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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Tony Sales has announced the release of Vinux 3.0, an Ubuntu-based distribution designed for blind and visually impaired computer users: "On behalf of the whole Vinux community I am happy to announce the 3rd release of Vinux - Linux for the visually impaired, based on Ubuntu 10.04. This .



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Netstat -vat: "Mozilla Weave is no more -- at least in name."


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RWDub's Reviews: "After installing Ubuntu 10.04, I realized that I was going to really miss my flying games. In an attempt to passify myself I downloaded and installed FlightGear, which is entirely free and I must admit it is pretty incredible."


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The Tyee: "Digital locks will make it hard to copy your CDs and DVDs. And what about snooping Internet providers?"


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Groklaw: "I know some of you wondered if SCO had given up and faced reality and wasn't going to file. Hah! Nevah happen."


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Tech Drve-In: "So here we are continuing our addiction with free and opensource wallpapers. Android operating system is spreading like wildfire."


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Handle With Linux: "Home automation may seem like something most interesting for lazy people or people with very big houses, but it can actually save lots of time and money."


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Cyber Cynic: "As everyone knows by now who follows technology news, the Financial Times reported that Google "is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns." Some doubt this story, because they say that's its vague about sources"


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Source: Linux Today

Longene: On May 31, 2010, the Longene team realesed its crucial product, Longene 0.3. This new release has fully eliminated Wineserver, the request to wineserver now is turned to system call, so that its performance has been substantially improved.


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Source: Linux Today

Database Journal: "This post contains common different methods of functional partitioning and common considerations for database setup and capacity."


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Zona-M: "How do you quickly create a spreadsheet where, for example, every other line has a background of a different color? Here are a couple of methods"


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Ghacks: "How many times have you migrated from one Linux box to another, only to say goodbye to your email and knowing you were going to have to set your email client up all over again"


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Standards Blog: "The President of the United States was treating himself to an early breakfast of bacon and eggs. Why not? If a Commander in Chief couldn't ignore his doctor's orders on his 70th birthday, why bother to have the job at all?"


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Click: "Wolvix: For those with better things to do than wobble their windows."


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eSecurity Planet: "The FBI said late last week that it has filed federal indictments against an Ohio man and two foreign residents in a move meant to halt one of the largest "scareware" malware scams."


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Source: Linux Today

Hardware Central: "Intel plans to introduce a series of new Atom processors at the opening of the giant Computex show in Taipei this week, as well as offer a preview a number of other offerings.

But Atom will be the star of the show."


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IT News Today: "Linux is full of some amazing tweaks that go far and beyond other operating systems. Last week I wrote about using scripts to simplify shell commands, and today I'm going to take that a step further, but it takes a little bit more leg work"


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Blog of Helios: "See, most people to my experience take words literally. When someone is faced with the term "Restricted" it forms in their mind that they are not to use whatever is deemed "Restricted"


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Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "Install Xen 4.0 and Libvirt like on F12 ( [1] ). Via my experience xend will hang for 5-7 min at startup and xen managed bridging will fail as well."


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IT World: "Look around you. If you're in an office or coffee shop where people are using Windows, chances are someone's PC is now, or recently has been, part of a botnet."


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Source: Linux Today

Telegraph: "The compendium of ill thought out web addresses, largely from companies who naively slurred their innocent-sounding names into a single word without noticing the resulting double entendres, lists more than 150 "slurls", or slur URLs."


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IT Wire: "Announced earlier today, the 35th list of the top 500 supercomputers contains few surprises, just that Linux has almost total domination of the list."


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Linux Pro Magazine: "Icons have always intimidated me. Except for the mouseover help, two-thirds of the time I would have no idea what function they represent. Shrink them so that they fit on a toolbar, and the obscurity is compounded by illegibility."


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Groklaw: "Here's something interesting, a Santa Cruz 8K from October 26, 1998, which consists mostly of two press releases announcing the IBM-SCO joint partnership to do Project Monterey.

Guess who would be providing the bulk of the high-end enterprise capabilities and contributing them to UnixWare? Hint: Not SCO"


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Brendan Scott's Weblog: "We might speculate whether there will be enough paper in the world to even print the Act in 20 years' time."


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Source: Linux Today

MyThoughts: "For all the people who are waiting for the Linux 2.6.34 kernel for Ubuntu the wait is over.
The kernel is available for Ubuntu Lucid right now, the downside is that you have to compile it yourself, the upside there's an article for that."


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Zona-M: "Articles on how to create OpenDocument invoices already exist but almost always they require you to start and use OpenOffice manually each time. Here, instead, I'll show how to have your computer to do all your OpenDocument work for you."


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WorksWithU: "When Canonical launched Landscape 1.5 this week, it was a timely reminder that the software company is trying to develop multiple revenue streams beyond Ubuntu services. Moreover, Landscape 1.5 represents Canonical's latest attempt to make Ubuntu easier for businesses and solutions providers to remotely manage"


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LinuxConfig: "Nowadays hard drive manufactures are switching to a new hard drive technology which uses 4KB sectors size instead of conventional 512B. This new technology requires little tweaks to get a better performance in comparison to out-of-the-box settings."


