Internet use makes you smarter …

Well, at least it stops you going senile quite so soon. 🙂 Scientific research has demonstrated that browsing the web stimulates the parts of the brain involved in decision making and complex reasoning. In particular this helps older people stay mentally active. Of course there are other ways (like bridge) but the internet can be …
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Just because it’s free, doesn’t mean you can steal it.

A new ruling in the US Court of Appeals has confirmed that Artistic License copyright, used in open source software and creative commons licensing, is enforceable under federal law. While the use of the software may be free, if it is resold or repackaged, appropriate acknowledgement is required. Read BBC report here. Read Creative Commons …
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Opensuse 11.0 x64 – flying made easy

Loaded oss 11.0 a week or so ago on this dual x64 machine and everything is flying! OK, you probably want to do an online update and then do it again with appropriate community repositories installed.  Install extra bits if your machine is more than standard, as mine is, but with little tweaking everything is …
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Google’s greed may punish its users – legal ruling

Ever since we heard through google-watch.org of Google’s possessive retention of user data and its web of ownership connecting it to some unsavoury individuals, we have been using Yahoo! instead.  Now it seems that our concerns are being justified as a US court has ruled that Google must hand over all its logs of YouTube …
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China now has more internet users than the US

China has jumped past the U.S. in terms of total Internet users.  In March 2008, China had more than 230 million people online according to the Beijing based research firm BDA China; that’s only 17% of the population and its growing at about 50% a year.  The U.S. by comparison had 216 million users at …
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RT61 x64 ralink wlan PCI NIC

A Linksys WMP54g PCI wireless card was bought for a Dell E521 x64 (4400 dual core) dual boot with OSS 10.3 primary.  Getting the card installed was a pain – only because of the need for the right driver.  If you’re playing the same game, here are all the files I played with – including …
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Microsoft fined again for ripping-off consumers

Well, the language is a bit strong, but it is meant only to alert the Microsoftphiles to the reality that economic bullying is as unattractive as the physical stuff that happens in school. Microsucks has been fined again by the EU – over € 1 billion this time.  No wonder Yahoo doesn’t want to be …
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Kdenlive video editing is great.

I recently ventured into the world of digital video editing. It was a fun and easy journey thanks to kdenlive. This software was installed with the package manager on a oss 10.3 x64 laptop. Configuration settings were checked (mostly keeping default values). A 3 minute video was loaded. Then it was cut in to segments …
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