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Off the Beat * Bruce Byfield
Donate to Rock for Water For many people, working in free software is itself an act of charity. After all, even if they are paid, others benefit and they are helping free software development.
My Wesnoth Addiction Except briefly for a review, I haven't installed Steam. Nor have I had a Windows partition for games for over a decade. It's not that I dislike games – to be honest, the problem is I like them too much.
Why is Interest in Free Office Suites Declining? While I was getting serious about free software in 1999, GNU Parted appeared. I immediately assumed that it would mean the end of the market for proprietary partition editors, and I was puzzled at first when it didn't.
Analyzing Ada: Who wrote the notes attributed to Ada Lovelace? Ada Lovelace is a hero of women in computing. Crediting her as the first computer programmer, her admirers defend her fiercely against detractors who question her accomplishments, pointing out the misogyny that lurks behind the attempts at debunking.
Paw Prints * Jon "maddog" Hall
Hello, President Rousseff ... I Told You So. Dear President Rousseff, I understand that you are irritated with my country, the United States of America, because one of our agencies, the National Security Agency, has been tapping into your private communications, reading your email and otherwise spying on you and other Brazilian nationals.
Productivity Sauce * Dimitri Popov
Play Internet Streams on Android with ServeStream It so happens that my favorite radio station is not available via the TuneIn app for Android, and the only way to listen to the station is to use an alternative SHOUTcast stream.
XnRetro: Vintage Photo Effects on the Linux Desktop If you are looking for a dedicated application that offers a wide range of vintage effects and tools in one easy-to-use package, then you might want to give XnRetro a try.
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S.M.A.R.T., Smartmontools, and Drive Monitoring By Jeff Layton
http://www.admin-magazine.com/HPC/Articles/Predicting-Drive-Doom
Modern drives use S.M.A.R.T. (self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology) to gather information and run self-tests. But is S.M.A.R.T. the best way to predict impending drive doom?
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk By Dan Frost
http://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Elastic-Beanstalk
It has been years since Amazon began innovating in the hosting market with their cloud hosting, but I can still remember the day I spun up an EC2 instance and cried "WHAT?" over my coffee, staring at a Linux machine that cost me US$ 0.10.
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