Windows user migrating from XP to Ubuntu 6.10

Experiences of an windows user while migrating away from Windows XP.

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Zimbra chases Microsoft with low-cost email

In late 2003, at a coffee shop in Palo Alto, Calif., three friends weary of work at big Silicon Valley companies decided to create an email program. In a weekend they cobbled together a simple prototype. They combed the Web for free software, and in a few months they had assembled more than 40 blocks of free programming into a basic system.

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Linus Torvalds officially a Hero

According to TIME magazine, Linus Torvalds is one of the the greatest heroes of the last 60 years.

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10 Ways Women Judge You

"So much subliminal information is conveyed in those first seconds of contact," says Carol Kauffman, Ph.D., a relationship therapist and psychology instructor at Harvard medical school. Okay, so you're on the clock. Make every second count. Below are 10 ways - in rough chronological order - a woman judges your fitness to be her proverbial daddy.

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Ten Job Hunting Myths

The job market looks more promising for this year's college grads, but the perfect opportunity probably won't fall in your lap. Search smart by avoiding these common misconceptions.

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World Statistics Chart Updated in Real Time

"Current Earth Population, Births This Year, Births Today, ect.." Lots of stats updating in front of your eyes.

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Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken by Novell on November 2nd in their dealings with Microsoft, and have posted their thoughts on the matter.

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Ubuntu Tricks : How to Mount Your Windows Partitons make it read,writable

This is very simple tutorial how to mount your NTFS and FAT partitions in ubuntu and make these Partitons as read and writable

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Give the Gift of Pre-Installed Linux This Year

With Christmas around the corner, you'll be glad to know that you can check out over 100 vendors around the globe who offer desktop and notebook computers with GNU/Linux pre-installed. Put another way, LXer's Pre-Installed Linux Vendor database is now available! All vendors in the list offer reasonably-priced desktops and/or notebooks.

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I am the 447,241,380 richest person in the world!

This website ranks your income against the world population. I make less than $30k per year but am still in the top 7.45% of the world's income bracket.

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Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine

Adobe and Mozilla today announced that Adobe has contributed source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will host a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications.

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Adobe to make largest ever source code donation to Mozilla

Adobe will contribute source code from its ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will host a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications.

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GoogleTorrents.com ... search for torrents using google

A new torrent search engine using Google's Custom Search Engine.

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ULTIMATE Online File Converter- 200 File Types- 100MB- FREE

Every major file format: Document formats, Image formats, Music formats, Video formats,
Fast and High Quality - Stored for 24 Hours

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Ten reasons Linux and BSD are vastly superior to Windows - Part II

Last week, I began a countdown of the ten reasons Linux and BSD are far superior to Windows. I received a huge response to the first installment, so without further delay, here's the final four reasons and my official response to some of the comments and criticisms I've received.

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YOU'RE BEING TRACKED in Firefox 2.0 - how to disable 3rd party cookies

Issue was raised in latest Security Now. Firefox always blocked 3rd party cookies, now in 2.0 it removed the option. To fix: about:config in your address bar, change network.cookie.cookieBehavior from 0 to 1. I did this immediately. Also in the mozilla forum thread, link to extension that blocks 3rd party cookies.

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Open Source Earns Legal Victory

The open source software operations of IBM, Red Hat and Novell need not fear prosecution under antitrust laws, a federal appeals court has ruled.

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134 Free Academic Podcasts

These lectures are a great way to keep your mind sharp during your daily commute or while exercising. Some of the lectures lend themselves to this better than others. I'm not sure how much I would get out of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology I while driving in heavy traffic, but I suppose it is free to try.

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Get lost!

Ever get lost, or turned around? Found yourself in unfamiliar territory? Or worse, awakened with just one shoe on? Well, we have something for you. No, not a shoe -- we mean GPS-Enabled Google Maps on the Helio Drift.

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Review: GnuCash 2.0

GnuCash is a personal and small business accounting package that provides true double-entry accounting, the ability to set up automatic recurring transactions, and simple budgeting. The application does not try to hide the complexities of managing your money from you with pretty screens.

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