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SearchServerVirtualization: "Like dinosaurs in their time, the monolithic, commercial operating systems (OSes) have ruled their world for an age "


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HowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up the Mandriva Directory Server (MDS) on Debian Etch "


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WHDb: "So, why waste your time and money on proprietary games when so many great Linux games are available ?"


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InformationWeek: "I've seen a number of people argue that Windows Vista, in all of its bloat and cost and lateness to market, is the best argument for switching to Linux "


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Computerworld: "Let me get right to the point: The time is now for open-source offerings to get their collective act together "


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Yet Another Linux Blog: "Now that you've chosen, installed, and are using Linux there are a few things you should keep in mind as you learn the ropes of your new system "


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Orcmid's Lair: "Brian Jones has reported that there is a great deal of interest in harmonization of ODF and OOXML in some way "


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Royal Pingdom: "In light of the MySQL acquisition, we decided to find the largest deals in open source history "


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InteropNews: "One of the most surprising things about Microsoft's bid for Yahoo is that if successful it will make Microsoft one of the two or three largest users of open source software in the world "


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451 CAOS Theory: "It's good to see MySQL's CEO, Marten Mickos, explaining his reasons for abandoning the company's IPO in favor of being acquired by Sun "


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Linux.com: "For a desktop-oriented distro with its first release in 2004, Darkstar Linux has a lot of scope for improvement; its rock-solid performance and range of applications is overshadowed by its poor hardware skills "


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KernelTrap: "Btrfs was first announced in June of 2007, as an alpha-quality filesystem offering checksumming of all files and metadata "


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Linux.com: "The community surrounding Cinelerra, one of the premier non-linear video editors for Linux, has decided to strike off in its own direction and rewrite Cinelerra under a new codebase "


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ZDNet Australia: "If Linus Torvalds stepped away from his position as coordinator of the Linux kernel, it is unlikely many people would notice, according to the man himself " [Flash video]


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One Laptop Per Child News: "One Laptop Per Child may have pilot projects in many schools worldwide, but the newest program has my rapt attention "


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CNET News: "Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, will on Thursday begin making commercial applications available to Ubuntu users directly through the desktop, in a step designed to simplify software installation "


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ZDNet: "With that, it appears Firefox 3 will be released in early 2008 as planned, although no exact date has been announced "


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BusinessWeek: "Now, having stemmed a multiyear revenue decline and beefed up its balance sheet, Novell plans to start acquiring smaller software companies in a quest for growth "


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Tectonic: " Translate.org.za was awarded the coveted Pan South African Language Board award for its contribution to multilingualism and nation building over the past decade "


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SCALE: "HP recently released 2 projects, FOSSBazar and FOSSology, which have been generating a lot of discussion in the Open Source community "


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KernelTrap: "It was recently pointed out that most of the x86 architecture patches had been merged into the mainline 2.6.25 kernel, except for the kgdb patches "


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LinuxWorld: "Having applications that use up all the available memory can be a fairly painful experience "


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SearchEnterpriseLinux: "If just one server goes down, essential services don't have to shut down, too. Linux administrators can keep those services up all the time by setting up a Heartbeat cluster on Linux "


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Socialized Software: "WordPress put out an urgent security release today. If you are using an older version of WordPress you should consider upgrading to version 2.3.3 as soon as possible "


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Linux.com: "December's release of Nmap 4.50 marked the popular port-scanning tool's tenth anniversary "


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ONLamp: "The idea of using virtual machines to build high available clusters is not new. Some software companies claim that virtualization is the answer to your HA problems, off course that's not true "



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Uh oh! There's danger! Time for the Wonder Twins to activate their super powers. for twin in wonder_twins() for power in twin.powers() power.activate() Fatal Error: Subtype "AnimalMagnetism" cannot be activated in class "SaveTheWorld", line Humanity is destroyed because


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I practice annoyance driven development. I set my threshold of annoyance low such that everytime I feel frustrated by a technical limitation, I notice consciously. My intent is not to find technology endlessly frustrating (though that happens sometimes), but so



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Very useful article on using gnuplot to plot log data information. I used it yesterday to look at the data on LDAP response rates that I've been collecting for a few weeks, and the suggested script (with appropriate minor changes)



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

XForms, a specification of Web forms for XML data
processing, allows you to separate a form's purpose from its look. Find
out how XML technologies make it easy to create Web applications with
user input.



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