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A nice little work-at-home business.
Linda spent an hour yesterday, trying to get Photoshop to export a jpeg.
This represents a great business opportunity. Lots of smart people run up against small, simple technical hurdles. It happens all the time. You need to use some application that's not in your daily repertoire but that [...]

US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites.
US House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), was passed by a 410 to 15 vote tonight. If the Resolution becomes law social networking sites and chat rooms must be blocked by schools and libraries or those institutions will lose their federal internet subsidies. [...]

Open Communities vs. Open Source. By tim
At an OSCON panel yesterday, there was a really interesting conversation between Danese Cooper and Dain Sundstrom. We were talking about what happens when money arrives at an open source project (either in the form of corporate sponsors or commercialization of the project itself.)
Mitchell Baker pointed [...]

Thumper & Friends
We
announced a bunch of
new boxes this morning (of, course, the damn
Register has had the
poop for weeks, I find our leakiness irritating). There’s a
Real Big Opteron
server (personally, I’m more of a scale-out than scale-up kinda guy, but big
iron is a big part of our business). There’s a
blade box.
I know nothing about blades, [...]

A Revolution that Fits in a Trunk [10].

That’s a 24 terabyte (!) “Thumper” (Sun X4500)
in my trunk under the golf clubs. Jason, Matt and I wandered around Sun
yesterday with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore of the Sun ZFS team hunting
for “Thumpers”. We really, really wanted to use this new server/storage
product from Sun as the foundation [...]

The Rise of Open Infrastructure. By tim
Jon Udell just wrote a thought-provoking editorial on Infoworld that takes off from my conversation with Debra Chrapaty, which I blogged earlier this month. I had called out Debra's comment that “In the future, being a developer on someone's platform will mean being hosted on their infrastructure.” [...]

Jonathan Riddell: Billie Piper Endorses Kubuntu.
LUGRadio live happened at the weekend and we had a good number of KDE and Kubuntu people there. Full report coming later but the highlight of the show was when Billy Piper from Dr Who stopped by the stand to say how much she liked her free Kubuntu CD. 
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RWW the inner goo.
The SBS blog gives a deep dive (with pictures even) of the innards of the Remote Web Workplace.
If you have a SBS box and you don't know what this is… shame on you!
Steve Friedl has a 'rough' and unpublished techtip about the nuances of remote access [...]

I found a great post on how to configure WPA-encrypted Wifi for Ubuntu Dapper Drake on my laptop.  Thanks, Fred!