Today’s top news stories are global warming and Exxon’s $40 billion 2006 profits. Oil companies should use some profits from the activities that cause global warming to develop fuel-efficient, low-emission tech. In Autopia.
Source: Pony Up to Help Slow Warming
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The Fedora team has announced that the first test spin of Fedora 7 is available for download via BitTorrent or from Fedora Project mirrors. Fedora 7, also available on live CD, mixes both Core (the complete operating system) and Extras (add-ons that complement the OS) into one package in anticipation of the merger between the [...]
The RAR and 7-Zip file compression formats originated on Windows, so support for them on Linux is not as automatic as it is for old Unix holdovers like Gzip and TAR. But with the right software, you can handle these compressed files without much trouble.
Source: Handling RAR and 7-Zip archives in Linux
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Developers funded by Microsoft delivered on Friday the first phase of an open source tool designed to translate between the default Office 2007 file type and a competing open source document format.
Source: Open source tool released for translating between Microsoft, ODF file formats
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Linux users have often complained that even though the vast majority of PC components and peripherals are compatible with Linux, some don’t work at all. Hardware vendors who submit specifications will now receive “a complete and working Linux driver that is added to the main Linux kernel source tree,” according to Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux [...]
Bash is one of those Unix things that I am fully aware has a lot more potential and power than I know how to use. Every so often I go looking for another handful of useful things to learn about it: this is a selection of recent ones.
Source: www.oreillynet.com
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acousticiris writes “Many (if not all) users who took advantage of Microsoft’s Vista Family Discount have been issued invalid installation keys and cannot install Windows Vista Home Premium. Microsoft says, ‘There is no expected time period for a fix at this time.’ According to the article, the keys are valid for something, just not Windows [...]
A short snippet from DTV’s blog mentions they’re looking for testers for Release Candidate Zero (RC0). In case you wonder what DTV is [from GetDemocracy.com]:
Play virtually any video– Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID, and more. Subscribe to any video RSS feed, podcast, or video blog. Download and save videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, [...]
It’s maddening. For someone who is trying make a daily use of what is to be considered a beginner friendly distribution for the first time, most options leave a lot to be desired for the uninitiated. More often than not, new Linux users find that everything works great at first only to discover that setting [...]
My father heard about Vista coming on the news. Since he was interested in getting it, he asked me to obtain it and install it on his computer and he would give some cash in return. I told him I was going to do that, but instead I burned an Ubuntu CD and installed it.
Later, [...]
