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The Linux Distillery: "As we know, static HTML web sites are passé. Yet, Java applets never turned out to be the killer online application platform they possibly could have been "


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developerWorks: "The IBM BladeCenter S is the newest BladeCenter designed for small and medium businesses. It is also the first BladeCenter to integrate the server and storage systems "


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Practical Technology: "Thanks to a recent column by my friend Andy Patrizio, I found out that there's 'been an ongoing debate among bloggers and industry observers over one simple question: Where are the open source billionaires ?'"


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ZDNet: "Samba's forthcoming version 3.2 release capitalizes on Microsoft's interoperability commitments while also guarding against patent covenants that threaten the GPL "


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451 CAOS Theory: "Let's remember that notebooks are now the dominant form factor for PCs, and emerging markets and new form factors, such as the EeePC, Cloudbook and others offer a new playing field for Linux "


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ZDNet: "I recently got to attend a couple of conferences, both of them the really technical kind where I end up learning things "


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McPherson: "Just the week before I had a reporter ask me how Linux is going to deal with the threat of cloud computing. The threat? I told her that virtually all of the major cloud computing initiatives (except Microsoft's) are built on Linux "


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Phoronix: "VIA has released over 16,000 lines of code that provides a frame-buffer driver in the Linux kernel "


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iTWire: "A senior Debian developer, Australian Anthony Towns, has left some core teams of the project and gone quiet in the last couple of weeks, according to project sources "


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Really Linux: "You can save yourself serious money, not only at the register but in years to come, avoiding paying for countless upgrades. For all of us paying the crazy food and fuel prices, this is a real easy way to save money " (Humor)


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Between the Lines: "Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job ?"


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internetnews.com: "New JBoss Operations Network takes aim at open source middleware management, though the solution isn't entirely open source--yet "


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ABC Linuxu: "Should the license situation ever allow it, how would you feel about possible code-sharing between Solaris and Linux ?"


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LinuxWorld: "Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months "


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Computerworld UK: "A couple of years ago, I described the Eclipse project as open source's best-kept secret, and to some extent that's still true today "


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iTWire: "It's quite characteristic of the cultural cringe that prevails in Australia that a man who works in America, Barry Vercoe, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is coming to the country next week to lobby for the local branch of the One Laptop Per Child project "


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LinuxDevices: "Mercury Computer Systems announced a Linux-based engineering development kit for a 7-10 pound computer that targets small ground, naval, and air vehicles "


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Tech Source From Bohol: "Another tip from Free and Open Source gamer extraordinaire SlippJigg encouraged me to try out another action-packed First-person shooter (FPS) game called War§ow last weekend. So what exactly is this game and what makes it interesting ?"


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Free Software Magazine: "Suppose you've been good (or sort of good anyway), and you have a huge stack of CD-ROMs (or DVDs) with backups and archives of your old files. Great. But how can you find anything ?"


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Phoronix: "Two months ago we had looked at the Tyan Tempest i5400XT motherboard, which was Tyan's latest product based upon Intel's newest workstation chipset and had support for dual Intel Xeon quad-core processors "


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Blog of an Alpha Animal: "Yet, the other day I read about ack, which claims to be 'better than grep, a search tool for programmers.' Woo. Better than grep? In what way ?"


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Free Software Magazine: "Recently I had cause to buy a scanner. Being in a reasonably small home I was eager to save on desk-space, and so decided to upgrade my aging inkjet printer at the same time "



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KrispyDollars writes "It sounds crazy to say this, but the XP-based version of the Eee PC 900 (the new version with the 8.9" screen) will actually be considerably cheaper than the Linux-based version. At the official launch today, the company told journalists that 'Microsoft has been a longstanding supporter of Asus' to explain the price discrepancy. And — get this — only the XP-based machine will be sold at mass-market retailers, while the Linux-based model will be consigned to computer stores."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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I like numbers. They can mean a lot of things. Rather than continuing silly arguments over obfuscated and flawed measurements of "language popularity", perhaps a better way of measuring the viability of a language or platform is to measure the freshness of


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If you are at all familiar with the UNIX or Linux world, you will know about the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) functionality. Essentially, PAM is a highly extensible login framework for authenticating and authorizing a user for access to a server. Prior



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Understand the end-to-end exchange of XML data from an XForms-based browser
to an IBM DB2 database with full XML support. Learn how easy it is to create XForms
and have them communicate with a DB2 database, where XML data can be stored,
retrieved, or deleted. Learn, also, how to create the XForms that access the DB2
pureXML through Universal Services.



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