SUSE, Fedora or Debian for sysadmins: A closer look

While preparing a market study for a technical book publisher, we discovered that the majority of Linux users prefer non-commercial Linux distributions. The most popular include two projects from Red Hat and SUSE while users prefer Debian and consider it enterprise ready. You might find some surprises as we did.

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Speakeasy updates Speed Test, Even more accurate

Speakeasy has updated its Speed Test, its now more accurate, and even a little cooler to look at too! Now v1.7

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Automatix kicks Ubuntu into gear

Automatix installs a laundry list of applications, plugins, and utilities that are supposed to turn a barebones Ubuntu install into desktop perfection. You can pick and choose what you want. Need codecs of various kinds? This is so not legal in some countries.

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Screencast of GNOME 2.14's Deskbar

Deskbar is a new module in GNOME 2.14. This screencast shows what it's all about.

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Google Maps API Basic Tutorial

A tutorial to help you create your own interactive maps using the Google API. A good cut and paste "I want to get something working asap" type of tutorial. Will have you geographically enabled in no time.

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Students build giant indoor roller coaster

Twenty-four feet tall at its highest point and occupying 10,000 square feet, the fully-functional ride towers over the 135 eighth-graders who are its designers, builders and decorators. Why couldn't my school have been like this?

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Scientists Finally uncover what causes Asthma

Medical experts have been baffled by what causes asthma. Most of them favor the idea that it stems from "helper" cells that have gone awry. But researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) have come up with convincing evidence that the answer lies in a special type of natural "killer" cell.

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Understanding Routing in Linux

Dr. UNIX explains routing to Linux newbies and how you can have two default routes...

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Google Tips

A check list for making your site friendly to the Googlebot

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Confirmed: PlayStation 3 will ship with 60 GB HDD

Our Sony representative has confirmed this morning that PlayStation 3 will come with a 60GB HDD as standard, but that can be upgraded if preferred.

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Ubuntu Delayed Drake!

As per the community meetings that took place yesterday - it looks like June 1st is the new release date.

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Fedora Core 5 Preview

Fedora Core 5 (FC5) is slated for release next week.

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This Generation Living to Age 150

a biomedical gerontologist from Cambridge University, goes much further. He believes the first person to live to 1,000 has already been born and told the meeting that periodic repairs to the body using stem cells, gene therapy and other techniques could eventually stop the aging process entirely

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Dell can't take a compliment

An email to Dell to compliment them on how happy he was with his new monitor gets back this reply, "I sense you are not getting optimal performance from your system. I want to help you get it working quickly so you can enjoy your computer. I will ensure this situation is corrected. I'm committed to resolve this issue with the monitor."

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Firefox extension to easily automate all your browsing tasks

Here is very cool firefox extension that will record and playback actions in a browser. It will also generate your script in Ruby code. The example gives you a scripts to automate eBay feedback.

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All Firefox Extensions (in one page)

Firefox hacks, get all the extensions you would ever need...

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Selenium IDE Intro

This is why FireFox and Open Source rocks!!

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Mandriva founder let go

OSnews is reporting that "Gael Duval Fired From Mandriva"

Gael Duval, creator of Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva Linux), has been fired from the company. The information leaked on the Mandriva forums, and Duval later confirmed it on his own webpage.

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Woz Raises $150 Million For, Well, Nobody Knows

Looking to capitalize on the Apple halo effect, three former company executives, including co-founder Steve Wozniak, took their new company, Acquicor Technology, public yesterday in an IPO raising $150 million.

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The Perfect Linux Firewall -- IPCop

This tutorial deals with setting up a Linux firewall based on IPCop.

The first part describes how to install the IPCop firewall and create a small home office network, in the second we create a DMZ for hosting your own web server and the Copfilter proxy for filtering your application layer ingress and egress network traffic.

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What Programming Languages You Should Actually Care to Learn

This is probably my favorite tour of the popular languages we all hear debates about and which ones are actually worth their steam. It includes C, C++, Lisp, Java, Perl, Ruby, and Python. This is sure to spark at least a little controversy in the comments.

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What Programming Languages You Should Actually Care to Learn

This is probably my favorite tour of the popular languages we all hear debates about and which ones are actually worth their steam. It includes C, C++, Lisp, Java, Perl, Ruby, and Python. This is sure to spark at least a little controversy in the comments.

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Five excellent mind habits to develop - Paul's tips

Expanding the mind.

Read more at www.paulstips.com/brain...

5 excellent mind habits to develop

To keep your mind healthy and sharp...

