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Lifehacker: "Here are a few of my favorite pointers to increase productivity if you're an Ubuntu user. None of the tips are specific to Ubuntu, and with a little wrangling should work on any GNOME-based Linux desktop."


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Off the Wall: "However, every once in a while, a cause comes along that is so obvious worthy that I make an exception.
Take, for example, the Free Software Foundation’s high-priority list. How anyone who is the least interested in free and open source software (FOSS) could not support this cause is almost inexplicable to me."


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The Small Box Admin: " The default installation of Ubuntu Server is non-graphical, the server is managed from the command line. Reasons for this type of installation are security and elimination of resource heavy GUI's (Graphical User Interface's). On some installations, the system management ease of a GUI makes life a little easier for the system administrator."


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Internet News: "Sun co-founder Andreas von Bechtolsheim is giving up his full-time job at the company to focus on a startup networking play."


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This is one of those heroic days where I keep my nose to the grindstone even though my life is falling apart and I do not want to work-- my dog went missing this morning. Naturally she is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill mutt. Layla is the smartest, prettiest, best dog on the planet, and I say this with a complete lack of bias.


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TuxArena: "I took these screenshots using a Kubuntu Intrepid Beta installation after performing a full dist-upgrade, at 1280x1024, with the nVIDIA 173 driver installed. I left all the settings in applications default, but I had to make fonts smaller and resize windows (in Konqueror for example), because they didn't look very well as default. The default theme used is Oxygen."


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The VAR Guy: "Forgive The VAR Guy for saying it: But he told you so. A few months ago our resident blogger predicted Netbooks -- the name for an emerging market of sub-notebooks -- would increasingly shift to open source and put the squeeze on Microsoft."


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Linux.com: "GSmartControl presents your hard drive SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) health information in a graphical display. With GSmartControl you no longer have to fish around in /dev/disk/by-id to find the drive you're interested in and then inspect the output of smartctl trying to figure out which SMART attributes have values that you should care about."


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Phoronix: "For instance, arriving late into the Intrepid Ibex release cycle is a USB start-up disk creator. In this article we are providing a quick look at this utility to easily spin your own USB disk images."


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Cyber Cynic: "She just doesn't like technology. Everyone knows the old joke about people who are so slow when it comes to using technology that they never managed to set their VCR's clocks. She can't use a DVD player."


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Linux.com: "To its regular readers, this subject matter makes Boycott Novell -- like Groklaw, its apparent inspiration -- a defender of the community. But to others, especially those who have been the subject of its articles, the site is full of illogical arguments and undeserved attacks, and an embarrassment that only brings the community into disrepute."


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Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "These three distributions are all aimed at the Desktop, are simple to install and use, and they're free."


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Phoronix: "With Sapphire being a key ATI partner, they have of course introduced news models accordingly. What we have our hands on today is the Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 512MB, which is a PCI Express graphics card that retails for a mere $50~60 USD."


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Intranet Journal: "These days, much of the world of open source has turned squarely toward using open source content management systems (CMS) to better manage the needs of today's enterprise and small business. In this article, I will be examining some of the most compelling CMS-based solutions that do not involve Drupal or WordPress."


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Star Tribune: "A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday."


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HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can install the Adobe Flash plugin 10 on a 64bit Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. Although Adobe does not provide a Flash 10 plugin for x86_64 Linux, this is possible with a little script provided by queleimporta.com."


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Shell Fu: "Want to show something on your machine to someone over the web? Don't copy it or upload it somewhere. Just run "webshare" and the current directory and everything beneath it will be served from a new web server listening on port 8000."


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ZDNet Education: "She hates computers in general and change in particular, using computers for simple communication, Internet research, and basic productivity tasks. She didn’t like Fedora or OpenSUSE during her brief sojourn with each over the last few days."


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Enterprise Networking Planet: "Open source security software can be very effective at keeping the bad guys off your network, but it can also be hard to configure and time consuming to keep patched and up to date."


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TechWorld: "Move over proprietary telephony systems. Australian engineer David Rowe started the Free Telephony Project three years ago to build an affordable IP-PABX system out of free hardware and software. That's right, the design of the Free Telephony Project IP-PABX is open for any interested person to review and improve."


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Datamation: "In fact, in many ways, GNU/Linux is more than a match for Windows Vista. In some cases, Vista can equal GNU/Linux if you are willing to delve deeply into the registry or install additional software, but here are seven ways that GNU/Linux outperforms Vista on first boot."


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ars Technica: "Novell has announced the availability of OpenSUSE 11.1 beta 3, the latest prerelease of the company's community-driven desktop Linux distribution. It offers some nice improvements and comes with the latest versions of popular open source software programs."


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Catonmat: "This article takes a look at ten tips, tricks and pitfalls in Awk programming language. They are mostly taken from the discussions in #awk IRC channel. Here they are:"


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The Tux Geek: "In this article we're going to look at 7 useful tips to make your Ubuntu experience even better. This is particularly aimed at newbies, and shows you step by step how to tweak Ubuntu with some must have extras."


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IT Wire: "If you're running GNU/Linux and communicating remotely with other computers, there's a very good chance you have reason to thank Damien Miller."


