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  • Parted Magic 2012_05_14 Has Linux Kernel 3.3.6

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    Marius Nestor
    16 May 2012 | 1:26 am
    Patrick Verner proudly announced last night, May 14th, that his Parted Magic 2012_05_14 Linux distribution is available for download.

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  • How to disable new ugly Facebok Timeline profile?

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    Bogo
    4 Apr 2012 | 8:01 am
    If you want to disable your Facebook Timeline forever – here is a nice way to do it. Yes Forever!  

  • Raspberry Pi – Hackers Rejoice!

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    Tom B.
    3 Apr 2012 | 1:07 pm
    The Raspberry Pi phenomenon has taken everyone by surprise especially its creators at the Raspberry Pi Project. Raspberry Pi hasn’t shipped yet and already demand has outstripped supply. Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer primarily designed to encourage young people and children into Computer Science and programming career paths. While I agree with their mission, that the younger generation and children have to get involved with technology and move past the latest Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 bloodbath games. Technology, to them has become second nature and mostly taken for granted; which to…

  • At the Risk of Running off the Rails

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    Gregory Miller
    7 Jan 2012 | 3:46 pm
    So, we have a phrase we like to use around here borrowed from the legal academic world.  Used to describe an action or conduct in analyzing a nuance in tort negligence, is the phrase “frolic and detour.”  I am taking a bit of detour and frolicking in an increasingly noisy element of explaining the complexity of our work here.  (The detour comes from the fact that as “Development Officer” my charge is ensuring the Foundation and projects are financed, backed, supported, and succeed in adoption.  The frolic is in the form of commentary below about software…
 
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  • The Mathematics of Obesity

    Soulskill
    16 May 2012 | 4:14 am
    Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Carson C. Chow, an MIT-trained mathematician and physicist, has taken a new look at America's obesity epidemic and found that a food glut is behind America's weight problem, with the national obesity rate jumping from 20 percent to over 30 percent since 1970. 'Beginning in the 1970s, there was a change in national agricultural policy. Instead of the government paying farmers not to engage in full production, as was the practice, they were encouraged to grow as much food as they could,' says Chow. 'With such a huge food supply, food marketing got…

  • Big Media and Big Telcos Getting Nasty In Landmark Australian Law Case

    Soulskill
    16 May 2012 | 1:21 am
    Fluffeh writes "In Australia, we have the right to record TV and play it back at a later date; we also have the right to transcode from one format to another, so anyone with a media server can legally back up their entire DVD collection and watch it without all those annoying warnings and unskippable content — as long as we don't break encryption (please stop laughing!). Optus, Australia's second largest Telco, has been raising ire though with the new TV Now service they are offering and Big Media is having a hissy fit. The service does the recording on behalf of the customer. Seems…

  • Paralyzed Man Regains Hand Function After Breakthrough Nerve Rewiring Procedure

    Soulskill
    15 May 2012 | 11:19 pm
    An anonymous reader writes "A 71-year-old man who became paralyzed from the waist down and lost all use of both hands in a 2008 car accident has regained motor function in his fingers after doctors rewired his nerves to bypass the damaged ones in a pioneering surgical procedure, according to a case study published on Tuesday."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • DDR4 May Replace Mobile Memory For Less

    Soulskill
    15 May 2012 | 9:15 pm
    Lucas123 writes "The upcoming shift from Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) RAM to its successor, DDR4, will herald a significant boost in both memory performance and capacity for data center hardware and consumer products alike. Because of the greater density, 2X performance and lower cost, the upcoming specification and products will for the first time mean DDR may be used in mobile devices instead of LPDDR. Today, mobile devices use low-power DDR (LPDDR) memory, the current iteration of which uses 1.2v of power. While the next generation of mobile memory, LPDDR3, will further reduce that power…

  • NVIDIA GeForce GRID Cloud Gaming Acceleration

    Soulskill
    15 May 2012 | 8:18 pm
    Vigile writes "NVIDIA today announced a new technology partnership with Gaikai, an on-demand gaming company that competes with OnLive, to bring GeForce GRID to the cloud gaming ecosystem. GRID aims to increase both the visual quality and user experience of cloud gaming by decreasing latencies involved in the process — the biggest hindrance to acceptance for consumers. NVIDIA claims to have decreased the time for game stream capture and decode by a factor of three by handling the process completely on the GPU, while also decreasing the 'game time' with the power of the Kepler GPU. NVIDIA…
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  • Survey Results Re Individual Memberships

    tonyw
    2 May 2012 | 1:54 am
    As part of the OSI’s governance reform, we are planning to establish a mechanism for individuals to join the OSI. We recently conducted a survey to ask people about their interest in joining, and to learn some preferences about how best to proceed. We received more than 350 replies to the survey, which was initially announced at FOSDEM in February 2012. The respondents came from many different countries, and had widely differing experiences with open source software. We are grateful to those who took the time to participate in the survey. read more

