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Open source film recommendation engine from Filmaster.com

[ Saturday, 22 May 2010, michuk ]

Filmaster.com, a social network for film lovers, has recently presented a new movie recommendations engine. The algorithm that generates recommendations is open source and has been released under AGPLv3 license.

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Stefano Zacchiroli (Debian Leader): Local communities are important

[ Tuesday, 18 May 2010, michuk ]

Stefano Zacchiroli, a new Debian Project Leader, in an interview with Polish Debian Portal speaks about this year’s campaign, realase policy of the project, the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port and other non-linux ports, and the role of local Debian communities.
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Polish Internet Users Against the Censorship of the Net

[ Thursday, 21 January 2010, michuk ]

Polish government wants to enforce Internet filtering to eliminate online gambling and child pornography. Everything for the benefit of our children, as this is the argument which is hard to stay against.
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Promise of a post-illegal copy world. Part I: History of Intellectual Property

[ Thursday, 21 January 2010, TheBlackMan ]

Lots of Internet forum discussions with various people on the subject of computer piracyillegal copying and intellectual property were my inspiration for this article. Along with the discussions, a lot of inaccuracies and lacks in the image of reality presented to humanity by RIAA, MPAA, MAFIAA and other corporate lobbyists appeared. Because I hate lies and [...]

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Three ways to securely access remote internal networks and work from home

[ Thursday, 7 January 2010, fenio ]

Remote access to a computer and internal network’s secured resources - all of it in a simple way that’s following well-known security’s best practices? Sounds impossible, but it’s not. How to achieve it explains Bartosz Feński aka fEnIo.
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KDE 4.4 dev: What’s new?

[ Monday, 30 November 2009, Bastion ]

I have managed to find some time to cover the recent changes in the development version of KDE 4.4. The number of changes is not impressive but they are interesting enough to write an article.
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Media PC on Linux

[ Wednesday, 11 November 2009, alkor ]

As an experiment I decided to build Media PC based on Linux. First of all I was wondering, how much did the Linux distributions evolve in the past few years (I’ve used Linux since a few years only on servers). The second thing is, I was fascinated by quite new, miniaturized hardware solutions based on [...]

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Gimp Tricks: Selective Colorization

[ Monday, 29 June 2009, Scott ]

Today, I’m going to teach you how to first simply create a black and white image from a color photo, then to selectively colorize any portion of the photo. I’m not going to directly adapt a Photoshop tutorial because this is a very simple process, but if you want to find the Photoshop way of [...]

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