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Here are some of the must-see stories published on LXer in the past week.
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Please enjoy this tasty sampling of the past week's most provocative stories:
These two LXer Features examine the futility of the entertainment industry's heavy-handed attempts to control how we customers use our own legally-purchase products, and their collusion with computer vendors and governments to criminalize every last thought and deed they do not approve of:
Preventing DVD Playback on Linux Like Prohibition in the 1920's
The RIAA - Hollywood - DRM - Linux Suicide Pact
Review of some useful sysadmin-utilities.
Hans Kwint dishes up a diverse assortment of excellent Linux tools, and invites you to post your own favorites in the discussion thread.
Don Parris goes where no tech reporter has gone before, covering how FOSS is especially appropriate for churches, and what sort of useful technologies they will find:
Using Libre Software to Web-Empower the Church.
And he dispenses some unsolicited, but fascinating, advice to Bill Gates in Saving Windows from Obsolescence in a Free-Market Economy. Of course the last thing Microsoft wants is to compete in a truly free market- nevertheless, it's a lively, interesting article.
Early results of the (Dutch) Windows refund survey tries to find out just what the OEM Windows refund policy really is- apparently it's a big secret, and no one knows, or is willing to tell. But Hans Kwint is going to find out no matter how many years it takes.
Too much computing can turn you into a gnarled, arthritic mess. But it doesn't have to, as Keith Winston explains in Ergonomics Exposed.
From the Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Dept. we have the uppity Dinotrac doing a bit of math his own self, and coming to a different conclusion than the author of a CoolTechZone piece that claimed that Linux is doomed because revenues from Windows server sales are higher than revenues from Linux server sales: Comment of the Day #2, November 29, 2005
LXer posts hundreds of stories a week, and we think all of them are worthy and fascinating. The creative ferment made possible by Free and Open Source Software is bubbling along more energetically than ever. Here are a random few that you might have missed:
Building an Open-Source House
Packet Writing on CDRW and DVDRW media
Join the Geekcorp, see the world
Linux Journal, January 2006: Build a Home Terabyte Backup System Using Linux
DIY Telephony With Asterisk
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