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What is your primary mobile device platform?

By Katherine Druckman 

We're curious to know which mobile platform you use most often.  Please also feel free to let us know if there is a specific device or manufacturer you prefer in the comments below.

Android Phone Android Tablet Maemo/MeeGo device iPhone iPad iPod Touch WebOS tablet (ha ha, just kiddng ;) ) Windows mobile phone (what? it could happen...) Windows tablet (see above) Blackberry OS device Netbook other (please tell us which one in the comments below)
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DrupalCon London is Around the Corner

By Katherine Druckman 

Many of you know what a huge Drupal fan I am, and while I am a bit heartbroken that I will not attend the upcoming DrupalCon London, happening August 22-26 in Croydon, I'd like to give the rest of you the skinny on DrupalCon so you can all go have fun without me.  To that end, I got a few tidbits from Robert Castelo, one of DrupalCon's organizers. more>>

Creating a Centralized Syslog Server

By Jayson Broughton 

A centralized syslog server was one of the first true SysAdmin tasks that I was given as a Linux Administrator way back in 1997. My boss at the time wanted to pull in log files from various appliances and have me use regexp to search them for certain key words. At the time Linux was still in its infancy, and I had just been dabbling with it in my free time. more>>

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FourthParty is here

By Doc Searls 

Back in March of '09, I posted Get ready for fourth party services here, calling them "a classification for user-driven services" and "a place where a vast new marketplace can open up, serving customers first". more>>

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Moving Databases

By Shawn Powers 

I recently moved my personal website from GoDaddy to my home server. I have a business connection at my house, and my site gets little enough traffic that hosting at home on my static IP makes sense. Moving the files wasn't really difficult, I FTP'd them down from the old server, and SFTP'd them up to the new server. Moving the database was a bit more challenging, however. more>>

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What Color is Your Car?

By Shawn Powers 

Geeks like their soda Mountain Dewey, their coffee strong, and their source open. But what I'm REALLY curious about is what color car we drive. You know, for science. :)

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Silver Gold White (possibly not a color) Black (possibly not a color) Grey (possibly not a color) Clear (I'm Wonder Woman, or possibly have no car)

Please select the color of your car. If you have two different color cars, or a car that is multi-colored -- pick a color you feel speaks to your inner geekness the most.  (If your color isn't listed, pick the closest. THERE IS NO "OTHER")

UPDATE: I added an option for those without cars. Because I give and give and give. ;o)

Pint-Size PPA Primer

By Shawn Powers 

Package management in Linux is great, but unfortunately, it comes with a few cons. Granted, most distributions keep all your software, not just system software like Apple and Microsoft, updated. The downside is that software packages aren't always the latest versions. Whatever is in the repository is what you get. more>>

Printing in Scribus

By Bruce Byfield 

Scribus is designed for quality printing. Unlike a word processor, its output is not meant simply to be good enough for practical use, but to be fine-tuned until it is as close as possible to what you want. For this reason, printing is considerably more complicated in Scribus than in the office applications with which you may be familiar. more>>

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Super Collision At Studio Dave: The New World Of SuperCollider3, Part 2

By Dave Phillips 

In the first part of this series I introduced SuperCollider3 and its most basic operations. Now let's make things a little more interesting by adding a little randomization, a neat GUI, and some MIDI control.

Creating A GUI more>>

Linux Distro: Tails - You Can Never Be Too Paranoid

By Michael Reed 

Tails is a live media Linux distro designed boot into a highly secure desktop environment. You may remember that we looked at a US government distro with similar aims a few months ago, but Tails is different because it is aimed at the privacy conscious “normal user” rather than government workers. more>>

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Recycle's Friend, Reuse

By Shawn Powers 

Recycling is something we all deal with, or at least should deal with, when it comes to technology. more>>

Tux Radio

In Search Of... A Few Good Developers

By David Lane 

Occasionally I get a chance to poke my head up and see what is new and different and occasionally I get asked if I know anyone that could help.  This is one of those cases. more>>

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Summer Hacking

By Johan Thelin 

It is summer on the northern hemisphere, and I've decided to target a smaller system than I've been used to in the last couple of years. In particular, I've decided to finally open my dear old PICkit II. The goal is to be able to work with this board from within a Linux environment. more>>

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LibreOffice Developer Glimpse Proves Balance

By Susan Linton 

Florian Effenberger recently posted statistics of the number of developers contributing to the LibreOffice project. Several months ago, Cedric Bosdonnat offered data on the number of contribution and contributors from the various sources. more>>

Kde 4.7 Released And In The Wild

By Michael Reed 

July saw the release of KDE SC 4.7. Like all recent KDE releases, this is a combination of updates to the bundled applications, underlying desktop and associated technologies. Canonical have already pushed 4.7 through to Kubuntu desktops. more>>

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