Wizpy - stupid name, very cool Linux toy 

Now you don't have to lug around your laptop, just access a PC and you're off in your own, comfortable desktop environment. And best of all, no one can see what you've done or where you've been because it leaves no trace of history data.
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Windows Linux DualBoot Tutorial 

This tutorial was written to help set up a dual boot on a SATA drive but it will also work for PATA so continue forward and I will let you know if you need to skip something. In order to have a fully functional dual boot system it is preferred that Windows be loaded first.
Added on: 21-Apr-2008 | hits: 16
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Why Linux will not displace Windows 

I firmly believe that, all else being equal, the differences between the Windows desktop, the Macintosh desktop, and the Linux desktop are negligible. With the proper applications, all three platforms will be capable of providing a satisfactory experience for any user. All three platforms have both free and commercial products available for personal productivity, web browsing, and basic multimedia. Yet, Windows dominates. Why?
Added on: 27-May-2008 | hits: 7
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Why is anyone still using Internet Explorer? 

OK, how many times must Internet Explorer be ripped open like a hot 16-year old in a summer slasher movie before people finally get it: IE is not safe. Period. End of Statement.
Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 24
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When is a standard not a standard? 

My mother receives documents from theater organizations in .doc and .xls formats, as do I from local organizations. The local Cambridge and Cambridgeshire governments post documents on their web sites using them. I understand how people can see it as a standard. Except it is not.
Added on: 24-Mar-2008 | hits: 39
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What Thunderbird Lightning Users Want: Microsoft Outlook 

User reactions are upbeat, but they insist on more Outlook-like group scheduling and coordinating, as these users comments on the Lightning Suggestions wiki demonstrate:
Added on: 07-Jan-2008 | hits: 39
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Watch your work habits with Rachota 2.1 

I didn't want a project management application or one that was specialized for particular fields; I just wanted a general tool that was out of beta. I found what I was looking for in Rachota, whose name in Czech means the daily toil.
Added on: 07-Apr-2008 | hits: 20
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Waiting for Dell 

In Samuel Beckett's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, Godot never arrives, and the play ends with our characters still waiting. I sometimes think Linux users are also stuck in a barren landscape endlessly waiting for Dell, HP, Lenovo, or another major vendor to finally deliver a mass-market Linux desktop.
Added on: 28-Apr-2008 | hits: 17
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Vyatta Open Source Router Has Dell in Tow 

Dell might not be selling Linux PCs, but an open source router? Now that's another question.
Added on: 27-May-2008 | hits: 4
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Ubuntu's Migration Assistant 

Ubuntu's migration-assistant is designed to help the user transport all of their documents/media and settings all over to a new Ubuntu installation. Among the areas being worked on for the migration-assistant is transporting instant messenger settings, bookmarks, address books, user accounts, e-mail messages, fonts, desktop backgrounds, and even Internet connection settings.
Added on: 07-Apr-2008 | hits: 23
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U.S. OLPC recipients irate over delays, headaches 

"It was for a good cause and also I really wanted a cool geeky toy for myself," Ruggiero says. Two and half months after placing his order, Ruggiero still has no XO, and he--and many others who took advantage of OLPC's Give One, Get One program--are furious about having to deal with a litany of problems associated with the purchase.
Added on: 04-Feb-2008 | hits: 27
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Two short and clear messages from Germany to Steve B. 

Message 2: The German Department of State has declared that their business case for their complete migration away from Windows towards Linux and other FOSS is based on SECURITY, RELIABILITY and COST reasons.
Added on: 03-Mar-2008 | hits: 30
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Tracking your sport activity with open source software 

If you're a FOSS enthusiast who keeps fit by exercising or playing sports, it's time you used an open source application to track your activities. With these programs you can get a good overview of your exercises or create diagrams and statistics for specific time ranges and sport types.
Added on: 15-May-2008 | hits: 9
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This is The End My Friend: Negroponte Says XP on XO in 60 Days 

We all have strong opinions about Windows XP on the XO laptop, and soon according to Laptop Mag, our greatest fears or hopes will be realized:
Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 27
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The state of Firefox 

I had the opportunity to sit down for a few minutes with Mozilla Corp.'s Mike Schroepfer to talk about Firefox development, security, updates to JavaScript, and cooperation with Linux vendors and other downstream providers of Firefox.
Added on: 11-Feb-2008 | hits: 36
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The powerful appeal of something for nothing 

In places where a Windows software licence costs more than the average monthly wage, the appeal of free software becomes extremely powerful.
Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 27
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The Perfect Desktop - Part 2: Mandriva Free 2007 