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Ubuntu password bug fixed in just a few hours

Todays big ubuntu story was a bug that allowed users to get the admin password. The bug was quickly fixed and an update posted. An explanation of how it happened is http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=818037&postcount=61

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Flickr on steroids

Kristopher Tate walked Brian Oberkirch and me through a demo of his zooomr project at a meetro party last week (Kris, who's 17, works full time at meetro and zooomr is a side project). He launched zooomr on March 1, 2006 after working on it for only three months or so. And what he's built is a flickr on steroids.

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Best Ever Freeware Utilities List

This user has compiled an awesome list of freeware utilities. Enjoy.

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How To Improve Your Study Habits and Remember Better - College-University

This artcile probably applies to not just school or college students but anyone who is trying to learn in a disciplinary manner.

Read more at www.aboutitworld.com/co...

Scientists discover swimming ants

Australian scientists have discovered a new type of ant, believed to be the only species that can live, swim and navigate under water.

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A concise apt-get / dpkg primer for new Debian or Ubuntu users

Here is an excellent concise guide to master how to use apt-get to manage your linux machine and keep it up-to-date. A truly informative read.

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How To Improve Your Study Habits and Remember Better

If you're a student attending classes, you have probably experienced many moments when it was hard to make yourself settle down and study, even when an important exam was coming up.If you're like most students, you put off studying until the very last minute

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Picture: Airbus A380 takes off to mark 1,000h of flight test programme-10/03/2006-London-Flight International

Nice video on A380.

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Slashdot | How to Discover Impact Craters with Google Earth

Nice Slashdot post on finding craters using Google Earth.

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Shuttleworth Proposes Delaying Ubuntu Dapper

From Shuttleworth in an email dated March 10 20:23:31 GMT 2006, "I'm writing to propose a six week delay in the release date of Dapper, in order to do additional validation, certification, localisation, and polish."

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A Guide to Understanding /Proc, the Linux Information Location

Many Linux users don't understand how much information the /proc file system provides, this simple guide covers the basics of understanding your Linux computer.

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AJAX Chat (Only PHP) WITH SOURCE!

I have fixed a couple of bugs and added the source code to the chat. It is a modified code of the original. Demo and source is now included. Check it out!

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Google Earth Sleuthing - Story of a Burning Ship

An obscure satellite photo captured a scene of daring rescue at sea where a burning ship's crew was rescued by two other ships. The interesting thing was it took the power of thousands of forum readers to help find the answer to the mystery.

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Suck on This Sudoku

Logic puzzles are amazing to do and addictive at that... yet sudoku gets all the glory lately... Here is something different Paint By Numbers... no, not the late 50's craze... but an addictive puzzle that creates pixelated pictures from simple math.

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10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know

"I wish I had known these 10 tips the day I started working with PHP. Instead of learning them through painstaking process, I could have been on my way to becoming a PHP programmer even sooner! This article is presented in two parts and is intended for folks who are new to PHP."

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Cool Flickr Hack

Try it out! I dare you to find a boring photo. A new site called Flickr Leech allows you to search massive quantities of thumbs all singled out for their "Interestingness." Even a year ago today was interesting.

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Linus Torvalds Forbes Interview

In an interview via e-mail with Forbes, Torvalds discusses GPLv3,
digital rights management and sharks with laser beams.
Linus indicated he wouldn't adopt a new version of the license under which Linux is distributed. Torvalds' opinion matters because his program is by far the most popular open source program in the world

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10 best Alarm clocks to wake up by

"I took a look at 10 clocks currently on the market. I spent an evening getting to know each clock (reading their instruction manuals, fiddling with their buttons and knobs) before I took them to bed for a one- to two-night stand (depending on how well we got along)."

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NASA has gone open source!

Ever wish you could program for NASA, now you can!

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Average User: 2 GB/month, Costing BellSouth $1

BellSouth Chief Architect warns the average IPTV user will likely consume about 224 gigabytes per month at a monthly cost to carriers of $112. Says the performance of the Internet is basically going to be a mess. (via dslreports)

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No New 'Battlestar Galactica' until October? Say it ain't so!

The season finale this friday might be the last 'Fresh' episode of BSG we get to see until October as NBC might be moving it to their Network TV Channel. Will that be the death of BSG... stay tuned.

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The Most Lifelike Text-to-Speech Applet I have ever heard!

Type in your text and hear it spoken. Very clear and "normal" sounding. Clear the "oddjack" cookie after three entries to do more.

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Ubuntu voted 'Linux distribution of the year'

This is the latest in a long line of awards that Ubuntu has racked up over the last six months, an impressive achievement considering that the distribution is less than two years old.

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Yahoo fed Google secrets to TechCrunch

You've probably read the buzz about Google Calendar on TechCrunch. The story behind how he got the screen shots is even more interesting... Obviously, he knows a number of people at Yahoo!. He was able to track down the Product Manager over there that got into the Google Early Tester and finagled the screen shots out of him.

