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FanaticAttack: "You've been thinking about it for a while. You've seen the PDF converter and sighed longingly "

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Linux.com: "The installation instructions in most free software reviews aren't enough. If you decide a package sucks, how do you get rid of it ?"

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Socialized Software:

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PolishLinux: "KDE 4.1 will be what everyone expected 4.0 to be--a fully functional revolutionary Linux desktop "

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CIO: "Programming language decisions often come down to personal preference and experience. Most modern languages are capable of performing the majority of programming tasks and include the necessary libraries to be useful day to day "

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ZDNet Australia: "While he sees the GPLv3 as 'extremely good,' Andrew 'Tridge' Tridgell believes that the free software licence still needs strengthening "

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Techthrob: "Google's Picasa software is a powerful tool for managing your photo collection "

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NegativeK writes "I work at a local comic and games shop, and I've been kicking around what it would take to implement a barcode scanner and more detailed inventory control. Currently, the setup is a low-tech register that tracks general areas of sales: new comics, ccgs, Games Workshop, rpgs, etc. Requirements include FOSS on Linux, the ability to use a cheap scanner, datamining, and output in a useful format (perhaps OpenOffice spreadsheet). The idea hasn't been pitched to the shop owner yet, so ease of use is probably more important than anything — but breaking out the programming books to work on parts isn't out of the question for me. Assuming the actual register stays, what resources are out there for a barcode/inventory implementation?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Just a quick FYI, Chris McDonough has his PyCon 2008 slides up already on his Supervisor talk. In a nutshell: "Supervisor is a Python program that allows you to start, stop, and restart other programs on UNIX systems. It can restart crashed

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The imp module exposes the implementation of Python's import statement .