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I recently wrote about Elonex laptops preloaded with Linux being made available at the Carphone Warehouse. They are in such high demand that thieves stole a shop display model, but ignored the larger laptops sitting nearby which were preloaded with Microsoft Vista.

This was obviously a planned robbery as they used bolt cutters to steal the laptop.  So even thieves don’t want Vista it would appear…

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Makehuman Wikipedia article:
MakeHuman is a software application that generates 3D humanoids; similar to Poser or DAZ Studio. It is written in C++ and Aqsis is necessary to produce a render. The MakeHuman team work towards correctness both in programming (using common file formats) and anatomy. MakeHuman makes extensive use of university research in …
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I was taking a look at The Open Sourcerer website and was pleased to read that The Open Learning Centre has been working with a household name hardware manufacturer and a well known high-street retailer to deliver an innovative product to the consumer market.

The webbook is manufactured by the UK electronics company Elonex and is being sold …
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You may remember project Orange’s open movie “Elephants Dream” and project Peach’s open movie “Big Buck Bunny“, they’ve continued with a new open project Apricot. This time it isn’t a movie but a 3D game! These are all projects by the Blender Foundation and the Institute for Open 3D Projects called the Blender Institute.

Elephants Dream:

Elephants Dream is the world’s first open …
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The UK government have been running their new website on Wordpress, they seem very keen on being viewed as supporters of open source software. However it would appear that they have using the Networker theme and apparently removed all traces of the theme’s source, author attribution and licencing from its website source code. The Networker theme, which is available at antbag.com, …
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Chris has found a couple of scripts which may be useful to educators and builders in Second Life.

The Linked Prim Animator Lite (LPAL) is a set of open source scripts which enable you to animate linked objects and attachments . LPAL is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free …
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In recent years, there has been a growing surge of appreciation which supports the notion that learning in non-formal and informal settings is seen as crucial for the realisation of lifelong learning.

Informal learning generally results from daily activities related to work, family life or leisure. It is not structured and usually does not lead to certification and in most cases it is unintentional on the part of the learner.

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View, listen and download the album on Jamendo.

My favourite track and one i want to use for something is track 11 Orchestronic.

Source: DRM down under

The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) is Australia’s Federal Government-funded public broadcaster, and has responsibilities under the ABC Act 1983 to provide services to the Australian people.
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In January the Green Party and Greenpeace issued warnings about the tremendous threat posed to the environment by the disposable computer mentality promoted in Microsoft’s $500-million Windows Vista marketing campaign. Vista has steep hardware requirements which in turn means that to use it, most people will have to throw their current computer into a landfill and buy a new one.

Vista is essentially designed to monitor what people do, and in …
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