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IBM, the leading US patent recipient for the 12th year running with 3248 granted in 2004, has donated 500 patents to the open source movement. OK so it's only 15% of the patents they gained last year, but it's still more than probably more patents than… more »

A fairly simple idea, but interesting nonetheless - basically taking all the social aspects from Amazon but removing that competitive star rating system. more »

Since it's a holiday something relatively lightweight - a link to my favourite online comic strip. more »

Interesting stuff from Charlie Calvert of the Borland Developer Network. more »

I have come across a strange problem on my WBEL system (dual PIII, 2Gb Ram, 2.4.21-27smp kernel, all latest patches). When I boot it up I can use the keyboard to select in Grub, I can use the keyboard while booting to 'press Y to force filesystem check'… more »

I installed some new window managers to play around with on my Ubuntu laptop, the nice thing about having access to the Debian repositories is that there's a package for just about everything available for download. XFCE was fine, set itself up so that… more »

I'd seen the KDE 3.3 RPMs on the SuSE website a few weeks ago, I'd figured to upgrade to SuSE 9.2 and get it installed then but it seems that 9.2 doesn't offer too much over 9.1 so I thought I'd stick with my current version and update KDE manually. I d… more »