  • OSI Supports Open Standards

    webmink
    25 Apr 2012 | 9:17 am
    Back in 2006, a detailed discussion at the Open Source Initiative led to the creation of a statement about what makes a standard open, and a set of criteria for determining if the requirement was met and a standard compliant. Both are very simple as well as fully explained.read more

  • Thank you, Michael Tiemann!

    kfogel
    4 Apr 2012 | 11:54 am
    The OSI recently instituted a term limit on directors (after two terms, a director must be off the board for at least one year). In the most recent election cycle, this resulted in Michael Tiemann stepping down from the board and the Presidency. The newly-elected directors officially started their terms this April 1st, and their first meeting was today, April 4th. At that meeting, the Board passed the following resolution by unanimous & enthusiastic consent, with the new directors participating: The Open Source Initiative thanks Michael Tiemann for his decade of service and sensitive…

  • OSI Welcomes Debian and CENATIC

    webmink
    30 Mar 2012 | 6:44 am
    OSI is very pleased to welcome two important new members to the Affiliate scheme for community groups.read more

  • OSI's new Board

    webmink
    19 Mar 2012 | 2:05 pm
    Last Friday the OSI Board held a special meeting to fill vacancies that had arisen by the departure of three directors - Mike Godwin, Andrew Oliver and Michael Tiemann. Michael Tiemann left the Board after serving as OSI President for many years and leaves a large gap which the board will only fill thoughtfully; as a consequence, Martin Michlmayr, currently OSI Secretary, was temporarily appointed Acting President and the election of a full new President scheduled for a later meeting of the new Board. The Board warmly thanks all three for the contribution they have made to OSI. read more
 
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  • wminfo 2.5.3

    os-releases
    15 May 2012 | 9:00 pm
    wminfo is a Window Maker dockable application that displays text format information using the plugin. The standard plugin is a shell script. The plugin writes the information to stdout, and wminfo captures the output and displays it row by row. Using the appropriate plugins, wminfo can display different information obtained from the system or from the Internet. Release Notes: This release adds modified versions of some plugins which use less CPU power than their predecessors and updated versions of a few plugins which stopped working properly in their previous editions. Release Tags: Stable,…

  • Model Railroad System 2.1.30

    os-releases
    15 May 2012 | 9:00 pm
    The Model Railroad System is a software package that can help you run your railroad. It allows you to operate your layout, from running trains to working your signals and switches. It has support for a network of Bruce Chubb CMR/I USIC, SUSIC, and/or SMINI nodes, and/or a network of Lenz’s XPressNet DCC nodes. Azatrax USB-connected Model Railroad Detectors are supported. Software to create switch lists for freight car forwarding and create timetables for your railroad are included. There is software to help with photographing your trains, and to compute the correct value for those pesky…

  • TAMS Analyzer 4.32b5

    os-releases
    15 May 2012 | 6:41 pm
    TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) Analyzer is a qualitative or ethnographic coding and data extraction-analysis system. Release Notes: This release improves error checking and adds small bugfixes and interface improvements. Release Tags: Minor bugfixes, Minor feature enhancements Tags: Other/Nonlisted Topic, Scientific/Engineering, Text Processing, Linguistic, Markup, qualitative, research Licenses: GPL

  • Kiwi Backup 3.1

    os-releases
    15 May 2012 | 6:41 pm
    Kiwi Backup is an online backup system that can handle up to 200GB of data through an ADSL link. Network traffic is reduced using a block incremental system and de-duplication of data. The traffic is secured by an SSL transport layer. Release Notes: This release handles big files better with a split system. This is very useful for small bandwidth and huge files (>10GB). Release Tags: 3.1 Tags: Security, Archiving, backup

  • VisIt 2.5.0

    os-releases
    15 May 2012 | 6:41 pm
    VisIt is an interactive parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool for viewing scientific data. Users can quickly generate visualizations from their data, animate them through time, manipulate them, and save the resulting images for presentations. VisIt contains a rich set of visualization features so that you can view your data in a variety of ways. It can be used to visualize scalar and vector fields defined on two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) structured and unstructured meshes. It was designed to interactively handle very large data set sizes in the terascale range, and works…
 
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  • Upcoming Mozilla Marketplace lacks Linux support; open-source fix in the works - Engadget