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An Algorithm to Solve All Sudoku Puzzles

A scientist working an an algorithm to help develop images for microscopy accidentally found a universal solution to the Japanese brainteaser.

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Record Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in Lab

Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.

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OFFICIAL: Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 Release This Week!

Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 is set to be released by the end of this week (in 3 - 4 days), after being delayed a month due to development issues!

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Python's new and improved website

In its on-going battle to fend off fad-ish, less mature and robust languages, the most popular open source language, Python, introduced their new website yesterday. Their old, ugly site which served its purpose for years looked like: http://web.archive.org/web/20050401015445/http://www.python.org/ New, improved site: http://www.python.org .

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IBM Not To Use Vista - But Will Move to Linux Desktops

Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has canceled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform.

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Build Your Linux on Demand with Your Web Browser

Euronode released a web site which allows users to build pre-configured Debian GNU/Linux servers, tailor-made for their exact needs. Users can follow a simple web-based wizard to choose services (web, mail, database, samba, etc.), and options.

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Microsoft says Open Office.org 10 years behind!

According to Microsoft, there are very good reasons for people to pay $500 or more for Microsoft Office as opposed to paying nothing for a copy of Open Office 2.0.

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How to peel a potato in one step

These japanese people are astonishing :p first they teach us how to fold a t-shirt and now how to peel a potato :p

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www.WikiTree.org

One of the main aims of the WikiTree Project is to provide a central place on the Internet for kin information about all people we know ever lived, automatically construct bloodline trees, and watch the gradual emergence of global family forest of humanity.

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One of the largest shockwaves ever seen in the universe

Stephan's Quintet galaxy cluster, with one of the largest shockwaves ever seen in the Universe.

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Mozilla made $72 million from Firefox

Last year Mozilla made $72 million from Firefox, The money comes from the Google Search box on the top right, when you search using that box and you click on Google ads on the results page Firefox gets about 80%.

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New AJAX-powered blogging system.

AJAXPress is an AJAX based blogging system. It is a standalone application written in PHP with a MySQL backend, and allows users to create their own AJAX-powered blogs. It comes complete with an AJAX powered admin interface.

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New Google UI test : Search by date

Google is apparently testing a new UI layout. In this new test Google offers a search by date option to users. Very useful option.

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Macs are cheaper than PCs by half, says a PC mag

The last place you'd expect to find praise for a Mac is the pages of a PC trade magazine. But Network World columnist Winn Schwartau runs the numbers on what it truly costs to run a PC and a Mac in a business, and finds that a PC is nearly twice as expensive as a Mac when one takes support costs into account.

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Mozilla refuses to fully implement XSLT in Firefox

Despite a desire from the community for XSLT's disable-output-escaping feature, Firefox maintainers refuse to implement support for it, forcing some to recommend the use of IE. What are developers to do when their desired platform refuses to implement a feature (that itself doesn't necessarily justify forking off a new product)?

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Possibly the fastest way to publish information online

This AJAX based site lets you post any text and then creates a short url for you...without even logging in. And you can choose your own urls too. Quick and neat.

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Sleep position gives personality clue

Scientists believe the position in which a person goes to sleep provides an important clue about the kind of person they are.

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More than 30 excellent, hand-picked game downloads...

A great post featuring 30+ of the greatest (perhaps even the best) freeware downloads. Included games: GTA, GTA2, Apprentice, Freeciv, Anarchy Online etc... Not mods, not shareware. Just free and legal. Oh, there is some surreal humor there too... Enjoy. You will!

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Red rain in India may contain alien biology

Red rain fell for two months over Kerala, India in 2001. Scientists analyzing samples now feel it may contain extraterrestrial material from a passing comet. (The controversial finding was discussed on the New Scientist podcast, but I posted this article because NS requires a subscription to read their version.)

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AMD Is Taking Intel's Place In The U.S. Market Share!

Intel is losing significant market share to AMD, as AMD has now taken the place of Intel in the U.S. desktop computer market (at 80%)!

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Online Universities Get A Huge Boost From US Congress

Congress has just approved legislation that will likely fuel the growth of online institutions of higher learning.

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Google GDrive isn't a rumor

Google themselves have acknowledged that a GDrive is in development. Soon we will be able to use our G: to save and access files remotely.

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99 Run Commands for Windows XP

From access.cpl to write. Here is a list of commands that you can run off from the Run Command prompt in XP. A great time saver.

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$100 Laptop show in final form

Check out the pictures of the OLPC on their final form. Looking much better!

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Wine 0.9.9 released!

the windows emulator (i know, Wine Is Not an Emulator... :P) comes one step closer to completion!