With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the second in a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Mandriva Free 2007 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.
Added on: 04-Feb-2008 | hits: 41
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The Most-Read Stories of 2007 

At the start of each new year, it is a tradition here at this publication to review the stories of the previous year that captured the most attention from you. This year is no exception.
Added on: 14-Jan-2008 | hits: 24
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The Gartner Rules: Linux, Sun Ray, and Windows/XP 

The benefits of a Linux operating system (OS) in a desktop environment continue to be overhyped. Contributing to this misinformation are eight myths that Gartner identified in 2003, as well as two more recent examples that further exaggerate the advantages of deploying Linux on desktops.
Added on: 10-Mar-2008 | hits: 24
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The Firefox Kid 

Blake Ross helped make Firefox one of the biggest open-source success stories ever. Just wait until you see what he's up to now
Added on: 07-Apr-2008 | hits: 14
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The Emerging Dell-Linux-Apple War 

While we spend a lot of time talking about Linux vs. Windows and Windows vs. the MacOS, the real battle for the Windows desktop alternative may be the preliminary round between the MacOS and Linux. That battle really kicks off this year with Apple stepping up their effort sharply with the Leopard, and Dell becoming aggressive (with others likely to follow) with SUSE Linux (though this choice may change).
Added on: 18-Feb-2008 | hits: 34
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The Cradle of Independence Rolls Over for Microsoft 

In the fall of 2005, in my home state of Massachusetts, Peter Quinn, the CIO of the Commonwealth, endorsed a plan to require the state government to use the Open Document Format for storing government records. The big loser, of course, would be Microsoft and its monopoly. The behemoth from Redmond Washington didn't waste time reacting.
Added on: 21-Jan-2008 | hits: 30
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The Best Projectors for Your Business 

Confused by the dizzying array of projector options out there? Here's a guide to finding the perfect option for your business.
Added on: 24-Mar-2008 | hits: 27
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The 2008 Google Summer of Code: 21 Projects I'm Excited About 

The annual Google Summer of Code is upon us again. For the uninformed, that’s when Google pays hundreds of students and hundreds of mentors to work on free software projects, ranging from AbiSource to Zumastor. This is where great projects like the GDebiKDE installer were created. And this year looks even better than before, with 175 organizations and 1125 students. So today, I’m going to do a short rundown of some of my favorites.
Added on: 20-May-2008 | hits: 8
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Textbooks on OpenOffice.org Published 

Visibooks, a publisher of illustration-based computer class textbooks, has published the first school textbooks on OpenOffice.org.
Added on: 15-May-2008 | hits: 8
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Tech Predictions for 2008 

Here are the key industry issues and trends for the coming year.
Added on: 21-Jan-2008 | hits: 44
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Stream Video to Your Living-Room PC 

Set-top boxes were supposed to revolutionize the way we watched video from our computers. That hasn't quite happened and that's an understatement. Early products were difficult to use; they often dropped connections between devices and displayed poor-quality video. They just weren't worth the trouble.
Added on: 21-Jan-2008 | hits: 35
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SpamBayes knows spam 

An open source project called SpamBayes has emerged as a powerful weapon in the war on spam.
Added on: 20-May-2008 | hits: 6
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Single-core Linux phone hits the market 

Grundig Mobile has launched a Linux phone based on a single-core, single-chip architecture, long considered to be the "holy grail" of modern handset technology.
Added on: 28-Jan-2008 | hits: 47
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Show us the code: right pew, wrong church 

Along the lines of early efforts to derail SCO's claims that Linux infringes Unix copyrights, a gentleman going by the moniker, "digduality" has decided to fight recent claims by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents, by launching ShowUsTheCode.com
Added on: 11-Feb-2008 | hits: 38
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Security-oriented Linux live CD achieves major release 

The Switzerland-based Remote-Exploit.org project team earlier this week announced the release of BackTrack 2.0, a SLAX-based live CD with a comprehensive collection of security and forensics tools. The distribution features a 2.6.20 Linux kernel (with several patches) and the KDE desktop environment.
Added on: 20-May-2008 | hits: 8
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Second Life's population problems 

David is not the first person to write about doing business in Second Life, but he has managed to dig up some interesting information relating to Second Life's true population and technical infrastructure.
Added on: 28-Apr-2008 | hits: 19
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Review: Inkscape 0.45 is the best yet 

Open source software's preeminent vector graphics package, Inkscape, made a new stable release last month. Inkscape 0.45 packs in new features, speed, and usability enhancements, and offers a tempting look at where the package is headed.
Added on: 24-Mar-2008 | hits: 32
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Preloaded Linux on Dell: Fact or Fiction? 

