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And the most hilarious letter of support comes from a Singaporean secondary girl’s school, Crescent Girl’s School. That’s right folks, that’s how desperate they were to get their “Approve” vote, they actually got a school to submit a letter of support

The GNOME Foundation Board asked me to buy a webcam for the GNOME Events Box, so we could show Cheese on our stands. This could be cool together with the box’s new projector. I also wanted a webcam for my own use so Liam’s grandparents can see him in motion more often.

Do you remember our youth? The good times we had, the games we played, and that great discussion we had about what makes a window manager different from a desktop environment? Then our relationship sort of got stuck on desktop environments.

Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things: boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD); boot from a USB pen drive; boot from within a host operating system (that’s right, it can run *inside* Windows), and much more.

The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.

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Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contestCanSecWest’s PWN 2 OWN contest was won in 2 minutes –after the rules were relaxed a bit — as CharlieMiller hacked a MacBook Air.

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Microsoft, stop. Please. The 360 has struggled with “trying too hard” marketing since the day it was born, but taking that same adolescent tone and pitching it at adults? Parents, even?

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The VAR Guy wasn’t looking for love, but he found it during a trip to his local CostCo last night. There, he spotted the $299 Eee PC from Asus. It’s built on Linux ââ;¬” but CostCo’s in-store promotional materials for the device barely mention Linux. That may be a smart move. Here’s why.

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Mobile Linux is well poised to take on the surging smartphone market according to a report from the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies Service.

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So, Microsoft was the first to offer money to make this open source conference possible. That would seem to imply that Microsoft wanted OSBC created. In relation to the “business” slant of this conference (that’s the “B” in OSBC), the following publication once/only cited only by Asay, comes to mind again.

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