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AD.2006.Jan.30.Mon.20:33:44.UTC

Band sells 120,000 copies of album via online distro

Filed under: news, audi, flo, is/it, web x.x, media

the album

The Arctic Monkeys sold 120,000 copies of their first album, making it the fastest selling album in Britain thanks to their Internet saavy. They promoted sites illegally playing their music and gave out demo copies which quickly fanned out across the Net. Take that RIAA.

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IBM DB2 Express-C Open-sourced, Viper Bits Coming

Filed under: work, flo, is/it

IBM DB2 database released as a “light” open-source version, Express-C, along with free community training and support. Limited to 2 processor cores but no database size limit, it will run on Linux or Windows and include venom from DB2’s upcoming relational native-XML release, Viper.

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slick tunez 09 and rippin rad net

Filed under: , audi, flo

funky hot mix
the latest slick tune comes from funky hot mix radio in france (i think), c/o the gnu/gpl streamtuner: MOUSSE T VS THE DANDY WARHOLS - Horny As Dandy

AD.2006.Jan.28.Sat.08:12:29.UTC

Free stock photos gallery (redesigned)

Filed under: flo, tools, art, pix

A free stock photo gallery with lot’s of great pictures you can use for your personal work. You can coose from Aminals, Constructions, 3D renderings, Nature pix, Textures & Backgrounds, web templates and mo’! Looks not too shab.

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25 Reasons to Convert to Linux, with Numbers

A comprehensive yet concise list of quickly readable reasons to “migrate” to GNU/Linux from any proprietary operating system, Windows, Unix or other. From Bellevue Linux.

And it’s always good to have some handy numbers to back you up: Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers! by David A. Wheeler, Revised as of November 14, 2005.

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