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Linux.com: "When Ben Rousch joined Van Dam Iron Works close to a decade ago, it didn't take him long to move off a proprietary network operating system and start experimenting with a Linux server. He changed horses again, to a Windows server, but today Van Dam is back in the Linux fold -- lesson learned."


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Linux Dynasty: "I was very pleased with Puppy Linux 4.1! The interface was smooth and easy to use. Not to mention all the necessary apps that came in this tiny distribution."


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Open Enterprise: "I've often lamented how few schools in the UK use free software, and how difficult it is to break the lock that Microsoft has on the entire educational system. The pathetic state here is highlighted by contrast with Russia, which is making amazing strides in rolling out open source to schools."


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Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "He goes on to say that the action the firmware takes, on finding out if the OS is linux, was probably inaccurate and it was good that linux kernel DOES NOT identify itself as "Linux" and returns false for the _OSI("Linux") and instead returns true when probed for Windows."


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Linux.com: "Hip hop artists might not be the most obvious target for Linux evangelists, but a little-known distribution called Transmission is making waves. It's what powers Indamixx, a pro audio production system that runs on a customised Samsung handheld computer created by Trinity Audio Group."


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Linux.com: "With ELF Statifier you can create a statically linked version of an executable, so the executable includes the shared libraries instead of seeking them at run time. A staticly linked executable is much more likely to run on a different Linux distribution or a different version of the same distribution."



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Josh Damon Williams of Hot Studio, Inc. and Peter Stahl of eBay covered the following topics in their presentation:
What is the "feel" of your user interface? Is it consistent or jagged? See how an audit of interactions can reveal whether your site delivers a clean, simple, easy-to-operate experience to your users.

Be sure to check out all the other great sessions from Web 2.0 Expo Europe on our Presentation Files Page.

Checking the "Feel" of your UI with an Interaction AuditView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web2expoeu09 web2expoeu08)


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Are you a GIS veteran on the verge of becoming a location entrepreneur? An open source developer hacking up a cool mapping tool? A neogeographer with a project that deserves a wider audience? A CIO using location information in an unexpected way? Program chair Brady Forrest wants to hear from you. Submit a proposal to speak at Where 2.0 2009 by December 2.


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Author Thomas A. Limoncelli (Time Management for System Administrators and The Practice of System and Network Administration) presents a MacIT talk called "Lucid System Administration".


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Author Thomas A. Limoncelli (Time Management for System Administrators and The Practice of System and Network Administration) presents the opening keynote titled, "System Administration and the Economics of Plenty".


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Author John Papa (Data Services with Silverlight 2) will be presenting information on Data Binding, WCF, and RESTful Services with Silverlight 2 at a regular meeting of the West Palm Beach .NET User Group.


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Marco Casario (Adobe AIR Cookbook) will be leading a session at The Actionscript Conference (TAC)--a community conference with the focus on Flash Platform. Attendants will see themselves immersed in a day of learning, knowledge exchange, and networking. TAC aims to bring topics on Actionscript 3.0, Flash development, Enterprise Flex, AIR, Integrating of Flash and other Platforms, and building Rich Internet Application to its audience.


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Gordon Meyer (Smart Home Hacks) will speak about home automation at Magic and Meaning 2008. The conference takes place at McBride's Magic School, a leading center for training magicians.


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Stop by the O'Reilly booth (# 448) and meet our editors, check out our newest titles, and listen to presentations by Derrick Story (The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers), Rick Sammon (Face to Face), Mikkel Aaland (Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure), Katrin Eismann (The Creative Digital Darkroom), Stephen Johnson (Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography), Peter Krogh (The DAM Book), and Jack Howard (Practical HDRI). While you're there, enter our drawing for a chance to win $500 in O'Reilly books.


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Author John Papa (Data Services with Silverlight 2) will be speaking at this free event hosted by Microsoft. He will be speaking on the following topics: Data Binding Foundations, Notifications, Modes, Lists, and Value Converters Consuming SOAP with WCF and ASMX, POX and REST services, and Syndication LINQ to XML & LINQ to JSON Building REST styled services with Silverlight to 3rd Party API’s Using Visual Studio and Blend and to develop Silverlight applications


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This is a free live event. Scheduled for approximately 60 minutes. In this live webcast, geospatial web expert Andrew Turner will discuss the current evolution of Where 2.0 and how it is affecting the entire landscape of Web 2.0 and next generation applications. Open standards such as GeoRSS, KML, and Microformats provide a huge wealth of information for mashups and applications, and libraries such as Mapstraction can be used for cartographic visualization. To illustrate the power of these tools, Andrew will talk about some interesting applications and hacks that have pushed the boundaries of the GeoWeb. We'll also take a look at the future of location-enabled applications and services that developers can use today to provide users with better contextualized and localized information. Mobile sensors, augmented and immersive reality, and geo-games are just a few of the next generation Where 2.0 domain. Andrew will also give a short demo of the just-launched GeoCommons Maker. About Andrew Turner Andrew is CTO of FortiusOne, creators of GeoCommons, and is co-Founder of Mapufacture, where he developed open-standards and tools to make it easy for people to create customized maps using complex geospatial tools. He also actively participates in the open-source community and develops several mapping tools such as Mapstraction and GeoPress. Prior to starting Mapufacture, Andrew developed high-fidelity realtime vehicle simulation software at Realtime Technologies and designed spacecraft algorithms and sensor systems at EADS Astrium. Andrew wrote the O'Reilly short cut Introduction to Neogeography and Where 2.0: The State of the Geospatial Web business report in Fall 2008. He is also published in MacTech and Make magazine on his home-automation hacking.


