Pinboard: bookmarks for mwfogleman tagged 'opensource'

"The state of Texas is paying tens of millions of dollars a year to Microsoft when they have a free, virus-free and stable alternative at their fingertips, literally. Sir, let me pose a question. Why does the state of Texas insist on purchasing a product that proves to be more expensive to maintain than it does to purchase? Anti-virus software, defrag and registry fixers, malware protection...why? Why are we paying for software that demands we purchase other software in order for it to work? That is a question that I would honestly like answered."

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Welcome to MusicBrainz! - MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Moonlight Downloads
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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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GizmoStyle // We Love The Web : Linux enters the I’m A Mac/I’m A PC row with ‘We’re Linux’

We’ve all seen the various Mac v PC ads but no Linux ads as of yet. And why would we? - Linux does not have the bank balance to finance Hollywood style adverts - remember Microsofts Jerry Seinfeld ad campaign? $10 million for what? Well, that’s all about to change as Linux have announced five finalists who have made adverts for their ‘We’re Linux’ video campaign. I must admit, they probably aren’t TV ready…..yet. We’ll see what Linux decide to do when they announce the winner tomorrow (Wednesday evening Pacific Time). Here are the 5 videos:

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory - O'Reilly Radar

Imagine now what would happen if cities did throw their weight behind this kind of innovation? The landscape of those cities would change virtually overnight, with legions of new applications springing up to provide residents with every sort of information conceivable, making their decisions more informed, making their movements more coordinated, and ultimately making the cities themselves work better. This change would happen at a fraction of the cost of any proposals for change currently being considered by cities around the world. And much of that cost, for development and operation, would be offloaded from the city itself to the individuals building and using these services.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Mozilla and WebKit, browser platform wars. | Software and Opinions
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march 2009 by mwfogleman

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OpenSUSE project moves to fixed cycle for future releases - Ars Technica
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march 2009 by mwfogleman

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The First U.S. CIO, Vivek Kundra: Bodes Well for Open Source
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march 2009 by mwfogleman

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Building belonging is the secret to open source success - Ars Technica
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march 2009 by mwfogleman

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How to Join the Ubuntu Community | WorksWithU
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february 2009 by mwfogleman

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Linux: Five Tweaks for Your New Ubuntu Desktop

Performance tweaks, different update servers, OpenOffice.org 3, Dropbox... Windows fonts and codecs

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february 2009 by mwfogleman

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Ubuntu: A User's Look at Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

New to Ubuntu 8.10 is a nifty seamless encryption feature. It's always been possible to encrypt individual files/folders in Ubuntu but it involved creating a key pair and then individually encrypting files. To view or edit the file, it was necessary to decrypt it and then re-encrypt it again if changes were made. Messy.

The new feature creates an encrypted filestore, mounted in the Private folder in your /home directory. This is automatically locked and unlocked as you log in and out, so accessing it is seamless and transparent. Other users won't be able to access it, and it isn't possible to see its contents by booting into rescue mode.

To activate the feature, just type the following two commands:

sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils
ecryptfs-setup-private

Follow the prompts shown and then log out and back in again. Once the desktop reappears, you'll see a new Private directory in your /home folder, where you can save data, as with any other directory.