Raldz's Digg Journal

This HOW-TO covers up the whole process of installing Adobe Photoshop CS2 on a Ubuntu box in a few simple steps. This method has been tested only on Ubuntu, but it should work on any other linux flavor.

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Posted by Gerald Cortez at 12:40 AM | Permalink | Comments

Compilation of Web 2.0 Office Applications for students and teachers. The article also compares four popular web-based word processors and asks if Web 2.0 applications are ready for education.

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Posted by Gerald Cortez at 11:58 PM | Permalink | Comments

What is described in the following may be illegal where you live. Where I live, the law permits making a small number of copies of the contents of legally acquired media for personal use as long as this does not involve circumventing copy protection. Strangely enough, "personal use" includes giving a copy to close relatives. And "small number" certainly is well under double-digits, but to my knowledge the courts have not yet made it explicit. You didn't expect the legislators -- politicians! -- to do that in the course of creating the legislation, did you?

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Posted by Gerald Cortez at 11:50 PM | Permalink | Comments

Dubbed "Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Act of 2006, the bill will "lower overall cost of ICT in the public and private sectors by reducing the country's dependence on proprietary software and computer applications,"

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Posted by Gerald Cortez at 10:36 PM | Permalink | Comments