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KDE 4.3 “Caizen” is out!

The KDE team has released the latest iteration of their famous cross platform desktop environment. KDE 4 is a desktop environment that has great potential as it has embraced some really powerful and state of the art technologies as its pillars e.g. nepomuk, akonadi, Plasma, Qt4 and others. Also its creators have a really good [...]

Posted on August 4, 2009 at 4:27 pm by climatewarrior · Permalink · Leave a comment
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The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit has begun!

If Microsoft wanted to destroy the FOSS desktop it would bomb Gran Canaria right now as the top hackers of both leading FOSS desktop environments, KDE and GNOME, are meeting there right now. But we all know Microsoft is no that evil, or are they? For the first time ever both GUADEC, the [...]

Posted on July 5, 2009 at 2:55 pm by climatewarrior · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Your own Linux file server for 150$ or less

Have you always dreamed of having your own Linux file server but were worried about hardware or energy costs? Well with 150$ or less you could build your own portable, energy efficient and powerful Linux file server. All you have to do is buy a Western Digital MyBook World Edition and perform some hacker magic [...]

Posted on June 28, 2009 at 11:08 am by climatewarrior · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Who says the command line can’t be user friendly?

The command line is a great interface for lots of things, it enables a certain level of control, power and speed that sometimes can’t be achieved in graphical interfaces. But the command line can be very intimidating and I have to admit it has a steep learning curve. But does it really have to be [...]

Posted on June 27, 2009 at 8:58 pm by climatewarrior · Permalink · One Comment
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Compare text documents

I found a tool for Windows and Linux called Diffuse that allows you to compare multiple text documents in the same window. I took this summary from their site:
Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is able to compare an arbitrary number of files side-by-side and gives users the ability [...]

Posted on June 26, 2009 at 12:03 am by Ryuujin · Permalink · 2 Comments
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