Microsoft And Linux Hold Peace Tweets
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Microsoft And Linux Hold Peace Tweets
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Unpacking the faster and better Firefox 3.5
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Psystar is Back! The sequel …
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PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives tailored for admins
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HTML 5 drops open-source video codec
3 Jul 2009 | 10:57 amHTML 5 drops open-source video codec
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Planck Telescope Is Coolest Spacecraft Ever
4 Jul 2009 | 2:39 pmHugh Pickens writes "Launched in May, BBC reports that Europe's Planck observatory has reached its operating temperature, a staggering minus 273.05C — just a tenth of a degree above what scientists term "absolute zero." and although laboratory set-ups have got closer to absolute zero than Planck, researchers say it is unlikely there is anywhere in space currently that is colder than their astronomical satellite. This frigidity should ensure the bolometers will be at their most sensitive as they look for variations in the temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) that are… -
The Laptop, Circa 1968
4 Jul 2009 | 1:28 pmHarry writes "In 1968, computers tended to occupy entire rooms, and were therefore hard to take with you. But Computerworld reports on Anderson Jacobson's 75-pound Teletype-terminal-in-a-case, an early attempt to let folks compute from anywhere. (Well, anywhere they had power and access to a telephone for the Teletype's acoustic coupler.) Wheels were optional."Read more of this story at Slashdot. -
New Video of Tesla's Mass-Market Electric Car
4 Jul 2009 | 12:22 pmSlatterz writes "The Tesla Roadster has almost mythical status among electric car enthusiasts. It's fast, with high torque over a wide RPM range, and can beat a Ferrari in terms of acceleration. Now Tesla has released new video of its upcoming new electric car, called the Model S, which Tesla Motors claims is the world's first mass produced fully-electric vehicle. Unlike the Lotus-Elise based Roadster, the Model S is a traditional sedan of the type millions of commuters might actually drive. Tesla claims it will fit seven people (if two of them are "children under 10"), and has mounted a… -
Study Deconstructs Canadian Copyright Lobby Deception
4 Jul 2009 | 11:19 amAn anonymous reader writes "A new Canadian study deconstructs how copyright lobby groups manipulate public opinion by laundering proposals through seemingly independent groups. The study started after the Conference Board of Canada was shown to have plagiarized several of its IP reports and now shows the connections that all lead through the MPAA and RIAA. Michael Geist writes, 'It is not just that these reports all receive financial support from the same organizations and say largely the same thing. It is also that the reports each build on one another, creating the false impression of… -
AOL Shuts Down CompuServe
4 Jul 2009 | 10:08 amOracle Goddess writes "After 30 years, CompuServe is all but dead, as AOL has pulled the plug on the once-great company. The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the first major online service. CompuServe users will be able to use their existing CompuServe Classic (as the service was renamed) addresses at no charge via a new e-mail system, but the software that the service was built on has been shut down. Tellingly, the current version of the service's client software, CompuServe for Windows NT 4.0.2, dates back to…
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Open Source Initiative blogs
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President Lula's Speech at FISL 10 (English Translation)
3 Jul 2009 | 5:32 amThe following is an English translation of the speech President Luis Ignatio Lula de Silva gave at the 10th FISL conference. I was there and heard a live, simultaneous translation of this speech courtesy of former OSI board member Bruno Souza. Well, actually, Dilma spoke for the Brazillian government. There was no need for me to say absolutly nothing in here today, because I think that passing through that 'Polish corridor', which I passed to get here, it was worth at least four speeches. But I wanted to congratulate my comrades from the Ministry who are here with us. I would like to… -
Open Source Incentives
2 Jul 2009 | 8:34 amMy recent visit to Brazil was a wonderful validation of the belief that I've held for more than 20 years: if you give people a better way to do things, they'll do better things. The Brazilian government continues to expand its adoption of open source, both across more and more ministries and deeper within each ministry. I had the pleasure of talking with one of Brazil's top IT strategists, and she told me some very interesting things, both encouraging and alarming. read more -
Open Source inspires Open Music