    16 May 2012 | 12:58 am
    Upcoming Mozilla Marketplace lacks Linux support; open-source fix in the worksEngadgetAnd while the web store will launch with Windows and OS X compatibility, the browser has -- at least for the time being -- snubbed Linux. Given that Firefox is the default browser for most Linux distros, the community behind that OS is none too pleased Is Mozilla Punting on Web Apps for Linux?InternetNews.com (blog)all 4 news articles »

  • Hillcrest Labs Turns Kylo?? Web Browser for TV Over to Open Source Community - Broadcast Newsroom

    15 May 2012 | 11:55 pm
    SlashGearHillcrest Labs Turns Kylo?? Web Browser for TV Over to Open Source CommunityBroadcast NewsroomIt is compatible with the Mac OS and Windows . Hillcrest will provide the Kylo source code under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) 2.0 to enable developers to create new and different versions that extend its features and enables new uses.Kylo web browser for TV turned Open Source overnightSlashGearall 4 news articles »

  • Open-Source Touch Table Puts the World at Your Fingertips - PC World India

    15 May 2012 | 10:49 pm
    Open-Source Touch Table Puts the World at Your FingertipsPC World IndiaIt's an open-source, open-hardware touch table that can be used as a peripheral for an external computer or with an integrated computer as a table computer. In order to get high enough screen resolution at a reasonable cost, the Platsurface team is and more »

  • Red Hat hits 10-year, $1bn Enterprise Linux birthday - Register

    15 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    CRN - UKRed Hat hits 10-year, $1bn Enterprise Linux birthdayRegisterAfter Red Hat came crashing back down to earth, and Wall Street with it, what was left was a company that was a credible threat to the Unix, Windows, and proprietary system incumbents that had an army of enthusiastic, idealistic, and sharp open-source RHEL 7 being readied for second half of 2013 by Red HatComputerworldUKRed Hat preps RHEL 7 for second half of 2013InfoWorldall 49 news articles »

  • Open-Source Touch Table Puts the World at Your Fingertips - PCWorld

    15 May 2012 | 12:14 pm
    Open-Source Touch Table Puts the World at Your FingertipsPCWorldIt's an open-source, open-hardware touch table that can be used as a peripheral for an external computer or with an integrated computer as a table computer. In order to get high enough screen resolution at a reasonable cost, the Platsurface team is and more »
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    Malex
    9 May 2012 | 2:07 pm
    ← Older revision Revision as of 19:07, 9 May 2012 Line 15: Line 15:  * <span class="plainlinks" style="text-decoration: none; color: black">2012-03-17: [[scribus:News_2012-03-17|<span class="plainlinks" style="text-decoration: none; color: black">Time for GSoC 2012</span>]]</span> * <span class="plainlinks" style="text-decoration: none; color: black">2012-03-17: [[scribus:News_2012-03-17|<span class="plainlinks" style="text-decoration: none; color: black">Time for…
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    OPEN SOURCE MAC NEWS - Google News

  • Hillcrest Labs Turns Kylo?? Web Browser for TV Over to Open Source Community - Broadcast Newsroom

    15 May 2012 | 11:55 pm
    SlashGearHillcrest Labs Turns Kylo?? Web Browser for TV Over to Open Source CommunityBroadcast NewsroomIt is compatible with the Mac OS and Windows . Hillcrest will provide the Kylo source code under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) 2.0 to enable developers to create new and different versions that extend its features and enables new uses.Kylo web browser for TV turned Open Source overnightSlashGearall 4 news articles »

  • Chrome 19 Launches, Now Features Built-In Tab Syncing - TechCrunch

    15 May 2012 | 11:27 am
    Siliconrepublic.comChrome 19 Launches, Now Features Built-In Tab SyncingTechCrunchGoogle today launched version 19 of its Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame to its mainstream stable release channel. Besides the usual bug fixes and performance improvements, the highlight of today's release is the addition of tab Google working on Chrome Web browser for iOS - reportApple InsiderIs Chrome coming to iOS?CNETall 77 news articles »

  • Open-source Perian project to end development - Macworld (blog)

    15 May 2012 | 9:16 am
    The Mac ObserverOpen-source Perian project to end developmentMacworld (blog)The team behind the open-source project Perian has announced that it will be retiring the endeavor after one final release. First released in 2006, Perian is a component for Apple's QuickTime software that allows for the playback of many popular video Perian Shutting Down, Going Open SourceThe Mac ObserverPerian QuickTime component to perishThe HOpen source QuickTime component Perian closing its doors soon9 to 5 MacCult of Mac -Lifehacker -The Vergeall 19 news articles »

  • Hillcrest Labs Turns Kylo® Web Browser for TV Over to Open Source Community - Sacramento Bee

