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"An article recently posted by the CNN/Money magazine journalists details Linux's continuing rise in the business market.

One of the more notable statistics was that its use is expected to nearly double in 2003 compared to 2002 numbers. "According to a study conducted by research firm First Albany, 9.3 percent of 338 businesses surveyed expected to dedicate portions of their IT budgets to Linux-based systems, up from 5.4 percent in 2002.""

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The entire monolinux operating environment and code-generation utilities are available at this link.

Obviously you have never tried teaching children anything. Your choices are way off.

vi - With their small hands and weak retention, 8 year olds will never be able to master the keyboard spans that Emacs requires, nor memorize the lists of arcane commands.

vi is a toy editor. It's cute, and handy for tight memory situations, but should be avoided by those wishing to get real work done. Emacs is much more feature-rich and robust, and is an industry standard. Its menus make those difficult-to-reach key commands unnecessary.

Languages - You aren't seriously suggesting that the upcoming generation should use an interpreted language, are you? If so, say hello to 20 more years of code bloat. I think C (and definitely not the horror that is C++) would be the ideal astere first language for anyone, especially a young, impressionable mind.

On the contrary, interpreted languages are a great way to learn programming without the complexity of Makefiles, command lines, objects, and debugging. I'd recommend the Mono project, which is a Linux port of Microsoft's C# language, as a good introduction to interpreted programming.

Mathematica - There is no more suitable program for 8 year old math than mathematica. I mean, you installed Linux where they used to have Apple ]['s, right? So it sounds like you want to give them the big iron (heh, not THAT big iron). So don't try to give them "Blue Teaches Addition" or anything lame like that--go for the gusto and install the full professional version of Mathematica.

Mathematica might help in college, but what about after graduation? Nobody in the Real World uses Mathematica. MatLab is the only sane choice here.

w w w . m o n o l i n u x . c o m

One solution is quite simply, to karma whore on Slashdot with links to your site. Eric Krout did this with Monolinux for a while, and the hit counts went through the roof, as did the Google rank.

Depending on gas prices and engine sizes of geeks' vehicles, it may be cheaper to drive around all day finding insecure WLANs than to pay the monthly access fees for such services ;-)

monolinux :: Guess Who's Back? Back Again. Mono's back. Tell a friend.

Monolinux, back from the grave, has scooped Slashdot yet again.

You can't beat monolinux, Taco and Co., you can only hope to contain us!

Ransom,

There has been a rather heated thread over at monolinux in which an important question has been raised and batted around, and I was hoping you could answer: Will source code be available for *every* piece of software included on the United Linux CDs? If so, when? If not, what will not be made available?

My understanding is that the United Linux base will be a set of standards (based off of the Linux Standard Base) which companies will use as the foundation for their own corporate-oriented "United Linux compatible" distributions, to which they *may* add binaries for which source is not available. Is this true, or will the United Linux specification inherently include non-free code?

Here's a cookie.

Spyware, reason #84 to use free/open source software.

- Eric
Founder, monolinux

Personally, I think this one is much sexier ;-D

- Eric
Founder, monolinux

Mr. Gates is hardly a revolutionary.

A businessperson, yes. A good businessperson? Of course; he's evil enough and it's hard to argue that his company is not monetarily successful.

But calling Mr. Gates a computer revolutionary? Oh dear God no. The only significant contribution that he personally made was decades ago while working in his dorm room, and even then Paul Allen probably did most of the tech work (this is a fact, not an inciteful comment).

I'd also wager that the VSB error was one resulting from poor transcription of his speech rather than him being an uninformed idiot when it comes to open source and free software, althought I'd certainly get a kick out of him confusing Lunix and STD or something ;-)

- Eric
Founder, monolinux.com

They optimized for user experience rather than raw performance.

Let's see...considering the fact that the average user's experience on a computer involves little more than email, Instant Messenger, and browsing the Web, I think they made a grave mistake.

- Eric
Founder, monolinux

I copied the source from the (now Slashdotted) page and created an HTML file at http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~ekrout/IE_Hack.html for those of you with IE to test it out. If you want, reply to this post and let everyone know if it works with your browser, Windows version, etc.

This is a very troubling security hole for Windows users who prefer IE (99.7% of them).

Founder, monolinux

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There's a lot of discussion about how Jabber hackers stopped working toward AIM integration.

The problem as I see it is that when most developers of these alternative IM clients try to hook into AOL's chat network, they do so the wrong way. AOL has a public protocol, and a private protocal; so, unless you want to worry about spending an hour or two every night working around the latest block that AOL institutes against your illegal hook into their private network, just use the public one that's documented and encouraged by the AOL folks.

So, Jabber people -- get AIM integration working via their public network rather than just dumping the whole thing because you can't hack their private area. The only downside is that users can't view others' away messages, which isn't really that big of a deal (if they're there, you can talk; if not, you'll see they're away but not necessarily why they're AFK).

I say this only because many of the comments so far are along the lines of "I used to use Jabber until AIM stopped working...". I for one would like to use Jabber as well and encourage them to rethink their approach to TOC and OSCAR.

An All-Linux Think Tank > Lycoris Review Part 1 of 2 Is Now Available

An All-Linux Think Tank
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Quark Sing-a-long Written by Lynda Williams
For Jefferson National Lab
Bring Our Daughters to Work Day.
(refrain)

Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top and Bottom!
The World is made up of Quarks and Leptons!
Up, Down, Charm, Strange,Top and Bottom!
Yum! Yum!

Quarks come in six flavors
They live in families of two.
Up Down, Charm Strange, Top and Bottom!
They come in anti-flavors too!

Each family makes a generation
between which is a mass gap.
The up quark is the lightest and the top quark
is the most fat!