26 Jun 2009 | 10:49 amYesterday I had a chance to meet the lead singer of O Teatro Magico and then see their show. It was amazing! This creative group of musicians were about to "live the dream" by signing with a record company a number of years ago, but after they recorded the songs for their first album, the recording company said "sorry, but you need to change everything so that it sounds more like pop." read more -
President Lula of Brazil receives ITU Award, Open Source Software cited (updated)
22 Jun 2009 | 10:53 amThere's a lot of good news that does not always reach me at my desk in a single hop. But when I travel around the world, the good news of the region I'm visiting has a way of finding me, such as the news that the ITU has bestowed the World Telecommunication and Information Society Award on President Lula of Brazil. Congratulations, Mr. President! President Lula's acceptance speech is instructive, as it specifically calls out the social benefits of free and open source software (original Portuguese, [with English translation bracketed], emphasis mine): read more -
A new argument against SWPAT (thanks to environmental economics)
10 Jun 2009 | 4:15 amI've heard a lot of arguments against software patents (SWPAT) since Richard Stallman first raised the flag at the League for Programming Freedom, and almost all of the arguments are variations on a theme. A valid theme, but a theme that, after 20 years, has become a bit monotonous. Herman Daly puts that theme in a new context that has me all excited. He says read more
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OPEN SOURCE NEWS - Google News
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Celebrating freedom with open source - TechRepublic
4 Jul 2009 | 12:31 pmCelebrating freedom with open sourceTechRepublicAnd with this celebration, I thought it would be a good day to remind everyone what open source is all about…at least on a fundamental, non-TCO-ROI level. and more » -
How open source is growing up - BBC News
4 Jul 2009 | 1:33 amBBC NewsHow open source is growing upBBC NewsThere is no doubt that free technologies, mainly open source software, are proving more popular both inside and outside the computer industry. and more » -
Atari 7800 goes open source - CrunchGear
3 Jul 2009 | 6:36 pmCrunchGearAtari 7800 goes open sourceCrunchGear series,” Atari has released the source code to several awesome but rarely-played Atari 7800 games, including Dig Dug, Centipede, Joust, and Pac-Man. and more » -
Open-source licensing: Your mileage may vary - CNET News
3 Jul 2009 | 9:18 amOpen-source licensing: Your mileage may varyCNET NewsOver the past 10 years that I've been involved in open source, one thing has become strikingly clear to me: there are no real predictors of and more » -
HTML 5 drops open-source video codec - ZDNet UK
3 Jul 2009 | 9:09 amHTML 5 drops open-source video codecZDNet UKIan Hickson wrote on Monday that he was reluctantly dropping the open standard due to opposition from Apple, and said the rival H.264 codec could also not No Codec Requirements for the HTML 5 Standard As the browser SoftpediaVendor Squabbles Cause W3C to Scrap Codec RequirementPC WorldBrowser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 CodecsSlashdotall 15 news articles »
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Open Source Pixels
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Linus Issues Independence Day 2.6.31-rc2 Kernel
4 Jul 2009 | 2:54 pmFor those of you not out celebrating the Independence Day / 4th of July in America, there is a new release candidate for the Linux 2.6.31 kernel that is now ready for testing. In this second release candidate there is a new DRM pull bringing various fixes and improvements, including Intel DisplayPort support for hardware with such new connectors. -
KDE 4.3 RC1 in Kubuntu 9.04 - Overview & Screenshots
4 Jul 2009 | 1:57 pmThe first change it jumps into the eye is the new Plasma appearance, called Aero now. It is brighter than the old one, but I found it looking not so appealing, at least not for the desktop widgets. Here’s how the desktop looks in Kubuntu Jaunty, with several widgets running on the desktop: -
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Saints, Gentlemen and Schoolchildren
4 Jul 2009 | 1:01 pmAt the start of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit on the Canary Islands, Richard Stallman, Robert Lefkowitz and Walter Bender rallied open source developers in their common tasks. -
The State of Collaborative Web Publishing
4 Jul 2009 | 10:07 amSure, Wikipedia still has a page for everything from Charlemagne to Chewbacca, but it seems more attention now is focused on kick-back-and-have-fun social networks, not hit-the-books-and-contribute-some-research wikis. Has the wiki well run dry? -
Cloned Distro’s: Why Ubuntu sucks and should be banned
4 Jul 2009 | 7:03 amTo write it down clearly: I don’t like clones. There are too many distro’s out there as it is. Over the last years I have had many people ask me: I have tried Distro X, Y and Z, can you help me? Just a while back a colleague told me, I have upgraded Ubuntu and now my server won’t work, can you help me? Or constantly I get people telling me, I have tried Clone of Clone X, Y, Z, it looks nice, but then I upgraded and it hosed my system.
