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		<title>Testing Fedora 13 alpha with BFO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fedora 13 alpha has been released, and the faithful are encouraged to download, test and report. The traditional method of testing is to download a full CD iso image (about 700 MB), but if you read the recent post about Network booting with boot.fedoraproject.org, you&#8217;d have learned that all you now need to do to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/09/testing-fedora-13-alpha-with-bfo/</link>
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		<title>Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass*, Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were “stepping all over Apple’s IP.” (IP = Intellectual Property = patents, trademarks and copyrights.) If we moved forward to commercialize it, “I’ll just sue you.”
My response was simple. “Steve, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/</link>
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		<title>Future of Broadband: Where Data Is Broadcast Using Desk Lamps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the future, getting a broadband connection might be as simple as flipping on a light switch. In fact, according to a group of researchers from Germany, the light coming from the lamps in your home could one day encode a wireless broadband signal.
As of now, the majority of wireless in homes and businesses is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/09/future-of-broadband-where-data-is-broadcast-using-desk-lamps/</link>
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		<title>Network booting with boot.fedoraproject.org</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO) is Fedora&#8217;s implementation of boot.kernel.org, a project designed to give computers the capability to boot from a network. The actual program that provides this capability is gPXE, which evolved from the Etherboot project. Fedora&#8217;s twist on gPXE allows you to network-boot current, past and future (Rawhide) releases of Fedora. All you need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/07/network-booting-with-boot-fedoraproject-org/</link>
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		<title>Federal Intellectual Property Enforcement Gears Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration has been slowly ramping up its attention to intellectual property issues. Over the past few months, we&#8217;ve seen an IP &#8220;summit&#8221; at the White House. We&#8217;ve seen the successful nomination of a new cabinet-level &#8220;IP Czar&#8221; position. We&#8217;ve seen the announcement of a new DOJ task force for IP issues. What does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/05/federal-intellectual-property-enforcement-gears-up/</link>
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		<title>BSD Magazine: March 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The March 2010 issue of BSD Magazine, a free, online magazine for the BSD community, is now available for download. The theme for this edition is &#8220;BSD as a Desktop.&#8221; The following are some of the articles you&#8217;ll find inside:

Build Your Own FreeBSD Update Server &#8211; Experienced users or administrators responsible for several machines or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/05/bsd-magazine-march-2010/</link>
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		<title>Search your Android phone with written gestures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As mobile phones become increasingly powerful and can store more data, we&#8217;ve introduced new methods of search to get you to your content faster, such as search suggestions or search by voice. But sometimes, typing to get to the right search suggestion takes too long, and you may be in a quiet environment where speaking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/03/search-your-android-phone-with-written-gestures/</link>
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		<title>Unintended Consequences: Twelve Years Under the DMCA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twelve years after the passage of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the law continues to stymie fair use, free speech, scientific research, and legitimate competition. A new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) collects reported examples of abuses of the DMCA and the ongoing harm the law continues to inflict on consumers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/03/unintended-consequences-twelve-years-under-the-dmca/</link>
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		<title>Software sniffs out criminals by the shape of their nose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forget iris and fingerprint scans &#8212; scanning noses could be a quicker and easier way to verify a person&#8217;s identity, according to scientists at the University of Bath.
With worries about illegal immigration and identity theft, authorities are increasingly looking to using an individual&#8217;s physical characteristics, known as biometrics, to confirm their identity.

Unlike other facial features [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/02/software-sniffs-out-criminals-by-the-shape-of-their-nose/</link>
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		<title>File-Sharing Software Potential Threat to Health Privacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The personal health and financial information stored in thousands of North American home computers may be vulnerable to theft through file-sharing software, according to a research study published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Healthcare professionals who take patient information home to personal computers containing peer-to-peer file-sharing software are jeopardizing patient confidentiality, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/01/file-sharing-software-potential-threat-to-health-privacy/</link>
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		<title>Vine Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vine Linux is a Japanese, RPM-based, multi-purpose distribution. It is developed and maintained by Vinecaves, and it&#8217;s based on an earlier version of Fedora.  It is one of those distributions that excludes non-free (proprietary) applications from its default installation. Unlike similar distributions, however, it has developed a smart method to make installing non-free applications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/01/vine-linux/</link>
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		<title>Vine Linux 5.1 review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Vine Linux is a Japanese, RPM-based, multi-purpose distribution. It is developed and maintained by Vinecaves, and it&#8217;s based on an earlier version of Fedora.  It is one of those distributions that excludes non-free (proprietary) applications from its default installation. Unlike similar distributions, however, it has developed a smart method to make installing non-free [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/03/01/vine-linux-5-1-review/</link>
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		<title>Printer configuration and management on PC-BSD 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PC-BSD is a desktop-centric distribution based on FreeBSD. The latest stable version, released just this week, is PC-BSD 8. On most Linux, desktop distributions, a connected printer is automatically configured. On PC-BSD 8, however, getting a printer to work requires manual configuration. To simplify that task, a number of printer management utilities are available. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/27/printer-configuration-and-management-on-pc-bsd-8/</link>
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		<title>New Security Threat Against &#8216;Smart Phone&#8217; Users</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computer scientists at Rutgers University have shown how a familiar type of personal computer security threat can now attack new generations of smart mobile phones, with the potential to cause more serious consequences.
The researchers, who are presenting their findings at a mobile computing workshop this week in Maryland, demonstrated how such a software attack could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/27/new-security-threat-against-smart-phone-users/</link>
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