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		<title>It&#8217;s your choice: Free or Not Free</title>
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I had my class this morning on computer literacy and a little bit of programming. As I first talked about my experience and a short introduction about myself I wondered if these students really know what they are doing (well, at least, in the context of computers). When they had ...</description>
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		<title>OpenEducation Disc</title>
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I had a chance to introduce alternative software applications to school librarians a couple of days ago. During our session I gave them a copy of the Open Education Disc -  which is a collection of very good free (libre) open source software products packaged into a CD. It was ...</description>
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		<title>*@H</title>
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Good day everyone!

I am working on an asterisk project now with ipcop, monowall and pfsense which I am hoping to be successful the soonest possible time. My idea is utilizing all workstationsin our network (specially office computers) as voice terminals to maximize employee productivity and perhaps to minimize cost... One ...</description>
		<link>http://blog.valquimno.com/linux-stuff/free-open-source-software/h/</link>
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		<title>Scarcity of Internet Resources</title>
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What can we do?

We have proposed for an upgrade considering that the number of terminals connected in our network increased rapidly. The scenario was presented to uni admins and they have acknowledged the need to upgrade. But what's going on? Well, considering that we have limited resources they deferred the ...</description>
		<link>http://blog.valquimno.com/uni/scarcity-of-internet-resources/</link>
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		<title>Trying Hard</title>
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For a couple of days now, we are trying our best to provide better service to our clients (students). With the depleting budget of the government, we are finding ways to, at least, give it all out to our clients.

We have started this big leap by acquiring new internet subscription ...</description>
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