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OPEN SOURCE NEWS - Google Blog Search
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Open source | WORLD-BIGGEST-NEWS.COM
4 Jul 2009 | 1:15 amWhile the core software may be free to download and install, some companies are making money from open source by offering support services. This can be in the form of a helpdesk or more technical aid to troubleshoot problems once the ... -
Microsoft weighs next-phase in open-source support | Linux Plus
3 Jul 2009 | 11:45 pmMicrosoft weighs next-phase in open-source support. July 4th, 2009 | News. Microsoft's, shall we say, cautious engagement with open-source could mean frameworks like Spring and Hibernate are the next projects tuned to Windows. ... -
It News For You » Blog Archive » Atari 7800 goes open source - It ...
3 Jul 2009 | 6:08 pmAtari 7800 goes open source. In a a little overtaken by night propel calculated to “accord. possible developers discernment into the Atari'sitting gambling platform thus they may maybe figure on the subject of the 7800 order,” Atari has ... -
Winning war won't secure peace for open source | Linux Plus
3 Jul 2009 | 11:01 amWinning war won't secure peace for open source. July 4th, 2009 | News. According to Mahatma Gandhi: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."* So by that reckoning, it must be pretty much 'job ... -
Smartphone shipments with open source OS to total 223 million by ...
2 Jul 2009 | 9:30 pmThe number of smartphones shipped with open source OS will increase from 106 million this year to 223 million by 2014, according to Juniper Research. The research firm found that operating systems and the applications are playing an ...
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CH: Court to BBL: 'Continue using proprietary licences at own risk'
3 Jul 2009 | 12:15 pmThe Swiss government's Department for Building and Logistics (BBL) can continue to use the Microsoft licences it purchased without a public tender earlier this year, but at its own risk, the Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland said today. -
NL: Dutch police will study moving to open source
3 Jul 2009 | 12:04 pmThe Dutch police will start investigating how to increase its use of open standards and open source software. A plan to implement the two types of software should be ready early next year, just in time to meet the government's deadline. -
Open source repository to offer tailored development space
30 Jun 2009 | 9:47 amPublic administrations developing open source applications but lacking the resources to manage their own development sites, can turn to OSOR for help. The European Commission's Open Source Observatory and Repository project is now offering Virtual Forges, with the look and feel of local development and repository websites. -
PT: Advocacy group criticises government portal, builds alternative
30 Jun 2009 | 8:29 amPortugal's National Association for the promotion of Free Software (Ansol) accuses the government Office of Construction and Property (INCI) of having broken procurement rules after it admitted on Monday that it had signed a 268,000 euro contract with Microsoft for the government's website on Public Expenses, Base, without a public tender. -
UK: 'Police systems should be open source to ensure interoperability'
30 Jun 2009 | 8:14 amThe UK's emergency systems should be based on open source, to help ensure interoperability, the British IT news service ZDNet reports last week Tuesday quotes Ian Readhead, director of Information of ACPO, the Association of Chief Police Officers.