    15 May 2012 | 7:54 am
    SlashGearHillcrest Labs Turns Kylo® Web Browser for TV Over to Open Source CommunitySacramento BeeIt is compatible with the Mac OS® and Windows®. Hillcrest will provide the Kylo source code under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) 2.0 to enable developers to create new and different versions that extend its features and enables new uses.Hillcrest Makes Kylo TV Browser Code AvailableTwiceall 22 news articles »

  • Open-source media player VLC tops a billion downloads - VentureBeat

    14 May 2012 | 1:29 pm
    Open-source media player VLC tops a billion downloadsVentureBeatFor those who aren't familiar with it, VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. VLC works on Mac OS X, Windows, and most popular The Video App That Fixed the WorldBuzzFeedMore than one billion VLC downloadsThe Hall 7 news articles »
 
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  • Upcoming Mozilla Marketplace lacks Linux support; open-source fix in the works - Engadget

    16 May 2012 | 12:58 am
    Upcoming Mozilla Marketplace lacks Linux support; open-source fix in the worksEngadgetAnd while the web store will launch with Windows and OS X compatibility, the browser has -- at least for the time being -- snubbed Linux. Given that Firefox is the default browser for most Linux distros, the community behind that OS is none too pleased Is Mozilla Punting on Web Apps for Linux?InternetNews.com (blog)all 4 news articles »

  • Open-source touch table puts the world at your fingertips - Computerworld Australia

    15 May 2012 | 10:49 pm
    Open-source touch table puts the world at your fingertipsComputerworld AustraliaOne Kickstarter project aims to significantly reduce the cost of table computers with an open-source, open-hardware design. Table computers like the Merel mTouch and the Samsung SUR40 running Microsoft's Surface software (nee PlayTable nee Project and more »

  • Execs:Red Hat to debut EL7 in late 2013, take lead in cloud era - ZDNet (blog)

    15 May 2012 | 1:01 pm
    CRN - UKExecs:Red Hat to debut EL7 in late 2013, take lead in cloud eraZDNet (blog) driven by its open source subscription model, open source community driven development model and cloud technologies. Red Hat plans to deliver its Enterprise Linux 7 in the second half of 2013 in line with its three-year upgrade path but that's not Red Hat Celebrates 10 Years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reaffirms Strategic MarketWatch (press release)As Red Hat Enterprise Linux turns 10, focus shifts to the cloudBetaNewsRed Hat hits 10-year, $1bn Enterprise Linux birthdayRegisterall 49 news…

  • Open-Source Touch Table Puts the World at Your Fingertips - PCWorld

    15 May 2012 | 12:14 pm
    Open-Source Touch Table Puts the World at Your FingertipsPCWorldIt's an open-source, open-hardware touch table that can be used as a peripheral for an external computer or with an integrated computer as a table computer. In order to get high enough screen resolution at a reasonable cost, the Platsurface team is and more »

  • Linux for electronic medical systems - ElectronicsWeekly.com (blog)

    15 May 2012 | 2:15 am
    Linux for electronic medical systemsElectronicsWeekly.com (blog)There are, of course, commercial vendors of Linux who provide value-added stabilised versions of the open-source software, along with board support packages. Service, support and documentation levels, however, vary widely among them with some chip and more »
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  • Linux at 21: A new Linux Foundation t-shirt contest

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    15 May 2012 | 5:06 pm
    Here's last year's winning t-shirt design.The Linux Foundation, in honor of Linux’s 21st birthday is having another t-shirt competition. So, if you really love Linux, can make cool t-shirt designs (That leaves me right out), then this contest is for you!This year the theme is “Inspired by Linux” and calls on people from around the world to create a design with that in mind.You can find the complete rules here, but to cut to the chase, it needs to be an original design.It has to be in a file that can be no larger “than 640×480 (.jpg, .png, .gif) and must be under…

  • Red Hat celebrates 10 years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    15 May 2012 | 2:44 pm
    Red Hat has seen 10 very good years. In 2002, Red Hat was perhaps the biggest of the Linux distributors, but the biggest? SUSE and Caldera–before its went over to the dark side and became Darth SCO–were also contenders for the top spot. Behind them, now struggling Linux companies such as Mandriva and deceased businesses Progeny Linux, which tried to take Debian Linux to market, were also potential players. Then, ten-years ago, Red Hat completed the move, which would take it from first among equals to being corporate Linux’s top dog: the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux…

