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Bloomberg mistakenly publishes Steve Jobs obituary
August 29, 2008 (2:00:00 AM) - 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire on Wednesday afternoon, and a tipster promptly sent the soon-retracted file to gossip blog Gawker.
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Brazil's love of Linux
August 29, 2008 (12:00:00 AM) - 3 hours, 23 minutes ago
Walk into the Ponto Frio electronics store here, which proudly displays a penguin-shaped logo, and you will find a healthy supply of Linux PCs alongside the usual Windows machines.
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Local User Management in FreeNAS
August 28, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 5 hours, 23 minutes ago
In general, once the FreeNAS server is configured and running, it doesn't really need much attention, it should just work. However, there are lots of different features which can be configured. In this article by Gary Sims, we will see how user management is done in FreeNAS.
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Adium 1.3 Provides Facebook Chat, Many Bug Fixes
August 28, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 5 hours, 53 minutes ago
Adium, an open-source instant-messaging client for OS X, has released its latest version (1.3). Adium, like the Pidgin IM client, makes it possible to use a single IM program, rather than run multiple clients simultaneously for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and several other networks. Adium's latest release includes support for the Facebook IM client, providing desktop access to this otherwise Web-only communications channel.
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Three Ways That Open Source Could Benefit from Business 101
August 28, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 6 hours, 23 minutes ago
This post from Matt Asay on whether open source needs consolidation asks an interesting question, and some of the comments that came in on it were interesting. This comment caught my eye: "No. Open source does not need consolidation. Open source needs product managers." Product managers, of course, drive improvements in commercial and proprietary software products, and listen carefully to what businesses need. At the end of our recent interview with Sun Microsystems' Ken Drachnik, regarding Sun's GlassFish app server, he also called for business synergy to advance open source projects. Here are three ways that open source projects can benefit from a bit of Business 101.
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Xen.org Delivers Version 3.3 of the Xen Hypervisor
August 28, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 6 hours, 53 minutes ago
Xen.org, which is behind the open source Xen virtualization project, is out with its new Xen 3.3 engine. You can download it now, and grab a PDF datasheet as well. Xen 3.3 is faster and more scalable than previous versions, and has better graphics capabilities. It targets more types of chipsets--from supercomputing to handheld chipsets. Yes that's right, handhelds. The new Xen is smaller than ever. What else is under the hood?
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Ubiquity: Mozilla's Take on a Web Command Line
August 28, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 7 hours, 23 minutes ago
There's a lot of buzz right now about Ubiquity: Mozilla's attempt to explore command-based interaction within Firefox. Users of other command-oriented interfaces like QuickSilver or Enso, will feel right at home with Ubiquity: you activate it within your browser with a simple key combination, and then start typing. Depending on what you type, stuff happens.
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Turbocharge PuTTY with 12 Powerful Add-Ons
August 28, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 7 hours, 53 minutes ago
PuTTY is hands-down the best, free, and lightweight SSH client for Windows. I have provided list of 12 powerful PuTTY add-ons with screenshots, that will solve few shortcomings of the original PuTTY. Play around with these add-ons and choose the one that suites your need.
Read more at: thegeekstuff.com ( 1 comment )
gscan2pdf - Scan multiple Documents, import images to PDF & DjVu
August 28, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 8 hours, 23 minutes ago
gscan2pdf is a simple but a very efficient GUI to scan documents of multiple pages and convert them into PDFs or DjVu format. You can also import images from image files into PDF files and vice versa. gscan2pdf only takes two clicks are required to scan several pages and then save all or a selection as a PDF file, including metadata if required.
Read more at: susegeek.com ( 1 comment )
Adium 1.3 Provides Facebook Chat, Many Bug Fixes
August 28, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 8 hours, 53 minutes ago
Adium, an open-source instant-messaging client for OS X, has released its latest version (1.3). Adium, like the Pidgin IM client, makes it possible to use a single IM program, rather than run multiple clients simultaneously for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and several other networks. Adium's latest release includes support for the Facebook IM client, providing desktop access to this otherwise Web-only communications channel.