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Spezify: Visual Search Tool
23 Jun 2009 | 4:44 pmI learned about this visual search tool when I decided to check-in on the Twitlive video stream and ended up watching a Net@Nite discussion between Leo LaPorte and Sarah Lane... Spezify I'm not sure it is something I will use regularly. But, it does provide an interesting way to literally "look for something" on the web. Note: It doesn't render correctly when viewed using Safari 4. However, Firefox 3's rendering looks fine. -
TrueCrypt 6.2a: FIle Container or Full Drive Encryption
22 Jun 2009 | 3:22 pmJust a quick note that TrueCrypt 6.2a was released on June 15. TrueCrypt is an amazing Open Source encryption app that can create encrypted file containers that are mounted as drives or entire drives (including boot drives). It works with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. -
Adobe's Acrobat.com Became a Freemium Service
14 Jun 2009 | 10:56 pmAdobe's Acrobat.com added a somewhat pricey (compared to most other web services) premium service in addition to its existing free service. Acrobat.com Premium The premium service is priced at $39 per month or discounted to $390 if you play for a full year. You can find a good description of the site's premium service in this CNET article... read more -
Farkie.com: Transcode and Download YouTube & Other Web Media
12 Jun 2009 | 11:46 pmI learned about... Farkie.com read more -
Microsoft's Jimmy Schementi Talks About IronRuby in a Channel 9 Video Interview
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Infoworld News
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You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
3 Jul 2009 | 3:00 amYou win some; you lose some. This week China decided its Web censorship filtering software was not quite ready for prime time, while U.S. courts sentenced phone hackers and file swappers to some crime time. Another Facebook-wannabe went down the tubes, another gadget Web site got birthed, and yet one more politician is undressed, so to speak, by his own e-mails. Are you up to speed on all things geek? Prove it by acing our quiz. Correct answers are worth 10 points, and no, we won’t block your Web access if you mention Taiwan. -
XHTML 2 language dumped in favor of HTML 5
2 Jul 2009 | 1:52 pmLooking to focus on the budding -- and game-changing -- HTML 5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase available resources for the effort by discontinuing further development of XHTML 2. XHTML been an XML-based version of HTML and has been the subject of several W3C efforts ranging from XHTML 1.0 to XHTML Modularization and XHTML 2. The 2 version of the XHTML language was to offer capabilities for mobile systems and internationalization. -
Cisco looks to accelerate virtualization deployments
2 Jul 2009 | 11:56 amCisco is looking to accelerate the rate at which customers adopt and implement virtualization in their datacenters, company officials said at a Cisco customer event this week. Demand for virtualized datacenters is high, they said, due to the complexity of managing and provisioning physical resources, securing that environment, maximizing utilization of assets, numerous network connections, and the rising costs of facilities and energy usage. -
Bing beats Google to the punch, launches Twitter search
2 Jul 2009 | 10:17 amMicrosoft's Bing has beaten Google to the punch.Google has been rumored to be casting an eye toward creating a tool for searching social networking sites, like Twitter. But today, Bing came out and did it. -
Browser vendor squabbles cause W3C to scrap codec requirement
2 Jul 2009 | 9:14 amThe latest rewrite of the Web's mother tongue won't recommend the use of specific audio and video encoding formats that could make it cheaper and easier for people to distribute multimedia content. The major browser makers have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, wrote Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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OSDir.com
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Linux Kernel Patch Works Around Microsoft's FAT Patents
From the PHAT dept.: The FAT file system is the file system used by MS-DOS and earlier versions of Windows. It's a relatively simple and straightforward file system, supported by just about any operating system, making it the favoured file system on memory cards and the like. FAT is an ECMA and ISO standard, but these only apply for FAT12 and FAT16 without support for long file names, and therein lies a problem. ...The new patch offers support for long file names without infringing any of Microsoft's patents. This isn't just an empty claim; several patent lawyers with expertise in this area… -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Beta Released
From the Get Virtualized dept.: Red Hat today officially announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (RHEL), which in my view is a lot more than a typical point release. Sure we're all waiting for the big RHEL 6 release, but there are some major changes in RHEL 5.4. The most obvious change is the shift to the KVM hypervisor (as opposed to Xen). Xen is still in RHEL, but with RHEL 5.4, Red Hat is signaling its intention that KVM (eventually) is to be Red Hat's preferred Hypervisor. It's a preference that Red Hat execs have indicated at multiple points this year and should… -
PostgreSQL 8.4
From the Not Oracle dept.: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released version 8.4, continuing the rapid development of the world's most advanced open source database. This release contains an abundance of enhancements to make administering, querying, and programming of PostgreSQL databases easier than ever before. With 293 new or improved features in version 8.4, there are even more reasons to choose PostgreSQL for your next project. The most numerous changes in PostgreSQL 8.4 are new or improved administration and monitoring tools and commands. Each user has their own favorite… -
Firefox 3.5 Released
From the Expecting Chrome Release Announcement in 3...2...1 dept.: Things move quickly online, and we’ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2.* As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive. -
PHP 5.3.0 Released!
From the dept.: The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more.
