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As consumers we've become an impatient lot. We live in a world where "on-demand" is a part of our everyday lexicon. Whether it's our travel, our meals, or our money, we just want it now. This is the case with our television as well. Enter the hottest new product offering to be marketed by video service providers: Video-on-Demand (VOD.)

Ubuntu.com reports - Significant changes affecting the installer and live CD include: A much improved version of Espresso, the live CD based installer is included. A new default theme has been included. A range of ATI cards which were previously unsupported are now supported. New development version of GNOME is included.

Once again OSDir takes the latest Ubuntu Flight for a ride in their Ubuntu Linux 6.04 Alpha 5 Screenshot Tour. You don't want to miss this one!

Odd, mainstream press review primarily about Thunderbird vs. Outlook, where the former does quite nicely in most instances. However, the underlying thrust is still that Mozilla's Thunderbird has many option that reviewer sees as missing.

[ED: Interesting just because where it was published. Moreover, what seems like a view point based upon some study and real knowledge. Nonetheless, I am not in full agreement, still nice to see both Firefox and Thunderbird discussed with both respect and candor. - HC]

The open source movement gathered even more momentum in Australia this week with Novell becoming the latest Linux supplier to gain approval to sell products and services to the NSW Government.

The trend towards open source software will give government offices access to an alternative desktop system which may see many abandon Microsoft's Windows for the cheaper Linux platform.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 has been announced. Among other new features, fixes, and improvements, this version contains the KDE Addressbook Connector by Éric Bischoff, and Crystal icons from KDE, many newly created by Nuno Pinheiro and Robert Wadley.

This tutorial deals with setting up a Linux firewall based on IPCop.

To deal with the more than 10 billion pages and tens of terabytes of information on Google's servers, the company combines cheap machines with plenty of redundancy, Hoelzle said. Its commodity servers cost around $1,000 apiece, and Google's architecture places them into interconnected nodes.

All machines run on a stripped-down kernel. The distribution is Red Hat (Quote, Chart), but Hoelzle said Google doesn't use much of the distro. Moreover, Google has created its own patches for things that haven't been fixed in the original kernel.

[ Ed: GREAT READ -tadelste]

Throughout my experience, many users on Linux Help Forums or IRC have had questions that require information from /proc to diagnose. And every single time, I've had to walk them through the process of using and understanding /proc so that I could help them with their problem. For that reason, I think that a brief tutorial on the basics of /proc is in order.

I've been using the tutorials/reviews information from this site to try and set up my laptop to automatically detect the active network (cable at work, wireless at home) and set up the environment as appropriate. This has been slow going, due to a WEP problem I have. This begins with an Archos PMA430 (an audio/video/PIM hand held device) that has built in wireless networking. And it runs a Linux OS, using Qtopia (the most important secondary reason for its purchase).

The European Commission has again accused Redmond of flouting a 2004 antitrust ruling, with an independent monitor calling the company's responses "incomplete, inaccurate and unusable."

The New York Times reports (11 March) that in a letter sent to Redmond the commission said its experts had again found that the company had not met the terms of the ruling, which imposed a fine of 497 million euros (US$591.7 million) on the company two years ago.

Yesterday I interviewed digg founder Kevin Rose to discuss digg's popularity, its battle with spammers, the recent issues with GroupThink and digg's upcoming personalization features. This is the first of a two-part article presenting that interview. NB: Part 2 available now.

I once visited Slashdot a lot but rarely these days. VA Software, once VALinux, bought them, so I expected to find a lot of GNU news. I think they have gone down hill. Also, the Slashdot effect has become a joke. We get higher visits from Digg.com.

Obviously, we're back in business. One of our editors suggested using Intellitext. Dave decided to give it a trial run for visitors who had not registered. If you were logged on to the site, you would not have seen the key words.

While Intellitext had promised to block Microsoft ads, they obviously did not. We had posts from readers saying they had seen embedded ads from Microsoft last week. I didn't see them until I logged out today.

Following is a excerpt from a letter sent to Dave.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 06:39 PM, Sandra Gans wrote:

Hi Dave,
You should have received the IntelliTXT tags from John Kamoosi on Tuesday.
Please let me know if you did not receive, or if you need any
assistance with implementation.
We have pre-blocked Microsoft ads.

That led to the the following post. Intellitext is now disabled. But, I would like to keep this post and the accompanying threads in the database.

We will halt operations until we discover the source of the Intellitext and Microsoft ads. No additional stories will be posted until the adverse material is removed from our site.

You have to be logged out to see the embedded text. Please do so and take a look at the words they have chosen to trigger their obnoxious advertising. In the meantime, please enjoy some articles below we have written about our friends in Redmond.

Update: intellitext ads have been removed.

To see one of the ads click on Read more below. It's a Get the Facts ad on the keyword "Linux".

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At the end of voting, with 428 Ballots resulting in 390 votes from 369 developers, "GFDL-licensed works without unmodifiable sections are free" has carried the day.20

RAID 6, SATA 3Gb/s Storage Systems, Controllers on Display at IDF

The TurboAJAX Group has two released in one: TurboWidgets and TurboDbAdmin 0.2.

TurboWidgets is one of the first (if not the first) commercially available widget package built on the Dojo Toolkit. Naturally, TurboWidgets inherits all of Dojo’s AJAX goodies for free. TurboWidgets features TurboGrid, a fully dynamic AJAX data grid supporting editing, row manipulation, and paging.

Novell is dropping its own name from its newest desktop software and rebranding it as SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.

Kdb+ v. 2.3 Multithreaded Database Helps Trading Firms Take Full Advantage of New Multicore CPUs Without Having to Change Their Existing Applications

Mark Mitchell announced the availability ofGCC 4.0.3. He explains, "this release is a bug-fix release for problems in GCC 4.0.2. GCC 4.0.3 contains changes to correct regressions from previous releases, but no new features." GCC 4.0.2 [story] was released nearly 6 months ago in September of 2005. GCC 4.1.0 [story] was released in early March of 2006.

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.0.3 from a gcc.gnu.orgmirror.

Some people like the GIMP, the open source community's answer to Adobe Photoshop, but a recent survey by Novell showed that Photoshop is one of the top three applications Linux users want ported to their platform, which indicates the GIMP may not be meeting the needs of Linux users. Designers' efforts to improve the GIMP have failed in the past. Maybe now is the time for a more radical approach.