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LinuxDevices: "Shenzhen-based Eken announced a seven-inch tablet computer that runs either Android or Windows CE 6.0. The M001 has a 600MHz ARM-based processor, 128MB of RAM and 2GB of flash storage, an SD slot, stereo speakers, and 802.11b/g"


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TuxRadar: "The second long term support release (LTS) to come from the Ubuntu camp, Lucid Lynx has many surprises in store for everyone, including its revamped looks and a new logo (see page 48 for more on the fallout that this update has produced). Then there are the exciting new features, including lightning fast boot-up times, and older features that have finally come to maturity in this release."


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CMS Wire: "In August 2007, Florida hospital hired a "rock star" physician. With this hire, a series of events was triggered that would end up with Drupal (news, site) hosting over 125 department and team intranet sites, over 40 externally-facing marketing sites and a growing number of other applications."


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Datamation: "How do you know if a cloud computing vendor is secure? When they make claims about their nearly absolute level of safety, should you just take their word for it? "


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Linux Journal: "But with all of this focus on streamlining and digitally electrifying health records, I began to wonder where did the Open Source community stand and where is its input? There is certainly a lot of money sitting out there for someone who wants to try to build the better mouse trap."


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Softpedia: "Nvidia announced a few days ago, on its forum, a new version of its proprietary driver for the Nvidia graphics cards. Nvidia 195.36.24 adds support for new GPUs, and fixes a few issues. But the most important thing is that Nvidia 195.36.24 has support for X Server 1.8."


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Linux Magazine: "Learn how to snap a picture and display it in your application "


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Scott Adams blog: "So here now, exclusively for you blog readers, the totally unfinished first drafts of those comics. You will never see these in newspapers."


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New York Times: "Under both state and federal law, a search warrant may not be validly issued to confiscate the property of a journalist"


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MacNewsWorld: "Will Gizmodo's Jason Chen land in the cooler for his part in leaking Apple's next-gen iPhone to the world? Or did Silicon Valley's High Tech Task Force violate legal protections established to shield journalists when they raided the editor's home?"


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Fast Company: "Groklaw is an attempt to get geeks and lawyers together, so they can help each other understand the other's world, with the goal of ideally getting better court results based on technical realities"


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Cyber Cynic: "The new Ubuntu release is almost here and I like the Ubuntu 10.04 desktop a lot. As a Linux expert, it's a little too simple for my personal tastes, but it's the best beginner Linux out of the box I've ever seen."


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MakeTechEasier: "Ever so often, I look around for rather random add-ons that make my desktop experience more pleasant or occasionally even serve a meaningful purpose. They range from full applications to very basic widgets.

In no particular order, here are a few that I have recently encountered and are worth mentioning."


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Symantec press release: "In the current spam climate, this index shows that relative to its market share, any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine."


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Linux Journal: "What is your strategy on cross compilation toolchains? Here we explore a
few options:"


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Distrowatch: "GnackTrack. GnackTrack is an Ubuntu-based distribution and live CD designed for penetration testing."


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PC Authority: "From the Mars Climate Orbiter to overheating batteries and floating point errors, we look at the history of famous technical mistakes"


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Phoronix: "Back in March we talked about the possible X.Org projects this year during Google's Summer of Code, for which X.Org is a veteran participant (in the past items like the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver and generic GPU video decoding have been tackled), but the list of accepted projects for this summer have now been announced."


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Datamation: "Should a netbook be treated as more as a mobile device than as a laptop? Should developers assume that netbooks are used for light computing such as social networking, rather than for productivity?"


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The H Open: "The joint programme with the LPI had been very successful, but there was great demand for a pure Ubuntu certification."


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MakeTechEasier: "KDE has an advanced clipboard system, largely due to a small program called Klipper, which can store more than one piece of data. KDE also has the ability to copy and move files with copying and pasting, and automatic creation of files using clipboard data."


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The Geek Stuff: "In this article, let us review various tar examples including how to create tar archives (with gzip and bzip compression), extract a single file or directory, view tar archive contents, validate the integrity of tar archives, finding out the difference between tar archive and file system, estimate the size of the tar archives before creating it"


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IT Wire: "Ten days back, the new leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project, Stefano Zacchiroli, began his term as the only elected leader of a free software project. But that's not the only thing that makes Debian unique in the FOSS space."


