Google Checkout Reviewed

A test and review of Google's new Checkout payment service, using the 'Buy Now' button feature. Overall it seems like a solid tool, but it is missing two features that may hurt Google Checkout in the long run.

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Worrying about Flash 9 for Linux

If you haven't been reading your weekly geek-news, Adobe has released Flash 9. This platform is supposed to be bigger and better than the things we've seen from Flash 8. This is all fine and dandy, if you're a Windows or Mac user, Linux users are yet again left out.

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Learn the Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting

You have Linux installed and running. The GUI is working fine, but you are getting tired of changing your desktop themes. You keep seeing this "terminal" thing. Don't worry, we'll show you what to do.

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Ubuntu Developer Summit Paris: New alliances, new horizons

Last week, more than 60 Ubuntu developers met in Paris to plan Ubuntu's next release, codenamed Edgy Eft.

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OpenOffice.org 2.0.3: Ready For Download!

The latest version of OpenOffice.org, the free alternative to Microsoft Office, has been released.

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Google is building new facilities in Oregon (Pics)

Google is expanding by building new server facilities in The Dalles, Oregon.

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Turn your Linux web server into Fort Knox

An in depth article on how to secure your Linux web server. Who says that security is ever "easy"? It's a must-have for anybody running a web server - even if it's at home.

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Linux Make The Switch

Using video it makes it easier to show people how to install and setup Linux. Some people can't install Linux by reading a forum or a blog post on how to do it. So that's why we wanted to do this. More people should Make The Switch.

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Google File System - how Google does it

While many IT shops deal with the issues related to hundreds or thousands of users, Google regularly manages, administers and upgrades software and systems for millions of users. How do they do it? This article presents an excellent overview of the Google file system and its unique capabilities.

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Red Hat CEO Says Linux Could Become U.S. Standard

CEO Matthew Szulik predicts greater growth and innovation for open-source products, and says better education and access to information are crucial.

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Five reasons Google will invent real A.I.

"Wikipedia 3.0: The end of Google?" That's what everyone asked after a popular blog post Monday, but everyone was wrong. Because of five advantages, Google will be first to make a global artificial intelligence and a semantic web. What's more, Google already said they'll do it.

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Skype for Linux - New Beta Finally Released!

After a long, long time, the new Skype for Linux beta is in!!!

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Schools and Open Source

Schools need to save money (know any school districts so rich money doesn't matter?) and one way to do so is via Open Source Software.

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Why Google's a cooler place to work than Yahoo

A Yahoo intern's excited post about his workplace just proves that Google's even cooler.

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Google the ISP with 2^96 IPv6 addresses

Google has 79 billion billion billion IPv6 addresses, is buying up massive amounts of dark fiber, and building a massive data center. Just what is Google up to?

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"An Inconvenient Truth" Gets Five Stars For Accuracy

19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book said Al Gore's movie got most of the science right.

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Google Redesigns Personal Accounts Page

While not rolled out in the US yet, Google is apparently ready to relaunch the personalized accounts page in a way that is more user-friendly to the specific accounts with Google that you may have; this French page gives a glimpse of it.

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Rumor: Apple Enterprise Products to use ZFS

With the demise of WinFS in Vista, Apple has an even greater opportunity to stick it to Redmond by incorporating the leading edge open source ZFS file system cum storage manager into the next major release (Leopard) of Mac OS X.

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Google Desktop 4 Gets Gadgets

Google on Tuesday (27th June) released the final version of Google Desktop 4, the search engine's desktop search utility and sidebar application.

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Google to create a Linux OS

It could be for wider deployments on the company's own desktops, as an alternative to Microsoft, but still for internal use only.

But it's possible Google plans to distribute it to the general public, as a free alternative to Windows.

Google has already demonstrated an interest in building it by 2007

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