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  • Anatomy of a Tweet

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    THE beauty of Twitter, the popular microblogging service, is that users have to keep it short: messages can only be 140 characters long. But companies that mine the stream of tweets for marketing and other purposes get much more information. Below is a map of a tweet including all its metadata. The map was published…

  • Devices In My House That Use Linux

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    What devices in my house, besides computers and servers, use Linux? Of course my And my

  • In The Shop Today: Arch Linux

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    Arch Linux – “It is what you make it” For a brief overview of Arch Linux, an elegantly simple and thoroughly technically complex distribution, read this article. Many Linux distributions have taken the path of easy GUI-based installation, in order to appeal to a broader mix of users. But not Arch Linux, which emphasises simplicity…

  • WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”

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    Posted on WordPress.org, December 12, 2011 by Matt Mullenweg. Filed under Releases. The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version…

  • INFOGRAPHIC : The History Of Linux

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      Today’s infographic comes from BlogSearchEngine and it shows the history of Linux, starting in 1971 with Richard Stallman who would go on to set up the Free Software Foundation.  Later would come the operating system called MINIX and in 1989, the Finnish student Linus Torvalds wanted to upgrade MINIX and, finding he was barred…