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Distrowatch: "Apparently several readers find Scientific a good OS for their machines at home and run it on everything from servers, to desktops, to netbooks . everything except the family toaster. Honestly, I was a bit surprised."


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The Tyee: "The transparency push is a year old and working, but you can't call it wide open, yet."


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The Linux Mint Blog: "I'm posting about the artwork again to follow-up on the contest and the desktop backgrounds for Linux Mint 9.

Wallpapers included by default:

The following wallpapers will be included by default in Linux Mint 9 (click on the pictures to see them in full size)."


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The Linux Critic: "Recently, I was able to get outside the circle of Linux users and perform a live demonstration of Linux (and LXDE) to a group of professionals in a conference setting. Here's my story."


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Serverwatch: "I regularly use VirtualBox, which allows you to set up and run virtual machines (VMs) on your own desktop. It's a very nifty bit of software, but one drawback is that by default, the guest VM is invisible to the host or any other machines on the network."


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LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 6 backup tools at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, providing a screenshot of the software in action, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."


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EnterpriseMobile Today: "Google has quietly canceled plans to release a Verizon version of its Nexus One phone and is instead steering customers toward the HTC Incredible, a phone described as a "Nexus One on steroids" by one analyst."


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LWN.net: "The holdup in this case was a nasty regression which occupied a number of kernel developers nearly full time for days. The hunt for this bug is a classic story of what can happen when the code gets too complex."


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My Thoughts: "Git 1.7.1 was released on Saturday, 24 Apr 2010. It's available in my Ubuntu repository for Ubuntu Jaunty and Ubuntu Karmic."



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Anthony Franco (Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software), president of EffectiveUI, co-hosts this workshop with fellow UX guru Kelly Goto and a panel including National Geographic, FedEx and Navy Federal Credit Union. The session explores why the "UX Factor" needs to play a role in every company's design and business strategy.


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Anthony Franco (Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software), president of EffectiveUI, shares some lessons on the pitfalls of inefficient workflows, worst practices and poor communication that will ensure the demise of any rich Internet application (RIA) project.


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John McRee, EffectiveUI lead user experience architect and co-author of Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software examines the difficulties associated with traditional planning and project requirements, how to embrace uncertainty and the unknown when developing software and the importance of adaptable as opposed to rigid project requirements.


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Anthony Franco (Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software), president of EffectiveUI, presents "Effective User Interfaces Creating Breakthrough Software from A to Z" - a conference session that over the process and methods used to create breakthrough, customer-centric software products.


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John McRee (Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software), lead experience architect at EffectiveUI, will discuss the difficulties associated with traditional planning and project requirements, how to embrace uncertainty and the unknown when developing software and the importance of adaptable as opposed to rigid project requirements. John will also review three popular development methodologies: Waterfall, Big Design Up Front (BDUF) and Agile.


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View and Manage Your Photos on the iPad: The Mini Missing Manual shows you everything you need to know to view and manage your photo collection on your iPad. Learn how to import your pics through iTunes and your digital camera, or download and save them from email attachments. Then sit back and enjoy the your pics-as a slideshow, on your big-screen TV, or on your iPad itself as a digital picture frame. View and Manage Your Photos on the iPad: The Mini Missing Manual shows you how to import, organize, and enjoy your photos using clear, jargon-free explanations and step-by-step instructions.


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A new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project shows that 40 percent of U.S. Internet users go online for data about government spending and policy. When they visit sites, they're increasingly making transactions and participating in discussion around policies.



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Need to distribute documentation, create an eBook, or just archive your favorite blog posts? EPUB is an open specification for digital books based on familiar technologies like XML, CSS, and XHTML, and EPUB files can be read on portable e-ink devices, mobile phones, and desktop computers. This tutorial explains the EPUB format in detail, demonstrates EPUB validation using Java technology, and moves step-by-step through automating EPUB creation using DocBook and Python.


Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

Starting in December 2009, hard disk manufacturers began
introducing disks that use 4096-byte sectors rather than the more common
512-byte sectors. Although this change is masked by firmware that breaks
the 4096-byte physical sectors into 512-byte logical sectors for the
benefit of the operating system, the use of larger physical sectors has implications for
disk layout and system performance. This article examines these
implications, including benchmark tests illustrating the likely real-world
effects on some common Linux file systems. As disks with 4096-byte sectors
become more common throughout 2010 and beyond, strategies for coping with
these new disks will become increasingly important.


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Java Server Faces (JSF) 2 Expert Group member David Geary begins a new article series offering in-depth coverage of JSF 2 technology. In this installment, you'll learn how to integrate JSF 2's composite components with the framework's support for Ajax development.


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Learn how to use the Technology Explorer (TE) for IBM DB2(R) to control
user and group authentication to DB2 through the use of a security plug-in
called db2auth. The plug-in uses a DB2 database for storing authentication
information instead of an external authentication repository, such as an
operating system or Kerberos. The plug-in allows for a smoother migration from other
database software such as MySQL, which also stores authentication information
within the database. This article also describes how the support in TE for the
db2auth plug-in was implemented. [2009 Nov 13: Updated to show Linux support.
--Ed.]


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

The pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 allow you to store XML natively in a database
without modification, while Adobe Flex applications can read XML directly and
populate Flex user interfaces. In this three-part article series, you will create
a microblogging application that takes advantage of pureXML, Web services, and
Adobe Flex; and even allows you to publish your microblogging updates on Twitter.
In Part 1 of the series, you learned about Web Services and how they are enabled
using DB2 pureXML as you created the microblog database and tested it. Part 2
tapped into Adobe Flex and ActionScript to create the user interface of your application. In this article, the final part of the series, you will learn how to use your pureXML Web Services to publish your microblog entries to an HTML page.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

The pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 allow you to store XML natively in a database
without modification, while Adobe Flex applications can read XML directly and
populate Flex user interfaces. In this three-part article series, you will create
a microblogging application that takes advantage of pureXML, Web services, and
Adobe Flex; and even allows you to publish your microblogging updates on Twitter.
In Part 1 of the series, you learned about Web Services and how they are enabled
using DB2 pureXML as you created the microblog database and tested it. In this
article, Part 2 of the series, you will tap into Adobe Flex and ActionScript to
create the user interface of the application.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

As the popular PHP language continues to evolve, many new features enhance
its object-oriented aspects. In this article, PHP V5.3 examples illustrate late static binding,
namespace support, class method overloading, and variable parsing and heredoc support.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Apache CXF shares certain underlying components with both Apache Axis2 and Metro but combines the components within an entirely different architecture. Dennis Sosnoski continues his Java Web services column series by comparing how the CXF, Metro, and Axis2 stacks perform both with and without WS-Security.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Data mining is the talk of the tech industry, as companies are
generating millions of data points about their users and looking for a way to
turn that information into increased revenue. Data mining is a collective
term for dozens of techniques to glean information from data and turn it into
something meaningful. This article will introduce you to open source
data-mining software and some of the most common techniques to interpret
data.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) often utilize different bundled technologies. Choosing the right grouping
of technologies can expedite development times and provide users a complete and rich
Internet experience. Discover how to use Java EE platform components on the server side,
the Adobe Flex platform on the client side, and the MySQL database server for storage
persistence.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

As multimedia becomes more prevalent, it becomes important to be able to
size video for the end-use, just as we've become accustomed to do with
graphics. Fortunately, an open source tool, WinFF, makes such conversions easy
and even fun to do. See four video-conversion examples: Flash, Windows
Media Player, QuickTime and BlackBerry.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Smarty is a PHP template engine that lets you separate the business
logic from the presentation in your Web applications. Smarty currently has no
built-in Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) support, but its plug-in architecture lets you extend it easily
and use it together with JavaScript frameworks, such as jQuery. This series
describes how to use Smarty in Ajax applications, how to create
Smarty plug-ins, and how to improve the code quality of your Web applications,
making the code more readable and easier to maintain.



Updated: Wed Apr 28 23:55:02 2010


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