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LugRadio Live UK – LRL: IRC IRL
Popular podcast goes out with a gong but will return with a new mascot.
Five years and more than one-hundred episodes later, the popular LugRadio podcast has turned off the microphones. The 2008 LugRadio Live event in Wolverhampton, England, was set to be their last live show. Fortunately, and thanks to its very loyal community, the annual shenanigans will continue and LugRadio Live 2009 is already in the planning stages.
Open Vote
Why you should take a closer look at the Open Voting Consortium
Some issues facing the open source community are difficult to explain to outsiders, but some are problems the whole world faces. One issue most people care about is the right to vote. What does the right to vote have to do with open source software?
PHP CLI Tips and Tricks
PHPWomen Contest Winner
PHPWomen.org recently held an article-writing contest on their Best Practices Forum. Authors of the two winning submissions each received copies of Zend Studio for Eclipse, a 1-year subscription to Linux Pro Magazine (which is called Linux Magazine outside North America), and the opportunity to feature their articles on the magazine websites. Congratulations goes to Gerard Sychay for his winning submission!
Set up OpenVPN in four steps
Howto for OpenVPN: Configure Windows computers to allow secure surfing when on the road
This article explains in four simple steps how you can use a home-based Windows PC to secure a notebook and circumvent systems such as the "Great Firewall of China". With OpenVPN, mobile users can surf without fear of the restrictions that might otherwise affect them on the local network to which they are connected, and can access all Internet content without danger of being bugged or censored.
OpenVPN counters censorship
Open Source Software Helps Surmount China's "Great Firewall" Instrument Of Censorship
Journalists at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing will not have unfettered access to the Internet. However, GPL software OpenVPN can be used to easily circumvent such censorship.
A Report from OSCON 2008
Open source enthusiasts sweep into Portland
O'Reilly's annual OSCON event attracted a range of open source enthusiasts who were treated to impressive keynotes, a range of "lightening talks," and plenty of in-depth technical sessions.
Restoring Deleted Files in Linux
File Recovery
If you thought that you couldn’t restore deleted files in Linux, you didn’t get the whole truth. The truth will set you free and possibly recover those deleted files.
Lean Machine
Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 15 v4
A Linux-friendly alternative to Dell and Apple, the Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 15 v4 offers a bigger screen at an affordable price, all without sacrificing portability.
KDE Tiling Solutions
A Sampling of KWin Tiling Scripts
If you want to reap the benefits of tiling desktops on KDE Plasma, check out these KWin script extensions.
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