Archive for February, 2007
{ Monday 19 February 2007 @ 00:00:14(+0000) }
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Dear Friends in Christ,
I thought that I would let you all know that I will be going offline and not posting new entries for Great Lent — which starts today — so as such I wanted to say a temporary good-bye to all of you, my friends who read “This too was Dugg by … “. I shall return on Holy Pascha Sunday (26 March/8 April), the first day of Bright Week and the Paschal Season. I have a whole queue of entries ready to propagate starting that very day!
I hope that all of you will have a spiritually profitable Great Fast and may it grant you much spiritual growth. And since I will not be online after Forgiveness Vespers, in advance I ask you all, in the tradition of the Orthodox Forgiveness Sunday Vespers service, to please forgive me, a sinner for my many failings and enumerable faults.
Likewise pray that I will have a safe journey up to Loveland in March, when I plan to be the first person to buy the boxed version Yellow Dog Linux v.5.0 for PPC Macs in March!
{ Sunday 18 February 2007 @ 02:18:30(+0000) }
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Ubuntu is a very popular “new dog” to Linux distros but recently dropped their PowerPC support. Yellow Dog Linux was making Linux for PPC Macs, IBM servers, etc. way before it was socially acceptable to run Linux and they still do. With YDL 5.0 coming out at the end of February and Ubuntu ending official support for PPC, now is the time to switch!
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{ Saturday 17 February 2007 @ 02:17:22(+0000) }
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Ever wondered how all the characters in the Bible’s New Testament are connected? Here’s a visualization. Your wish is the site’s command.
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{ Friday 16 February 2007 @ 02:16:33(+0000) }
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The PowerPC edition of Ubuntu will be reclassified as unofficial. The PowerPC software itself and supporting infrastructure will continue to be available, and supported by a community team. Translation by OSNews.com: Ubuntu PPC can shake hands with the dodo.
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{ Thursday 15 February 2007 @ 02:15:45(+0000) }
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Linux on the Sony Playstation 3 (PS3)? International Business Machines (IBM) thinks so. A tutorial now available on IBM’s developerWorks site provides the rundown on how to deploy Linux on the latest game station from Sony. The IBM tutorial specifically notes that Terra Soft Solutions’ Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) is the distro of choice for installation on the PS3, though there are other Linux distributions that currently will run on Sony’s hardware as well. But there’s more than a Linux endorsement story at work here.
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{ Wednesday 14 February 2007 @ 02:14:56(+0000) }
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YDL v5.0 has been available for the PlayStation3 since November, but here is the PowerPC Mac delivery schedule: Install & Source ISOs available to download via YDL.net Enhanced accounts at close of February 2007. 2 weeks later, DVDs ship from the Terra Soft Store. 2 weeks after that, you can download Install & Source ISOs via the public mirrors.
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{ Tuesday 13 February 2007 @ 02:13:13(+0000) }
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Technology utopia? Wrong. South Korea is a unique monoculture where 99.9% of all the computer users are on Microsoft Windows. This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or even interact with any of the nation’s e-government sites. It gets worse!
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{ Monday 12 February 2007 @ 00:12:46(+0000) }
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There are about 250 million Orthodox believers worldwide — and among them are a significant number of newcomers attracted to this ancient way of worship. The trend is especially notable since so few in the United States know about the Eastern Orthodox churches here. In the United States, there are only about 1.2 million Orthodox Christians.
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{ Sunday 11 February 2007 @ 02:11:19(+0000) }
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There are two fundamental demographic trends that may occur in the 21st Century inside the U.S. that could alter several faiths in the process. Those trends are from Roman Catholic to Eastern Orthodox and from (nominal) Christian to Islam. What is the sociological impact of people looking to convert to more strict, serious, traditional Faiths?
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{ Saturday 10 February 2007 @ 02:10:06(+0000) }
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Themis Computer announced its collaboration with Terra Soft Solutions to deliver a complete Linux distribution for the TPPC64, Themis’ first in a new family of 6U VMEbus single board computers based on the IBM PowerPC 970FX superscalar RISC processor.
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{ Friday 9 February 2007 @ 02:09:33(+0000) }
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In a lengthy report into business deployments of open source software, published in full late last week, the EC said in “almost all cases” cost savings would be made by switching from proprietary to open source software. The bold findings come in stark contrast to assertions by Microsoft that Linux cost savings are a myth.
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{ Thursday 8 February 2007 @ 02:08:39(+0000) }
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The vast majority of the people that pirate Photoshop do not need it. The people who legitimately use Photoshop use a fraction of its capabilities. Honestly, unless you’re putting out a print publication, you really don’t need Photoshop. You can just as easily use the Gimp to float text over a Dragonball-Z picture to post as your image signature …
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{ Wednesday 7 February 2007 @ 02:07:06(+0000) }
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Big Blue hopes to do for its Power processor what it helped do for Linux: create a bigger market, in which lots of vendors can play, and earn more money for IBM in the process. The article also gives more insight as to why IBM could care less about Apple’s precarious switch to Intel.
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{ Tuesday 6 February 2007 @ 02:06:45(+0000) }
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An in-depth look at the PPC family after Apple’s switch to Intel. They may have dumped PowerPC, but it won’t slow down its progress as an appealing platform for a whole generation of Linux on POWER developers and the history of the chip’s development holds the key as to why. The role of Terra Soft in a reformation of a global, computing cornerstone.
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{ Monday 5 February 2007 @ 02:05:25(+0000) }
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The Apple Xserve raid has qualified with Yellow Dog Linux, under the Microsoft Designed for Windows Program, with the Cisco MDS 9000 Family, among others; and certified with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with Oracle 10g on the Resilient Low-Cost Storage Initiative for Mac OS X and Linux, with QLogic SANbox 5200 Fibre Channel, with ADIC’s Scalar line, among others.
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{ Sunday 4 February 2007 @ 02:04:06(+0000) }
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“According to the Washington Post, the agency which was once so secret that it was jokingly referred to as ‘No Such Agency’ has admitted making ‘unspecified contributions’ to Windows Vista. The assistance is at the US taxpayers’ expense, although the NSA says it all makes perfect sense.” Innocent? Possibly. But how can you tell? Time to switch to Linux if you have not already!
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{ Saturday 3 February 2007 @ 02:03:54(+0000) }
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This HOWTO focuses on installing Red Hat’s Fedora Core 5 and/or Fedora Core 6 next to, and using your pre-existing, Yellow Dog Linux version 5.0 installation on a Sony Playstation 3.
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{ Friday 2 February 2007 @ 02:02:38(+0000) }
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Everything is included and it takes only 3 easy steps to install the firmware and the 3 more steps to get it running. Make sure you read the READ ME file carefully!
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{ Thursday 1 February 2007 @ 01:02:00(+0000) }
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PARODY: Microsoft has announced that will officially drop support for Windows in 2009, a company spokesperson has said. “Customers using Windows should move to a more modern operating system, such as Linux or the Mac OS, as we are going to stop shipping Windows in 2007 and stop all support for all versions of Windows in 2009,” said Steve Ballmer. 
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