Europe 'will not accept' three strikes in Acta treaty
February 28, 2010
ZDNet UK: “The European Commission has pledged to make sure the Acta global treaty will not force countries to disconnect people for unlawfully downloading copyrighted music, movies and other material.”
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The Quake III Test
February 28, 2010
OStatic: “If people haven’t started thinking about the current crop of smartphones as computers, maybe this will help: Quake III Arena (Q3A) ported to the Android platform.”
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Pocketing Police (PayPal confiscates Xorg funds)
February 28, 2010
DoctorMO’s Blog: “An odd bit of news from the xorg foundation. During some discussion on their mailing list about missing funds it became apparent that PayPal had simply taken $5k of their money because PayPal thought xorg foundation were some sort of scam.”
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Ubuntu Linux Now Available to Fed Customers on GSA Advantage
February 28, 2010
PC World: “Canonical’s Ubuntu has become third Linux operating system approved by the General Services Administration for use by federal purchasers.”
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Setting Up Hibernation on Linux SSD Netbooks Without Swap, Part 1
February 27, 2010
Inform IT: “This two-part series provides complete information on how to set up hibernate/suspend in a Linux netbook solid-state drive (SSD) environment under the conditions that exist in real-world netbooks.”
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EU cautions Google over Street View photos
February 27, 2010
CNet: “Google is in hot water in Europe once again over Street View map photos.”
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Windows server revenue outpaced Linux in Q4
February 27, 2010
Channel Register: “In terms of operating systems, Windows was the big winner in the fourth quarter, and not just because there are some very powerful X64 machines on the market but because Windows Server 2008 R2 was out the door last July and helping to drive upgrades to Microsoft’s latest Windows server OS from prior releases.”
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Linux kernel valued at over a Billion Euros: No Surprise
February 27, 2010
Netstat -vat: “Yet another study has come out trying to put a financial measure on the worth of the LInux kernel. The latest study from University of Oviedo in Spain has estimated the total value of the LInux 2.6.30 kernel to be 1,025,553,430 Euros…”
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Introducing hands-on computing in secondary education
February 27, 2010
Open Source.com: “My philosophy regarding teaching is that it should be authentic, constructive, and fun. The shortest reasonable summary I can provide is as follows:”
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Kerberos Server Set Up
February 26, 2010
Begin Linux: “Kerberos provides a secure network authentication model using secret-key cryptography. Kerberos can be used with multiple services to offer superior authentication security.”
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