From: Mark Shuttleworths Blog

It’s the ability to learn tools, not the tools themselves
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
One of the big debates we are having at the moment in the Foundation is all about how to design a curriculum to stimulate the development of analytical skills. The thing I care most about is that we focus not [...]

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From: Klepas.org

Linux Australia Urges the Federal Govt. Not to Abandon Consumer and Competition Interests
Posted: June 14th, 2006, 11:48pm EST by Pascal

The press release just came in across the Linux Australia mailing lists:
Linux Australia Urges the Federal Govt. Not to Abandon Consumer and Competition Interests
Linux Australia, Australia’s peak Free and Open Source Software community group, announced [...]

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From Newsforge:

Learn foreign languages with open source software
Posted: June 14th, 2006, 3:00am EST by StoneLion

When you are learning a foreign language, you need all the help you can get. Besides applications like jVLT, jMemorize, and StarDict, there are other tools that are not designed specifically for language learning, but they can make the learning process [...]

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DEFECTIVE BY DESIGN

The flashmobs are at it again, this time it was Apple. Check out Apple Events June 10th.
You can help thwart DRM.

Take the pledge to fight DRM, join DefectiveByDesign.org
Refuse to purchase hardware which includes Treacherous Computing or Digital Restrictions Management functionality.
Boycott CDs and DVD’s with DRM, and download music and video from [...]

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Johnny would be so proud. t_t
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This screencast was recorded on the spot. You can watch this video right here by clicking on it. Slow connections can download Gobby Video.

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A couple of weeks back Noiesmo set up Xgl and compiz on my system and quite a few people have been really impressed by it. Some people no matter what they do they just want to look good while doing it while others couldn’t care less. Below are a few screenshots, I probably should have [...]

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I was discussing the Games that Empower project with some hardcore gamers and they said something like “but there aren’t any real games on Linux” so I just wanted to share some info about some of the other games that you can play. Some of them you have to pay for and some don’t make [...]

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News for OLPC.

First video of a working “One Laptop Per Child” laptop
http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/2006/06/first_video_of_.html
Join the pledge “”I will purchase the $100 laptop at $300 but only if 100,000 other will too.”http://www.pledgebank.com/100laptop

I’ve been playing around with streaming media. Cortado looks like the best option. The other option is to convert video to flv using mencoder and play the [...]

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