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Source: Linux Today

Handle With Linux: "It is a really simple tool actually, it just allows for searching contacts, apps, bookmarks and music by gesturing a letter on the screen."


Source: Linux Today

Print isn't dead, it's just changing despite the best efforts of the titans of industry to resist and foil all change. Here is a roundup of excellent Linux print publications, and for no extra charge a bold prediction of the future of print.


Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Now that Songbird has abandoned Linux, where will we turn for a browser-based music fix? Not to worry, you can still find plenty of add-ons and extensions for Firefox and Chrome to turn them into excellent tools for finding and listening to music."


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Source: Linux Today

Wall Street Journal: "Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent."


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Source: Linux Today

LWN.net: "MeeGo is interesting: it is a combined effort by two strong industry players which are trying, in the usual slow manner, to build a truly community-oriented development process."


Source: Linux Today

Scott Photographics: "In this tutorial I'll guide you through making a cool and fresh Water-Colour Wallpaper in GIMP. At the end you can add your favourite operating system logo and set your new wallpaper as your background :) !"


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Source: Linux Today

easybashgui: "EasyBashGUI
is a bash function library
that aims to give scripters simple GUI functions
using kdialog, zenity, Xdialog or (c)dialog"


Source: Linux Today

The Oatmeal: "Printers, unlike other technologies, are remarkable in the fact that they're just as crappy and unreliable now as they were in 1995."


Source: Linux Today

ServerWatch: "How far back does your knowledge of databases go -- late-1980s, mid-1990s, five years ago? If so, you might not recognize some of the old timers in this list."


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Source: Linux Today

PC World: "Codenamed "Froyo," for frozen yogurt, Android 2.2 includes more than 20 new features geared to enterprises, said Google's Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering. Among these is integration with the Microsoft Exchange messaging system "


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Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "Without a doubt, this is one of the fastest browsing naming efforts I have ever seen. At this rate Chrome 8 or 9 will be out by the end of the year."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "There were only a few areas where the two Linux distributions actually performed differently with many of their core packages being similar, but one of the areas where the results were vastly different was with the OpenGL performance as Ubuntu uses Compiz by default "


Source: Linux Today

ars Technica: "Even without hardware acceleration, Google claims that low-end hardware will still perform well with WebM."


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Source: Linux Today

NixCraft: "All major laptop (notebook) hardware is supported by Linux. The important things to take into account when looking to buy a Linux powered laptops are as follows to avoid any hardware compatibility problem"


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Source: Linux Today

XKCD: "You should really use a more open " "Give it a rest already!"


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Source: Linux Today

Holy Crap My Hair is on Fire: "Linux saved me and the company I sub contract to, a large fast food giant, from near-total disaster. Last month McAfee posted a virus definition update that flagged SVCHOST.EXE as a virus. This is my story of what happened."


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "Ever since the Web was spun there has been tension between Silicon Valley and Hollywood.

Generally, Hollywood has won"


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Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "At this year's Google I/O developer conference, currently taking place in San Francisco, Google announced the availability of a collection of high quality open source fonts for the web."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source: "Due to popular demand, we will give you another round of some of the best free and open-source Content Management Systems (CMS). This new set of CMS is as good as the previous list that we have so this should be interesting."


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Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu Geek: "VirtualBox 3.2, the first Oracle branded release since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc by Oracle Corp. earlier this year, contains many innovative new features which deliver further significant improvements in performance, power and supported guest operating system platforms."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Pro Magazine: "When HP discussed expanding webOS, this probably isn't what Palm had in mind."


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Source: Linux Today

The Register: "Duke University in North Carolina is where Usenet began, and today the institution is shutting down its Usenet server. The college cites "low usage and rising costs" for the decision."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Last article we introduced the SMART capabilities of hard drives (who knew your drives were SMART?). In this article smartmontools, an application for examining the SMART attributes and trigger self tests, is examined."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "If you remember my December Linux Journal column, I was excited about a particularly cool-looking submarine simulator, Danger from the Deep. This month, I'm proud to feature it."


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Source: Linux Today

MakeTechEasier: "The talk of the town is that the next version of Kubuntu (10.10, codenamed Maverick Meerkat) will have a new default browser, replacing Konqueror, the longtime KDE favorite."


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Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Mobile Today: "The Linux-based Android version 2.2, dubbed Froyo (frozen yogurt), isn't even officially out yet and the blogosphere is abuzz with reports that the follow-up, Gingerbread, is due in the fourth quarter of this year."


