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LWN recently posted a brief article on the GNOME Foundation's plea for support to help it get through a difficult year. Some of the comments on that news questioned the role of the foundation and its

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Poseidon USB Stack Bounty Reached: Open Source, AROS Port

24 May 2009, Sunday

Another important bounty quota has been reached in the Power2People website, and this time the result comes from a common effort of the whole Amiga/Morphos/AROS Community. The result of this bounty be

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Where to buy Preinstalled Linux Laptop/Desktop

24 May 2009, Sunday

Installing any OS can still sometimes be a tedious task and one that scares the wits out of the average computer user. And, it’s just more fun to buy a computer with Linux already on it and not have t

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Microsoft and ODF: Bad for Everyone

24 May 2009, Sunday

Microsoft finally agreed to implement ODF support in Microsoft Office, but they didn't do it quite right, hurting both Microsoft and the ODF specification.

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Linux MMORPG Game Engine Sees Major Update

23 May 2009, Saturday

Regnum Online, a Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game that has a native Linux client offered by its developers (NGD Studios), has received a major overhaul. Regnum Online is one of the very

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Discovery: The Ultimate Linux Device - The Kickfire Appliance

23 May 2009, Saturday

Discover the Kickfire appliance--if this isn't the ultimate Linux device, one might not exist.

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Some Funny Linux/Computer Pictures

23 May 2009, Saturday

More funny pictures from the "world wide interweb" - I think that's what Mr. Monk calls it ;)

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The Acer Debacle - Closing the Chapter

23 May 2009, Saturday

Michelle Minkin, a friend of this effort and an all-around nice lady; suggested that we auction off the opportunity to destroy these computers. We were almost ready to start soliciting the community f

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Cisco Settles, But Where From Here?

23 May 2009, Saturday

Until September 20, 2007, nobody had ever sued anybody for violating the General Public License (GPL) — not a single company, project, or individual developer in the license's then-eighteen

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OpenBSD 4.5 update: Reinstall goes quickly, X still in trouble; still running Ubuntu 8.04

23 May 2009, Saturday

I'll keep this quick. I followed the advice of Nathan from OpenBSD101 and replaced my upgraded OpenBSD 4.5 installation with an entirely new, reinstalled system. That took all of 10 minutes. I followe

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Desperation, Scare Tactics, and Happy Memorial Day!

23 May 2009, Saturday

I love to poke fun at tech vendors who continually boast of their innovation, when in fact they're scared to death of real innovation, if they could even recognize it. Today I poke fun at the anti-mal

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OS X : Lock your DOCK and Stop Accidental Removal of Your Docked Apps

1 October 2009, Thursday 7:08 A GMT-06

Ever mishap with your mouse crusing through your desktop click, rub, stumble and chatter across the dock whilst the click persists to holding on to the DOCKED app ICON on the way of your fumbling mishap and BAM! Off goes your DOCK app...

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GMail, POP, IMAP, Configuration and Not A Word about Captcha!

16 July 2008, Wednesday 8:04 A GMT-06

I have installed POP GMAIL on a host of email clients from Thunderbird to Outlook Express and Eudora. Further, in the past year I have assisted iPhone owners and Apple Mail clients with Google's IMAP implementation.

When Your MAC Hangs Get Access from the Keyboard?

11 April 2008, Friday 11:21 A GMT-06

How does one initiate a CTL=ALT-DEL from a MAC. Four intersting series of keystrokes you can use to battle stalled apps, MACs and the dreaded reboot.

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THE 2008 ENTOURAGE Challenge: Import OS X's Address Book

1 April 2008, Tuesday 12:49 P GMT-06

You figure in 2008 a simple import of a CSV file would not be difficult for Microsoft. Well, think again. I do use apple mail for some of my email addresses, but for work, I gave up fighting the battle and just use Entourage.

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Sudo Gem Install Mysql - On OS X With Proper Parameters

27 March 2008, Thursday 7:06 A GMT-06

I had to install, fresh, Ruby On Rails this evening. I ran into a little road bump when issuing sudo gem install mysql on OS X.The script prints out to the terminal:! sudo gem install mysqlSelect which gem to install for your platform (i68

Cruzing Apps from Space To Space: OS X Spaces

9 November 2007, Friday 12:00 A GMT-06

Have you used spaces yet? Or are you still stuck in virtu-desktop.Leopard brings us virtual desktops through spaces. And of course its setup for 4 spaces. BUt I am a glutten for punishment so I use 6 and I am thinking about 8.

