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The Software Freedomometer
I was presenting to a bunch of corporate folk a few weeks ago, one of my questions to the audience was “Where are you on the Software Freedomometer?” and I knocked together a few simple slides in OpenOffice.org Impress to illustrate the discussion. Even though the slides are rough, it turned out to be too [...]
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The Mono Effect [Updated]
About 15 hours ago, I posted an article on how to remove Mono from Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.
A similar thing happened the last time, when I did a piece on doing the same thing for Hardy heron.
This:
is the Mono effect…
I know the traffic volumes aren’t that large - I get on average around 400-500 unique hits [...]
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How to remove Mono from Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
As this was such a popular How To for Hardy Heron, I thought I’d document the same exercise for Ubuntu’s latest version Intrepid Ibex (8.10).
With a default install of Ubuntu Desktop 8.10, there are quite a few mono packages installed as standard. In fact there seem to be quite lot really (I counted 28!), especially [...]
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Microsoft Microshaft pays just 0.04% Tax
As if we needed another reason to dislike Microsoft…
Accounts for Microsoft Ireland Research, an Irish subsidiary of the global software giant, show that the company paid just ?460,000 in tax, on profits of more than ?1.2 billion last year, by using provisions in Irish tax law to take its corporation tax bill down from ?158m. [...]
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OT: Playlist
I came across Playlist.com a little while ago. What a cool idea! I’ve added the little player to my widgets selection so you can share in a few of my auditory jewels.
I’ve had a great time thinking about some of the songs that brought back really good memories of my misspent adolescence and early adulthood.
The [...]
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