The second and third generations
do not live for very long.
That's why everything in the Universe
is made up of Ups and Downs!

(refrain)

Quarks carry a color charge.
They come in red, green and blue.
You'll never see a quark all by itself
cuz they stick together with a strong force glue.

Quarks carry electric charge.
A fraction of electricity.
Quarks combine together so the total charge
is a multiple of unity!

An up, up down makes a proton for a total charge of plus one.
A down, up, down makes a DUD neutron!

Physics is so much YUM YUM PHUN!

(refrain)

copyright 1999 Lynda Williams
http://www.entersci.com/cosmic/quarkl.htm

Doesn't forget that The New York Times and MSNBC are not the same!.

The reason there are too many YRO stories: michael kidnapped taco and hemos.

If you want your news from a site that Michael "The Nazi" Sims has nothing to do with, use Monolinux !

Red Herring, MSNBC, the NYTimes, and Slashdot have all been scooped by:

The answer: nothing. India has been a country that has been "almost there" for decades.

The real important news, though, is Mozilla 1.0RC1 is almost here!

Monolinux reports that Mozilla 1.0 is very close at hand, with a due date of "sometime next week" for 1.0RC1.

Monolinux reports that Mozilla 1.0 is very close at hand, with a due date of "sometime next week" for 1.0RC1.

The real news is that Monolinux is reporting that Mozilla 1.0RC1 is close at hand, with the branching of the 1.0 branch!

The real news is that Monolinux is reporting that Mozilla 1.0RC1 is close at hand, with the branching of the 1.0 branch!

Monolinux reports that Mozilla 1.0RC1 will be out next week.

Monolinux reports that Mozilla 1.0RC1 will be out next week.

Monolinux reports that Mozilla 1.0RC1 is due within a week. This is surely News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters!

Monolinux reports that Mozilla 1.0RC1 is due within a week. This is surely News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters!

Monolinux is a linux-only slashdot-style website, with various interesting links on Linux (and better moderation ;)

Monolithic And Proud Of It

Word, Scrabble Score

EXULTING, 16 | OXTONGUE, 16 | LOXING, 14 | TOXINE, 13 | EXTOL, 12 | EXULT, 12 | IXTLE, 12 | TOXIN, 12 | ... (I couldn't put the rest here because of the lameness filter)

This was covered several days ago here.

Welcome to the Revolution. Hackers Wanted.

User info > Homepage preferences > Get out of this hellhole and join a real Linux community
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You, sir, are a terrorist.

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What? Homer's bowling ball that said "Homer" was for Marge ;-D

Forced to post this at gunpoint
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What good's a toolbox computer if there's no alphabet yet? ;-D

Here's the best Slashdot mod I've seen in a long time.

Yet another Devri computer school graduate.

Look ma, I's gots my MCSE!

I Was Forced At Gunpoint To Place This This Textad Here

Now go visit a real Linux site.

Now that you've seen the best case mod, leave this hellhole and visit the best Linux community ever.

The first page I visit every morning
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The following is the preliminary code that a particular Google sysadmin (ian@) is trying out. He'd prefer to have a single WSDL file do all of the configure (from Google's end to client), but he first needs to get some advice from an experienced Ruby hacker.

Also, let's keep in mind that this API will actually be decreasing Google pageviews and hits, which will in turn make their AdWords, AdWordsSelect, and textads less effective. So, it's our duty to continue to support Google and show them that the free/open source software people are behind them 100%. We know that Teoma just doesn't deliver, and Google's already got 3 billion pages indexed and cached.

Support Google today, because they're the future of information indexing on the Web!

--- begin code ---

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'soap/driver'

endpoint = 'http://api-ab.google.com/search/beta2'
ns = 'urn:GoogleSearch'
key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
service = 'file:GoogleSearch.wsdl'
query = ARGV.shift || 'foo'

soap = SOAP::Driver.new(nil, nil, ns, endpoint)

# uncomment the next line to dump the traffic on the wire
#
#soap.setWireDumpDev(STDERR)

soap.addMethodWithSOAPAction('doGoogleSearch', ns, 'key', 'q', 'start',
'maxResults', 'filter', 'restrict',
'safeSearch', 'lr', 'ie', 'oe')
r = soap.doGoogleSearch(key, query, 0, 10, false, nil, false, nil,
'latin1', 'latin1')

printf "Estimated number of results is %d.\n", r.estimatedTotalResultsCount
printf "Your query took %6f seconds.\n", r.searchTime

This site uses the Apache webserver and encourages you to test its power.

I agree that Windows solutions just aren't viable anymore.

I highly suggest keeping up to date on all important happenings in the Linux world as a member and reader of monolinux.

Feel free to continue spinning here...

Visit monolinux and, through embracing the most powerful and efficient operating system in the world, put an end to Bill Gates' evil reign.

I personally prefer monolinux for All-Linux news with no ads.

monolinux first broke this story DAYS ago (last Friday).

If you were a member there, you'd already be running KDE 3.0 and wouldn't have to wait through the KDE FTP servers being Slashdotted.

Summary of all comments in this thread with +1, Funny rating:

- Those dirty GNU/Linux hippies could sure use some SOAP. It's about time.
- Imagine a Beowulf cluster of SOAP!
- Natalie Portman can ApachMe Down with SOAP _any_ day!
- Here is a mirror (linked to a picture of a mirror)
- Here's a summary of all comments in this thread with +1, Funny rating

Oh well, back to downloading cr0n

Now I can stream uber-quality DivX-encoded movies to my phone and view them on a sexy mushroom-colored screen the size of my big toe ;-)

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But I was told that Unix is like a dark, moldy basement and I need to find a way out through Windows. :-(

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