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OPEN SOURCE WINDOWS NEWS - Google News
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VirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics support - Ars Technica
4 Jul 2009 | 12:36 pmVirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics supportArs TechnicaSun released VirtualBox 3 this week, the latest version of its open source x86 virtualization software. The new version introduces support for 3D graphics Labs Gallery: Sun xvm virtualbox 3.0 Ramps Up Challenge to vmware eWeekall 7 news articles » -
Celebrating freedom with open source - TechRepublic
4 Jul 2009 | 12:31 pmCelebrating freedom with open sourceTechRepublicAnd with this celebration, I thought it would be a good day to remind everyone what open source is all about…at least on a fundamental, non-TCO-ROI level. and more » -
Browser Users Can Celebrate an Independent's Day - Washington Post
4 Jul 2009 | 4:05 amPC Games HardwareBrowser Users Can Celebrate an Independent's DayWashington PostWe can: The open-source code of Firefox and Chrome can be improved and reused by others. Safari, in turn, runs on an open-source framework that has itself Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typographyCNET NewsFirefox 3.5 has a lot to offerHinduBrowser battle royale: Which should you use?Christian Science MonitorITvoir -Minyanville.comall 24 news articles » -
iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web - CNET News
3 Jul 2009 | 11:00 amCNET NewsiPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits WebCNET News they are less expensive and constantly updated. for now, I'm willing to trade that for open source, but maybe as time goes on, I'll feel it's not a fair and more » -
Open-source licensing: Your mileage may vary - CNET News
3 Jul 2009 | 9:18 amOpen-source licensing: Your mileage may varyCNET NewsOver the past 10 years that I've been involved in open source, one thing has become strikingly clear to me: there are no real predictors of and more »
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OPEN SOURCE MAC NEWS - Google News
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VirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics support - Ars Technica
4 Jul 2009 | 12:36 pmVirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics supportArs TechnicaSun released VirtualBox 3 this week, the latest version of its open source x86 virtualization software. The new version introduces support for 3D graphics and more » -
Browser Users Can Celebrate an Independent's Day - Washington Post
4 Jul 2009 | 4:05 amPC Games HardwareBrowser Users Can Celebrate an Independent's DayWashington PostWe can: The open-source code of Firefox and Chrome can be improved and reused by others. Safari, in turn, runs on an open-source framework that has itself Browser battle royale: Which should you use?Christian Science MonitorFirefox in the Henhouse: New Browser Outstrips MicrosoftMinyanville.comFirefox 3.5 : What's new?ITvoirall 24 news articles » -
iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web - CNET News
3 Jul 2009 | 11:00 amCNET NewsiPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits WebCNET News they are less expensive and constantly updated. for now, I'm willing to trade that for open source, but maybe as time goes on, I'll feel it's not a fair and more » -
Debian rejects open-source .NET threat claim - Register
2 Jul 2009 | 5:15 pmDebian rejects open-source .NET threat claimRegister the long-running open-source implementation of .NET now sponsored by Novell. Tomboy is a note-taking application for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X The H WeekThe HStallman warns of Mono 'risk'ZDNet UKDebian accepts Mono applicationsInquirerall 9 news articles » -
Essential Mac Skills for the IT Professional - informIT
1 Jul 2009 | 7:39 amEssential Mac Skills for the IT ProfessionalinformITBy aggregating a number of open source technologies, Apple has also positioned Mac OS X Server as a single platform-neutral solution for an even wider range and more »
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OPEN SOURCE LINUX NEWS - Google News
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VirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics support - Ars Technica
4 Jul 2009 | 12:36 pmVirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics supportArs TechnicaVirtualBox is becoming especially popular on the Linux platform because its open source licensing makes it easy for Linux distributors to package and Labs Gallery: Sun xvm virtualbox 3.0 Ramps Up Challenge to vmware eWeekall 7 news articles » -
Celebrating freedom with open source - TechRepublic
4 Jul 2009 | 12:31 pmCelebrating freedom with open sourceTechRepublicI have made a living with open source. I currently write for three major web sites (Techrepublic, Linux.com, and Ghacks) and I use strictly open source and more » -
