Dr Ashley Green of the Open University's Robotics Outreach Group will run a one-day workshop for teachers and educators from 9.00am to 4.00pm on Friday 23rd October, in the robotics lab in Belvidere School's Alcoa Centre ( maps and directions

All About Microsoft: "Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree."

Boycott Novell: "Summary: Change is needed as attempts to harass this Web site and people behind it reach new heights (including libel against me)"

Howtoforge: "Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a

Desktop Linux Reviews: "Sidux is based on Debian and you can download a version that uses the XFCE or KDE desktop environments. You can also opt to download the lite version that weighs in at about 600MB or the full

Datamation: "What happened at a recent desktop conference points out unresolved issues in the free software community about leadership and sexism -- issues that many prefer to remain silent about rather than confront."

Nuxified: "Access Control Lists (ACLs) extend the regular permissions we all know with the possibility to give permissions for specific users/groups.With a little example I want to show how to use ACLs in Linux."

Netstat -vat: "As of Friday July 24, Red Hat will join the S&P 500 index.In my opinion this is a major milestone for Red Hat and for Linux."

Distrowatch Weekly: "Doing a one-off installation of CentOS on an odd piece of hardware involves some work. In the case of my netbook "some work" is quite the understatement. CentOS 5.x is based largely on Fedora 6, now more than

Groklaw: "Is it safe to go back in the water now, as so many have been saying? FSF says no, that the "promise is full of loopholes, and it's nowhere near enough to make C# safe." The article also offers

Netstat -vat: "The Symbian mobile OS is used by millions of phones globally and thanks to a (now corrected) oversight they could have potentially installed malware - with Symbian's approval."

Florida Linux Show press release: The Florida Linux Alliance Group, Inc. (flagroup.org) and the Florida Linux Show (floridalinuxshow.com) are forming a committee to work on putting TUX in the "Spherion Orlando Citrus Parade" (Citrus Bowl Parade held in Orlando, Florida).

ars Technica: "To-do list programs can help you stay organized and boost productivity. Ars looks at GTG, KOrganizer, and other task management tools for the Linux desktop."

InternetNews: "Is this a thawing in the tensions between the two camps? New GPLv2 licensed code will enable Linux to run better on Microsoft's Hyper-V."

New York Times: "The cloud, however, comes with real dangers.Some are in plain view. If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you."

O'Reilly Radar: "But unlike many news organizations, whose primary concern may be monetizing their content, National Public Radio is interested in turning it into a resource for people to use in new and novel ways as well."

Google's Chrome OS may still be vaporware, but its announcement has set off reverberations in the blogosphere as strong as any produced by much weightier matter. Indeed, ever since the official announcement nearly two weeks ago, countless conversations have scrutinized

In 1895, during the era of Horatio Alger, an obscure poet named Sam Walter Foss published "Calf-Path." It's about men following the road of least resistance and what we call today "thinking outside the box." "For men are prone to

The hotel review may sound too good -- citing obscure details like the type of faucets -- or perhaps one stands out as the only negative rating of an otherwise popular location. The influential travel Web site TripAdvisor has been

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