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5 Steve Ballmer - Microsoft
4 Larry Ellison � Oracle
3 Linus Torvalds - Linux
2 Tim Berners-Lee - W3C
1 Sergey Brin and Larry Page - Google

http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,pg=0&s=26705&a=203749,00.asp

A LONE HOBBYIST programmer sitting at his home in France is responsible for adding 235 USB webcams to the list of those supported by Linux. He tells the INQUIRER about this often unknown and unrecognised achievement.
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FC: Who are you and what do you do?
MX: My name is Michel Xhaard, I am a Physician and work in Doppler and Ultrasound imaging for years. I am now near 60 years old.

FC: Interesting, as it kind of breaks the "young school kit" stereotype of the Linux advocates. When did you start in this project and why?.
MX: I started working on the "spca50x" project in 2003, when I bought two webcams for my daughters for Christmas but there was no support under Linux for those.
[...]
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39291

Incredible monitor setups
http://pileofphotos.com/view/62/Incredible_monitor_setups

ow tech geeks beware as you will not agree with my methods but guess what, being a part time programmer and mainly end user be prepared to have your eyes opened. I am hardly a Linux expert so I am sure I will see plenty of comments from the experts on this one. The typical windows user is not one that knows dos commands let alone how to edit a registry in windows.
http://www.gonnaeatthat.net/2007/04/27/how-to-convert-windows-users-to-…

Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols. The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070424/D8ON57EG0.html
http://digg.com/tech_news/Researchers_Break_Internet_Speed_Records

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There are real millionaires-- even billionaires-- who built companies on open source software. Just ask Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Or the YouTube founders. The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000842.html

http://www.scribd.com/doc/32500/Pictures-of-Geek-Culture

A friend of mine asked me today what all the recent talk about "Web 2.0" was about. Knowing that he was familiar with linux, my response was "chmod 777 web". He understood.
http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/jasnell?entry=chmod_777…

Microsoft spent millions of dollars advertising its next generation OS 'Windows Vista' in China, in fact the IT juggernaut threw up the biggest Vista Ad on the 421 meter high Jin Mao tower in Shanghai China.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/18/1512216&threshold=4
http://digg.com/microsoft/Only_244_copies_of_Genuine_Windows_Vista_sold…

poenok:
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I had no idea that Microsoft had 244 employees in China.
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Bill gates says ...

244 copies ought to be enough ....
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I'm surprised it's that many

China has been pretty frank about not giving a crap about piracy.
Who are the 244 morons who actually paid?
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Now Micro$oft knows that there are exactly 244 bootleg-software manufacturers in China!

The GNU General Public License is one of the most widely used software licenses, and undoubtedly, the most misunderstood. Some of this misunderstanding comes from hostile propaganda, but some also comes from a lack of experience in licensing issues.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/10_common_misunderstandings_about_the_GPL_3
http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/12878

Lately I have been blogging that I am an Ubuntu Fan and use both Ubuntu and Mac. The story was that after 20 years of struggling with Microsoft, after a major crash of my Lenovo that left me without access to my data for five days I was ready for something new.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Michael_Dell_uses_Ubuntu
http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/michael-dell-uses-ubuntu.html
Read Dell's bio page more carefully:

At home: Dell Precision M90

Hardware:

* Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 Processor
* 4GB DDR2 667Mhz DRAM
* 17" WXGA+ Widescreen LCD
* 160GB 7200rpm SATA hard drive
* 8X DVD +/- RW optical drive
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 512MB

I’m sure everyone reading this has heard the debate over whether that top dog free operating system should be called “Linux” or “GNU/Linux”, but how big a contribution is GNU or Linux to that operating system?

"Gael Duval, the creator of Mandrake and now fired from Mandriva, has created a new Linux distro, based on Ubuntu, and it claims to be the easiest Linux, and that it will redefine the Desktop philosophy."
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/30/045242&threshold=4

http://techfrenzy.net/viewtopic.php?p=293

Linux can be used on much more than just a computer, as these five gadgets will prove. Which one is your favorite?

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-5-cool-linux-pow…
http://digg.com/linux_unix/5_Cool_Linux_Powered_Gadgets

Just use your normal webcam and normal screen. Calibrate and point away! Linux only.
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kmando?content=47105
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Want_a_touch_screen_without_having_to_buy_ex…

Hilarious list of parallels between ancient rome and the modern-day web. Personal favorite: "Naked Cleopatra" is the top search term on Google.
http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/iland/2007/03/if-ancient-rome-ha…
http://digg.com/tech_news/If_Ancient_Rome_had_the_Internet

http://funnypics.free.fr/explorer/public/gifs/script_kiddies.gif

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/19/sticker_prototype_fo.html

http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/5-hottest-linux-smartphones-but-i…

The French Parliament looks to be the next big Ubuntu switcher according to reports. Recently the Parliament produced an official government report that recommended the use of free software over proprietary software. The switch to free software is expected to provide a substantial savings to the tax-payers according to the government study.
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/814
http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_French_Parliament_switches_to_Ubuntu

Switch to Linux
My ongoing love affair with a penguin. Don't tell my girlfriend.

http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54