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Learning and Educating yourself is a Forever Process

Seen recently on articles base, by Steve Conn

At 44 years of age, I find myself with the desire to learn more than I ever have and with the technology we have today, there is no excuse for lack of knowledge.

It seems as though most people view learning as a period of life from say birth to college and then they are done. Statistically, less then 25% of people ever read a complete book after they graduate from school. I can't believe those figures especially when you research the truly successful people out there, and you realize 95% of them are constantly reading new books, attending workshops or seminars and researching ways to increase their business, better their relationships and increase the impact they have on the world around. Books on dealing with people help in sales, management, leadership or mentoring and running billion dollar companies. Even everyday, run of the mill employees working a mundane job can benefit from books like that.

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UK interest rates set to hit new low

Seen on Ireland On-line
04/01/2009 - 12:46:12

Interest rates in Britain are set to hit a record low this week as the Bank of England grapples with a deepening recession.

The Bank's official rate has never fallen below the current 2% in its 315-year history, but experts predict a cut of as much as 1% on Thursday as the UK faces up to its worst year since the early 1990s.

Rate-setters on the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will ponder the latest gloomy data including a new low for mortgage lending in November and a record 16.2% fall in house prices during 2008

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Stallman: "we still have a fight on our hands"

Richard Stallman on the state of GNU, 25 years on
Seen recently on techradar.com

25 years after Stallman first set the GNU project in motion, what have these ideals achieved, and what can we do to ensure the future of free software? Linux Format spoke to him to find out.While Linux Torvalds gets most of the plaudits nowadays for the Linux kernel, it was Stallman who originally posted plans for a new, and free, operating system. Free had nothing to do with the cost of the operating system, but with the implicit rights of those who were using the software to do with it exactly as they pleased. "I launched the development of the GNU operating system back in 1983 specifically to make it possible to use a computer without ceding these freedoms and accepting the dominion of the software's developers," he told us. read full article

Microsoft's First-Ever Mass Job Cuts To Come in 2009?

17% of company's entire workforce, say rumors, may be in jeopardy

With a Q2 earnings report due on the 22nd of January 2009, Microsoft is rumored to be contemplating ringing in the new year with massive job cuts. A posting by Lars-Göran Nilsson on the Fudzilla technology blog and rumor site claims that 15,000 or so of Microsoft's global workforce of 90,000 "are expected to be giving marching orders come January 15th."

Rumors of a round of rare but substantial job cuts have been swirling for weeks now, with Electronista for example reporting before Christmas that substantial reductions "are believed to hint at significant financial difficulty at Microsoft, which had near-flat growth even in the summer, when the economic downturn had yet to fully materialize."

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The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 11.1 (GNOME)

Posted by: Philipp Esselbach on Warp2Search: 12/22/2008 11:10 AM

Howtoforge posted a guide about setting up openSUSE 11.1 as desktop

This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11.1 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 11.1 (GNOME)

iPlayer download version reaches Mac and Linux

The download version of BBC iPlayer is now available for Mac and Linux users.

The BBC has worked with Adobe's AIR developer platform to create a desktop download manager for its online on-demand TV service, meaning users can now watch BBC content whether they are on or offline. The beta version is now available to members of the BBC iPlayer Labs testing group with a full rollout expected early next year. Although a download version of iPlayer has been available since its initial beta launch in July 2007, it was compatible only with Windows XP and Vista. A streaming version for Macs and Linux was launched around a year ago.
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HP Readies Linux Business Desktop

The Compaq dc5850 could appeal to cash-strapped school districts and businesses in the current economic downturn.
By Antone Gonsalves InformationWeek
December 12, 2008 05:00 AM

HP introduced the offering less than a week after IBM made generally available a Linux-desktop package that includes the Ubuntu distribution of the open-source operating system and IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s Lotus email, instant messaging and office productivity applications. IBM is offering to roll out the package on companies' PCs via the vendor's IT services unit.

HP's offering is less ambitious. the company is offering to preload Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on the HP Compaq dc5850. The package will also include OpenOffice.org, the open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office suite, a Web browser, multimedia tools and e-mail, collaboration and instant messaging software. Read more

IBM and Business Partners Unveil a Linux-Based, Virtual Desktop

(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)

IBM, Virtual Bridges and Canonical have announced availability of a
Linux-desktop solution designed to drive savings by amplifying Lotus
collaboration software and Ubuntu to a larger user base through
virtualization.

The solution runs open standards-based email, word processing,
spreadsheets, unified communication, social networking and other
software to any laptop, browser, or mobile device from a virtual
desktop login on a Linux-based server configuration.

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Fixing Linux: What's Broken And What To Do About It

Despite the fact that it's been around since 1991, Linux remains a work in progress. It's not perfect, nor does anyone pretend it is. The places where it needs the most immediate improvement are also a matter of debate: what's crucially important to some is only marginally important to others. Still, there's no question that there are key areas where Linux is lacking -- not just missing individual features, but things that are actively dysfunctional and which need immediate attention.
This five page mega article, published on Information Week, runs down several major areas where Linux, as an operating system and as a platform, needs work, before it can be accepted for corporate use on the desktops of America.To read the full article by Serdar Yegulalp http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100714&pgno=1&queryText=&isPrev=

IBM's Pass It Along Applies Social Networking to Knowledge Sharing

IBM has released a new social-networking tool called Pass It Along to help organizations take a more user-friendly, collaborative approach to knowledge sharing. The new technology expands the notion of social networking for employees and learners--and includes advanced features such as learning paths, visual mapping and expertise profiling.

Nearly 22 million workers are set to retire this year in the United States alone, posing a significant challenge for businesses as they look to retain industry expertise and skills. As a result, organizations of all sizes are now looking for new ways to help their workforce more easily share and gain knowledge for competitive advantage. IBM is addressing this issue with Pass It Along, which integrates knowledge management, social networking and Web 2.0 concepts to simplify the way information is shared and consumed by users. The new technology enables users to access, share and rate essential information; categorize information from the Web or an intranet according to interest; and complete learning paths and create learning networks to help facilitate ongoing knowledge sharing.

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