A group called the Raspberry Pi Foundation is working on designing a computer that’s the size of a USB stick… The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity Registration Number 1129409 which exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into […]
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Conical has added a new feature to it’s website, you can try Ubuntu before you download it, and see if you like it. (You can also do this while downloading) I know that I’m going to try it out, I’ve heard a lot of good, and bad about the New Ubuntu. You will have ~15
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We wanted to avoid covering this story altogether – our logic, of course, being that Fox clearly wants attention, and it’s pulled very similar game-demonizing stunts in the past. But the outlet’s misinformation-packed article is everywhere now, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t attempt to drop a kernel of actual truth into the mess.
Ouch… I never really thought of that happening… About 150,000 Gmail users, or 0.08 percent of the webmail service, logged in over the weekend to see everything gone—email, chat logs, contacts, and attachments. Google’s working to restore the accounts, but in the meantime, take it as another vivid reminder of the value of local backups.
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Apparently you cannot get any Open Source software through Microsoft’s marketplace. The licence, which anyone wishing to distribute Windows, Windows Phone, or Xbox applications through the company’s copy of Apple’s App Store is required to agree to, is the usual torrent of legalese – but hides a nasty surprise for those who support open source
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Man… that would be so nice to have on my laptop. not much of an issue on my desktop, it has dual screens, but multiple windows are tough to manage on a single screen setup… The recently published article “What’s up with free multimedia production tools in 2010” already mentions that GIMP 2.8 is not
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Well, today was a crazy day, a storm in Minneapolis caused the airport to be closed last night, and it caused major backups in the Atlanta airport, causing the plane that was going to take us to Atlanta to be 3 hours late. We were supposed to leave shortly after 2:00 PM, but we didn’t
Well, now EA wants to convert to making games that have no ‘offline’ component, no true singleplayer mode. I have to wonder what’s up with this? First Blizzard with Starcraft II, and now EA wants to make online games. Yes I hear the ‘It allows us to reduce piracy’ argument, but it can lock a
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Use Linux Live CDs to try Linux out before you think of installing, it will be a little bit slow, CD Drives are slower than Harddrives, but you can get a taste of what it would be like to use Linux. This post was made from the Ubuntu 10.10 Live CD, which was released yesterday,
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Well, I’ve seen this many times, Microsoft saying that their $200-$500 Operating system is cheaper than the $0.00 Linux. Their reasoning is because “Everyone uses Windows, You have to spend time to learn Linux, and if you’re in a Business environment, that time is lost money. Also Linux Administrators are more expensive in business.” I
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