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How to draw up a green travel policy

In a perfectly sustainable world, drafting a green travel policy document would involve little more than grabbing a sheet of A4 paper and scribbling the words "all business travel is banned henceforth" in bright green felt-tip pen. The simplest and ...

From ANDREW DONOGHUE, VNUNet.com,  20 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Department for Transport

New Apt-Fast Version, Now With Full Apt-Get Syntax Replacement

After our post on "apt-fast", called Improve 'apt-get install' And 'upgrade' Speed, the script created by Matt Parnell (so all the credits go to him) has got a lot of attention and a new version tweaked by travisn000. But maybe you don't know what "apt- ...

From ANDREW DONOGHUE, LXer,  17 Jan 2010

Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 Finally Released

With a bit of a delay, Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 has been finally released. We already posted a quick what's new guide (initially, 0.5 was supposed to be released on 1th of January, so read about most of the new features there), but let's have an even quicker ...

From ANDREW DONOGHUE, LXer,  10 Jan 2010

Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 Coming Today - An Early Look At What's New

A post on the Ubuntu Tweak blog points out that the new 0.5 version release should come today [it seems Ubuntu Tweak will not be out today - see the update at the end of the post] (as well as the new website): I plan to make it online at the the last ...

From ANDREW DONOGHUE, LXer,  31 Dec 2009

Speed Dreams: TORCS Game Fork With New Features, Cars, Tracks And AI Opponents

Here is an older video with Speed Dreams in action (note, this is not the latest 1.4.0 version): Speed Dreams is an open source, multi platform (works on Windows and Linux) motorsport simulator. It was forked in late 2008 from the famous open racing ...

From ANDREW DONOGHUE, LXer,  23 Dec 2009

VideoLAN Movie Creator Pre-Release Coming Very Soon [Screenshot]

The VLC team has been working (or actually, they call it "support" so they might not do this entirely on themselves) on a new project for quite some time, called VideoLAN Movie Creator, a free video editing software offering features to realize ...

From ANDREW DONOGHUE, LXer,  23 Dec 2009

The Future Of Ubuntu Software Center

However, it seems that Stage 4 is not the last one, as mpt points out in a comment (thanks!). Ubuntu Software Center (initially Ubuntu Software Store) was released with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and it currently has only a few of the features it was ...

From ANDREW DONOGHUE, LXer,  15 Dec 2009

Compile And Set Up rTorrent and wTorrent In Debian 5 Lenny [Complete How-to]

The reason I am writing this post is because I tried many howto's which didn't work and I eventually ended up combining some to get both rtorrent and wtorrent to install and run on my Debian 5 Lenny VPN (thanks to Costin for the VPN). In case you don't ...

From ANDREW DONOGHUE, LXer,  13 Dec 2009
Related Topics: RPC, Inc.

Open Source Poses “Huge Risk” To Organisations

European CIO of GE has said that open source is only useful for internal "playground" uses, despite other parts of GE having deployed Linux for healthcare platforms A chief information officer for engineering giant General Electric (GE) has said that ...

From ANDREW DONOGHUE, LXer,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Oracle,  General Electric

Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right

Advice from the companies already using the much-hyped tech Adoption rates of virtualisation have yet to match the hype surrounding it, here Andrew Donoghue hears from businesses who've already taken the plunge. Despite vendors touting the numerous ...

From ANDREW DONOGHUE, Silicon.com,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Oracle,  Trinity Mirror,  Microsoft Corporation,  Gartner, Inc.,  IBM

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