How open source is growing up - BBC News
4 Jul 2009 | 1:33 amBBC NewsHow open source is growing upBBC NewsMany of the open source applications have millions of users. For instance, statistics suggest that there are about 40 to 50 million users of Linux desktops, and more » -
Debian rejects open-source .NET threat claim - Register
2 Jul 2009 | 5:15 pmDebian rejects open-source .NET threat claimRegisterDebian, the foundation of Ubuntu, has rejected claims that it is potentially holding Linux's future hostage to Microsoft by including an open-source The H WeekThe HDebian accepts Mono applicationsInquirerDebian claims Mono not part of default installiTWireall 9 news articles » -
Moblin 2.0 beta officially released as open source - Geek.com
2 Jul 2009 | 1:19 pmMoblin 2.0 beta officially released as open sourceGeek.comIt is a new open source version of Linux, and can be compiled for any netbook that has pretty much any processor, as long as it has a decent 3D graphics Moblin: a First Look at Intel's Open-Source OSPC WorldIntel officially releases Moblin 2.0 betaV3.co.ukIntel continues to push Linux on AtomFudzillaall 9 news articles »
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NYT to Release Thesaurus and Enter Linked Data Cloud
26 Jun 2009 | 7:55 amAt last week's Semantic Technology Conference, we announced our intention to publish The New York Times thesaurus under a license that will allow the community to both use it and contribute back to it. The results will, in time, prepare The Times to enter the linked data cloud. Many details remain to be worked out. We welcome your feedback. -
Introducing NYT_Transformer
15 Jun 2009 | 9:32 amToday we're releasing a PHP framework called NYT_Transformer: a flexible data processor that can be customized for various input and output types. -
TimesOpen: Tim O'Reilly Keynote Video
13 May 2009 | 9:07 amFor those of you who were not able to make it to our Times Open event, here's a video of Tim O'Reilly's opening keynote address. -
Times Wire: Clear, Chronological Content
12 May 2009 | 1:36 pmAlthough it was soft-launched and publicly accessible as of last Thursday, today Times Wire is officially live. And the next few days should be very revealing - I'm looking forward to seeing how it's received. -
Announcing the New York Times API Silverlight Toolkit
12 May 2009 | 6:55 amLast week at the Microsoft Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference, we announced the availability of the New York Times API Silverlight Toolkit. The Toolkit, developed in conjunction with Microsoft, covers the full spectrum of NYT APIs and greatly simplifies development with our APIs and the Silverlight platform. The Toolkit is open source, and we hope [...]
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With clouds license arguments become fog
2 Jul 2009 | 6:53 amMatt Asay makes a great point. When you are using a cloud software licenses don’t matter much. (Picture from NASA via Visible Earth.) This has always been true, of course. Ever since the Web was spun, users of Web services have remained blissfully ignorant of disputes over software licenses. Licenses, we don’t need no steenkin’ licenses. What is changing today is simply the balance of where client computing takes place. Power and responsibility are moving to what used to be called the server side. Things I used to do on my PC, like get my mail and manage my calendar, are… -
Is the GPL losing its grip?
1 Jul 2009 | 5:55 amIn the latest Black Duck analysis of open source licensing trends, it appears on the surface that the GPL has lost significant market share. That is, until you look inside the numbers. Versions of the GPL are currently being used by 65% of all projects, down from about 70% a year ago, with V3 licensing now on track to become the fourth most-widely used license by the end of the year. The only non-GPL licenses to attract significant usage are the Artistic License and the standard BSD. But the GPV v3 should, at its present rate of growth, pass the latter in share within six months, the report… -
Firefox 3.5 released, more than 1.1M downloads already
30 Jun 2009 | 11:31 amMozilla claims one million copies of Firefox 3.5 have been downloaded during its first day of release. During the browser team’s weekly meeting today that began at 2:00 pm EST, developers reported the crossing of the one million download milestone. By the end of the meeting, the number of donwloads reached 1.1 million, according to developers on the call. Firefox 3.5 was officially made available Tuesday, meeting the planned milestone that was announced last week. It is a major release for the openundefined source browser team. Developers initially planned a minor 3.6 update late last… -
Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?
