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Beyond Ubuntu: Canonical Diversifies Its Revenue Streams

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At first glance, Canonical is an operating system company — built around Ubuntu Linux. But take a closer look at Canonical’s moves during the first half of 2009, and you’ll find the company has increasingly bet its revenue stream on cloud, online and consulting/support services. a href=http://www.workswithu.com/2009/07/02/beyond-ubuntu-canonical-diversifies-its-revenue-streams/Here’s some perspective/a.
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scp- secure way to copy files between hosts using ssh

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The SCP protocol, which runs on port 22, is similar to the BSD rcp protocol, however unlike rcp, data is encrypted during transfer, to avoid potential packet sniffers extracting usable information from the data packets. The protocol itself does not provide authentication and security; it… (More »)

Wine 1.1.25 Released

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- A ton of translation updates. – Support for various Unicode file encodings in Notepad. – Improved memory management, especially for OpenGL. – Desktop menus now cleaned up automatically. – Beginnings of a windowscodecs DLL implementationimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/linux_unix/popular/~4/gC0keAY66tE” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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How To Fix Full-Screen Flash Videos in Linux Firefox (or Swiftfox)

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By default, Firefox (or Swiftfox) crashes when trying to view a full-screen video on say… YouTube. At least for me it used to crash until I found a fix. If… (More »)

Transferring Data from MS Access 2003 to SQL Server 2008

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In this article we will be transferring data from an MS Access database to a database on SQLServer 2008. Both the source of data and the destination database are on… (More »)

Would You Like Linux With Your Jello?

By sokdbot

It goes without saying that nobody wants to be in the hospital. Bland food, no privacy, and gowns that leave nothing to the imagination — not to mention the procedures… (More »)

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