  • Execs: Red Hat to debut EL7 in late 2013, take lead in cloud era

    Paula Rooney
    15 May 2012 | 12:49 pm
    Red Hat plans to deliver its Enterprise Linux 7 in the second half of 2013 in line with its three-year upgrade path but that’s not why the company held a press conference today.In an hour long webcast today, the Linux leader publicly celebrated the 10th anniversary of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its recent success at hitting the $1 billion mark, but more importantly, positioned itself as the heir apparent to the infrastructure throne of the future.The keys to the kingdom? Red Hat’s open source innovation model and open source architecture, which, executives emphasized,…

  • Fedora 17 & GNOME 3.4: Return to a useful Linux desktop (Review)

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    14 May 2012 | 11:38 am
    Fedora 17 with GNOME 3.4 is much better now, but is it good enough?I have been using Fedora, Red Hat’s community Linux distribution, since day one back in September 2003 when Red Hat split its commercial Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Back then, people hated Red Hat for this move, but businesses soon learned to love RHEL and Linux fans grew to love Fedora. But, then along came GNOME 3.x, Fedora’s default desktop choice, and it all changed.GNOME 3.2, which was Fedora 16’s desktop, was dreadful. You don’t have to trust me on that though, just ask Linus Torvalds,…

  • Richard M. Stallman, free software leader falls ill at conference

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    11 May 2012 | 9:57 am
    Richard M. Stallman, free software's founder falls ill at technology conference.Richard M. Stallman, aka RMS, creator of the concept of free software, president of the Free Software Foundation, and the primary author of the vital free software/open-source license the Gnu Public License (GPL), became ill during a speech at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain and had to taken to a hospital.Some reports on Twitter said that Stallman had suffered a heart attack, but that was not the case. He began suffering in the middle of his speech and para-medics were called in…
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  • Red Hat hits 10-year, $1bn Enterprise Linux birthday

    16 May 2012 | 4:43 am
    How a Unix killer crawled from the dot-com bustComment Making a Linux distribution is easy, and lots of people have done it and continue to do it. All you have to do is get the source code and integrate the pieces you like and slap your logo on it.…

  • Use of IPSEC in Linux when configuring network-to-network and point-to-point VPN connections

    16 May 2012 | 3:45 am
    This article takes a detailed look at the design principles, the basis for deploying VPN, and the IPSEC protocol concept, providing a description of the general features of IPSEC and of the mechanisms required for its implementation. This article was specially selected for translation by developerWorks Russia as an example of developerWorks world-wide offerings.

  • Window Buttons Extension Available For GNOME Shell 3.4

    Andrew Dickinson
    16 May 2012 | 2:48 am
    Window Buttons is an extension that displays the minimize, maximize and close window buttons on the top GNOME Shell bar, like in Unity. The buttons order or theme can be customize and the extension comes with 5 built-in themes: Ambiance, Radiance, Zukitwo, Zukitwo Dark and a generic (default) theme.

  • Parted Magic 2012_05_14 Has Linux Kernel 3.3.6

    Marius Nestor
    16 May 2012 | 1:26 am
    Patrick Verner proudly announced last night, May 14th, that his Parted Magic 2012_05_14 Linux distribution is available for download.

  • Code Clues Reheat Google Tablet Rumors

    Richard Adhikari
    16 May 2012 | 12:29 am
    Murmurs about Google's supposed plans to launch its own tablet soon are growing to a roar. Source code from Google and Samsung indicate that a Nexus tablet is in the works, Slashgear reports. "It seems logical that it will be a Google Nexus device consistent with the Nexus smartphone, but the problem is there's nothing unique about the Nexus smartphone," suggested Andrew Eisner, director of community and content at Retrevo.
 
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  • Troubleshooting with Intuit Quickbooks

    8 May 2012 | 5:33 am
    This article by Jaime Campbell, CPA, MBA, CTT, MCT, author of Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Edition 12.0 Cookbook for Experts illuminates a number of accounting errors that are common in QuickBooks files, and enables you to resolve them.You will examine a number of accounting errors that are common in QuickBooks files, and enables you to be powerful and efficient in resolving them. In this article, we will cover the following recipes: Clearing stale undeposited funds Adjusting cash basis receivables or payables balances Writing off stale receivables Writing off stale payables Balancing the…

  • Become a Drush expert by exploring Packt's latest Drush User’s Guide

    2 May 2012 | 7:31 am
    Drush is a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal. It is not a module, and does not participate in the usage statistics system at drupal.org and was originally developed by Arto for Drupal 4.7 in May 2007. Drush User's Guide will help a user to be more productive and efficient in building and maintaining their Drupal sites. Majority of tasks like building and maintaining a website can be achieved with a single Drush command. Users can learn how to install Drush on different systems, and download and install a full Drupal site in seconds.

  • Packt Microsoft Carnival

    30 Apr 2012 | 5:36 am
    Plug into the adventure and get a chance to win a year’s free access to Microsoft PacktLib. Enter the Microsoft Carnival competition below.