Source: Linux Today

Tech Drive-In: "Nautilus is the default file browser in Ubuntu and Nautilus Elementary is a patched version of Nautilus with an emphasis for simplicity."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "I am sure that many other Slashdotters have noticed an increase in ARM-based netbooks over the past several months. For example, the Augen E-Go. It is a widely touted theory that it is impossible to install Linux on one of these notebooks, replacing the commonly-installed Windows CE operating system. The sub-$100.00 netbooks carry decent specs, including: 533mhz ARM processor; 128MB DDR RAM; and a 2GB Flash drive, as well as the most expected netbook components (USB, Wi-Fi, etc.) I find it hard to believe that a computer with these specs is impossible to hack and install Linux to, but Google searches have been largely unsuccessful in finding proper information. Do any Slashdot readers have experience in installing ARM Linux distros to these cheap netbooks like this? If so, what distros do they recommend?"
(In particular, I wonder if anyone can comment on Ubuntu on ARM.)

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

There are positive situations where open source solutions like sudo will work for small scale enterprises. However, you need to be aware of the red flags and understand that much of what sudo provides is an illusion of control over access to a company's critical assets.



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Source: Security DevCenter

As I detailed in a previous article my focus has shifted from a project-centric focus to a team and department -centric focus. A large part of my over all goals is to grow the larger team of developers, foster their


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Source: Security DevCenter

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Source: Security DevCenter

Bernard Kouchner may have written that the "universal spirit of the Enlightenment should run through the new media" but this week, the zeitgeist of the government information revolution online was powered by open data.


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Source: Security DevCenter

A hands-on on guide to digital photography, with a practical focus on the Web. Readers will learn how to make the most of their digital camera, edit images, and then utilize them on their websites, or through online communities and stock photography sites like Flickr, iStockPhoto and Fotalia.


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Source: Security DevCenter

A Learner's Guide to Real-World Programming with Visual C# and .NET


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Source: Security DevCenter

In a recent Inc Magazine live chat, I found myself, somewhat surprisingly even to me defending Facebook regarding their ongoing and evolving privacy policy. Here's what I said: The essence of my argument is that there's enormous advantage for users in giving up some privacy online and that we need to be exploring the boundary conditions - asking ourselves when


Source: Security DevCenter

Peter Corbett has helped usher in a wave of development innovation within government by spearheading a number of app contests. In this interview, Corbett looks at the surprising success of the contest model and offers guidance -- and a few warnings -- for organizations considering their own innovation contests.


Source: Security DevCenter

Hugh McGuire's post yesterday raised some great points about what a really effective web-friendly distributed and inherently social writing platform should look like. When it comes to the software tools


Source: Security DevCenter

Jeanne Holm, the former chief knowledge architect at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses her efforts to build an an international ontology for space data.


Source: Security DevCenter

Massive issues around the environment, social change, and worldwide economies feel intractable, but "Sustainable Network" author Sarah Sorensen sees solutions to our biggest problems in something many of use every day: the global communications network.


Source: Security DevCenter

Infrastructures (xkcd) -- absolutely spot-on. The Michel Thomas App: Behind the Scenes (BERG) -- not interesting to me because it's iPhone, but for the insight into the design process. The main goal here was for me to do just enough to describe the idea, so that Nick could take it and iterate it in code. He’d then show me


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Source: Security DevCenter

I've been teaching ActionScript for going on seven years now. I've been teaching JavaScript for the same amount of time but teaching ActionScript has been a different experience. Each iteration of the technology has been not only been a syntactical



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

In the first two articles of this series, you learned to model a NIEM exchange, map it to the NIEM base model, and create a subset of the NIEM model for use in your IEPD. Now explore what to do about the parts of your model that do not map directly to NIEM, as you create extension and exchange schemas to define your custom types and properties.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

This article provides an introduction to using DB2 pureXML with CICS applications written in Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL).
XML is playing an increasingly important role in CICS applications. Therefore, the need to store and query XML in CICS applications is growing.
This article describes two scenarios for using CICS with DB2 pureXML.
The first scenario shows how to store inbound XML Web service messages in DB2 pureXML without first parsing the messages in CICS.
The second shows how a CICS application can retrieve XML data from DB2 and transmit it through a Web service.
The article provides sample source code that you can download.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The DB2 9 release features significant new support for storing,
managing, and querying XML data, which is called pureXML. In this article,
learn how to query data stored in XML columns using SQL and SQL/XML. The next
article in the series will illustrate how to query XML data using XQuery, a
new language supported by DB2.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

DB2's 9 release features significant new support for storing, managing,
and querying XML data. In this article, you'll learn the basics of how to
write Java applications that access the new XML data. This article has been
updated to include changes in DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows 9.5 and 9.7.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The IBM DB2(R) V9 for Linux(R), UNIX(R), and Windows(R) features
significant new support for storing, managing, and searching XML data,
referred to as pureXML. This series helps you master these new XML features
quickly through several step-by-step articles that explain how to accomplish
fundamental tasks. In this article, Learn how to query data stored in XML
columns using XQuery. [25 Mar 2010: Originally written in 2006, this article
has been updated to include changes in DB2 versions 9.5 and
9.7.--Ed.]


