What does this document contain? Most people don’t know, because it is written in legal-speak. Still, you are expected to read it and are required to agree to it before using Windows XP Home. Even if you don’t read it, you are still bound by it, so it’s good to know what’s in there.

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Part of my job involves reading EULAs and they can make interesting/shocking reading. It would be wonderful to think that EULAs could be accompanied by a plain english explaination but I fear that the legal types wouldn’t agree.

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The diction and style tools put a GNU face on an old Unix feature. These tools read text input, either from a file or the standard input. diction checks the input at the sentence level, and marks wordy and trite phrases, cliches, and the like, while style works on the overall document, giving a summary of the writing style with a number of readability tests.

Linux.com | Improve your writing with the GNU style checkers

Print-on-demand sites like Lulu allow you to create and publish your own book. If you’re primarily a writer, you might be tempted to hire a professional designer to create a cover for your book. Before you do that, consider creating a simple yet elegant book cover using the open source Kooka scanning software and the Inkspace vector drawing application.

Linux.com | Create your own book cover art with open source software

Kaspersky Lab announces a new section of the website – Kaspersky Linux Security. Here you can find the latest Kaspersky Lab antivirus and anti-spam products for protecting your Linux systems.

Kaspersky Lab: Antivirus software

The Vista saga has two interesting lessons for the computer business. It raises, for example, the question of whether this way of producing software products of this complexity has reached its natural limit. Microsoft is an extremely rich, resourceful company - and yet the task of creating and shipping Vista stretched it to breaking point. A lesser company would have buckled under the strain. And yet while Microsoft engineers were trudging through their death march, the open source community shipped a series of major upgrades to the Linux operating system. How can hackers, scattered across the globe, working for no pay, linked only by the net and shared values, apparently outperform the smartest software company on the planet?

The Observer | Business | Why Vista will mean the end of the Microsoft monolith

The goals of the Linux-NTFS project are to develop reliable and full feature access to NTFS by the Linux kernel driver, and by a user space filesystem (ntfsmount), and to provide a wide collection of NTFS utilities (ntfsprogs) and a developer’s library (libntfs) for other GPLed programs. We have achieved already a lot, with high quality results.

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 This would solve a real headache for me, and avoid have to create a FAT32 partition to be able to share files between more than one OS. Now how long before MS support ReiserFS?

Welcome to your one-stop shop for comprehensive info about how Google crawls and indexes websites. You can learn here how to ensure that your site is easily crawled and indexed and access tools that will enable you to diagnose crawling issues, study statistics on how your site is doing in our index, and tell us how you’d like your site to be crawled and indexed.

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XAMPP is an integrated server package of Apache, mySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin (the AMPP in XAMPP) that all run from a removable drive. Everything is pre-configured and ready to go just by unzipping or installing it.

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I find myself increasingly reliant on my USB key for letting me work wherever I happen to be. This sounds like a great idea. Then again, not sure how many systems departments would be happy with people running this on their computers.

GNOME 2.16 is the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment, providing all the tools a user needs for everyday work, and a platform for developers to write new software.GNOME’s focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalization and accessibility support, so that GNOME and its applications are usable by anyone, anywhere. GNOME runs on a variety of platforms, including GNU/Linux (commonly called Linux), Solaris, HP-UX, BSD and Apple’s Darwin. Work has been done in this release to make it easier to port GNOME tools to Windows as well.

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