What separates average Linux users from the super-geeks? Simple: years spent learning the kinds of hacks, tricks, tips and techniques that turn long jobs into a moment’s work. If you want to get up to speed without having to put in all that leg-work, we’ve rounded up over 50 easy-to-learn Linux tips to help you [...]
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Apple and Palm kicked a lot of dirt at each other last week — acting Apple CEO Tim Cook flatly told analysts “We will not stand for people ripping off our IP” when asked about competition like the Palm Pre. However, looking at some of Palm’s patents, we can pretty much say that Apple’s got [...]
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We’re at the native Linux desktop, moving towards the Android desktop (netbooks coming soon). What would bridge those two environments, is to offer a second Linux sandbox which runs along with Android. It would be really cool if the co-Linux environment itself could be bundled as an Android app. In any case, bundling key native [...]
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Internet Explorer now has 67.55 percent of global browser market share, a drop of over seven percentage points in a year, according to figures from Web metrics company Net Applications, released Monday. Mozilla’s Firefox browser, meanwhile, has gained market share in the same time frame, climbing over three percentage points to 21.53 percent. read more [...]
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So, why did they kick him off? Because he triggered some sort of automatic alert that he was participating in spamming behavior. “Did you get a warning,” I asked Comm.“Yes. When we were sending the messages we got a warning and we stopped,” Comm says.“Why did they kick you off then?” I asked.“I don’t know, [...]
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We wanted to address some complaints about weaknesses in our duplicate detection mechanism and provide some insights on upcoming changes to the Digg promotional algorithm. read more | digg story
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Great post about celebrity vs authority or why it’s better to care about who you follow online than who follows you. Now, to be fair, the post that started this mess, from Loic Le Meur, had a good goal: to make it possible to find better tweets in searches. In other words, to separate the [...]
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View @ Flickr :: Originally uploaded by TWiT Army Flickr Thanks to thefrogman aka thefrogman54 for this helmetization.
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Google searches for ‘safe mode screen resolution’ are littered with results telling you that you just can’t change the screen resolution in safe mode. Well, the truth is that you can! First move the slider to the resolution you want, but don’t click apply or ok. Then click advanced, and click ok to dismiss the [...]
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We all have them – little coding tricks and snippets of knowledge that we’ve picked up over years of experimentation and evolution of our processes, that are now part of our regular routine and save us time, gnashing of teeth and allow us to work quickly and efficiently. Here’s some of mine – perhaps you [...]
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