Hi All, Well it was time to wipe the hard disk drive and look for the latest / greatest available Linux operating systems. I tried a bunch and settled on openSuSE 12.1 with the KDE desktop manager. The full details are on my web site here. So, what does my desktop look like? Here it [...]

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Written by John J. Macey    Thursday, 28 July 2011 I it has been here a while…. Google+: A Social Network Even Geeks Can Love? LinuxInsider 07/28/11 5:00 AM PT “Google+ has some nice features, and I really like the way that sorting the friends lists was built in rather than the complete hack of [...]

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Hi All, I was running Netflix for about a year, and suddenly they turned me off. The reason: I run Linux UBUNTU as my operating system. It was so sudden, interruptive, and down right rude, that I canceled my membership. Hey, it worked. Why pull the plug on me? Strange… Anyway, I did a trial [...]

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Pirate Bay founders lose appeal: jail time reduced, fines raised By Ross Miller posted Nov 26th 2010 7:39PM It’s been a while since the four Pirate Bay founders lost their case in a Stockholm district court — April 2009, to be more precise. The verdict was of course appealed, but alas, it was not to [...]

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Who’s Afraid Of Apple, Google and Facebook? From Bloomberg BusinessWeek Who’s Afraid of Apple, Google, Facebook? Timothy Wu says we should be alarmed by the monopoly powers accumulated by Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple, and eBay. Why he’s wrong By Mathew Ingram Technology CES May See New Google TV Products Facebook Shares Get [...]

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Free Health And Hospital Information System Posted by Luis Falcon on Monday November 08, 2010 @ 07:42 AM from the dept. I’m happy to announce the first Release Candidate version of Medical, the Free Health and Hospital Information System. This version is the result of over 2 years of hard work, and I see it [...]

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Top 15 Celebrities On Twitter My Linux Girlfriend Nixie Pixel posted this. Goota’ love here. Top 15 Celebrities on Twitter Thursday, March 5, 2009 So you already use Twitter, but it feels like your account lacks a certain star quality. Don’t worry, your problem is solved as this list publicizes the otherwise private lives of [...]

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Is Facebook A Waste Of Time? How Do I Know Who Reads Or Views My Facebook Postings? I am not new to social media. I started web sites and blogs a long time ago. All this from scratch. Basically, starting to set-up my own Web Server, picking and choosing the back end that worked for [...]

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What Is Your Biggest Storage Device? Hi All, I’ve got 2Tb of storage. 500Gb Notebook, and a Seagate 500Gb and 1Tb drive. Not enough… I’m not going to the cloud for my music or blu-ray movies. I store everything. I’ve lost too much in the past. Consider this a pre-emptive post. What do you use?

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Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday Back in February we wrote about Facebook’s secret Project Titan — a web-based email client that we hear is unofficially referred to internally as its “Gmail killer”. Now we’ve heard from sources that this is indeed what’s coming on Monday during Facebook’s special event, alongside personal @facebook.com [...]

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German Weapons Of War Germany Considers Loosening Arms Export Controls It all started with the French. Years ago, the Defense Ministry in Paris presented an official plan promoting arms exports. The German response? Self-imposed limits. Arms exports should be “restrictive,” according to the “Federal Arms Exports Guidelines” from the year 2000. The situation hasn’t changed [...]

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Google Earth: Your Protection Against Alien Invasion Hi All, Every once in a while I look at my SPAM Mail, and this one didn’t come from Nigeria. Do Not Do The Download! EARTH TIMES DAILY – Planet Earth – THE LATEST EARTHLY NEWS – Since 2005 – Alien Sightings Reported! Multiple sightings of possible UFOs [...]

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How To Cure A Windows Virus With Ubuntu Linux My Linux girlfriend Nixie Pixel at it again! I am waiting for her full length feature film!

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Nixie Pixel Does Linux – Open Source Challenge! Nixie Pixel – My Linux Girlfriend. I just do love her work!

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Giant Jesus Now Looms Over Polish Town SWIEBODZIN, Poland (AP) — Workers have completed a giant statue of Jesus Christ in a small Polish town that its creators say ranks as the biggest in the world. Hundreds of residents gathered to watch a towering crane lifting the crowned head onto the top of the statue [...]

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Europe Simulates Total Cyber War Essential web services have come under simulated attack as European nations test their cyber defences. The first-ever cross-European simulation of an all out cyber attack was planned to test how well nations cope as the attacks slow connections. The simulation steadily reduced access to critical services to gauge how nations [...]

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More good news is that the majority of CIOs are arriving from a heavy-duty tech background; the trend, fashionable in previous decades, of appointing a general manager to this role is looking distinctly dated. This job is T-shaped, with broad knowledge encompassing business, finance and technology across the top bar, supported by deep wells of [...]

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Six Secrets Of Open Source Community Building The Drupal content management system (CMS) is one of the most successful open source projects on the Internet today, thanks in no small part to its community. At the head of the Drupal community is the project’s founder, Dries Buytaert, who started the project ten years ago in [...]

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Nuclear Bunker Houses World’s Toughest Server Farm This article was taken from the November issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online Deep inside the Swiss Alps, a former nuclear bunker is now the [...]

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Discovery, which led an anxious NASA back into space after Challenger and Columbia, begins its final voyage Wednesday After more than a quarter century of ferrying crews, satellites, space station parts and even the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit, Discovery will begin one final voyage Wednesday afternoon. One of just two or three space shuttle [...]

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