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21st January Comments

Canadian Privacy Commissioner rejects DRM: don’t give spyware legal protection!

Posted on January 21st, 2008 at 7:23 am

Jennifer Stoddart, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has published an open letter to Industry Minister Jim Prentice, who has been working behind the scenes to resurrect his disaster of a copyright bill, which will import the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Canada. The DMCA has been a total failure, resulting in nearly 30,000 lawsuits [...]

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21st January Comments

“Rock Band,” “Guitar Hero” drive digital song sales

Posted on January 21st, 2008 at 7:13 am

DENVER (Billboard) – In the two months since MTV Networks and Harmonix released the music-based videogame “Rock Band,” players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million additional songs made available after the game’s initial distribution. Source: Yahoo News

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19th January Comments

PackageKit

Posted on January 19th, 2008 at 5:22 am

  PackageKit aims to take the pain out of the package management on GNU/Linux systems and create a system that can compete with Windows and Mac. Development is proceeding at a rapid pace and it is set to be available in Fedora 9. To find out more, we talked to Richard Hughes, project creator, and [...]

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17th January Comments

Facebook asked by Mattel to remove ‘Scrabulous’

Posted on January 17th, 2008 at 5:28 am

  While Hasbro, trademark owner of ‘Scrabble’ in North America, has already targeted social-network game, Mattel owns rights elsewhere. The makers of Scrabble have asked Facebook to remove a popular online version of the word game, Scrabulous, which they say infringes their copyright. The U.S. and Canada rights… And you thought that I was kidding, [...]

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13th January Comments

Goodbye Vista, KDE 4.0 Has Arrived!

Posted on January 13th, 2008 at 5:53 am

  There are only few people who know that if you look out of your ‘Windows’, the world is much more vivid and beautiful. Apple is known for its good looks, but it?s excessively expensive, while Vista is a big disappointment. Now, there is GNU/Linux which, in fact, is free and offers much more options [...]

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12th January Comments

KDE 4.0 Screenshots

Posted on January 12th, 2008 at 5:39 am

  The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era. Screenshots at The Coding Studio.   KDE 4.0 Screenshots

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12th January Comments

KDE 4.0 Release: The Start of Something Amazing

Posted on January 12th, 2008 at 5:35 am

  Several years of design, development and testing came together today for the release of KDE 4.0. This is our most significant release in our 11 year history and marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the start of the KDE 4 era. Join us [...]

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7th January Comments

Securing Linux laptops

Posted on January 7th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

Laptop and notebooks are being stolen at an ever-increasing rate. In 2004, Safeware Insurance which sells computer insurance, estimated 600,000 laptop and notebooks a year were being stolen. In 2006 an estimated 750,000 were being swiped, according to Absolute Software a company that makes computer tracking products — and does not support Linux. LoJack For [...]

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6th January Comments

Update on LC

Posted on January 6th, 2008 at 6:42 am

I heard from LC last night and she is having a tad bit of trouble with her Text Messages and wireless is hard to get so she might not be posting as often as normal. But she is having a great time and the weather is really warm. Stay tuned for any updates that may [...]

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5th January Comments

Mike Huckabee congratulates Canada on its "national igloo"

Posted on January 5th, 2008 at 5:56 am

  Mike Huckabee may have won the Iowa primary, but does he really think that Canada’s Parliament resides in a "national igloo?" Rick Mercer’s comedic Canadian TV show "Talking to Americans" (asking people on the streets of US cities nonsensical questions about Canada to see if they call shenanigans or whether they become genuinely alarmed [...]

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