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Polish Internet Users Against the Censorship of the Net

[ Thursday, 21 January 2010, michuk ]

Polish government wants to enforce Internet filtering to eliminate online gambling and child pornography. Everything for the benefit of our children, as this is the argument which is hard to stay against.
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Promise of a post-illegal copy world. Part I: History of Intellectual Property

[ Thursday, 21 January 2010, TheBlackMan ]

Lots of Internet forum discussions with various people on the subject of computer piracyillegal copying and intellectual property were my inspiration for this article. Along with the discussions, a lot of inaccuracies and lacks in the image of reality presented to humanity by RIAA, MPAA, MAFIAA and other corporate lobbyists appeared. Because I hate lies and [...]

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Three ways to securely access remote internal networks and work from home

[ Thursday, 7 January 2010, fenio ]

Remote access to a computer and internal network’s secured resources - all of it in a simple way that’s following well-known security’s best practices? Sounds impossible, but it’s not. How to achieve it explains Bartosz Feński aka fEnIo.
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KDE 4.4 dev: What’s new?

[ Monday, 30 November 2009, Bastion ]

I have managed to find some time to cover the recent changes in the development version of KDE 4.4. The number of changes is not impressive but they are interesting enough to write an article.
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Media PC on Linux

[ Wednesday, 11 November 2009, alkor ]

As an experiment I decided to build Media PC based on Linux. First of all I was wondering, how much did the Linux distributions evolve in the past few years (I’ve used Linux since a few years only on servers). The second thing is, I was fascinated by quite new, miniaturized hardware solutions based on [...]

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Gimp Tricks: Selective Colorization

[ Monday, 29 June 2009, Scott ]

Today, I’m going to teach you how to first simply create a black and white image from a color photo, then to selectively colorize any portion of the photo. I’m not going to directly adapt a Photoshop tutorial because this is a very simple process, but if you want to find the Photoshop way of [...]

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The Right To Be Free

[ Sunday, 21 June 2009, Adam M. ]

This article is aimed mainly at the supporters of culture without boundaries, the people who have been convinced by Lawrence Lessig (the author of “The Free Culture”) and Richard M. Stallman’s ideas of fighting the bad copyright and non-free software licenses.

Everybody knows, that DRM is bad. Also everybody knows, that Open Source is just a [...]

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Amarok 2.1 is out & Installing Amarok 2.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

[ Saturday, 13 June 2009, SathyaBhat ]

I was catching up on some feeds yesterday, and this piece of news caught my eye - Amarok 2.1 released. Being a long time Amarok fan ( heck Amarok itself was catalyst to make me use my SUSE 10.0 use full time) - I read the article with great interest. Amarok 2 users would know [...]

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