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Google Chrome OS

At some point I should probably get my hands on this to check it out.

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os

It does say the HP Mini 5101 is supported, so there is hope for my HP MINI. Of course I seriously doubt I will ever replace my Primary System (Debian) on it... but would be nice to have a look.
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/getting-dev-hardware/dev-hardware-list

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Jatin wins VMWARE Virtual Appliance Developer Category Award

Jatin Golani, a friend and a fellow consultant has won the award in the Best Developer Category for his appliance (eBrainPool) which allows users to share applications and enviroments, based on the P2P network...

Send him a congrats email here

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ODF (open office) is ISO Approved

The new Open Office format for writing documents has now been approved by the ISO standards organisation, which is very good news. This now means that we can free ourselves from oppressive and freedom damaging proprietary formats, thus ensuring that the documents created in this format will be readable by everyone, anywhere, anytime and by any system designed to with proper standards. No more restrictions on a particular vendor to read the documents.

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Stupid Anti-Spam measures

How does the new aol, yahoo, msn and like with their new, so called "anti-spam" measures affect you ?

Think of how stupid this actually is, Spam detection should be non-intrusive. Whitelists, Rbl lists, Bayesian filters are known ways to fight spam. OK so it ain't perfect, but the whole point here is not to inconvenience the users.

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