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A friend of mine sent this link to me today and it made me really laugh really hard... Man, talk about someone posting a review on something that they don't really understand. Actual review link can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000PSWZSC/ref=cm_cr_pr_link_2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&pageNumber...
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Recently , i bumped on to a site and what struck me most is its title "Flipping the Linux Switch" . There are two words that made be stop and read about the article "Linux" and "Switch". It reminded me a few years back when i was the network administrator of a university...
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It's true. Everybody has their own match. Their own weakness. Their own kryptonite that would hold them to their knees and trade their philosophies and senses for a chance to break free. And for my friend who is a recognized Linux and Java guru(he founded the largest Java User Group in the Philippines...
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I swear I saw a few news reports in the days of the dot-com boom (before the bust of course) wherein PC manufacturers were bundling Linux on their machines. I guess it wasn't successful because it went for naught a few months (weeks?!) later. Just this year, Dell started shipping Ubuntu Linux on...
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This is pleasant news: Dell and Ubuntu announced in a joint conference that Dell will be pre-installing Ubuntu 7.04 on some of its desktops and laptops . I have been using Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" 7.04 for over a week now and I am very much impressed by the software experience. It still has a few...
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Yup! Thats right! As part of the DevPinoy Ready Launch Event we are giving away a Free Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition(Thanks to Woody Pewitt ) to one lucky Linux enthusiast. Hmmm! I see eyebrows raising... So why did we decided to give it to a Linux user? The short answer is because we want...
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Ok, so I'm not really a *nix guy. I just happen to know a few handful commands in Linux. I kind of wonder why some people get angry when you ask them something about what they know about Linux. I remember talking to a friend of mine and I asked him how I should organize my files in Linux. He answered...
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It was merely a coincidence. But just a week after Microsoft and Novell made a highly-controversial deal about Linux, I now probably hold the dubious distinction of being (one of) the first person to do a Linux-oriented presentation in the Microsoft Philippines office. OK, it's not a Microsoft event;...
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file systems.....they always say that you could have the best of WinXP if your using NTFS. i believe them but not until i fell for linux..ryt now i have a dual boot pc. for the partition i kept 2 ntfs , 1 ext3 and the rest fat32. i did it for easy sharing between 2 OS (linux does not recognize ntfs the...