Or, how to clean up after your photo-collecting self. Digital photography is great -- until the day you realize that you have over 5,428 photos and have stashed bits and pieces of your collection here or there (with multiple redundant copies).

Bottom line: get fslint to find and eliminate duplicate files on your system.

http://openid.net/ is neat. With OpenID, you can login to all your favorite websites and forget about online paperwork. I added it to the freephile wiki -- because of course that too is one of your favorite websites. (I'm that much closer to enabling a single sign-on across all applications and services provided through Rundlett.com and Freephile.com)

From Simon Baker at the Agile in Action blog:

"Quality goes down and technical debt increases with every corner cut. When prioritized against the next feature promising to deliver business value, debt never gets repaid."

"[Business decision makers] understand the cost of goods returned, the cost of rework, and the loss of customers but they choose to remain ignorant of the fact that these are typically the consequences of not valuing quality"

The Wealth Of Networks
-- Yochai Benkler
(2006)

In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing. [1]

This book is described by Lawrence Lessig as "perhaps the most important book of the 21st century" [2]

If you routinely hit "reply" in your email and keep the entire original message BELOW your reply, please be aware that an information guide to Internet Etiquette 'netiquette' was published in 1995 which provides guidance about how to properly compose a message:

If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just
enough text of the original to give a context. This will make
sure readers understand when they start to read your response.
Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the

A visual diff tool is an indispensable tool for a developer. But my favorite KDiff3 is not ready for KDE4. Here's how I got it working:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdiff3/+bug/260326

Alternatively, you could install meld

I've got a "super" new computer. ("super" meaning I really like it.) It's a Lenovo ThinkPad T500. I'm running the latest KDE (Intrepid Ibex) on it, and I'm sure that I'll have more info to post about it as I explore both the hardware and the new OS that I put on it. I have to say that I was disappointed by KDE 4.1.2 at first, but now I've seen more [1] about what it does and what it's enabling for software developers like the Amarok guys [2]. I have become more convinced that it is indeed the way forward.

"I'd argue that people who care about software freedom are
typically aware of how copyright and patent law are screwing
with our rights, whereas people who don't care about software
freedom are typically not aware of this, and instead are
mistakenly assuming that they already have the rights that
they actually don't have."

John Abreau

(excerpted from the BLU.org discussion list )

http://www.authonomy.com/ is just the latest example of a website that uses the power of open, collaborative network to create or transform a centuries-old business into a new model. If you are a publisher you might already know about it - since it's a project of HarperCollins. If you are an author, or are a book reader interested in new content you should check it out.

So, if you are using the new version of Ubuntu (/ Kubuntu) you probably want to do two things:

Switch the "KMenu" back to classic style (Right-click on the KMenu, "switch to classic menu style")

Konqueror file management almost appears to have lost the ability to show the filesystem as a tree. And it wants to give every folder it's own view settings rather than be consistent.
Open Konqueror (hard to find, but you could press Alt+F2 and type 'Konqueror')
Click Settings -> Configure Konqueror
Views -> General, Tick "Use common view properties for all folders"