30 Jun 2009 | 5:30 amRichard Stallman (right) of the Free Software Foundation sees C# and Mono as a Microsoft conspiracy and is warning developers away from it. Stallman’s fear is that Microsoft will use its software patents to force open source C# implementations, and applications, underground. Any move toward bringing C#, which Microsoft developed and Mono, which Microsoft supports, into the center of the Linux community must therefore be resisted. The problem is not in the C# implementations, but rather in Tomboy and other applications written in C#. If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them too. That… -
Gatekeepers of open source innovation
29 Jun 2009 | 9:11 amIn a highly-recommended post on Friday, our Matt Asay asks a key question. How do we build innovation into open source? (The picture is from Wikipedia. Guess who it is, then click to get the full post.) Taking his title from Eric Raymond’s book, Matt suggests that the proprietary model may be the best way to go here, and suggests that open core licensing, credited to JasperSoft’s Andrew Lampitt, may be the best route forward. The problem is that innovation demands a committed team, and an ample incentive. By making the core of a product open source, then offering the secret sauce…
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LXer Linux News
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Linus Issues Independence Day 2.6.31-rc2 Kernel
4 Jul 2009 | 2:54 pmFor those of you not out celebrating the Independence Day / 4th of July in America, there is a new release candidate for the Linux 2.6.31 kernel that is now ready for testing. In this second release candidate there is a new DRM pull bringing various fixes and improvements, including Intel DisplayPort support for hardware with such new connectors. -
KDE 4.3 RC1 in Kubuntu 9.04 - Overview & Screenshots
4 Jul 2009 | 1:57 pmThe first change it jumps into the eye is the new Plasma appearance, called Aero now. It is brighter than the old one, but I found it looking not so appealing, at least not for the desktop widgets. Here's how the desktop looks in Kubuntu Jaunty, with several widgets running on the desktop: -
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Saints, Gentlemen and Schoolchildren
4 Jul 2009 | 1:01 pmAt the start of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit on the Canary Islands, Richard Stallman, Robert Lefkowitz and Walter Bender rallied open source developers in their common tasks. -
AmigaForever 2009 Released
4 Jul 2009 | 11:06 amWhile I'm still chipping away at my AmigaOS 4.1/sam440ep review (try writing a thesis and a large review at the same time), Cloanto released AmigaForever 2009. AmigaForever is a very full-featured AmigaOS emulation tool, packed with various different ROMs and AmigaOS versions (1.3-3.x), as well as tons and tons of included games, software, and demos. This new version comes with even more stuff. -
The State of Collaborative Web Publishing
4 Jul 2009 | 10:07 amSure, Wikipedia still has a page for everything from Charlemagne to Chewbacca, but it seems more attention now is focused on kick-back-and-have-fun social networks, not hit-the-books-and-contribute-some-research wikis. Has the wiki well run dry?
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OSWD: Open Source Web Design
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New Design: Cloudy Water Sports by boilers
boilers's "Cloudy Water Sports" was just added to OSWD! It is gray and blue and validates XHTML 1.0 Strict. -
New Design: Delicious Fruit by Dieter
Dieter's "Delicious Fruit" was just added to OSWD! It is yellow and green and validates XHTML 1.0 Strict. -
New Design: Touching by timmytima
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Open Sourcery
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Cleaning up your act, with a little handsoap
12 Jun 2009 | 11:10 amHandsoap is a new, fresh Ruby library for creating SOAP clients. Why am I excited about soap? I’m not, unless they’re beautiful. Yet, somewhere along the line you are going to be faced with writing a client for a SOAP service. Whether it is from your suppliers (4 different crap API’s in my case), or just for mashing up data from a rest-less source. Ruby has very little to offer in terms of SOAP, afaik it only had soap4r until handsoap came along… BIG DISCLAIMER: This is not a flame war against soap4r, it’s against SOAP. The authors and contributors have spent a… -
daemon-kit Progress Report
10 Jun 2009 | 4:29 pmSince I last announced Capistrano support for daemon-kit, a few other things have happened that is steadily moving the project forward. Here is a synopsis of them all: No more daemons Sounds contradictory, but I’ve stripped out the daemons gem as a depedency. Everything the daemons gem offered is now handled inhouse, and works much better. For more information please read the release announcement. Better command line argument handling A lot has been done to smooth out command line argument handling, and daemons can now tap into the command line processing very easily. Details in the… -
Capistrano for your daemons
