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exfinist.er    (εks-'fınəstər)   v.    to 
remove   and/or  replace  windows.    -n.
-ation. the act of exfinistration.   -or.
-rix. a person who exfinisters.   -erial.
pertaining to exfinistration. -rant. tool
or material  used to permit or facilitate
exfinistration.   -ry.  venerable body or
group of people  dedicated to the task of
exfinistration.  -rable. capable of being
exfinistered.   -reria.   the  (typically
elated)   state    experienced   by   the
exfinist-or/rix  brought on by the act of
exfinistration.

This article was written by Ramon Casha.

This is the Maltese spell checker project. Actually, the spell checker is aspell. This project provides the Maltese word list for it. Any software that interfaces with aspell can do spell checking in Maltese – all you have to do is select the language from the list. This includes most text-processing Linux applications.

aspell Maltese word list
aspell6-mt-0.4.tar.bz2
Version: 0.4

Maltese wordlist for aspell, tested on aspell 0.6

Author:	Ramon Casha
Date:	24/10/2012

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Online Spellcheker

If you are looking for the online form which allows you to copy & paste text and check it online, click here.

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This article was written by user salvinod.

This writeup aims to describe how the above clip was made. These clips can be made with Open Source software and almost any digital camera.

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Article written by Josef Lauri

Have you ever thought of the value of a recipe? When a loved one serves you your favourite dish at home, a family recipe passed down form the previous generation, have you ever stopped to think about its price? How much would you be willing to pay to recreate it if you lost that recipe? What laws regulate what you can do with it? Can you share the recipe with your friends? Or must it stay in the family?

Probably you have not. And that is because traditionally, and in practice, recipes have been mostly free. Recipes are not free in a monetary sense. You may have to pay to buy a good recipe book, and you still have to buy the ingredients. But, recipes are free from constraints.

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This article was written by Ramon Casha.

The announcement by the Ministry responsible for IT that it is actively seeking open-source solutions came as a surprise, albeit a very welcome one. It signals a shift from our government being bound to and dependent almost exclusively on one supplier, to a more open IT scene, and one which is based on some very healthy practices of openness and competition. It’s no secret that the Government’s policies in IT will propagate across the private sector, as well as MCAST and the University.

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Article written by Anton Xuereb

As some of you might know, BBB (Big Buck Bunny) is the second open movie created entirely with blender. (Blender is an open source 3D design/animation/rendering program).

The main idea behind such a project is ofcourse to showcase the abilities of blender and how it can be used to create industry standard productions.

For all of you who might want to download/watch this movie, you may navigate to http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ and selecting download to be able to download or watch the movie online. You may also want to buy a DVD-set with which you will be supporting any new open movie projects

I will try to mirror a copy of the movie on our mirror later on for those who do not want to download a large file from an international website.

As you might notice, our Website isn’t what you might call top of the charts active…Although we do have the odd news story every now and then, one will realise that not much discussion happens here.

So is it because we don’t discuss anything ? On the contrary, those who are subscribed to our Mailing list will know that discussions, flamewars and miscellaneous pieces of geekdom abound there.. Which brings me on to the main point of this rather lengthy post..Our mailing list.

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