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Developing Gnome Application with Python (Part 1)
So you want to design GUIs engel?

osOpinion: X Windows Must Die!

But X cannot live on its own: it needs a Window Manager and a widget toolkit to do anything. More millions of lines of code, layered on top of an already overweight system. GNOME, KDE, even Motif exact a huge performance hit and add further complexity. Worse yet, no one in the Unix community seems to be able to agree on any kind of GUI standard, so you have an explosion of window managers, desktops, file managers, and widget toolkits which are mostly inoperable with each other.

Dealing with the which Window Manger, how to configure, and which widget set to write to is the biggest pain in the butt of Linux/UNIX. So much duplication of effort to achieve the same end result.

Providing Reliable NT Desktop Services by Avoiding NT Server, a good no b.s. what is the best choice.

Free Geeks Want Good Gnus
RMS of GNU fame wants .gnu as a top level domain name (TLD). Why not allow any 2-3 letter TLD? Let registars control up to 3 TLDs.

Web Developer’s Journal: Web Site Trends
Black text, whtie backgrounds, defult link colors and apache are the winers.

The very very short tutorial about modules in Perl

This Congressional candidate is a breath of fresh air.
Michael Moore strikes again. This has to be one of the best coups he has ever launched. Ficus gets my vote for sure.

Hatch Warns Labels, Don’t Make Me Come Over There and Spank You

Facing a veritable who’s who of the music-copyright wars, Chairman Hatch threatened — in surprisingly direct terms — to force the music labels and publishers, by legislation, to make their content digitally available for a standard fee if the record business continued to ensnarl e-music with lawsuits. As a capper, Hatch suggested that Congress might even go so far as to offer its own comprehensive definition of ”fair use” to hasten the arrival of paid digital music — an action that would have implications far beyond music.

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‘Legislation is going to have to straighten this out,” Ulrich told Hatch. ”You’re dreaming if you think we can work this out between us. We can’t work this out without your involvement.”

”Fair and reasonable licensing needs to take place,” Hatch flatly told the industry as he closed the hearing. ”We’ll be watching closely.”

Tuition-free MIT, how about tuition-free undergraduate university for all?