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An interesting analysis of what’s keeping linux back as a desktop OS.

(tags: linux desktop)

How to do almost anything on your Ubuntu desktop, laptop or server. Daily tips on installing, configuring and making your Ubuntu system as effective as you need it to be

(tags: ubuntu linux)

The IndieHIG Wiki is a place where developers and UI designers can come together to create a new set of Human Interface Guidelines to supplement Apple’s guidelines. Apple has neglected to update their HIG with modern UI designs and controls, so develope

(tags: apple design programming)

Ok, now it is official: Mac OS X Leopard (Build 9a321) features support for ZFS. The rumors were true, you can create disk images with a ZFS filesystem, well at least in theory, because Build 9a321 is far away from being stable.

(tags: macosx zfs)

A very cool command-line front end to AppleScript

(tags: mac osx applescript)

Parties and other Macworld Expo related events.

(tags: MacWorld)

The best Christmas song ever (YouTube Video)

(tags: christmas music)

MultiDomain allows the user to span the content of one site, across several domains or sub domains. It uses the single sign-on module, to ensure that you only have to log in one time, and will be logged in across all the domains.

(tags: drupal)

Here is compiled a full list of software which must be downloaded. Yep, every one of them. All of these are brilliant in every way, shape and form and are just plain brilliance.

(tags: free software downloads)

Cooliris Previews is software that lets you view links without having to click or leave the page you are on. Previews makes it easy to navigate through multiple links quickly and easily.

(tags: firefox)

The BadVista campaign is an advocate for the freedom of computer users, opposing adoption of Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free (as in freedom) software alternatives.

(tags: windows vista)

This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations.

(tags: unix Linux shell tips)

How to make good Espresso at home

(tags: howto reference coffee)

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today

(tags: ajax google programming java)

If you’ve ever wished you could bill spammers for the time spent reading and deleting unsolicited e-mail pitches, your day has come. A new e-mail-forwarding service hopes to make senders pay for access to your eyeballs, and is offering you a piece of the

(tags: spam)

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Damage caused by flying Wii remotes

(tags: games wii blog humor)

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The 2.6.20 Linux kernel will include a driver aimed at allowing user-space processes to exploit virtualization capabilities in modern 64-bit x86 Intel and AMD processors. The KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) patch was submitted in late October by Avi Ki

(tags: linux)

the guys over at Hacking Roomba managed to get a Bluetooth-enabled Roomba to listen to the Mac’s tilting orders.

(tags: mac hardware hacks)

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For those looking to install Ubuntu without a high speed internet connection, a set of DVDs with the entire contents of the repositories would be a great tool. The idea being that armed with the DVDs, you really don’t need a net connection for retrievin

(tags: ubuntu)

More than 800 sixth-graders in the Springfield School District will soon receive free Apple laptop computers to keep for three years.

(tags: mac absolute_software computrace)

Novell today released openSUSE 10.2, claiming that the latest version of its operating system is the most usable Linux distribution ever produced.

(tags: linux)

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