extent

To what extent can a thing be an advertisement for itself? It’s an old copyright debate and one generally lost by consumers, but one red-hot in these here days of internetting, when you can have a thing quite easily digitally, with no physical – or financial – intrusion.

LinuxLinks: "There are many different ways to make backups. To a large extent the backup solution used depends on what you are backing up.

In this article we explore the key methods which are ideally suited for the home user."

How Software is Built: "The same amount of work one of the top 10 developers did last year wouldn't have even made it into the top 20 this year.

Our individual developers have got the work flow down, so we can actually contribute more, to an extent that's amazing."

IT Wire: "Over the past week, a couple of events have served to highlight the extent to which Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza is helping Microsoft to implement its strategy of curbing the growth of free and open source software."

LinuxPlanet: avahi is installed by default on Debian and Ubuntu systems, but few people seem to use it to any extent.

It's supposed to be a service auto-discovery, but what services exactly is it set up to discover? Juliet Kemp figures out if she can actually make it do something she wants it to do."

Really Linux: "To what extent is Linux serving in mission critical environments today? There are still IT leaders that consider Linux a non-contender in such environments."

blog.angulosolido.pt: "Overunderdo: To achieve good things to the extent that they can be loudly announced but to a slightly lesser extent than would actually make them useful."

Open...: "I've written a number of times about Spain's use of free software, notably at the provincial level. There's even a handy - if rather out-dated - map that shows the extent of Penguin love there.

Sadly, it looks like Microsoft is making the Spanish government an offer it thinks it can't refuse:"

ITWire: "The global economic crisis has hit the GNOME Foundation to the extent that it is now seeking public money to ensure that it can keep an executive director, who was recruited last year, on its rolls."

This multimedia system is perfect for gaming and, to a lesser extent, music listening and movies.