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FSF and Stephen Fry celebrate the GNU Project 25th anniversary
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, September 2, 2008 -- The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has kicked off its month-long celebration of the anniversary ...
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It's not the Gates, it's the bars
To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software ...
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Closing the Door to Microsoft Vista
... a free software operating system that they can always Read more... ...
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Programmers shun Vista, develop software for GNU/Linux
The article is a bit misleading and misses the point -- developers prefer programming free software for GNU/Linux operating systems because those operating systems respect their freedom. As a user, you ...
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Setup a Firefox Proxy using PuTTY
This is a great way to secure your web browsing and hide your identity using two free pieces of software. This is very usefull when using public WiFi and don't want anybody snooping on you. Here is what ...
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Things you miss with GNU/Linux
... applications but, believe me, getting rid of them is far easier than un-installing an OEM trial version of Norton Anti-virus! In addition it’s rare for a free software application to be a trial-version: ...
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Have Your Mac and Windows Too with Boot Camp
... using Apple"s new Boot Camp software. Boot Camp lets you install Windows on your Mac in addition to Mac OS X. With Boot Camp set up, when you start your Mac, you can choose whether to use OS X or Windows. ...
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How to Cook with the Sun
Web site Ecobites details how to cook with the power of the sun with your own DIY solar cooker. In a nutshell, the author rounded up a bit of plywood and aluminum foil to create a reflective parabolic ...
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Get Better Tech Support
Former tech support guy Brett Kelly says there are a few things you can do to get the computer help you need most efficiently over the phone. Before you call, try the obvious fixes: Reboot, consult ...
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Get Instant, Up-to-Date Package Status via Email
No doubt you already have a go-to tool for tracking your packages across the country, but weblog Digital Inspiration highlights a quick and simple tip for getting up-to-the date tracking info straight ...
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Chilirec Records Streaming Radio for A La Carte Downloading
... where you can"t install software or you just don"t want to add another program to your start menu when you don"t need to, Chilirec looks like a great solution. Chilirec [via Download Squad] Read more... ...
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Create Encrypted, Real-Time Backups of Your Outlook Data
Blogger Vinod Ponmanadiyil has years of email communication and documents in Microsoft Outlook at work, so keeping backups of his PST file (the file in which Outlook stores all your email) is very important ...
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DIY Gorillapod, the Anywhere Tripod
A savvy photographer at DIY web site Instructables details how he built his own anywhere tripod mimicking previously mentioned Gorillapod on-the-cheap. Using a few bucks worth of materials ranging from ...
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Quickly Update Personal Organizer Sandy from Launchy
Email-based digital personal assistant Sandy can be a really helpful manager for to-do lists and calendar appointments, but only if you don"t mind composing new messages for every change. Reader Wyatt ...
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Shutdown or Restart Windows from the Shutdown.exe GUI
We"ve covered how to quickly shutdown Windows from the command line or using shortcuts to shutdown.exe as a command line tool, but the Confessions of a freeware junkie weblog points out that shutdown.exe ...
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Shut Down a Mac with a Text Message
Blogger and remote-control enthusiast Tim Matheson, who previously showed us how to shut down Windows using a text message, posts a script and easy-to-follow guide for doing the same on a Mac. Everything ...
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Save Every Edit with Subversion for Writers
Writer Rachel Greenham details how she takes advantage of version control tool Subversion—primarily used by software developers—to manage her writing projects. We"ve covered how to set up ...
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Roll a Mac Mini Media Center with Leopard
We"ve talked about building a Mac mini media center and other ways to pimp your mini in the past, but blogger Jon Hicks revisits the Mac mini media center with a focus on using it with Leopard and EyeTV ...
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Microsoft's new weapon against open source: stupidity
... the open source community cares about open source software, and cares especially to not pollute its good work with compromised software that violates basic open source principles. As long as Microsoft ...
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Linux is NOT Windows
In the following article, I refer to the GNU/Linux OS and various Free & Open-Source Software (FOSS) projects under the catch-all name of "Linux". It scans better. != (Linux is Not Windows) If ...
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