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Spam: The Final Solution
The Akismet module for Drupal
(tags: drupal)

Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel
Emacs can almost be an entire operating system.
(tags: emacs hacks)

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Cool Tool: Reverse Dictionary
A working reverse dictionary (hosted by Onelook.com) is one of the most useful sites out there. We’ve all had those moments when we know there’s a word for some concept, but we don’t know what it is. We need something more than a thesaurus, because we don
(tags: useful tools)

Strike 3: Why Zune [...]

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Universal Music Group chairman/CEO Doug Morris makes this outrageous statement about iPod owners: “These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it”. As an iPod owner who owns several thousand legally purchased CDs and about 1500 tracks purchased legally from iTunes Music Store and eMusic, I’m offended. Ths page has a [...]

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Cool things you can do with Ubuntu
Thie cool thing he talks about is SSH forwarding, which I often use to run X applications on my server from my MacBook Pro.
(tags: linux ubuntu)

Battle for Wesnoth: Free Mac Roll Playing Game :: OSXGuide.com
Today’s Daily Dose is an open source roll playing game called Battle for Wesnoth. This [...]

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Accelerate your PHP Site in 10 minutes | DevBee
Enabling opcode cache will reduce the time it takes to generate a page by up to 90%.
(tags: PHP apache drupal)

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A major research institution has just announced the
discovery of the densest element yet known to
science.
The new element has been named “Bushcronium.”
Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons,
75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons,
giving it an atomic mass of 311.
These particles are held together by dark forces
called morons, which are surrounded by vast
quantities of lepton-like [...]

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I apologize for not posting recently, but I’ve been very busy lately with work and XPressLinux, which is coming along very nicely.
One of the things I had to do for work involved Mac OS 9. I haven’t used CodeWarrior in more than a year and my current source code won’t compile in CodeWarrior, so I [...]

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Slashdot | Making the Sounds of Vista
The sounds of Vista took 18 months to get right for Microsoft. Artist Robert Fripp recorded hours of sound, and assisted Steven Ball in choosing between several different options.
(tags: microsoft windows)

Idealware: Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems: Joomla, Drupal, and Plone
Open source content management systems can make creating and [...]

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Custom Ubuntu Desktop CD
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Serving static files with Apache and directories with url aliasing in Drupal using mod_rewrite | SysArchitects
How to properly set up mod_rewrite to combine static pages with Drupal
(tags: drupal apache)

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Which is the real logo?
This is a lot more difficult than you would expect. See if you can spot the subtle color & style differences between the real & fake logos.
(tags: web2.0 web fun)

A truly open Linux phone with GPS debuts
(tags: linux opensource gadgets)

SANS - Internet Storm Center - Cooperative Cyber Threat Monitor And Alert [...]

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With all of the elation over the results of the election, I’d like to focus on a few negatives.
My biggest disappointment is Charlie Crist winning the race for governor. Although he’s a moderate and most of his policies aren’t too objectable, I’m strongly opposed to him for one reason only: his support for the FCATs, [...]

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The polling place only had 3 machines, so I had to wait for one, but there was no line. The ballot was 11 screens, which may have been responsible for the long lines reported during early voting. The machine registered all of my choices correctly on the review screen, although that doesn’t guarantee that my [...]

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Cutomize Gnome Ubuntu 6.06
(tags: linux ubuntu)

ISOLINUX/SYSLINUX splash image mini-HOWTO
(tags: linux ubuntu howto)

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The newer, gentler blue screen

Originally uploaded by Global Hermit.

This is what a Blue Screen Of Death looks like in Windows Vista.

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Mac-style Menu Bar for GTK and Java/Swing applications! - Ubuntu Forums
(tags: ubuntu linux themes)

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KDE Packaging Project
(tags: kde linux software)

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Restaurants and Reviews for Vancouver, Whistler and Victoria
This will be useful the next time I visit Vancouver
(tags: travel vancouver)

KDE for System Administrators
KDE for System Administrator is intended to provide System Administrators who are deploying KDE in their organisation with all the information they need concerning KDE.
(tags: linux software kde)

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Security company prescribes Linux for sick Windows PCs
when run under Linux, Spyware Doctor can detect and remove “persistent spyware such as rootkits and keyloggers that launch and hide themselves in the OS when Windows is booted.”
(tags: linux)

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