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“Basically, religions may be divided into two groups. One group, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and some ancient Indian traditions, I call God religions. Their fundamental faith is in a Creator. The other group of religious tradition, including J(tags: religion)
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links for 2006-12-09
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Microsoft’s Flash replacement
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Sysgo is offering a live online demo of its embedded Linux distributions and tools. The European embedded software vendor’s “Live Experience Server” lets registrants use VNC (virtual network computer) to connect to a development host running ELinOS or ELi(tags: linux)
links for 2006-12-08
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Pepper Computing’s Linux-powered, x86-compatible PepperPad 3 continues to rack up rave reviews. CarryPad.com publisher Steve Paine calls the device a “hackable gem of a mobile PC,” while Pocketables.net publisher Jenn K. Lee devotes nearly 3,000 words to(tags: linux)
links for 2006-12-07
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Sony-contributed patches aimed at adding machine-specific features for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) have been merged into the stable 2.4.20 kernel tree. The patches should greatly simplify maintaining Linux kernels for the PS3, which is already supported under(tags: linux)
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Matt craps on a bunch of ridiculous ideas about programming and code that Hollywood can’t seem to stay away from.
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Multithreaded OpenGL allows 3d games to take full advantage of multi-core and multi-processor Macs which have become so common. Doubling of framerates had been described with the early demos, and it appears that Multithreaded OpenGL was quietly released a
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Last month I committed an act of technical rebellion: I bought one operating system instead of another.
links for 2006-12-06
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This is the project site for the effort to port Gtk+ 2 to Mac OS X natively (so that you can run Gtk+ applications without X11 on Mac OS X).
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Now that’s two minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
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Table of Linux equivalents of popular Windows applications.
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One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is the lack of knowledge about comparable software. Newbies usually search for Linux analogs of Windows software, and advanced Linux-users cannot answer their questions since they often do
links for 2006-12-05
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Most domains send outbound mail through a relatively small number of servers. Domains should describe that set of servers in an SPF record in their DNS. Internet email receivers can then reject forged messages which don’t come from an envelope sender doma
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So what’s feisty going to be like? Judging from the discussions at UDS, and the specifications that have been written, the general theme of feisty is to lead the way again with new technologies.(tags: ubuntu)
links for 2006-12-04
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Restriction on free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
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Get rid of the annoying .DS_Store files on network volumes(tags: macosx)
links for 2006-11-30
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Download an OLPC OS image for VMware
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Bitmunk Personal Edition is our free, peer-to-peer purchase and sales client. Use our integrated search or our detailed media browser to find and buy your favorite media, then instantly resell what you bought to millions of other Bitmunk users using the b
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For every Apple product we see on the shelves, there are dozens that never make it to production. Sometimes, these rare gems surface on the web for us to take a look at, and ponder what might have been. Scouring through the interweb, I’ve compiled this
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Creating Safari-style search boxes in Drupal(tags: drupal)
links for 2006-11-29
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PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, using the Python language.
links for 2006-11-28
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This looks very cool – a small Linux-based diskless computer.
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Open source hardware, software and more for the holidays
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The initrd contains all the programs and utilities the kernel needs in order to find the root partition. The initrd is “given” to the kernel by the boot loader (often isolinux on cds, or grub on hard drives).(tags: ubuntu)
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“This is a major innovation…and in places that are affected by high winds and earthquakes, it looks like it’s going to make a big difference.” And it only adds about $15 to the cost of an average 2000 sq. ft. house – the Bostich HurriQuake nail.(tags: useful)