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Remove hidden data in Microsoft Word documents

how about that letter you sent to Joe Jones? You first referred to him as a "sniveling creep." You changed that to "great guy." But Joe may know what you really think. Hidden within that letter was your original wording. Microsoft Word dutifully saved it all. And Joe doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to find it

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Samsung unveils new MP3 player to challenge Apple's iPod

"Samsung's new flash memory MP3 player, called the YP-Z5, will be released first in the United States on the home turf of its rival. The YP-Z5, priced at $199 to $249, is designed as a head-on challenger to Apple's newest iPod nano, which costs $149 to $249 "

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iBegin: The Craigslist of local search

Reading their blog at www.ibegin.com/blog, iBegin claims 'local search done right.' Starting off from Toronto they intend on expanding to other cities. Very nice and slick packaging using lightweight graphics and AJAX sprinkled through. If you have ever been frustrated with other local searches, iBegin will be for you.

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AJAX Dictionary

Very quick Ajax dictionary - just type in the word and it's meaning comes up in less than a second! Spacious back-end too.

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Six-headed, Six-user Linux System

Very good article on how to build a six-headed, six-user Linux system from the ground up.

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Man recites over 22,000 digits of pi, from his memory.

After a severe seizure, Daniel Temmet was able to recall mathematical and sequential facts with easy, including the ability to recite, over several hours, number Pi to it's 22,514's digit.

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Men's Rules (that women should know)

Women, learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

Birthdays, Valentines, and Anniversaries are not considered by us to be opportunities to see if we can find the perfect present . . . . again!

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Huge Crater Found in Egypt

Scientists have discovered a huge crater in the Saharan desert, the largest one ever found there.

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Ubuntu Hacker gets Ubuntu Breezy installed in Intel iMac

This guy got Ubuntu on the new Intel iMacs working, fully installed!

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Careful, addicting flash game ahead!

Splash Back - one of the most addicting flash games I have come across. Try it out!

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The latest & greatest on the PS3

Everything that's currently known about the PS3 discussed in 1UP article. The good, the bad, and the ugly. You decide.

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SSH Tutorial for Linux

Great for starters. This is one of the top tutorials on SSH on the Internet. It was originally written back in 1999 and was completely revised in 2006 to include new and more accurate information.

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How to host a subdomain on another server or hosting company.

An excellent simple guide to hosting a subdomain of your normal site on another server or even hosting company.

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12 Ways to Irritate Your Visitors

Review of the top ways inexperienced web-masters can drive traffic away from their site.

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digg - Submit Item

Since Google provides no (or little) support, frustrated users have been flocking to Bloggerforum for advice and technical help. But now apparently even the people at blogger-forum have had it with blogspot and have endorsed Wordpress as their platform of choice.

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Switching to SUSE 10.0

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60 Feet to High Speed: Man builds own reception tower

With a church blocking his reception, one man would stop at nothing to get access to the only high-speed ISP in town. He built a 60-foot tower in his yard to get the signal, and did it on a budget.

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How-to: Working wonders with OpenOffice 2.0's Web Wizard

The OpenOffice 2.0 Web Wizard wowed this reviewer. Find out how to use it to open a whole new world of Web publishing without having to mess with DreamWeaver.

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Official Ubuntu Book - COMING SOON!

For the last few months, Jono Bacon has been working with Benjamin Mako Hill, Corey Burger, Ivan Krstic, Jonathan Jesse and some other authors to write the Official Ubuntu Book. The book will be published by Prentice Hall PTR and available for sale in shops as well as being available online under the CCL license.

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Wikipedia Reaches 1,000,000 Articles

WIkipedia, the widely successful on-line encyclopedia, has crossed the 1,000,000 article mark.

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It's official: Google switches from Intel to AMD

And that although Paul Otellini (chief executive officer of Intel) himself is a Google Board member.

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3,600 Year Old Sky Disc Deciphered

A group of German scientists has deciphered the meaning of one of the most spectacular archeological discoveries in recent years: The mystery-shrouded sky disc of Nebra was used as an advanced astronomical clock.

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Telescopes 'worthless' by 2050

Interesting reading

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Firefox 2 might have a new User Interface

Goals of updating the interface: remove UI elements that aren't useful to majority of users - increase usability of elements that are useful - increase focus on web content

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Google says goal to build $100 billion company

Web search leader Google Inc aims to become a $100 billion company and said on Thursday that it plans to put systems in place to help reach that scale during 2006.

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The Coolest Gadgets Of The Month

Popular Science has made a slideshow of twelve of the coolest new gizmos, gadgets and games on the market this month.

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Javascript in Ten Minutes

If want to learn Javascript in 10 minutes, then here you go.

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