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Infrastructure Linux News for Aug 31, 2008
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The 7 Best Closed-Source Apps for Linux (Aug 31, 2008, 21:33)
Intranet Journal: "With all of the noise going
back and forth about how open source software is "better" for the
end user, I am of the mind that this is clearly in the eyes of the
beholder."
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Universities That Do Not Use Free Software: Time for a Boycott? (Aug 31, 2008, 21:03)
Linux Magazine: "I did investigate the
university of the student and found that Microsoft was indeed a
sponsor of the University. In fact, the university had a large
banner on the front page of their web site talking about Microsoft
as a partner."
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Splert: A Custom Answering Machine and more for Pidgin (Aug 31, 2008, 20:03)
My Technophilic Musings: "This is a simple tool
I wrote a few months ago to turn Pidgin, everyone's favourite
multi-client Instant Messenger...into a customized answering
machine (and more) when you are away from your computer.
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Photo Digikam Tutorial 1-3: White balance (Aug 31, 2008, 19:33)
uga's blog: "In this third part we will
continue addressing the light issues, but we will target color
issues rather than brightness issues."
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How to Get a Refund for Windows in Poland? (Aug 31, 2008, 18:03)
Polish Linux: "Reading the Slashdot article
about Dave Mitchell from Great Britain, who got a 47 pounds refund
from Dell for returning his copy of Windows was an inspiration for
me to check, if it is possible in Poland, too. This is my success
story."
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Using MediaTomb With a PlayStation 3 (Aug 31, 2008, 16:27)
Volatile Int: "I recently got a PlayStation 3
from my wonderful girlfriend, and one of the reasons I wanted one
was for its great possibilities of being a media center. I
installed MediaTomb on my Linux machine (Gentoo) and after half an
hour of configurations, it was ready to stream content to the
PS3."
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Wish List: 10 Improvements for KDE 4.2 (Aug 31, 2008, 10:03)
Linux.com: "KDE 4.1, released last month,
brought a great number of improvements to the popular desktop
environment. It's the best desktop I've ever used -- but that
doesn't mean it couldn't be better."
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Track Your Investments With Grism (Aug 31, 2008, 08:03)
Linux.com: "Grism, written in Ruby, is the tool
my dad now uses to easily follow the changing market trends. It
allows you to create watchlists and portfolios and offers charts to
help you gauge the performance of particular stocks."
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How To Shrink VMware Virtual Disk Files (.vmdk) (Aug 31, 2008, 04:03)
HowtoForge: "This guide shows how you can
shrink the virtual disk files (they have the extension .vmdk) of
your VMware virtual machines so that if you zip them, they will use
much less space. It is then easier to upload and share them with
other people."
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More Funny Unix, Linux and Mainframe Error Messages (Aug 31, 2008, 02:03)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie:
"OHHHH.... I give up
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>Core dumped"
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