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	<description>About Linux, from Kuwait.</description>
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		<title>Skype 2.1 Beta Brings New Features To Linux</title>
		<link>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/08/29/phoronix-skype-2-1-beta-brings-new-features-to-linux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.q8lug.org/?p=371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Skype Linux features are high quality video codec support, Skypes SILK audio codec support, PulseAudio compatibility, SMS sending support, chat messaging editing/removing capabilities, contact groups support, typing notification in chat, chat picture support, mood messages, video/mobile icons are now visible in the contact list along with bookmarked chats, and also added are contact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fedora 11 packs a next-gen file system, faster boot times, all the joys and pitfalls of Linux</title>
		<link>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/06/10/fedora-11-packs-a-next-gen-file-system-faster-boot-times-all-the-joys-and-pitfalls-of-linux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.q8lug.org/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Linux just gets sexier and sexier, and Fedora 11 just joined Ubuntu 9.04 in the ranks of super modern Linux distros released this year. Fedora doesn&#8217;t have all the desktop refinements of Ubuntu, or the wild popularity, but it does act as the underpinnings of Intel&#8217;s Moblin, and the Sugar OS, and doesn&#8217;t shy away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up to 24 percent of software purchases now open source</title>
		<link>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/05/18/up-to-24-percent-of-software-purchases-now-open-source/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/05/18/up-to-24-percent-of-software-purchases-now-open-source/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 21:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.q8lug.org/?p=367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Open source has become big business  suggests an article in the Investors Business Daily  but it has done so by becoming more like the proprietary-software world it purports to leave behind.  The article cites recent research from IDC indicating that CIOs allocated up to 24 percent of their budgets to open-source software [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux Market Share Passes 1%</title>
		<link>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/05/03/linux-market-share-passes-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/05/03/linux-market-share-passes-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 23:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NetApplications’ hitslink.com just releasted their april market share stats and linux passed 1% for the first time ever.
via Berkeley Linux Users Group.
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		<title>Monitoring Hard Drive Health on Linux with smartmontools</title>
		<link>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/19/monitoring-hard-drive-health-on-linux-with-smartmontools/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/19/monitoring-hard-drive-health-on-linux-with-smartmontools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.q8lug.org/?p=363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[S.M.A.R.T. is a system in modern hard drives designed to report conditions that may indicate impending failure. smartmontools is a free software package that can monitor S.M.A.R.T. attributes and run hard drive self-tests. Although smartmontools runs on a number of platforms, I will only cover installing and configuring it on Linux.
via Random Bits.
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		<title>A Secure OS For the Dalai Lama?</title>
		<link>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/19/a-secure-os-for-the-dalai-lama/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/19/a-secure-os-for-the-dalai-lama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.q8lug.org/?p=361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am editor of the Infowar Monitor and co-author of the recent report  Tracking Ghostnet. I have been asked by the Office of His Holiness  the Dalai Lama  OHHDL  and the Tibetan Government in Exile  TGIE  to offer some policy recommendations in light of the ongoing targeted malware attacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navigate the cloud computing labyrinth</title>
		<link>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/19/navigate-the-cloud-computing-labyrinth/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/19/navigate-the-cloud-computing-labyrinth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.q8lug.org/?p=359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re lucky enough to have a basic understanding of cloud computing, your skills are in demand. But when it comes to actually building an application, what platform do you use? Google and Amazon are both huge names, so it&#8217;s not about popularity. And what if you&#8217;re a Microsoft person? Are there options for you? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An easy way to Spilt or Merge PDF Files in Linux</title>
		<link>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/17/an-easy-way-to-spilt-or-merge-pdf-files-in-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/17/an-easy-way-to-spilt-or-merge-pdf-files-in-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.q8lug.org/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I work as  the IT guy of a school that runs free software on all our computers&#8230;. One area that has been quite shaky is a good tool that can be used for merging different pdf files into one. There is a tool called pdftk but its command-line and while i don’t have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commandline 101: Copying Files with rsync</title>
		<link>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/12/commandline-101-copying-files-with-rsync/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/12/commandline-101-copying-files-with-rsync/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HowTo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Linux Journal.
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		<title>7 ways to boost your Linux Security</title>
		<link>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/08/7-ways-to-boost-your-linux-security/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.q8lug.org/2009/04/08/7-ways-to-boost-your-linux-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.q8lug.org/?p=353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ask a network administrator in any large organisation to compare Linux with network operating systems like Windows NT or Novell Open Enterprise Server, and chances are he’ll admit that Linux is an inherently more stable and scalable solution. Chances are he’ll also admit that when it comes to securing the system from outside attack, Linux [...]]]></description>
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