Read more at: ostatic.com ( Post Comment )
Three Ways That Open Source Could Benefit from Business 101
August 28, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 9 hours, 23 minutes ago
This post from Matt Asay on whether open source needs consolidation asks an interesting question, and some of the comments that came in on it were interesting. This comment caught my eye: "No. Open source does not need consolidation. Open source needs product managers." Product managers, of course, drive improvements in commercial and proprietary software products, and listen carefully to what businesses need. At the end of our recent interview with Sun Microsystems' Ken Drachnik, regarding Sun's GlassFish app server, he also called for business synergy to advance open source projects. Here are three ways that open source projects can benefit from a bit of Business 101.
Read more at: ostatic.com ( Post Comment )
Create time-availability maps with Perl and Google Earth
August 28, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) - 9 hours, 53 minutes ago
Nationwide and international teams and flexible work hours contribute to change in when and where teams work together. Time-availability maps provide a listing of who is most likely to be available for a certain hour in a certain location. Find out how to use Google Earth and a log of your communications to map and identify the time and place when availabilities match.
Read more at: ibm.com/developerworks ( Post Comment )
Quebec government sued for buying Microsoft software
August 28, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 10 hours, 23 minutes ago
Facil wants ban on regulatory loophole that lets Quebec purchase proprietary software.
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ASUS Eee PC 901
August 28, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 10 hours, 53 minutes ago
Last year ASUS had christened the Eee PC as a cost-effective but well built sub-notebook that ended up being extremely popular with more people than just computer enthusiasts. The original Eee PC 700 series had shipped with Intel Celeron hardware, a solid-state drive, and a Xandros-based Linux distribution. These units have been selling extremely well but back in June ASUS had unveiled the Eee 901 as well as the Eee 1000 series. These newer models now use Intel Diamondville-based Atom CPUs, which we have been quite fond of for their technological advances. In this article we are providing our first look at the Eee PC 901 along with a few bits of information and sharing some of our plans for the Eee Linux testing in the near future.
Read more at: Phoronix.com ( Post Comment )
A real Space Oddity arrives at PC Pro
August 28, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 11 hours, 23 minutes ago
You may remember that, some time ago, I blogged about an interesting little computer curio called the Space Cube. Quite simply, it’s one of the smallest PCs in the world, with each side measuring around 2 inches square. I wrote that it looked cool, ran on a 300MHz processor and that it probably wouldn’t be sold outside of Japan, if at all.
Read more at: pcpro.co.uk ( Post Comment )
Developing for the embedded Linux Nokia N810
August 28, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 11 hours, 53 minutes ago
The N810 is an embedded handheld system with an underlying Linux kernel adapted for the hardware. This article shows you how to program the Nokia N810, a capable Internet tablet that runs on Linux and shows you how a small command-line program can hook into the Alarm API.
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Embedded Linux guide updated
August 28, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 12 hours, 23 minutes ago
O'Reilly has updated its guide to Building Embedded Linux Systems by Karim Yaghmour. In the 462-page Second Edition, Yaghmour is joined by new co-authors Gilad Ben-Yossef and Jonathan Masters in updating this "in-depth, hard-core guide to putting together embedded systems based on Linux," says O'Reilly.
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Software connects Linux MIDs to PC media
August 28, 2008 (2:30:00 PM) - 12 hours, 53 minutes ago
Orb Networks has joined a growing list of video broadcast service providers supporting Intel-based mobile Internet devices (MIDs). The Orb "MyCast" software and service lets users stream PC-based multimedia over local or wide-area networks to a variety of mobile devices, including Atom-based MIDs, Orb says.
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Linux radio keeps it simple
August 28, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 13 hours, 23 minutes ago
Pure has announced an Internet radio that runs embedded Linux and provides FM and DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) playback. The Evoke Flow radio offers WiFi connectivity and media streaming from a connected PC, and is paired with a Internet search portal called the Pure Lounge.
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Could Microsoft's Photosynth Have Been Free Software?
August 28, 2008 (12:00:00 PM) - 15 hours, 23 minutes ago
Photosynth is one of the most exciting programs I've seen in a long time. It takes a group of photos, typically of a single geographical location, but possibly taken at different times by different people, analyses them for similarities, and then stitches then together into a smooth-flowing, pseudo-3D panorama. It's really great. Just two problems. One: it won't run on GNU/Linux; and two: it's from Microsoft, and so is unlikely ever to do so.
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