  • Master Drupal Views using Packt's latest Drupal 7 Views Cookbook

    27 Apr 2012 | 5:05 am
    Drupal Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists and tables of content, users, taxonomy terms and other data are presented. This tool is essentially a smart query builder that, given enough information, can build the proper query, execute it, and display the results.

  • Pick up skills, tips, and tricks for building a successful Joomla! Website with Packt's new Beginner’s Guide

    26 Apr 2012 | 3:46 am
    Joomla is one of the world’ s most popular open source Content Management Systems. With millions of websites running on Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and large organizations worldwide to easily create & build a variety of websites & web-enabled applications.
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  • New Citizens: Adding Usability to the Voter Registration Process

    E. John Sebes
    10 May 2012 | 7:53 pm
    As I wrote last time, I had the wonderful opportunity to observe a citizenship oath ceremony. It had a big emphasis on voting, and included San Francisco elections department people on hand to help the new citizens register to vote. Today, I wanted to share the flip side of what I saw, and I want to start to connect it to some election technology work that we’re doing now — work that I think can deliver some real public benefit. After the ceremony, I saw a real distinction between two groups of people. One group was clearly enthusiastic about voting as a benefit of their new…

  • Naturalization, Citizenship, and Voter Registration

    E. John Sebes
    18 Apr 2012 | 2:41 pm
    I’m sitting in the historic grand Paramount Theater in Oakland, California. Perhaps an odd place from which to return to blogging after some time, but I wanted to re-start on a personal note that’s also quite connected to the voter registration technology work that we’ve been doing over the last many months. I’ve just witnessed a naturalization ceremony where 994 people (one of them very special to me) from 104 nations have taken an oath to become citizens of the United States of America. It’s impossible for this to sound other than trite, but it’s true:…

  • Movement to Bring Open Source to Government Being Reorganized

    Gregory Miller
    13 Feb 2012 | 8:41 pm
    Greetings- Just a quick post to suggest an interesting report out this afternoon on the TechPresident blog.  The move to consolidate the efforts of Civic Commons (home of Open311.org) and Code For America (CfA), notwithstanding the likely trigger being Civic Common’s leader, Nick Grossman moving on, actually makes sense to us.  CfA’s  Jennifer Pahlka’s write up is here. Recently in a presentation, I was asked where our work fits in to the whole Gov 2.0 movement.  It seems to us that we are probably a foundational catalyst to the movement; related, but only…

  • At the Risk of Running off the Rails

    Gregory Miller
    7 Jan 2012 | 3:46 pm
    So, we have a phrase we like to use around here borrowed from the legal academic world.  Used to describe an action or conduct in analyzing a nuance in tort negligence, is the phrase “frolic and detour.”  I am taking a bit of detour and frolicking in an increasingly noisy element of explaining the complexity of our work here.  (The detour comes from the fact that as “Development Officer” my charge is ensuring the Foundation and projects are financed, backed, supported, and succeed in adoption.  The frolic is in the form of commentary below about software…

  • Temporarily Missing, But Still in Action

    Gregory Miller
    31 Dec 2011 | 8:56 pm
    Happy “Holidaze” On the eve of 2012 we so need to check in here and let you know we’re still fighting the good fight and have been totally distracted by a bunch of activities.  There is much to catch you up on and we’ll start doing that in the ensuing days,  but for now we simply wanted to check in and wish everyone a peaceful and prosperous new year.  And of course, we intend that to “prosper” is to enrich yourself in any number of ways, not simply financially, but intellectually, physically, and spiritually as well… how ever you chose to do so…
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  • On Twitter, do you follow or listen?

    jhibbets
    15 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Should Twitter change the term "followers" to "listeners?" Yes No It doesn't matter Something caught my attention in this story by Phil Shapiro. It was something he said in the video presentation he made--as he was describing what Twitter is and what people use it for, he made the argument that the term followers should be changed to listeners. This is where my brain started racing. Read more... read more

  • Can government agencies be innovative?

