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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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Windows RARS and OSX Answers

8 August 2008, Friday 2:12 P GMT-06

From time to time, my clients end me RAR files and I have to UNRAR the file.I use STUFF Expander but recently found The Unarchiver tool for OSX which does a nice job. Nothing exciting for an archinver just awareness of the tool &nb

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OS X Finder : How to Reveal Hidden Files in Finder

13 July 2008, Sunday 9:56 A GMT-06

You ever need to know what the hidden files are in a certain directory? Usually, going to the terminal one could easily view and edit the hidden files, ie: .htacess. However, what if you wanted to grab a directory and move it to an FTP client

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

UNAME : YOUSYSTEM : YOUDETAILS

19 February 2008, Tuesday 5:21 P GMT-06

uname, it's your friend baby!

Hollywood Still in The Mindset of "The Talkies": Apple Denies Screen Capture Whilst the DVD Player Is Active

30 January 2008, Wednesday 5:51 P GMT-06

I was working whilst watching a DVD and attempted to capture a BROWSER Windows via OSX's key sequence screen capture. I had the distinct pleasure of OSX's Denial of a Screen Capture Whilst the DVDPlayer was running.

MAC OSX - Bash Command Line Keystrokes

27 December 2007, Thursday 2:23 P GMT-06

Command line keystrokes to get the most out of the command line in the Bash Shell.

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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

MYSQL - Lost Password - No Sweat Until You Meet OS X

23 September 2007, Sunday 10:41 P GMT-06

Lost MYSQL Password, have access to your database in 3 minutes flat!

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Need an IPOD that Sends Email & Surfs the net? IPHONE & Kill the SIM

8 July 2007, Sunday 11:02 A GMT-06

If you activate your iPhone as a prepaid card or have an old SIM card the iPhones behavior in terms of email and surfing the web through WIFI is still functional.When extracting the SIM card with a paperclip by pushing one end into the top hole of th

Grab, Compile and Install GNU WGET 4 OS X

20 May 2007, Sunday 8:18 P GMT-06

Look, if you're not using wget you're missing out on a fabulous tool. The instructions below provide you with the proper way to download the package, compile the source and install wget into /usr/local/bin. If you choose another directory to instal

Installing OpenOffice 2.2 On MAC OS X

15 April 2007, Sunday 7:48 P GMT-06

Since we already have X11 installed from our GIMP installation it makes perfect sense to install OpenOffice 2.2.

Installing Gimp On MAC OS X

14 April 2007, Saturday 11:17 P GMT-06

First Thing is first, you need X11 installed on OS X. The quickest way to accomplish this installation is to get the Mac OS X Install Disc 1. Select the optional installs package from the Installation DVD a seen below:

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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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Apache & Tomcat

8 March 2006, Wednesday 12:26 A GMT-06

Just a quick entry about Apache servlet passing to Tomcat. If you have worked with Apache and used the mod_jk in Windows (Since I'm normally in Linux/Mac OS X) it always appears a little different. If you keep up with the newest version Apache

Lost in Your FIREFOX TABS??? FoxPose It?

21 February 2006, Tuesday 4:15 P GMT-06

Ever get lost in the cornucopia of tabs you have opened in your FireFox Browser??? I do, all the time!! Its a drag! Perusing the Firefox plugins about two months ago, I found an awesome tool Vimatic FoXpose.

OS X Finally Gets A Virus? What?? You're Surprised??

18 February 2006, Saturday 12:00 A GMT-06

SophosLabs discovered the OSX/Leap-A and was announced this week. The virus spreads through instant messaging systems. Leap-A's vehicle of choice is iChat forwarding itself about the net from buddy list to buddy in the file called latestpic.tgz

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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