Preloaded Linux from a major hardware vendor is a great idea, but despite the rumors and constant talk swirling about the issue, I don't believe it will happen in the way that many would like.
Added on: 18-Feb-2008 | hits: 17
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Preinstalled Open Source: The Next OS Battleground? 

The consumer response to Dell's request for product suggestions showed a large interest in PCs preloaded with open source operating systems and applications. Negligible financial benefit has often stood in the way of such offerings. Unknown interest among consumers has also been an obstacle, but now that Dell has asked them directly, can it afford to ignore their replies?
Added on: 17-Mar-2008 | hits: 20
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PostgreSQL experts: Why are you still using a big bucks database 

Your company doesn't have to pay big bucks for a big database. If your apps are not completely chained to Microsoft, then you've got a chance to save money and get enterprise-level scalability, functionality and ease of use with open source PostgreSQL
Added on: 21-Apr-2008 | hits: 22
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Penguins? In the Iditarod? Microsoft Gets Served, by Linux. 

This year's Iditarod race is a bit different from past seasons. Oh sure, there are many of the same things going on, like dogs, sleds, snow, and mushing -- but this year there's also GPS enabled tracking.
Added on: 10-Mar-2008 | hits: 35
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PC hardware can pose rootkit threat 

Every component in a PC, such as graphics cards, DVD drives and batteries, has some memory space for the software that runs it, called firmware. Miscreants could use this space to hide malicious code that would load the next time the PC boots, John Heasman, research director at NGS Software, said in a presentation at this week's Black Hat DC event here.
Added on: 25-Feb-2008 | hits: 36
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Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime 

"A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community," Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of the OpenBSD open source operating system, declared this week.
Added on: 14-Jan-2008 | hits: 38
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OpenOffice.org announces contest winners 

OpenOffice.org has announced the winners of its template and clipart contest. The judges distributed a total of five cash prizes totalling $1,700 for templates, and three cash prizes totalling $1,300 for clipart, as well as two Honorable Mentions for templates.
Added on: 17-Mar-2008 | hits: 31
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OpenOffice To Dell: Pre-load Us, You'll Like Us 

The OpenOffice Project has sent a letter to Michael Dell, showering praise on Dell Inc.'s chairman and CEO and asking him to consider pre-loading OpenOffice onto PCs.
Added on: 27-May-2008 | hits: 4
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OpenOffice 2.0: Handling Mac, Microsoft migration and database creation 

Expert Solveig Haugland covers migration of content from Mac and Microsoft programs and flatfile Microsoft Works databases to OpenOffice in this interview. Haugland, author of The OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook, also gives advice on how to globally format labels, create tables with no borders and provides a workaround for viewing Calc records on separate pages.
Added on: 28-Apr-2008 | hits: 14
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Open-Xchange Deploys Largest Open Source Software Customer Win in History 

Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source collaboration software, announced today that it has signed a partnership with 1&1 Internet, the world's largest web hosting company, to provide hosted email and collaboration services based upon Open-Xchange's award-winning Smart CollaborationTM technology.
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Open-Source Goes Hammer and Nail 

Cameron Sinclair's Open Architecture Network aims to connect architects around the globe to struggling communities
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OOXML "outstrips ODF", claims analysts 

Microsoft's OOXML document format will win out over its open-source ODF competitor, says a new report from the Burton Group.
Added on: 28-Jan-2008 | hits: 35
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OooBasic crash course: One-click email backup of OpenOffice.org documents 

Gmail offers a few clever features that make it more than just an email service. You can use your Gmail account as a document viewer, a file storage, and even as a full-blown Getting Things Done solution. You can also turn Gmail into a nifty backup solution for your OpenOffice.org documents using a simple OOoBasic macro and Gmail's own tools.
Added on: 18-Feb-2008 | hits: 28
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Novell: Word, Meet Open Source 

The open source software vendor has produced a translator, available for download on its site, that allows users of OpenOffice, Novell's version of ODF, to read and edit documents produced using Microsoft Word 2007.
Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 24
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Novell Crushes Windows in Schools 

Do these numbers make sense to you - $2,500 versus $100,000? This is the price difference felt between migrating over to Linux or instead, upgrading to the next version of Windows. What's interesting is that I’m noticing that more often than not Novell is the company making this possible for schools.
Added on: 27-May-2008 | hits: 5
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Note to new Linux users: No antivirus needed 

One of the most common questions I hear new Linux users ask is "What program should I use for virus protection?" Many of them lose faith in me as a source of security information when I reply, "None." But you really don't need to fear malware on your new platform, thanks to the way Linux is built.
Added on: 04-Feb-2008 | hits: 41
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