    Paul Wolf
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Are politics preventing your local government from being innovative? Yes No Six reasons why government is not more innovative Steve Denning recently wrote a great post titled How To Make Government Innovative Again. In his post Denning asks the following: Why isn’t the Government generally more agile? Why isn’t innovation part of everything government does? Denning’s answer to these questions are: "Simple. The constraints on talented people who work in government agencies are enormous." Denning lists six reasons why government is not more innovative. Read more... read more

  • How open educational resources from pre-K to 12th grade present accessibility problems

    wivenhoe
    14 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Digital technology and open educational resources have enormous potential and power with young children. For parents of special needs children, especially those who are blind or visually impaired, dyslexic, or physically or cognitively impaired, the situation is compounded. Parents usually have to advocate to ensure that teachers and schools, even preschools, have educational materials are accessible and available for their child's use. Read more... read more

  • MCA, the DMCA, and stifled collaboration

    cswiii
    14 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Earlier this month, the world lost a music pioneer when Adam Yauch, a.k.a “MCA” of the Beastie Boys, succumbed to cancer at the age of 47. A founding member of the Beastie Boys, Yauch expanded upon his success in the music industry to exert his considerable influence and contributions outside music. He had a strong interest in film, which resulted in him directing several of the Boys’ music videos and in 2008 led to him founding Oscilloscope Studios, which produces and promotes independent films. In the 1990s, Yauch adopted Buddhism and began getting involved socially and politically in…

  • It's the culture, stupid! How Atlassian maintains an open information culture

    JohnRotenstein
    11 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    All modern businesses run on information, so business management is also about Information Management. However, software alone cannot transform an organization. Information Management mastery doesn't come from technology, it comes from the people! More specifically, it comes down to the CEO instilling an Information Culture for staff to follow. It's leadership not by force, but by example. Read more... read more
 
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    Digital Boundary Group

  • Using Social Media as an Attack Vector – Part 2 of 3

    Tom B.
    4 May 2012 | 8:54 am
    While email addresses and home addresses may not seem like much, from an attackers perspective it’s a great start. But before I explain the anatomy of a typical attack let’s look at what motivates would be attackers to expend energy and resources. While motives are as diverse as there are stars in the night sky, the most common include; • identity theft • financial gain • corporate espionage or network penetration • politically or state motivated agenda • social or economic movements • social group bragging rights In the short history of the Internet you can find many…

  • Using Social Media as an Attack Vector – Part 1 of 3

    Tom B.
    25 Apr 2012 | 9:10 am
    Over the last three years we have witnessed an exponential growth in the use of Social Media like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; both personal and business use. It comes as no surprise then that during that very same time, attacks leveraging these social networking sites have increased dramatically. You may be wondering; Why, and how does Facebook or LinkedIn impact cyber attacks against individuals or corporations alike? According to Paul Wood, a senior analyst at Symatnec’s MessageLabs Intelligence, the answer is simple: “The amount of information people post to social networks…

  • Dark Side of Frameworks and Libraries

    Tom B.
    12 Apr 2012 | 1:24 pm
    A recent study published by Aspect Security and Sonatype suggests 80% of the code in today’s in-house software comes from frameworks and libraries. I’m not a developer myself, but judging from what I’ve seen in IT circles and water cooler chats with resident developers over the years, I wouldn’t be surprised. Study researchers analyzed over 113 million downloads by more than 60,000 commercial, government and non-profit organizations and suggested some interesting results. The study claims over 50% of fortune 500 corporations have vulnerabilities in software developed…

  • Raspberry Pi – Hackers Rejoice!

    Tom B.
    3 Apr 2012 | 1:07 pm
    The Raspberry Pi phenomenon has taken everyone by surprise especially its creators at the Raspberry Pi Project. Raspberry Pi hasn’t shipped yet and already demand has outstripped supply. Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer primarily designed to encourage young people and children into Computer Science and programming career paths. While I agree with their mission, that the younger generation and children have to get involved with technology and move past the latest Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 bloodbath games. Technology, to them has become second nature and mostly taken for granted; which to…

  • Open Source in the Enterprise

    Tom B.
    23 Mar 2012 | 12:40 pm
    In the last few years Open Source usage as reported by various surveys has really skyrocketed. We all know Linux in the data center has high usage, I’ve even seen statistics that claim 32% of netbooks use FOSS vs. Windows. And I’ve even read claims that Linux desktop domination is only a few years away. Of course I take these claims with a very large grain of salt. However you accept or dismiss these claims, one thing is certain; Open Source offers significant benefits to companies of all sizes. The problem that I see is most companies do not have an Open Source strategy. Recently…
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    Web company in the heart of Europe: Prague. » Open Technologies

  • What’s new in the Java and the JVM World last week?

    Bogo
    9 May 2012 | 2:49 am
    The new issue of JavaWeeklyBytes is online. What’s in it? Programming languages not copyrightable rules top EU court Unit and Integration Tests With Maven and JUnit Categories Java Posse #384 – Roundup ’12 – Tools for Productivity Fun Java Comics Video: Context Dependency Injection in Java EE 6 Introducing the Hippo CMS Groovy add-on What worries me about Scala About OpenDJ and Hotspot JVM G1 Monitoring of Tomcat with VisualVM and VisualGC  Read the entire issue here: JavaWeeklyBytes Got a Kindle – subscribe to our updates and get them directly to your device.

