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Linux Journal - 2 hours 59 min ago

They forgot to tell me but somewhere in my neighborhood Ubuntu Linux has moved in. With the number of seats they are talking about it is not "just a little town". Ok, I followed the link to his previous post and the town is Jalapa.

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Data Manipulation with Sprog

Linux Journal - Thu, 2008-07-03 09:43

I don't think I know anyone who relishes the task of data manipulation, and I'm certainly not different. Some of the more complicated manipulations pose a briefly satisfying technical challenge, but in the end, data manipulation is boring.

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Time to school the FCC on what "free" really means

Linux Journal - Wed, 2008-07-02 18:01

It's time to get ornery again with the FCC. Fortunately, they're asking for it, by soliciting comment on this FCC rulemaking proposal for "Service Rules for Advanced Wireless Services in the 1915-1920 MHz, 1995-2000 MHz, 2020-2025 MHz and 2175-2180 MHz Bands.

It's a chocolate-covered spider.

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An Open Video to HP

Linux Journal - Wed, 2008-07-02 11:41

Shawn Powers has a message for hardware vendors. Listen up!

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Linux Product Insider: IronKey Secure Flash Drives

Linux Journal - Tue, 2008-07-01 09:30

This "Linux Product Insider" features IronKey Secure Flash Drives, Jedox's Palo spreadsheet server, Tony Mullen's new Blender book, Hyperic's CloudStatus, Syuzi Pakhchyan's Fashioning Technology and Joel Spolsky's More Joel on Sofware.

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Audio/Visual Synthesis For Linux: The New Art, Part 1

Linux Journal - Mon, 2008-06-30 11:03

The Linux Journal recently published an article I wrote on Jean-Pierre Lemoine's AVSynthesis, a program designed for artists working with the computer as a medium for the synthesis of image and sound. I'm fascinated by that program, so I decided to research the existence of similar software. This article presents the current findings from that research.

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The Dawn of a Post-Gates, Post-Microsoft World

Linux Journal - Fri, 2008-06-27 16:43

The depth of Microsoft loathing among our clan is perhaps only second to our penguin loving. This loathing makes sense, given that Linux and open-source people are so fiercely merit driven, and great products have failed to end Microsoft's hegemony. But times they are a changin', for a post-Gates, post-Microsoft age has already begun.

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Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel [Video]

Linux Journal - Fri, 2008-06-27 11:15

Google Tech Talks brings us this presentation describing the rate of development for the Linux kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change.

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Call For Articles - HPC (High Performance Computing)

Linux Journal - Fri, 2008-06-27 10:14

Does a system with dual Quad Core processors, 128GB of RAM, and a Tera-Byte RAID array seem pretty tame to you? Does writing a program with a dozen threads seem about as complex as an abacus to you? Does a database with a million records seem like something you'd put on a USB memory stick? Do you know who John Backus was? Are you cleared for ridiculous by the US Government?

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Sherman Crank Up The WayBack Machine

Linux Journal - Fri, 2008-06-27 10:06

If you don't get the title, you're probably too young to get the rest of this. If you don't know who John Backus was or what his contribution to computer science was then you're also, probably, too young.

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An Introduction to Gnome-Inform7 - part 2

Linux Journal - Thu, 2008-06-26 11:18

This is the second in a two-part introduction to Gnome-Inform7 (and by extension, the Inform 7 language). I'm not going to spend much time re-capping what we covered last time, so if you haven't read part one, please do so now.

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How Can We Harness the Firefox Effect?

Linux Journal - Thu, 2008-06-26 08:45

Three things are striking about the recent launch of Firefox 3. First, the unanimity about the quality of the code: practically everyone thinks it's better in practically every respect. Secondly, the way in which the mainstream media covered its launch: it was treated as a normal, important tech story – gone are the days of supercilious anecdotes about those wacky, sandal-wearing free software anoraks. And finally – and perhaps most importantly - the scale and intensity of participation by the millions of people who have downloaded the software in the last week.

But the question has to be: what now? How can we harness that amazing spirit, to make the Firefox Effect permanent, not just a media event that comes around once every few years?

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Validating an IP Address in a Bash Script

Linux Journal - Thu, 2008-06-26 08:26

I've recently written about using bash arrays and bash regular expressions, so here's a more useful example of using them to test IP addresses for validity.

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What is Your Position on Net Neutrality?

Linux Journal - Wed, 2008-06-25 11:50
* I am for network neutrality regulations * I am against network neutrality regulations * What's net neutrality? * I don't care either way

Nokia N800 for Geeks

Linux Journal - Tue, 2008-06-24 14:26

Yeah, I know, the N810 is the "modern" system and, well, the N800 is too "consumer" for us geeks. Well, hype aside, I am seriously impressed with the N800. Here's why.

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Virtualization In Meatspace

Linux Journal - Tue, 2008-06-24 10:48

Computer virtualization is all the rage these days. Heck, in the video I shot last week, I installed about 12 Linux distributions on a VM, because it made recording a lot simpler.

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The Patient as the Platform

Linux Journal - Tue, 2008-06-24 07:54

Health is personal. Health Care is not. The term is a euphemism for Condition Treatment, and it's not about patients. It's about systems, and most of those are both proprietary and closed.

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Linux Product Insider: CrossOver Linux 7.0

Linux Journal - Mon, 2008-06-23 10:19

This "Linux Product Insider" features CrossOver Linux 7.0, Skype 4.0 beta, Scoofers Search Engine, BakBone Software's NetVault, MEN Micro's DC1 Rugged Display Computer and PostPath Server HA Edition v2.

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Skype for Linux: Where's the R-E-S-P-E-C-T?

Linux Journal - Fri, 2008-06-20 15:35

We Linux folk are the reliable early adopters of innovative applications like Skype who have done a disproportionate amount of work to make it popular. The gift horse we've gotten in return is a usable but much less feature-rich version that is years behind the other platforms.

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Almost 9 Distros in Almost 6 Minutes

Linux Journal - Fri, 2008-06-20 09:27

Ubuntu has gotten the spotlight recently here at Linux Journal, but this week Shawn shows us a handful of other Linux distributions.

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