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This Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide is an in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting.

Macs are on the rise:

Rebecca Runkle and Kathryn Huberty, the authors of the report, said Apple Computer Inc., based in Cupertino, Calif., could see its global PC market share increase in 2005 from about 3 percent to 5 percent. Market share represents the number of units sold in a period; this is distinct from the idea of installed base, which is how many total people own the product.

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Several organisations have released browser usage share figures recently and for once WebSideStory and OneStat.com are not among them. Jatin B. sent us a link to an InformationWeek article that says Mozilla Firefox now has a market share of over six percent. The figures come from Net Applications, who put Firefox's share at 6.17 percent in February, up from 5.59 percent in January. The firm says that Microsoft Internet Explorer lost share in the same period, falling from 90.31 percent in December to 89.04 percent last month. According to Net Applications CEO Dan Shapero, "Firefox is currently the only browser that is increasing market share on a monthly basis, and it is growing at the direct expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer."

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KDE 3.3 Makes Linux More Collaborative:
The open source KDE Project has upped the stakes for desktop Linux with the latest version of its desktop platform KDE 3.3, which was released Thursday.

New features include text-to-speech and other nice improvements.

The new version of KDE comes on the heals of recent IDC report that shows the Linux desktop has now surpassed the Apple Mac desktop to become the number 2 desktop behind dominant Microsoft Windows.

According to IDC, Linux now represents 6 percent of the desktop market in 2003. The research firm partially attributed Linux's desktop growth to "the perception that it can be obtained at zero cost, or at least at very low cost."

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Great summary of trackback technology, plus a Video Guide to Understanding Trackbacks for Beginners.

Trackbacks are often misunderstood and so seldom used by new bloggers. Trackback is a powerful way to get content recognition from search bots crawling the rich blog link structures, it is a great way to alert others to your content as well as receive notice when other bloggers are referencing you. Trackbacks are a good way to get inbound links and generate FREE traffic. Trackbacks are definitely a powerful content promotion and distribution strategy. When used properly, Trackbacks can get you noticed and get you traffic

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