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Tech pioneer Bob Frankston makes the case for liberating networking from telephone and cable companies.
Nothing's perfect. That's why we'll never stop debugging everything.
Eric Raymond on the history and future of open source.
Are Linux geeks leading the way to long-awaited business reform?
If you don't like the usefulness paradigm, submit a patch.
Break down the knowledge barriers with demotic character, relative impermanence, dialogic imagination and other picture postcards.
With death threats and other terrorism, blogging ain't what it used to be.
Simon Phipps defends the open-source roots of Sun and the GPL-ization of Java.
It looks pretty, but what can it do?
The Network Computing revolution rears its beautiful head once again, thanks to Ajax.
A conversation with Michael Collins about what's up with the Manitoba Media Centre.
Let's break up the cell-phone silos, for everybody's good.
Software developers should know that even geeks sometimes want to be treated like Mom & Pop.
Who sings the praises of those who got rich taking bribes from Al Capone?
An open-source angle on muni-Net infrastructure build-out.
We're not going to get the Net we want until we quit thinking it's gravy on top of telephone and cable service.
db4objects emerges as a unique blend of company and community.
The question of whose freedom is more important.
MySQL has become a household word and a profitable business.
Visiting the grass-roots Net growing out of Copenhagen's basements.
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From the Magazine

September 2008, #173

Feeling a bit like a Thermian? Never give up, never surrender! Someday, you could go from underdog to top dog. Just take a look at a few of the underdogs we highlight in this issue: Mutt, djbdns, Nginix, Gentoo, Xara and the program voted mostly likely to fail just a few years back—Firefox. If Firefox not radical enough for you, check out Chef Marcel's column for some more alternatives. Having trouble mapping your program data to your relational database? If so, Rueven Lerner shows you some tricks in his At The Forge column.

Need to run GUI applications on your server in the next state? In his Paranoid Penguin column, Mick Bauer shows you how to do it securely. Kyle Rankin keeps hacking and slashing and shows you a few split screen secrets you may not be familiar with. Finally, we all know what happens next February, but only Doc knows what happens afterward.

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