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Spiritual Considerations When Switching to Linux at Thought Outflux
It’s among the newest things that’s been going on. It’s finally cool to switch to linux. Linux has started shedding it’s image of being hard to use and without applications or the right support, people are switching over everyday, and they are hap
(tags: linux)

Newsvine - Buying a [...]

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A blast from the past | MetaFilter
The Usborne Guide to Computer Games 1982 is full of fun ways to make traditional video games more exciting and contains some very accurate predictions.
(tags: 1982 games)

The Next Net: Spokeo: A Central Hub for Your Social Networks
Spokeo is a central hub where you can keep up with all the [...]

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Finally user-friendly virtualization for Linux | linux.inet.hr
The upcoming 2.6.20 Linux kernel is bringing a nice virtualization framework for all virtualization fans out there. It’s called KVM, short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine. Not only is it user-friendly, but also of high performance and very stable, even t
(tags: linux virtualization kernel)

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When I upgraded the internal drive in my MacBook Pro, I put the old drive in a USB to SATA enclosure, based on the JMicron 2338 chipset. I find that in heavy usage, the drive will lock up with the access light on steady and my computer will hang. In fact I had to force [...]

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I had to have my Prius jump started today, after I ran down the 12v battery by using an air compressor with the car in IGN-ON, not realizing the headlights were on. The tire pressure light came on, so I checked the tires and used the 12v compressor to adjust the pressure. Before I could [...]

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For a long time I’ve been on a quest for a one cup coffee machine that didn’t use pods yet was as fast and convenient as the pod machines. Today, I finally found one: the Mr. Coffee Simple Brew. It takes either regular ground coffee or pods from other machines. After trying it with ground [...]

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As everyone probably knows, former president Gerald Ford died today. Although he made a few bad decisions and I don’t agree with all of his policies, I respect him. Ford was a decent man, open and honest. Contrast that with Nixon or Bush’s secrecy and paranoia.
In an interview, Ford said he never wanted to be [...]

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2006: Just another weird year in Florida: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Year after year Florida proves it’s a weird state, and 2006 was no different.
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Vista security spec ‘longest suicide note in history’
Peter Gutmann’s report describes the pernicious DRM built into Vista and required by MS for approval of hardware and drivers,
(tags: Windows vista Microsoft DRM)

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ObscureTags.com — a museum of strange and rarely used HTML tags
Old tags never die. They just go to Hell and regroup.
(tags: css design html web)

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The Godfather Of Soul has died.

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onxiam.com
Consolidate your identity on various sites in one place
(tags: identity web2.0 socialnetwork aggregator)

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The new beta of Parallels Desktop is awesome! I just realized that I can double-click a Windows application icon in the finder and have it launch parallels and open that application. Parallels is turning into a real killer app and makes running Windows on a Mac a truly seamless experience.

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Old FBI memo: “It’s a Wonderful Life” is commie propaganda: “Xeni Jardin:

FBI documents from 1947 show that government officials once believed the Christmas movie classic ‘It’s a Wonderful Life‘ was Communist propaganda. About the FBI memo titled ‘COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY,’ Blogger Will Chen writes,
I love It’s a Wonderful Life because [...]

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The Linux Desktop Myth
An interesting analysis of what’s keeping linux back as a desktop OS.
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Ubuntu Tutorials : Breezy - Dapper - Edgy - Feisty » Vim the MacGyver of text editors : Ubuntu (6.06.1 / 6.10)
How to do almost anything on your Ubuntu desktop, laptop or server. Daily tips on installing, configuring and [...]

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Sudden Surge

Originally uploaded by mike3k.

According to FeedBurner, the number of subscribers to MacMegasite’s feed suddenly jumped from 10069 Thursday to 14743 Friday.

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I just set up a new Planet aggregator at planet.macmegasite.com.

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Via Slashdot: El Lobo writes “For the Linux desktop, 2002 was an important year. Since then, we have continuously been fed point releases which added bits of functionality and speed improvements, but no major revision has yet seen the light of day. What’s going on? A big problem with GNOME is that it lacks any [...]

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A brilliant comic from Everybody Loves Eric Raymond that perfectly captures the essence of OpenSUSE 10.2, one of the most bloated Linux distros I’ve seen (via Ubuntu Blogs)

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IndieHIG
The IndieHIG Wiki is a place where developers and UI designers can come together to create a new set of Human Interface Guidelines to supplement Apple’s guidelines. Apple has neglected to update their HIG with modern UI designs and controls, so develope
(tags: apple design programming)

TheMacHackers.com » Blog Archive » ZFS on Mac OS X 10.5 [...]

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