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Cyber Cynic: "Much as I hate to admit it, Microsoft does some things better, much better, than Linux. Number one with a bullet is how Microsoft helps programmers and ISVs (independent software vendors). MSDN (Microsoft Software Developer Network) is a wonderful online developer resource. Linux has had nothing to compare."

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The H Open: "Red Hat has published a reminder that version 3 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) reaches its end-of-life (EOL) date on the 31st of October, 2010."

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Datamation: "Unlike Fedora's early virtualization features, which all leveraged the Xen open source technology, more recent Fedora releases have relied on KVM."

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PACKT Publishing: "In this article by Michel Anders, author of Blender 2.49 Scripting, we will now look at scripts that may be used to act on certain events."

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Ryzom: "I write to you today to share an exciting news - almost four years after
the initial Ryzom.org initiative, Ryzom has just been released as Free
Software by Winch Gate."

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Standards Blog: "Frank stepped out of the dark, moonless night of the Nevada desert and into the bright light of the bar, restaurant and motel that was the Little A'Le'Inn."

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Mass High Tech: "Karen Tegan Padir is an evangelist. Her gospel is open source software, and she recently changed denominations when she left Sun Microsystems Inc., where she was in charge of running the departments that determined the future of such ubiquitous Internet software as Java and MySQL."

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The Inquirer: "Wireless equipment manyfacturer Motorola looks to have snapped up the little known mobile software outfit Azingo. Azingo has a number of mobile oriented products on its books, however one, its Mobile 2.0 operating system is sure to raise eyebrows."

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The Register: "Canonical is the first Linux shop to have agreed to license the codec in question, H.264 from MPEG LA. Even though Red Hat and Novell are also available for use on PCs, they have not licensed H.264."

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HowtoForge: "rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system - contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze."

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Spencer Herzberg Blog: "So the goal of this post will be to install a 32-bit chroot of 9.10 in my fresh install of 10.04 as 9.10 is easier to build and test Cyanogen's custom Android rom. I have modified some guides from here and here. I have also elected to use schroot as it allows for easy chroot access."

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HowtoForge: "Nexenta is a project developing a debian user-land for the OpenSolaris kernel. This provides all of the advantages of apt as a package respoitory (based on the Ubuntu LTS apt repository, currently using 8.04) as well as the advantages of the ZFS filesystem."

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PACKT Publishing: "Multi Master Replication Manager for MySQL ("MMM") is a set of open source Perl scripts designed to automate the process of creating and automatically managing the "Active / Passive Master" high availability replication."

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Jim Lynch: "I don't know about you but I've been amused at the amount of coverage in the media about Sony pulling the plug on alternative operating systems on the PS3."

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Tech Drive-in: "It goes something like this 'Installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep Google Chrome up to date'."

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Midgard: "The Midgard Project has released the first release of Midgard2 10.05 "Ratatoskr" LTS. Ratatoskr LTS is a Long Term Support version of Midgard2 Content Repository."

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sammyF70 writes "The Wolfire/Humble Indie Bundle real time statistics have been updated to show the average amount donated per platform. It looks like Linux users donate twice as much, on average, as Windows users. You can see some graphs on the Wolfire blog."

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Julie188 writes with this quote from a Networkworld article:
"Two law professors from UC Berkeley have come up with a novel idea to protect open source developers from patent bullies. They call it the Defensive Patent License. They hope the DPL can address the objections FOSS developers have with patents the way the GPL addressed them for copyright. The DPL is similar to the concept of a defensive patent pool, but is not the same. The DPL is a bit more radical. It requires a bigger commitment from its members than the typical toe-in-the-water kind of pool, says Jason Schultz, former staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 'The perception is that bigger companies only commit their least-effective, least-important patents to a patent pool,' he says. Schultz isn't pointing fingers at any particular pool. However critics of IBM's open source patent pledge often said it didn't cover the patents most relevant to the FOSS community."

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Join Anton Chuvakin (Security Warrior) as he speaks about PCI DSS. Many security professionals have a love/hate relationship with PCI DSS. While people inside the industry proclaim their undying love or mortal hate towards this Data Security Standard, many less enlightened organizations are using PCI to build their entire security programs. Will it work? Is it a good idea or a really risky one?

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Author Dino Esposito leads you through the features, principles, and pillars of the ASP.NET MVC framework, demonstrating how and when to use this model to gain full control of HTML, simplify testing, and design better Web sites and experiences.

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Building a multilingual site is often a difficult and expensive task, not because there is anything especially difficult about hiring translators, but because web publishing and application development tools tend to treat translation as an after thought. However, there is a cheap and easy way to do this, using a translation proxy server. The Worldwide Lexicon, an open source translation platform which I developed, has released just such a beast.

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In this multi-part series of blog posts, I'd like to tell the story of the O'Reilly School of Technology, which is also an opportunity for me to explain and justify our overall mission and plans. Part I: My most important

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If you think this is bad, wait til you see what happens to the strip when we wrap around the 32 bit epoch .