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Blog: Historic Moment - Linux & Open Source Blog v.2 Launched

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Dear readers, subscribers and visitors …. may I have the pleasure to welcome you to my v.2 of Linux and Open Source Blog, featuring all new theme. A historic moment for this small blog, and it all started on 26th September 2005:
“Soon I’ll start populating the blog.
It will primarily focus on Linux, especially the [...]

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Blog: New Header From The Upcoming Theme

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Here is a very small preview from my new theme that I am hoping will be up by mid next month.

This is a header from new theme, consisting of main background, LinuxOSS logo and the blog title. The original size will be around 950px. I wanted to continue using the green colour as the main [...]

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Blog Notice: New Theme Development For This Blog

As most of the readers are aware of, I am after all slowly moving to my own wordpress.org hosting. A day ago I sat down and drew few rough sketches for the new theme, and here is what I came up with, the one I liked the most:

yups, hand sketched … not good with PSD, [...]

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Off-Topic: IIHF’08 World Championship - Who Will Get the Gold?

I, on my other blog, talked about whether we will see Canada -vs- Russia in finals this year in World Hockey Championship, which is the match I have been looking forward to for whole year, if not for years, especially after Russia lost to Finland (1-2) last year in semi finals, when IIHF World Championship [...]

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E@zyVGs’ Vichar: Here Comes My First Quad Core Desktop

First of all I’d again like to thank and salute to everyone who replied to my donation request. Today I was able to place an order for the components to assemble my new rig. I have received an advance payment for the project I’ll be working on in coming few weeks, with which I am [...]

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UPDATE on Blog Status

Dear readers and visitors, expect new posts coming around Monday.
As you have noticed, my linux.wordpress.com blog URL has changed to blog.linuxoss.com. Kindly update all your bookmarks, RSS readers, blogrolls, etc. May I also ask web site owners and maintainers to update their links with the new URL, which link from their sites, wikis, forums, etc [...]

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Your’s Truly Blogger Requires Help

My dear blog readers. A tragedy occurred yesterday … my computer died (R.I.P.). Most probably the cause was the fluctuation in PSU, which resulted in motherboard and CPU getting fried. Instead of changing the motherboard and the processor, I decided to build a new one, as this computer is quite old now. As of now [...]

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Happy New Year and Holidays from Linux and Open Source Blog

Happy New Year

and happy holidays

With the last blog post for year 2007, I wish you all the best and may new year bring you joy and prosperity and make your wishes come true … welcome 2008

 
 

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My New Avatar

My new avatar from today onwards …. so if you see this anywhere on the internet, then it is me :)

… btw, do you know where the word avatar comes from …. no … then head here for a small introduction to this magical word.

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Stealing/Duplicating Content Completely !!!

Just wanted to protest sites such as http://www.linewbie.com/ (not the first time) that completely (99.9% of the time) replicate my blog …… getting sick of such behaviour and bloggers. Any tips how to combat such instances … or should I leave them alone and don’t mind’em?

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Still No Time To Maintain Blog

It has been a long time and I still cannot manage time to update the blog. Seems like I am going to be busy for some more time, plus I also want to relax a bit when not busy … my apologies.

But if there are any users out there who would like to post/update/write articles [...]

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Little Busy For Now

As you would have noticed by now, I have not been posting lately on my blog. I am little busy now a days with my other stuff, but be sure that I will be back.
BTW, if there are any interested parties in contributing on this blog, let me know on my e-mail: eazyvg-at-gmail-dot-com

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Blog Notice: Posts In Russian

Time to time from now on I’ll have some posts in Russian as well, so don’t be scared. English will remain as primary medium of course :)

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Something is wrong with the blog

Checked in few minutes ago and noticed that blog has defaulted to it’s default settings - the blog name, some other theme, user information …..
Please be patient till the problem get’s resolved by me or the wordpress.com team.
Thank You.

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PCWorld: The 50 Best Tech Products

Nothing to do directly with Linux and Open Source, but it is nice to see such articles and it reminds you what we used back in the days, and an overview how technologu evolved.he Beatles. Citizen Kane. Muhammad Ali. Many have laid claim to being the “best ever” in their respective fields of work, but [...]

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DRM is (almost) dead

Among all record labels 48% of all executives thought ending DRM would boost download sales - though this was 58% at the larger labels. Outside the record labels 73% of those questioned thought dropping DRM would be a boost for the whole market.
A good post on DRM affair:
Recently, Fred Amoroso of Macrovision published his response [...]

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FAQ: What the daylight saving shift means to you

Cnet has put together a great FAQ for anyone losing sleep over the new earlier date…
The fact that the U.S. is springing forward three weeks early could leave computer owners losing more than an hour of sleep.
Daylight saving time will kick in this weekend, but that’s not when many computers are programmed to expect [...]

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2007: Happy Holidays and New Year

New year is knocking at our door steps and it is time to make gifts to our loved ones, and of course to yourself.
Apart from getting a new monitor, which I talked about before, I decided that it was not enough to satisfy my list of presents and decided to replace my HP hw6510 [...]

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The Top 10 Arguments Against DRM

One question we get a lot here at LearnOutLoud is why we’ve chosen to go DRM-free with our digital downloads. I’ve explained it to a number of people and written a number of posts about it but I’ve never summarized our reasons for going the DRM-free route in one post before. So here goes… [...]

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CONGRATULATIONS: 1001 Post on Linux and Open Source Blog

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Comgratulations to me :)
This is 1001st post on this blog. A long way …….. and still going on. And it all started on 26th September 2005.
 

Another blog started later in October last year by me, which I named E@zyVG’s Vichar, is personal blog. There I mostly have posts on things that interest and concern [...]

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At a glance 2: GPL, CDDL and BSD -vs- EULA

EULA - Feel the Power !!! :) (btw, how many users of applications that are EULA licensed cared to read the license itself … if you spend some time reading it, you will understand that besides what the picture below shows, they (publishers) do not take any responsibility if something goes wrong while using their [...]

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