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Learn how to integrate business-critical XML data into your data
warehouse using IBM InfoSphere(TM) Warehouse Design Studio and DB2(R) 9.7
pureXML(R). This two-part article series provides step-by-step instructions
for using pureXML as both a source and target data source for extract,
transform, and load (ETL) operations developed with InfoSphere Warehouse
Design Studio. This article explains how to build a single data flow that uses
an XML-based source table to populate two target data warehouse tables. One of
these tables contains only relational data, while the other contains both
relational and XML data.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

This is the first of a two-part series which will introduce you to cmislib, a
client-side library for working with CMIS content libraries. Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is a specification that provides a standard way to access content, regardless of the underlying repository implementation or the choice of the front-end programming language. In this article, learn about the cmislib API for Python using examples.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Interoperability and standards are the latest buzzwords in the
healthcare industry today. Use of standards is key to giving hospitals and
doctors the capability to interoperate to share patient records better. IBM
Research has been investigating the healthcare industry's evolution of
standards, including the IHE and HL7 standards. This article offers a brief
introduction to these standards and protocols, and it offers a scenario of an
IBM DB2(R) pureXML(R) solution that follows the IHE QED protocol.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Part 1 of this series walked through reading Microsoft Excel files using Java technology and Apache POI. But reading Excel files is only a start. This installment mixes up Excel and XML to soothe developers who turn green at the thought of converting between reporting formats.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The IBM DB2(R) V9 for Linux(R), UNIX(R), and Windows(R) features
significant new support for storing, managing, and searching XML data,
referred to as pureXML. This series helps you master these new XML features
quickly through several step-by-step articles that explain how to accomplish
fundamental tasks. In this article, learn how to create database objects for
managing your XML data and how to populate your DB2 database with XML data.
[11 Mar 2010: Originally written in 2006, this article has been updated to
include changes in DB2 versions 9.5 and 9.7.--Ed.]


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

What happens if you are using XPath in an XML application, but need to use jQuery for a Web application? What if you know jQuery but need to use XPath in an application? Use this handy phrase book to move from what you know to what you need to know. In this article, learn to use XPath 1.0 and jQuery 1.4 for similar tasks, giving you the ability to move rapidly from one to the other as necessary.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Extracting business data is a challenge every company faces. Discover some of the secrets to extracting data from Excel and converting it between Excel and XML using Java technology.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

XML schemas come in various types, including an XML schema with or without a namespace, XML schemas consisting of multiple definitions, and XML schemas consisting of multiple namespaces. This article takes those kinds of XML schemas, and introduces ways to register XML schemas, ways to validate XML data, ways to get the XML schema used for validating XML data, and so on. This article is described based on DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The complexity facing embedded systems architects today is daunting because of added requirements in safety, reliability, and network accessibility. Yet, the tools typically used are often a step behind large-scale software spaces and do not provide the ability to transition smoothly between the detailed device level and a total system view. Learn how to use open source standards such as DITA and PHP and tools such as blob representations to create a system-level environment to address these needs.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

SugarCRM is the world's leading open source Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) software provider, with over 5,000 customers and 500,000 downloads of the
SugarCRM application all around the world. SugarCRM has long had a very useful Web
Services framework, allowing applications to access the SugarCRM instance and work
with data on it. But new to SugarCRM 5.2 is a framework for accessing other
outside Web services from inside the application itself. SugarCRM 5.2 ships with a
LinkedIn connector by default that uses this framework. Thus, users of the
SugarCRM instance can check on the LinkedIn status of various companies, contacts,
and leads they might have. In this article, learn how the connectors framework
works in Sugar 5.2 by building an example connector that allows users to see any recent Google News items pertaining to companies in their SugarCRM instance.


Source: developerWorks : XML : 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 : XML : Technical library

Within the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) community, Spring is becoming a widely accepted framework. One new feature in the latest release of Spring is its Object/XML (O/X) mapping support. The API enables developers to convert Java objects into XML and vice versa. In this article, learn to use the Object/XML mapping in Spring and explore its advantages.



Updated: Sat May 22 23:55:01 2010


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