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links for 2007-04-08

April 9th, 2007 by timelady

• the.codist{} - All I Need To Know To Be A Better Programmer I Learned In Kindergarten
  Programming is complicated stuff, but a lot of what makes a good programmer isn’t all that different from the earliest learning we did in school.
  (tags: programming tips development humor life learning management lifehacks coding cool code)
• Open Source coders caught stealing Open Source code
  DEVELOPERS OF OpenBSD took code from their brethren at Linux, violating the code’s licence, the GPL. To the horror of the Linux folk, the OpenBSD licence allows proprietary use.
  (tags: openbsd linux copyright code opensource drivers engineering network networking oss software wifi)
• “I’ll Compost Your Corpse” – The (Organic) Demise of Ethical Man (TreeHugger)
  In a fitting end to this educational series of reports, he explores an intriguing offer from a viewer – to compost his corpse. As it turns out, this isn’t that easy to do. The environmental problems of cremation/burial are duly discussed, in some deta
  (tags: cremation burial environment ethics)
• Einstein & Faith | TIME
  This is a hugely fascinating article!!!
  (tags: einstein religion science atheism article education god people faith history physics reference philosophy)
• Debian — News — Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released
  welcome etch!
  (tags: debian release linux distro etch)
• Here we are now, entertain us » Getting involved with Ubuntu
  First things first,How to get started, Easiest way to help, Getting started with packaging….
  (tags: ubuntu howto linux help tips)
• Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Note to content owners: DRM doesn’t work
  There are some ideas that are broken, but attractive enough to some people that they are doomed to be tried again and again. DRM is one of them.
  (tags: drm technology shuttleworth media mp3 copyright windows music linux interesting 2007 apple)
• News - Pidgin
  Around the time of Gaim’s first 2.0.0 beta, AOL threatened to sue. After a long debate we settled on the name “Pidgin” for gaim itself, “libpurple” for libgaim (which, as of 2.0.0 beta6, exists), and “Finch” for gaim-text.
  (tags: gaim pidgin im aol legal news)

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