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Source: clarkconnect

The third release candidate of ClarkConnect Server and Gateway 4.3, a Red Hat-based server distribution, is ready for testing: "Features: Remote backup service; Groupware via webmail; RAID manager; OpenVPN for desktops/laptops; Mail server queue management; System process viewer. Tweaks: Additional hardware driver support for 3Ware and Realtek; DHCP .



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Source: Linux Today

Linux Devices: "LogMeIn announced a beta plugin for Nokia's Linux-based N800 and N810 Internet Tablets. The LogMeIn Nokia N800/810 Browser Plugin enables Internet Tablet users to access and control their Windows PCs or Macs running the free or commercial versions of LogMeIn."


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Source: Linux Today

"While OpenOffice.org Base is good for storing and querying data, it doesn't provide any easy way to chart information. This is exactly what Calc does best, with its dedicated chart module. If you want to visualize data stored in a Base database, you can write an OOo Basic macro that pulls data from a database, inserts it into a Calc spreadsheet, and then creates a chart."


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Source: Linux Today

RedOrbit: "The LinuxWorld exhibit floor will feature companies that are driving the future of Linux and open source, including, ACCESS, CA, CISCO, Fujitsu, Intel, Talend, Ubucon, Novell, Bivio Networks, VMware, SugarCRM, Rackable Systems, Wind River, Oracle and many more. Many exhibitors consider LinuxWorld the perfect stage to announce their latest product and service offerings or other breaking news relevant to the Linux and open source industry."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "But so far Knol looks to me like the biggest risk might be to Google itself. That's because it provides one more way for spammers to game Google's advertising monoculture."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Today Blog: " I am always sad and disappointed that it's SpamAssassin, rather than SpammerAssassin."


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Debian Admin: "This tutorial will explain Howto setup DHCP Server and Dynamic DNS with BIND in Debian."


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Phoronix: "Earlier this month Intel had announced the GMA X4500 series, which is their latest and greatest when it comes to integrated graphics processors. These IGPs were greeted by same-day Linux support "


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Source: Linux Today

LWN: "Even the most casual observer of the linux-kernel mailing must have noticed that, in the shadow of the firmware flame war, there is also a heated discussion over the management of security issues."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Planet: "Calculating subnets is an essential skill for network administrators, and even home users with small LANs will benefit from understanding how they work. This installment of Networking 101 offers some tips and practice exercises to get you started."


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Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Networking Planet: " In Japan, 85 percent of households have access to fiber and 100 Mb/s service costs about a fourth the price Americans pay for 8 Mb/s service. In fact, the US ranks 14th among other countries with broadband access when it comes to available speeds."


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Source: Linux Today

Polish Linux: "Today I’m going to teach you a method I use to fake a fill flash. The objective is to lighten the dark areas without blowing out the highlights."


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Source: Linux Today

Boycott Novell: "Gavin Clarke is at it again. He does yet another Ramji/Microsoft glorification piece."


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Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "The problem is that an awful lot of developers have the same itch - and they don't always look around before they scratch it."


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Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "The story is not true - at least according to H D Moore who claims he was misquoted by the journalist in question."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsider: "To say that Apple takes intellectual property theft seriously is a little like saying iPods are somewhat popular; the company is willing to take young bloggers to court for leaking news about future products."


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: ""The clouds will all run Linux," Whitehurst said in an interview."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsiders: " in the digital world, who lays down the law? As virtual worlds such as Second Life and Eve Online continue to grow, attracting more and more residents -- and often for vastly different reasons -- who decides what goes and what doesn't? What constitutes a crime in these worlds? Do real-world laws apply, or is up to the creators of these fantasy lands to police their own environments?"


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Devices: "Today's nascent robotics market has engendered nearly two dozen general-purpose software development frameworks, nearly all of which run on Linux. This article reviews ten, and briefly describes a few others, before concluding with an analysis of which platforms are best-suited to which uses."


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Yes, that Intuit. Promoting Linux and open source."


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LinuxWorld: "Ric Moore and Dennis Gaddy met in prison, and started to discuss how Open Source software and methods could help other inmates to avoid further mistakes and get better chance to start over after their term. In this interview, Ric explains how they are doing it through the NuOAR program and why."


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Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: " the way we compete against Linux is very simple: we build a better product and we have a great value proposition. Today our customers know Linux isn't free and the overall cost of the solution is in fact in most cases quite a bit higher than a Windows-based solution."


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Intranet Journal: "At first glance it might seem like a no-brainer: Get your intranet software and its source code for free or pay big bucks for proprietary, closed source software. But deciding to adopt either open source or proprietary software must go beyond the issue of money."


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Network World: "HD Moore has been owned. That's hacker talk, meaning that Moore, the creator of the popular Metasploit hacking toolkit, has become the victim of a computer attack."


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APC Magazine: "Are you currently running Windows and Linux in a dual-boot setup? You're going to have major headaches with Vista SP1, Microsoft has admitted.


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DeviceGuru: "Long-time PC BIOS leader Phoenix Technologies is acquiring embedded BIOS specialist General Software. The companies expect the acquisition to help Phoenix tap into a market consisting of billions of mobile and embedded devices."


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Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "Now that I've got your attention, don't worry too much: Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind the popular World of Warcraft online game, isn't trying to shut down open source software entirely. But in a recent legal filing (reported by the Virtually Blind weblog), they are asking a judge to take an unusual move: prohibiting a developer from releasing a particular bit of code as open source."


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Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "During a meeting earlier this week in New Orleans, a solution provider told The VAR Guy he just didn’t understand how to profit from open source. Didn’t we put this issue to rest a long ago? Perhaps not. Here are eight ways VARs can profit from Linux and Open Source."


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Source: Linux Today

Techworld: "Need to do forms development sans Access or Filemaker? Want rapid Web apps without Ruby on Rails? Want a rich Internet interface and abhor Ajax? Need PostgreSQL development, but don't do PHP? Just want a Java application without the, well, Java? Why not check out the once:radix Web-based RAD environment from once:technologies. And, by the way, did I mention it's open source?"


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Ubuntugeek: "VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)."


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IBM Developerworks: "Cloud computing can be loosely defined as using scalable computing resources provided as a service from outside your environment on a pay-per-use basis. You use only what you need, and pay for only what you use. You can access any of the resources that live in the "cloud" at any time, and from anywhere across the Internet. You don't have to care about how things are being maintained behind the scenes in the cloud."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

eldavojohn writes "Red Hat's CEO prophetically saith 'The clouds will all run Linux' in a brief interview before the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Here's the skinny: Red Hat management tools take a back seat to grid computing goals, high switching costs are the trick to surviving slow periods, Microsoft's interoperability tools are vaporware, they're striving to catch up to VMWare, Ubuntu is not the competition, JBoss is growing twice as fast as RHEL and Amazon pays the fee while Google wears its own Red Hat for free."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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TechNet Port25 has a short little blog from Richard Wilder, the *draws breath* Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at Microsoft. First off, that is a very long title. I wonder when I will get one of those. Anyway, Richard makes



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Apply XSL transformations to input and output messages of Data Web Services to enable a variety of clients.



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