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Envious of how good TVTime looks compared to MythTV? Envy no more.

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav thinks I’m a kook. He’s so convinced of it, he went the extra mile and published it all on the Web.

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Larry,

You’ve been a source of inspiration for tens of thousands of people (or millions… I think I got the order of magnitude wrong by at least two higher steps). I am infinitely grateful for the two deepest reads I had the chance to enjoy: Code and Culture. Brutally sobering.

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…and you can see pictures of them here! Fantastic!

In case you missed it, Dell is selling computers with Ubuntu preloaded. Fantastic news!

Play Ogg instead. It sounds better, it’s free software, it’s just better. If your portable media player doesn’t play it, just get a desktop player that transcodes on the fly.

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Need to start the day with a smile? See the first bugs in Ubuntu’s and OLPC’s bug trackers.

I just stumbled across zzuf’s Web page. Odd name, isn’t it? zzuf is a program that corrupts data on purpose. But why?

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Better late than never! The first question I’m answering in the Month of Linux answers series is: Would it be best for people considering moving to linux to start using open source software on their Windows computers first?

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