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• 21 police officers receive Medal of Valor

  
  Positive LEO — Authority: 147
  It was befitting that St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom would get the honor of presenting medals to the men in blue at this year’s 40th Medal of Valor luncheon: Of the 21 who received medals, nearly half represented his department. Isom said the events each of the police officers faced proved they deserved the award, ...
  1 hour ago

• Twisted Storage: Open Source Cloud Storage

  
  The VAR Guy — Authority: 505
  It’s not often that we get to talk to one-man reseller operations here at The VAR Guy, let alone one-man software vendors. Regardless, when Chuck Wegrzyn, CTO of the solely-owned-and-operated Twisted Storage , told us that his open-source cloud storage product does everything ParaScale can, but for free, The VAR ...
  7 hours ago

• Joy of using Jolicloud on my Netbook

  
  Thejesh GN — Authority: 112
  I am an early adopter of eeepc but never got a chance to write about it in detail. EEEPC became part of my must carry travel gadgets during my euro trip last year. Ever since them I have carried it to multiple conferences and backpack travels. The only problem I faced was battery life which was around 3.5hrs. Mind ...
  15 hours ago

• Pleasant experiences and project loyalty

  
  Random thoughts and serendipity — Authority: 408
  As a general case, my experience with most of the FOSS projects whose products I consume or, contribute to, have been very pleasant. Feedback has generally been well received, requests listened to. So, what I am going to write is not very special. But, they are striking by themselves. Sometime ago, I was shopping ...
  2 days ago

• Russian Teething Problems

  
  Tightwad Technica — Authority: 126
  We have reported quite a while back that Russia was moving to a FOSS based tech ed platform using Linux. Well it appears that all is not smooth sailing for the effort — Systems integrator ‘Compulink’ supplied 60,000 Russian schools with a package that includes as an operating system Windows XP, plus Microsoft ...
  3 days ago

• Chaney High School, Youngstown, Ohio Faculty 1935-36

  
  Family Old Photos - Free Photo Archive Database — Authority: 154
  On the faculty (and probably in the photograph)C. W. Ricksecker - principal, W. W. Parmenter - asst principal, Lucy Altiere, Alma Axelson, W. T. Barr, Grace Bruce, Ida Cowen, Margaret Coombs, Nancy... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 days ago

• More Graduate Student Humor

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 516
  | Peter Klein | Found this posted on a classroom wall in our building. Not quite as witty as this one , but then again, we keep them heavily sedated: On a more serious note, here’s a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of Coase’s landmark 1959 and 1960 papers , with an all-star lineup. Posted in - ...
  3 days ago

• Disaster Risk Reduction: Is Europe different?

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 132
  Brussels, Nov 25-26 – Third Civil Protection Forum organized by the European Commission . It rains heavily, but fortunately no floods as in Ireland . Ideal environment to discuss disaster risks. I speak at Seminar F titled ‘Innovative Technology for Disaster Management’. I am one of the two speakers from Asia ...
  4 days ago

• Giving Thanks For FOSS

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Raidens Realm: "But have you really thought about what youre thankful for in the FOSS world? What is there that, if it were gone tomorrow, that youd miss the most? Whatever you would miss the most should be the one thing youre most thankful for having."
  4 days ago

• VTV visited my Linux lab today

  
  SaigonNezumi.com — Authority: 120
  Ms. Quynh Ngoc from VTV visited my Linux lab at the American International School today through a referral by An Nguyen of SaigonLUG .  Though we knew about it for a couple days, we only received permission from the school at the last minute.  My students were not prepared but since this was a normal lab day, ...
  4 days ago

• English Siblings Named Peppermint, Frodo, Blackbird, Voorhees, etc.

  
  Nancy's Baby Names — Authority: 427
  Sara Foss of Derby, England has 13 children. Their names are: Patrick, 23 Stephen, 13 Malachai, 12 Peppermint, 11 Echo, 10 Eli, 9 Rogue, 8 Frodo, 7 Morpheus, 5 Artemis, 4 Blackbird, 3 Baudelaire, 2 Voorhees, 9 months My first thought was: A mom of 13 has time to read Baudelaire? (And, if so, she really ...
  4 days ago

• 10 of the most popular (and useful) Wordpress plugins

  
  Royal Pingdom — Authority: 572
  Wordpress has risen to be a powerhouse on the Internet that now dominates the blogosphere. It was started by the (now) 25-year-old Matt Mullenweg . Last week he was on This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis. On the show Matt revealed that Wordpress has such a strong presence on the Internet that at least one in ...
  5 days ago

• Death of the black box EULA

  
  Open Source — Authority: 581
  Computing’s greatest accomplishment of this decade will likely go unremarked in the popular press. I call it the “death of the black box EULA.” (Picture from the blog Fortunes Pawn Luncheonette, December 2007 .) Free software wounded it in the early 1990s. The Internet stabbed it again. But it was open ...
  5 days ago

• Why I Prefer Free, Open-Source Software

  
  Lawyerist — Authority: 139
  The terms free software and open-source software are hovering at the fringe of most computer users’ consciousness. But whether you know it or not, you already use a lot of free, open-source software every day. You could be saving considerable money by using it in your law practice, too. Free, open-source ...
  5 days ago

• 20,000 Ubuntu laptops for teachers in Nicaragua

  
  [comuNIdad] — Authority: 455
  This is a follow up on my last post about Nicaraguan schools using Ubuntu . Today we had a second meeting with the authorities of the Ministry of Education (MINED) and the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in order to clarify some aspects of the project and draft a preliminary plan of action. ...
  5 days ago

• Soon-To-Be-Mom Of 14 Won’t Stop Until She Gets Twins

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 546
  Some people love kids.  Sara Foss, of Derby, England, REALLY loves kids.  That would explain why she’s got 13 of them, with her 14th on the way (and she’s only 39).  But she’s not done; she’s planning on two more, and she’s hoping for twins .  That’d give her 16 kids. Just get a load of the names and ...
  6 days ago

• How to use GoogleTalk in Ubuntu

  
  Computer Talks |Fix Problems of your PC — Authority: 122
  Many of you guys might not have tried Ubuntu because you can’t use Google Talk out there. Using google talk voice and video was not possible in previous Ubuntu versions. But the new Ubuntu 9.10 comes with the right tool developed for it. The software we use for it is Empathy. Empathy have developed it to cater the ...
  1 week ago

• How Google’s Chrome OS is pushing us to the clouds

  
  Royal Pingdom — Authority: 572
  Last week Google finally unveiled their much-talked-about Chrome OS, and subsequently worked the tech community into a frenzy. The operating system certainly lived up to Google’s initial promises of being browser-centric – it is basically just the Chrome web browser atop a custom Linux kernel. It does everything ...
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• Ultimate Round-Up Of 60 Excellent Gimp TutorialsWhen it comes...

  
  Xoai's Log — Authority: 426
  Ultimate Round-Up Of 60 Excellent Gimp Tutorials When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However the only problem is, the software package itself is a quite expensive for a general freelancer designers. So what about you? Gives much sleep ...
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• NYSCATE social media

  
  Free Trader Beowulf — Authority: 405
  NYSCATE is using the following tags for social media: #nyscate #nyscate2009 They are also using wikispaces for presenters to add information for their presentations. You can check my wikispaces presentation page out and give me feedback.
  1 week ago

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