  • May 4th: the Day against DRM

    Bogo
    4 May 2012 | 2:54 am

  • How to disable new ugly Facebok Timeline profile?

    Bogo
    4 Apr 2012 | 8:01 am
    If you want to disable your Facebook Timeline forever – here is a nice way to do it. Yes Forever!  

  • Events, orgaized by me in the last 8 years.

    Bogo
    30 Mar 2012 | 6:23 am
    30 events in 8 years. Not bad, eh? Click on the image to see it big

  • LiveRebel 2.0 is here.

    Bogo
    20 Feb 2012 | 4:29 am
    We at ZeroTurnaround are releasing version 2.0 of LiveRebel today!   What is LiveRebel about, dude? LiveRebel 2.0 is an out-of-the-box solution to end slow, inefficient production deployment processes that often happen at 3 AM by overworked operations staff. With LiveRebel, now every single update is: online transactional 100% reversible fully automated instantaneous in case of minor updates What does this mean to you? It means that when something does go wrong, as it inevitably does, there is a panic button to press that will make it all better. It means that because your application…
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  • Debug in the Cloud: Java Debugger for eXo Cloud IDE

    Mark Downey
    24 Apr 2012 | 4:22 am
    Today, we are proud to announce the first version of the Java debugger for eXo Cloud IDE. You can now run and debug Java apps right from your browser. Set breakpoints and inspect requests and variables just as if you were in Eclipse! Check out this 2 minutes video showing the feature in action or try it yourself on http://cloud-ide.com. Note that the debugger is currently in beta state and will see significant updates in the next few weeks. Stay tuned! Share this blog post with : More »

  • eXo Cloud Workspaces Previews Fully Scalable Enterprise Social Intranet

    Katie Poplin
    10 Apr 2012 | 8:04 am
    Out of the Box Social Intranet Built on Elastic and Multi-tenant eXo Platform For end users: cloud-based service for instant access to social networking tools  For IT: integrate with existing infrastructure; scale in the cloud or on-premises Free access to the beta at http://www.cloud-workspaces.com/ SAN FRANCISCO — April 10, 2012 — eXo, the user experience platform-as-a-service (UXPaaS) company, today opened access to the public beta of eXo Cloud Workspaces, a new cloud-based service that integrates social business and enterprise collaboration features in a single on-demand offering.

  • Rejoignez eXo aux salons “Intranets et collaboratifs” et “Documation” à Paris

    Julien Brulland
    27 Feb 2012 | 4:27 am
    eXo Platform 3.5 est enfin disponible ! Aujourd’hui eXo est heureux d’aller à la rencontre de ses partenaires, clients et supporters pour leur présenter la première plateforme complète d’expérience utilisateur pour Java, prête à être déployée sur le Cloud. Nous serons tout d’abord présents les 13, 14 et 15 Mars 2012 au Salon Solutions Intranet et Collaboratif à Paris, Porte de Versailles, Stand C60. Lors de cet évènement vous pourrez assister à l’intervention de notre équipe technique représentée par Stévan Lemeur, Product Manager des solutions…

  • eXo Platform 3.5 Now Available: First Cloud-Ready Enterprise Portal and User Experience Platform-as-a-Service (UXPaaS)

    Katie Poplin
    31 Jan 2012 | 8:01 am
    Users connect, collaborate, and improve productivity — in the cloud, on mobile devices, or on the ground Multi-tenancy support for deployment in public and private clouds Secure access to personal dashboards, documents and activity streams via native mobile apps Social network features and integration with existing infrastructure Mashup and gadget development for third-party app integration in built-in web IDE San Francisco, CA – January 31, 2012 – eXo, the user experience platform-as-a-service (UXPaaS) company, today announced general availability of eXo Platform 3.5. This new…

  • Petit Déjeuner Capgemini à Lille

    Mark Downey
    9 Jan 2012 | 6:22 pm
    Tugdual Grall, Directeur Technique d’eXo, sera présent à Lille pour un petit-déjeuner organisé par notre partenaire Capgemini. L’evénement aura lieu le jeudi 26 janvier à 8h00, Maison Petrowski, 9 rue à Fiens, Lille (à proximité de la Gare Lille Flandres). Tugdual présentera eXo Platform (la plateforme d’expérience utilisateur), nouvelle génération de solution Intranet/Extranet totalement intégrée, sociale et conçue pour le cloud. Agenda : Introduction UXP (User Experience Platform) : le socle des Intranets/Extranets nouvelle génération Les nouveaux…
 
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