I was happy to hear that NYC didn’t allow Iranian President Ahmadinejad to place a wreath at the WTC site. And I was happy that Columbia University is rescinding the offer to let him speak. If you let a guy like that express his views, before long the entire world will want freedom of speech.
Doctors in Philadelphia are testing a revolutionary new treatment that is restoring life and bringing people back from the dead. CBS Station KYW-TV in Philadelphia Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has details.
Yum Extender 2.0.2 has now been released. Here are some of the changes: Add All/Remove All only available on updates page. Repo view ‘unselect all’ works again. Added support for yum-plugin there aborts because of some error. Updated Polish & Czech translations. Yum no longer freshes if another application has locked yum.
If you’re tired of the phone calls from Mom and Dad complaining on how sloooww their computer has become, how fast it used to be, how many pop-ups there are, etc., spending hours upon hours fixing and repairing, re-installing and scanning, then this post should convince you with 5 reasons why your parents should use Linux.
“This tutorial shows how to set up a Gentoo 2007.0 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.”
An insider’s look at the top distros, revealing both their strengths and their weaknesses.
The reason that the Russian announcement is funny boils down to the perception over the years that Russia equates to totalitarianism, whilst here in America we’re all about Freedom and innovation. Yet our educational system — the very underpinnings of how we’re growing out future technological talent, is based upon the inversion of what one…
10 things that would be totally different on the Internet if Google did not exist.
On July 18th 2007, Everex launched its first ‘Back to School’ PC with OpenOffice.org 2.02 into WalMart stores throughout the United States. The response was fantastic.
Imagine going to the library to get a book. But instead of finding such important and popular titles, you discover that the religion section had been decimated - stripped of any book that did not appear on a small government-approved list. That’s exactly what’s happening right now to inmates in federal prisons under a new Bush administration policy.
The body of a Blanco County monk and convicted child molester was found in a trailer Sunday night on the grounds of the Christ of the Hills Monastery. Sam Greene, 63, was also known as Father Benedict and lived on the monastery grounds. Authorities said Greene spent his final days on the property, where he died among trailers.
I am making this statement for your information and to clarify what I know about the veracity of accusations made against my person and published on an unfortunate gossip blog. These accusations have been published on the blog in question by an individual whom I have never met. As to why this individual has decided to participate in publishing …
Russia is set to install its own operating system in every Russian educational facility. The new Russian OS will be based on the Linux operating system. Linux now takes a big step in spreading its OS on a worldwide scale.
God has apparently responded to a lawsuit filed by a Nebraska lawmaker, and one of the filings seems to have dropped in from the heavens. “This one miraculously appeared on the counter. It just all of a sudden was here - poof!” said John Friend, clerk of the Douglas County District Court in Omaha.
Somehow, one of Phelps’ daughters stumbled upon China Daily columnist Raymond Zhou’s opinion pieces in which he examines apparently homophobic statements by actor Sun Haiying. Soon after, Shirley L Phelps-Roper left a comment on Zhou’s blog that includes the following: Dear Raymond, The very day that Godless China decriminalized the filthy manner…
“Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, is a disarmingly casual guy, especially over a good lunch in a high-class London restaurant. But despite the relaxed delivery, he doesn’t pull his punches.”
AMAZINGLY comprehensive guide to replacing Windows with Linux. Easy to read with lots of screenshots. Tackles the trickier topics like Windows Media playback, iPod connectivity, gaming, video editing, etc.
The official release date for OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 is September 17th, 2007 but it has already been released for the public. This new version an be downloaded from several mirrors such as OSUOSL and tried out today.
Your kids live nearly 5,000 miles away and experts are telling you they’re being sexually and physically abused. This Father and all the officials in Alaska know what is going on. Judge J. Kevin Carey in Florida needs to take action to protect the helpless victims and punish the aggressor.
Russian experts published plans for a Bering Strait rail tunnel, linking eastern Siberia with Alaska. This link would connect the Russian BAM with the North American rail system, stimulating trans-continental commerce and incidentally enabling continuous rail travel between London and New York, courtesy of the Channel Tunnel.
Today however takes the cake … the picture window story is about an FBI most wanted fugitive “Polygamist Prophet”, while Putin dissolving his government is put in 12 point font off on the right in the list of other stories…. here’s the complete list… how many do you consider Newsy? More important that the Polygamist prophet? …
More than 20,000 computers from Party offices nationwide will switch to using OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office from early 2008. [Thailand did this recently as well]
Ron Paul states he would allow Israel to secure it’s own borders and peace.
One who has already joined the gang is Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu with which OpenOffice.org is distributed. Scott Crenshaw, Red Hat’s Vice President of Enterprise Linux, agreed.
Yum Extender 2.0.1 is released. It is the first public release of the stable 2.0.x series. The release is available for Fedora 7, RHEL5 (EPEL) , CentOS5 (CentOS Testing) & Rawhide. Update: Yum Extender 2.0.1 is now released for Fedora Core 6 Extras too.
Since launching Yellow Dog Linux for the Sony PlayStation3 (PS3) last year, Terra Soft has been busy expanding its presence in the Cell processor ecosystem. To get an update about what the company has been doing, we contacted Terra Soft’s CEO, Kai Staats, via email in Nakuru, Kenya. Staats is there working with the Pistis Orphanage & Academy …
Did Microsoft’s Men In Black ever met Linus Torvalds? But why is he so critical of GPLv3? Why does he slam Subversion? What would happen to the kernel development if he chooses to do something else more important?
IBM joins forces with OpenOffice.org to contribute code and resources starting with the iAccessible2 accessibility tool. Once it’s assimilated into OpenOffice.org, it’ll make ODF more attractive to governments, which often require that the technology they purchase be accessible to all of their users, including the disabled.
You finally got your Linux environment to crash. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does nothing, nor do the F-keys. So you reach for the power button. STOP! Using the power button to reboot usually causes more problems than it solves. The Linux kernel includes a secret method of restarting your PC should it ever stop doing it’s job.
A hundred years ago, on September 8, 1907, Pope Pius X (1903–1914) published the Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (Feeding the Lord’s Flock) against the devastating doctrines of “Modernism”. Very interesting reading!