Java 1.6 & Leopard OS X

8 November 2007, Thursday 5:11 P GMT-06

So, what gives Gosling not carrying a MAC http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/29/no_java_for_leopard/

Fire Off A GUI App Whilst in OS X Terminal

8 November 2007, Thursday 4:37 P GMT-06

Using OPEN to launch OS X GUIs from the command line

iPhone iPhone, We All Scream For The iPhone

1 July 2007, Sunday 5:06 A GMT-06

Yhea, so Andrew waited out in the elements for his iPhone! And with a little help from Justin; they both managed to cop two iPhones. Saturday, I helped Andrew set it up and name it St. Anthony. The second one, is actually to the le

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Is that a Safari in your Windows?

12 June 2007, Tuesday 8:29 A GMT-06

Apple has Launched Safari for WIndows. The timing could be just right as Firefox seems to be a little fat, suffering from crashes and just doesnt seem to handle Windows Media very well.

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iPhone For OS X

10 January 2007, Wednesday 8:21 A GMT-06

The iPhone looks pretty awesome The device, UI, phone, and internet device. As long as it has a Calendar, event scheduling and email its all I need. I would be interested in how to author an email and if there is a device and would like

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I'm Rather Intrigued by Apple and Microsoft, Are They Closer Than You Think?

17 April 2006, Monday 2:56 A GMT-06

Intel Core-Duo making its splash in headlines as Apple's Brain of choice. Something seems right with the WinXP BootCamp. MS & Apple are in a partnership to cure each other's pain.

Ever Want To Inspect Ram In Real-Time? Enter TOP

21 March 2006, Tuesday 12:00 A GMT-06

Nothing new here just a tool that hs been around awhile and provides some real value we inspecting ram usage in OS X. Though, TOP is used primarily for updates about processes it also shows information about memeory usage.

Enter MacBook Pro

17 March 2006, Friday 11:59 P GMT-06

Yesterday, I got my Macbook Pro. It's a quick little bugger and sitting next to my 17" powerbook is just flat out faster. The productivity gain as whole is immediately seen from compiles to launching applications! Of course, bl

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Do Blogs Offer Value To Corporate Communications?

14 February 2006, Tuesday 8:07 A GMT-06

How are corporations solving practical communications issues in areas of Human Resources, Corporate Cultures, Press Releases or even the company picnic? What is the use of internal corporate BLOGS in the business world today?

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Does Your MAC Need More Ram, Nuke the dashboard.

13 February 2006, Monday 8:41 P GMT-06

This week I bought a PowerBook 17" and hve not had the time as of yet to upgrade the RAM. The 17" just has 512MB and I ultimately, this week, upgrade to maximum capacty 2GB.I am trying to code soemthings and Eclipse is such a memory h

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MAC OS X : BASH Customize Your Terminal Prompt; A little Color, Invoke A Script & Other Prompt Options

12 February 2006, Sunday 9:46 A GMT-06

Ever go into the MAC OS X Terminal? Do you have BASH? If you don't and need a tutorial on BASH try this link! Now that your new to BASH or Have experience with BASH the PROMPT is very useful for information.

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Backup : MAC OS X

19 January 2006, Thursday 12:14 A GMT-06

I just reviewed Jason's blog entry pertaining to MAC OS X backups. He has very Clean solution.

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Radio for your iPod! But I want an iNewton

11 January 2006, Wednesday 12:00 A GMT-06

Yhea, that's close, but I want my iPod to have a radio with and MP3 player.. This is close But not close enough as it's a connected/extension solution, and though its clean, it is not clean enough.

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Yet Another Fine IRC Client.

4 January 2006, Wednesday 7:14 P GMT-06

As you well know, I have been scouring the web for a Trillian like solution for OS X!! SEE Now, I still like FIRE as it works wonderfully with AIM®, ICQ®, Yahoo!®, MSN® and Jabber®. However its IRC requires furth

Fire, a new Trillian Fledgling for MAC OS X

2 January 2006, Monday 12:00 A GMT-06

Yesterday I and a small IRC chat with Alan Williamson, of blog-city.com about finding a good Trillian like application for MAC OS X. This conversation moved toward why we pay for software. We are in fact purchasers of tools and applicatio

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Surprise Surprise Loud Music in YOUR EARS may cause hearing damage? Oh My!!

29 December 2005, Thursday 11:59 P GMT-06

So the news media have identified another great peice of news for the world. An enourmous revelation, iPODS may cause hearing loss. This news by itself is really worthless and unfair to iPod's but the main point in this hearing damage is

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Why did you buy a Mac?

17 December 2005, Saturday 11:59 P GMT-06

When Apple made the jump to BSD Unix and lit the open source world with MAC OS X in March 2001 (time line) my interest was piqued. In fact my statement to my colleagues and professional associates was that I would wait for a year or two ...

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