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Is hacker culture a help or hindrance?

"Problems generally arise because developers make certain assumptions about the system and the person doing the compiling. In some cases the assumptions are simply wrong, but more to the point they are often hacker-centric."

KDE 2.1 released

"Konqueror is a full-featured and robust web browser and important applications like the mail client (KMail) have greatly improved. The multimedia architecture has made great strides and this release inaugurates the new media player noatun, which has a modular, plugin design for playing the latest audio and video formats."

KDE 2.1 released

"Konqueror is a full-featured and robust web browser and important applications like the mail client (KMail) have greatly improved. The multimedia architecture has made great strides and this release inaugurates the new media player noatun, which has a modular, plugin design for playing the latest audio and video formats."

Is your web server running unnecessary software?

"This article will quickly share some ideas on how beginning webserver administrators can improve server efficiency, ease management and, hopefully, improve security as well. It shares a few examples of processes that don't need to be running, required programs and some ideas for BSD and System V-type systems for disabling startup scripts."

Mapping extras function keys with XFree 4.0

"This article will explain the process of getting your keyboard's extra function keys to work in XFree86 4.0.X. This article uses the Logitech iTouch keyboard with XFree86 4.0.2 as an example."

It's time for directed geekery

"Check almost any online repository of open/free programs and you'll see just about every possible variatin of some ideas, almost all of which are programs that are fun to write or appeal to a very narrow band of interests. Honestly, how many programs do we need to troll newsgroups for binaries, edit text, or create online photo albums?"

Richard Stallman on the Allchin controversy

"The Free Software Movement, was founded in 1984, but its inspiration comes from the ideals of 1776: freedom, community, and voluntary cooperation. The "free" in "free software" refers to freedom, not price; specifically, that all computer users should have the freedom to study, change, and redistribute the software that they use."

Making software suck less, Pt. II

"The insidious thing about Free software, the really subversive part, is that it takes so little to start writing it. Anyone with a few tools, spare time, and the wherewithall to start hacking can. Witness the long listings of low-version-number IM clients and MP3 players on software announcement sites. People like to code."

CVS mixed-tagging for massive open source project management

"This article is of interest to people who use cvs, are working on a massive open source project - thousands or millions of lines, with several inter-dependent components, several developers and tens of man-years of development effort. You think this isn't a problem? That's because your project is too small. Wait a few years, you'll find out what i'm talking about."

PGP creator resigns from Network Associates

Philip Zimmermann, the inventor of the widely used PGP encryption protocol, announced that he has left Network Associates Inc. because he and the company no longer agree about the future of PGP.