25 May 2009 | 6:37 pmNothing like some possitive feedback to keep you looking after your own projects, and the feedback on daemon-kit has been great so far. My TODO list is growing every day with more features that I need, and others need as well. I mostly add features to daemon-kit as I need them right away, for this reason the docs is still lacking and the support site hasn’t been setup yet. However, I’ve setup the following channels for daemon-kit communication (and updated the README): daemon-kit@googlegroups.com #daemon-kit on Freenode I’ll be doing my best to stay on top of these channels… -
Safety nets for your Ruby daemons
13 May 2009 | 8:47 amDaemon-kit has been getting a lot of TLC from me lately, and it’s not going to stop anytime soon. As I wander deeper and deeper into AMQP territory, I need to extend daemon-kit to cope with all kinds of new scenarios. One of those being unhandled exceptions. The second thing I put on the TODO list was Rails-style exception handling. With version 0.1.6 there has been some progress made in that regard. Daemon-kit now sports a configurable safety net for dangerous code. By wrapping blocks of code in a “safety net”, unhandled exceptions are caught and logged, and optionally sent… -
Quick *nix shadow passwords with Ruby
1 May 2009 | 4:00 amJust thought I’d share this one to boost the available online information. Using String#crypt and man crypt you’ll come up with something similar to the gist below (extract from a project I’m busy working on). module Linux class User class << self # Generate an MD5 salt string def salt seeds = ('a'..'z').to_a seeds.concat( ('A'..'Z').to_a ) seeds.concat( (0..9).to_a ) seeds.concat [, ] seeds.compact! salt_string = '$1$' 8.times { salt_string << seeds[ rand(seeds.size) ].to_s } …
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Open Source Release Feed
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Spring Python 1.0.0 Released
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Python's 1.0.0 GA is available. Spring Python takes the concepts implemented by the Spring Framework, and applies them to Python. This is a historic occasion as -
Amaya 11.2 Released
Amaya 11.2, a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web, is now available. This new version comes with new features: CSS: Support of z-index, -
BlackTie MR5 Released - Adds Cross Platform Transaction Support
We are very pleased to announce the availability of BlackTie MR5. This release represents a significant shift forward for the project as it introduces a significant new feature set: -
FileZilla Client 3.2.6.1 Released - FTP Over TLS Regressions Fixed
A new version of he popular open source FTP cient FileZilla has just been released. Fixes and changes in this release include: Fix FTP over TLS regressions in provided binaries due -
JBoss JCA 1.0.0.Alpha1 Released
The Java Connector Architecture (JCA) defines a standard architecture for connecting the Java EE platform to heterogeneous Enterprise Information Systems (EIS). The goal of the JBoss JCA
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Packt Publishing
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Transferring Data from MS Access 2003 to SQL Server 2008
3 Jul 2009 | 5:20 amTransferring Data from MS Access 2003 to SQL Server 2008 Friday, July 3, 2009 | Microsoft & .NET The Export and Import Wizard is an extremely useful tool for transferring data. In fact it is the simplest tool to copy over data from one database to another and to create data transfer packages that can be persisted. Data can be transferred between SQL Servers (between versions of SQL Servers for example) as well as between even two non-Microsoft databases. Both Microsoft and proprietary data source providers are available to connect to many different database products. In this article by Dr. -
Zabbix 1.6 Network Monitoring: RAW
1 Jul 2009 | 4:00 pmZabbix 1.6 Network Monitoring: RAW Forthcoming - Monitor your network hardware, servers, and web performance effectively and efficiently Monitor your network with ease using the open source Zabbix suite with this hands-on, practical guide See More -
Enhancing User Experience with WordPress 2.7(Part 2)
29 Jun 2009 | 2:42 amEnhancing User Experience with WordPress 2.7(Part 2) Monday, June 29, 2009 | WordPress In this two-part article by Jean Baptiste-Jung, we shall learn how to enhance user experience and make your blog a better place for the visitors. In the first part we saw how to use paginator, highlight searched text in search results, and use the CSS sliding doors technique within WordPress. In this part, you will learn: Creating a drop-down menu for your categories Adding a breadcrumb to your theme Displaying related posts Displaying tabs on your sidebar See More -
70% off Drupal Multimedia
29 Jun 2009 | 1:23 am70% off Drupal Multimedia Monday, June 29, 2009 | Drupal You may already be aware that Packt eBooks are an immediate and cost effective way of receiving one of our books and are a complete electronic version of the print edition. Therefore you're going to be pleased when you find out that, we're offering 70% discount off the eBook of Drupal MultimediaGrab your copy NOW! This offer expires on July 5th, 2009! See More -
Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook: RAW
28 Jun 2009 | 4:00 pmJoomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook: RAW Forthcoming - This practical book, packed with plenty of code samples, and tips and tricks, will help you to quickly implement solutions for common Joomla! 1.5 programming design problems. See More
