Monday, October 23, 2006

Real Life Tricorder Based On Nokia Linux Tablet! Must See Pics!

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"Two brothers have implemented the open LCARS standards on the Gnome-based Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. The theme includes Star Trek sounds and a complete LCARS makeover for the interface. LCARS is the computer panel interface used in Star Trek the Next Generation. Best of all, the theme is completely free!"

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

Red Hat boosts CEO's salary to $600,000

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"Red Hat Inc., which distributes the open-source Linux operating system, this week raised the annual base salary of its president and chief executive officer by 50 percent to $600,000, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission."

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Recover a dead hard drive using dd

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"The Unix program dd is a disk copying util that you can use at the command line in order to make a disk image. It makes a bit-by-bit copy of the drive it's copying, caring nothing about filesystem type, files, or anything else. It's a great way to workaround the need for Norton Ghost."

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The Linux 101 Required Reading List

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"So you want to learn Linux? The best way, the only really good way, is to get a distribution, load it on a computer and give it a try. However, you may need or want to read some materials about Linux to get up to speed. Here are some that will help you out."

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Help get your Favourite Games ported to Linux.

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"Tux Games is determined to see all of the major commercial games ported to Linux. Before this can happen, the major game companies must be made aware of the demand. That is where we come in.Tux Games is asking for all of the Linux gaming community to sign our petitions to have games ported."

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First benchmarks of the ext4 file system

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"Even though the ext4 file system is still in the early stages of development, it's already showing better performance under some workloads. ReiserFS 4 is also a nice surprise. And both are running stable for development file systems."

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Friday, October 20, 2006

A Complete History of Tux - so Far.

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"Find out why Mr. Torvald chose the mighty Penguin, where the name "Tux" originated, background information on the cute penguin and of course it would not be complete without some nice Tux photos."

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