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Author Harold Davis (Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers) will be hosting a seminar on digital landscape photography in Point Reyes, CA. Keep checking the Point Reyes Field Seminars website for registration information.


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Get in on the fun! You can meet O'Reilly editors and check out our newest titles! Follow us on twitter @OReillyatPDC for your chance to win prizes.


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Brian Peek & Dan Fernandez (Coding4Fun) will be doing a session on Coding4Fun projects, some from the book, some from the site, and some totally new.


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In this one day executive seminar, author Dux Raymond Sy (SharePoint for Project Management) will detail the benefits SharePoint can deliver to your organization through a combination of lecture, presentations and demonstrations. Over the course of one day, you will explore the many ways SharePoint can be leveraged within your enterprise to increase productivity and efficiency, facilitate collaboration and more. This is the perfect opportunity to assess the benefits SharePoint can deliver to your organization. This comprehensive, non-technical overview is designed to help you assess how Sharepoint Technologies can have a positive effect on your company's productivity and competitiveness.


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Author Robert Stackowiak (Oracle Essentials, 4th ed & Oracle Application Server 10g Essentials) will be participating in a forum entitled "Twenty Years Later - Why Performance Management Challenges Continue." This presentation describes the technical and political challenges organizations face across North America in their attempts to successfully deploy Performance Management solutions. It covers the state of Performance Management observed in many organizations, what appear to be contradictions in strategies, common mistakes, and best practices.


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Author Nitesh Dhanjani (Network Security Tools) presents "Suddenly Psychic: Knowing Everything About Everyone" at the Hack in the Box 2008 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


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In this one day executive seminar, author Dux Raymond Sy (SharePoint for Project Management) will detail the benefits SharePoint can deliver to your organization through a combination of lecture, presentations and demonstrations. Over the course of one day, you will explore the many ways SharePoint can be leveraged within your enterprise to increase productivity and efficiency, facilitate collaboration and more. This is the perfect opportunity to assess the benefits SharePoint can deliver to your organization. This comprehensive, non-technical overview is designed to help you assess how Sharepoint Technologies can have a positive effect on your company's productivity and competitiveness.


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Author Joey Lott (Programming Flex 3) will be presenting "How To Architect Flex Applications."


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An invite only event, the Web 2.0 Summit brings the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry together to discuss and debate the most critical issues and strategies driving the Internet economy now and in the near future.


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Lesa Snider King teaches three classes: "Digital Photo Workflow: Shoot and Edit Like a Pro!", "From Snapshot to Art", and "Selected Bits o’ Retouching Wisdom" as you cruise around visiting places like Italy, Sicily, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, and more.


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Author Joey Lott (Programming Flex 3) will be presenting presenting Flex, Actionscript, and Flash.


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Join author Julia Lerman (Programming Entity Framework) for this full day workshop: Entity Framework 0-60


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Author John Papa (Data Services with Silverlight 2) will be presenting three sessions at the DevConnections conference in Las Vegas. His sessions are titled "Data Access with Silverlight 2," "Developing with Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block," and "Implementing the Entity Framework."


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Author Joey Lott (Programming Flex 3) will be presenting "How To Architect Flex Applications."


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Author Joey Lott (Programming Flex 3) will be presenting Flex, Actionscript, and Flash.


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Author Noah Gift (Python For Unix and Linux Systems Administration) will present a 3 hour tutorial on "Writing AJAX Applications on Google App Engine and Google API's", and one hour talk on "Python As A Systems Administration Platform".


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Tim O'Reilly gives his thoughts on Andrew Keen's Cult of the Amateur at a blogger round table at Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin:

Tim O'Reilly on Andrew Keen from Adam Tinworth on Vimeo.

For more on this interview, go to Adam's blog.


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DigiRedo had an interview with Tim O'Reilly right after his keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in Berlin on October 21st. How to survive as a Web 2.0 start-up in times of a crisis. Tim explains his two Robust Strategy Rules.

Interview with Tim O'Reilly at Web 2.0 Expo 2008 Berlin from DigiRedo on Vimeo.


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Andrea Vascellari captures Tim O'Reilly's keynote on video:



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In this telephone conversation with members of the European media, Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly Media, and Web 2.0 Expo program co-chairs Brady Forrest (O'Reilly) and Jen Pahlka (TechWeb) discuss trends around Web 2.0 technologies and preview the Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2008 program:

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OpenFormula actually defines an exchange formula language which has explicit delimiters, but also allows (and partly defines) application-specific user interface languages, which allows spaces and other delimiters. An ODF spreadsheet that used IS29500 syntax when saved, even if it didn't follow full Open Formula, would not be conforming.



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