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• — Tracking Your Time with Project Hamster

     (Friday, 03 July 2009 19:40)

  According to their entry on GNOME Live, Project Hamster is “time tracking for [the] masses.” It aims to be a tool which enables users to quickly and accurately keep track of the amount of time they spend on their activities over time. Project Hamster is a relatively new module for GNOME, having been brought into GNOME officially for the 2.24 release. Now that GNOME 2.26 is upon us, it is an ideal time to take a closer look at this interesting project.

• — FreeBSD 7.2: Awesomeness of Ports

     (Friday, 03 July 2009 18:43)

  The elusive *nix. Nobody knows about it yet it is one of the most widely used server operating systems. The wikipedia entry mentions it as the unknown giant of the internet. Huge internet portals like Yahoo! run on it. Why is it that no one knows about this widely used OS?

• — PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives tailored for admins

     (Friday, 03 July 2009 17:46)

  The PostgreSQL project has released version 8.4 of the open source database management software, with more than 290 additions and changes to features. The most numerous updates are for administrators, with new or tweaked administration and monitoring tools and commands, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group said in its launch statement on Tuesday. The project spent 16 months working on the new version of the database software.

• — Joke of the month

     (Friday, 03 July 2009 16:48)

  Click here for the joke of the month.

• — Freedom is Not Embarrassing

     (Friday, 03 July 2009 15:51)

  I'm not embarrassed to have ideals, I am proud. Ideals elevate us above situational ethics. Ideals guide us into trying to be better people, and give us strong bases for making difficult decisions. (Such as No, little Bill, it is not OK to do anything in the name of making a buck.)