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A Look at HTML Tidy

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/20/2010
One thing I love about the UNIX philosophy is the idea that each program should do one job and do it really well. There are zillions of small tools for UNIX-type OSes that make life much easier and are hugely useful, but they don't necessarily get written about. They certainly don't receive the same kind [...]
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Making Thunderbird Financially Sustainable: How it Could Work

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/11/2010
Mozilla Messaging is looking forward to a big year in 2010 including Thunderbird 3.1 and figuring out how to make the project financially sustainable. Making Thunderbird better is the easier part. Figuring out how to make money as a project is another story entirely. No doubt the next release of Thunderbird, currently code-named Lanikai, will do [...]
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Taking Command of the Terminal with GNU Screen

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/11/2010
GNU Screen is one of the most useful utilities you can have at your disposal if you spend any time at all working at the command line. Screen allows you to manage multiple shell sessions from one terminal window or console, view multiple shell sessions at the same time, and even log into the same [...]
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Google Buzz: Much Ado about Something

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/11/2010
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Google is having a yet another go at a social media platform, this time with Google Buzz. Buzz meshes input from third party social media sites like Flickr and Twitter, and pulls in Google Mail, Google Talk, Google Reader, and a number of other features in a [...]
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Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/9/2010
Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source. That's being demonstrated now that Oracle has acquired the company. Oracle's acquisition of Sun, and subsequent layoffs, are having ripple effects on the open source community. The cuts are also hitting the GNOME accessibility (a11y) team and leading the project [...]
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What's New with Banshee

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/9/2010
The Banshee Project released 1.5.3 on January 27th. This release brings a slew of improvements to the already impressive media player that gives iTunes a run for its money, if not hype. For those not familiar with Banshee, it’s a media player written in C# on the Mono platform, started by Aaron Bockover. Since its debut [...]
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SourceForge Removes "Blanket" Block

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/8/2010
After just a few weeks, SourceForge has backed off its policy of imposing a blanket ban on all users trying to access the site from countries on the U.S. "banned" list. Instead, it announced on Sunday that it's putting the decision in the hands of each project that hosts on the site. According to SourceForge's Lee [...]
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