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After many discussions with many people over many years concerning the Open Source "problem", things are becoming clearer. Some have said that it will just die off as there is no way of making any money out of it and hence no way of surviving in today's economic system.

About a week ago...

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You know those lists that determine what IPs should be blocked from mail servers ? Well, maybe the idea at one point was interesting (maybe not)... . I realized today that I'm again on a couple of lists, nothing major, I realized this because an email I tried to send was blocked. After investi...

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Icky on the inside ?

I noticed chrome is available for Debian/GNU Linux among others.. They have also been putting up ads around town that are impossible to miss. Some people think this is good, probably because Google is already their start page for many people, some even type the URL ...

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I just read about this project to "save mysql" from the dirty hands of Oracle.. At first I thought "oh a cute little lolcat site" but then I thought "how is it that Oracle can buy out MySQL ?"

So I go to Monty...

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I don't really like Microsoft's system but i admire their sense of humour.. :]

i found a few things on this subject:

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Mozilla and Co. have been providing a nice and free and open web surfing tool since a while now.. blah blah bla blah. .. ... . I am looking for another free (as in freedom of speech) web browser with some of the same features without all the crap they have been putting in there... Let me expl...

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DISS updated, now with apache suexec and a few settings here and there to make things a bit more secure (or a bit less insecure, your pick).. . Goto diss.manurevah.com download page... Read more.. . ..

I finally got to a point where i'm not to ashamed to actually publish this project I've been working on for a little while now.. It's a set of scripts to automate installation of a typical Debian server.

Click enter to go to the dedicated website

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Two little tutorials which, now that i think of it, have something to do with one another.. . :]
One on smartmontools which can help you know more about a disk drive's health status. ... in the eventuality of a r...

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for those who have been wondering how to filter emails using sieve and especially if you are using the workaround.org isp style mail system on debian etch. .. . here are some notes on how to get it up and working with pysieved.. .

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