting up slrn for Ubuntu Linux
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This page aims to facilitate the installation of the newsreader slrn amongst the users of Ubuntu Linux. I will be describing in some detail the setup and configuration of the newsreader while mostly leaving the actual use of the program untouched. Explore and learn!
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Staging Site for Firefox Support Knowledge Base Ready
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"The staging site for the new Firefox Support knowledge base is now up and running, and we’re looking for people to help contribute content."
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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 Released
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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 has been released and is currently being distributed to Thunderbird 2 users via the application's built-in software update system.
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