links for 2007-03-01
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Now that I’ve completed my move to Linux (sorry Mac fanboys, the install was flawless and everything worked out of the box), someone emailed me to suggest that I update my essential software list. So here you go.
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Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software
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In this article i describe some of the things to do immediately after installing ubuntu on your machine . Since most of the people reading this would be shifting from Windows to Linux with a system dual booting so i would focus more on making transition e
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You’re moving from Windows to Linux. You’ve decided you want the stability, flexibility, and cost savings of Linux, but you have many questions in your head. Isn’t Linux like UNIX? Isn’t UNIX hard? Where do you begin to make sense of all of this? Is there
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Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted that Fox News host John Gibson had accused reporters of “news-guy snobbery” for covering the Iraq war instead of Anna Nicole Smith. Mocking CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Gibson said, “Oh, ‘There’s a war on! There’s a
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It should be an interesting afternoon in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as hearings begin to consider Sam Fox as George W. Bush’s nominee to be the new U.S. Ambassador to Belgium.
While the White House lauds Fox’s qualifications for the role, i
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Tuesday’s stock market plunge shows the start of a “correction,” the age-old euphemism for a steep drop in stock prices, but it may also signal worse news than that.
A steady stream of recent data shows mixed signals about where the U.S. economy is head -
President George W. Bush’s plan to revamp the health-care system would increase taxes on Americans by $526.2 billion over the next decade, according to a congressional estimate that calls into question administration claims of cost and tax savings.
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The Army refiled five charges against first Lt. Ehren Watada late last week, paving the way for a possible second court-martial for the highest-ranking member of the military to publicly refuse to deploy to Iraq. When his first court-martial ended in a mi
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President Bush’s faith-based initiative is a signature program of his administration. But not all Americans share the president’s belief that the government should work in close partnership with religious organizations willing to perform nonreligious publ
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The mystery of how and why a government wiretap summary falsely attributed anti-Jewish slurs to officials of a Muslim charity remained unanswered Tuesday as federal prosecutors pledged to look into the matter.
In court papers filed late Monday, the U.
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WASHINGTON — A human rights group Tuesday published the names of 38 men and one woman it believes have been locked up in secret overseas facilities, and asked President Bush to disclose the identity and fate of all detainees the CIA has held since 2001.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — Democrats in Congress are pushing to extend union protection to 43,000 federal airport security workers, reviving a debate that stalled the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and could now derail broad antiterrorism le
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Polaroize is the service to convert any phots to Polaroid* like images.
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The United States director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, is warning the violence in Iraq may get much worse.
Admiral McConnell has told the Senate’s armed services committee that sectarian violence in Iraq has become self-sustaining.
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Instead, it’s this same crap, again and again and again. There’s a speech on global warming, and it’s cold outside! Don’t debate John Kerry’s plans for Iraq, question his medals from Vietnam. It’s not the war that’s going badly, it’s some freelance photog
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The fundamental problem is that the core competence of a newspaper is printing distributing information printed on bundles of paper, just as the core competence of the recording industry is pressing and distributing plastic discs. Newspapers’ investment
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