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LISA'11 Boston Dec 4-9
Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:14:52 GMT
Are you going to this fair ?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there he once was a true love of mine.
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Software Freedom Day 2011
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:49:57 GMT
Software Freedom Day is coming up on September 17. Events are planned around the world in most major cities. If you write free software or use free software, attend your local SFD event. Give a talk, help someone install GNU/Linux, or just hang out with other free software and open source people for a few hours. If you're attending or organizing a Software Freedom Day event, post a reply here and tell us how SFD will be celebrated in your city.
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In Defense of Negativity
Sat, 3 Sep 2011 17:03:15 GMT
I have often heard criticism of "negative campaigning" in the free software movement. "Negative" campaigns speak out against proprietary software as opposed to "positive" campaigns which instead speak of the benefits of software freedom. This essays unpacks some of the arguments against negativity and makes the argument that negative campaigns, in some forms, can play an critical and important role in free software advocacy.
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Losing lifeblood: Advogato's marginal appeal
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:16:47 GMT
Two days ago, gesslein announced his retirement, provisionally at least, from Advogato, saying No one can comment on my posts, and it doesn't seem to be reaching anyone.
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NHS Scotland Open Desktop Initiative
Thu, 4 Aug 2011 17:49:14 GMT
This article is written in response to the Question and Answer phase
of the NHS Scotland Open Desktop Initiative.
From the initiative's abstract:
NHSScotland is currently in the process of developing a set of standards to
support the development and building of the NHS Scotland Open Desktop.
The response takes into account the clarification of the initiative,
through the QA session, yet the response is also equally applicable advice
to any organisation wishing to have applications written that run across
a very diverse range of devices and platforms without having to develop
and maintain multiple versions of the exact same software.
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Evolution of Programming Languages
Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:51:31 GMT
read about the sad news that Jeff Fox, Forth advocate, passed away on Chuck Moore's blog.
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Implementing spam protection in Wiki engines
Mon, 2 May 2011 08:26:14 GMT
Spam is really a problem in many Wiki communities, often forcing at
least temporary to restrict editing rights. Most of the recent attempts
to find a solution focus around captchas and spam lists. Captchas may be
efficient to some extent; the problem is that to make them unreadable
for bots, they must be twisted enough to become also difficult for
humans to read. Lists seem less and less efficient, often accumulating
thousands
of entries and still leaving enough gaps for spammers. Spammers
frequently use the Wiki search box to check if there is already some
spam on the site - this shows that Wiki may be purely maintained and
they can add more. Hence it may make sense to implement the delayed
indexing but it also delays indexing of legitimate content. Blocking IP
addresses is also no longer useful due DHCP.
One of the solutions may be to use combined protection rather
than
relying on some single "killer" approach. The rationale is to make
spammer to invest more and more work into building the spam bot.
Requiring a complex bot does not make the attack impossible but may
statistically eliminate significant percent of spammers that are not
willing to invest enough resources.
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Triolet
Thu, 7 Apr 2011 19:28:41 GMT
I came up with this triolet to
add my two cents to a Chinese
physicist and poet's view on Oxford debate
'Poetry is beautiful but Science is what matters' :
Verse and song gave birth to thee
fearful mechanical and scientific device
Love's but a dance
of verse and song sublime to thee
A whisper, a glance, this little death --
"Shall we twirl down in Elysian
Fields ?"
Verse and song gave birth to thee
fearful mechanical and scientific device
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Diversity statement for Ubuntu
Wed, 9 Feb 2011 07:36:01 GMT
mdz is drafting, with the help of Valerie Aurora,
hypatia, and mako, a diversity statement for Ubuntu,
and is seeking comments on the current draft.
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Bombono DVD reached 1.0
Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:21:15 GMT
Bombono DVD is a DVD authoring
program for Linux. It is made easy to use and has nice and clean GUI.
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