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Linux Journal: "Synergy (synergy2.sf.net ) allows you to use the keyboard and mouse of your primary computer to control all the other computers around you. Best of all, it is free, works with Linux, OS X, and Windows."



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Author Christian Crumlish (Designing Social Interfaces) teaches a full-day social design workshop.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Join author Christian Crumlish (Designing Social Interfaces) as he presents "Designing for Play."


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Dru Lavigne (BSD Hacks) will be presenting "BSD for Linux Users" at SouthEast LinuxFest. Stop by the BSD booth to say hi or consider taking the BSDA certification exam at this event.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Author Dru Lavigne (BSD Hacks) will be presenting an "Update on BSD Certification" at MeetBSD.


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Dru Lavigne (BSD Hacks) will be presenting "Getting Started in an Open Source Community."


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Have you ever-wondered why you mostly see Flex client example code where the photo display galleries are rendered using the ActionScript 3 (AS 3) Loader.load (request:URLRequest, context:LoaderContext=null) class.method? There’s another way to render photos in a Flex client gallery using the AS 3 Loader.loadBytes(bytes:ByteArray, context:LoaderContext=null) that you see used to a lesser degree. Why is this? There are a couple of valid reasons. First, using a URL, whether it is photos included with the Flex client package or remotely from a Web server, making a simple HTTP calls to load the photo is a snap. Second, photo files are stored as bytes of data and not a convenient AS 3 ByteArray data type.


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XML in Legislature/Parliament Environments (Sean McGrath) -- quite detailed background on the use of XML in legislation drafting systems, and the problems caused by convention in that world--page/line number citations, in particular. (Quick gloat: NZ's legislature management system is kick-ass, and soon we'll switch from print authoritative to digital authoritative) Large-Scale Social Media Analysis with Hadoop -- In this


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It is my opinion, that regardless of the platform, the online social space has created a condition where the end users must ultimately collaborate to initiate an ongoing privacy arms race to poison the intelligence collected of them. To promote this sentiment, and to further the cause of research in this field, I'd like to announce the AntiSocial project.


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Lately I've been looking closer at the way people use things as part of usability studies I'm doing in my job. One of the best things that has came out of this work is a new framework (for me) of thinking about how users interact with content. I believe this is fairly similar to other things I've read in the field usability, but as I've never heard this type of framework formalized before I'd like to present it briefly here. We're calling this the "How, What, Why" framework, for reasons that will become quite obvious in a moment if they aren't already.


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Transparency is Not Enough (danah boyd) -- we need people to not just have access to the data, but have access to the context surrounding the data. A very thoughtful talk from Gov 2.0 Expo about meaningful data release. Feed6 -- the latest from Rohit Khare is a sort of a "hot or not" for pictures posted to Twitter .


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One advantage of being married to someone who does similar work, but with different tools, is that I can run ideas for my next post past Steve and look for places where my explanation doesn't make sense from the


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When I wrote last week about Facebook privacy flap, I was speaking out of the frustration that many technologists with a sense of perspective feel when we see uninformed media hysteria about the impact of new technology. (How many of you remember all the scare stories about the risks of using a credit card online from back in the mid-1990s,


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While Extreme Programming remains a valuable template for project success, the decade of its adoption also saw the rise of many dilutions and derivatives. This post debunks some common myths about TDD.


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To compare two files in Eclipse, first select them in the Flex Navigator with control-click. Now right-click on one of the files, and the following context menu will appear.Select Compare With / Each Other. A file comparison window will open.You


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Sean McGrath is writing a series around the design issues for KLISS (Kansas Legislative Information Services System) which his company is doing.


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Can California's budget-stricken government be improved through citizen engagement and civic developers? If a new application contest that launches this week bears digital fruit, there just might be an app for that. The state of California will partner with Microsoft, Google and Programmable Web to run an apps contest this summer. For those keeping score, that means two of the


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How can you harness the tremendous potential of Apple's iPad? With this book, you'll quickly learn how to use each feature and application of the iPad to browse online, read, play games, work, and manage your music, video, and photo files. iPad: The Missing Manual offers clear step-by-step instructions, undocumented shortcuts, workarounds, and lots of practical, time-saving advice.


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Access may be a complex and intimidating Office application, but you'll tame it quickly with this book. You'll learn how to design complete databases, maintain them, search for valuable nuggets of information, and build attractive forms for quick-and-easy data entry in no time. You'll even delve into the black art of Access programming by learning valuable tricks and techniques to automate common tasks -- even if you've never touched a line of code before.


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The smart way to learn Microsoft Office 2010. Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files on CD.


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The smart way to learn the latest version of Access 2010-one step at a time! Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files available online.


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Apply the field-tested solutions, real-world lessons, and candid advice of leading Exchange Server experts to design, deploy, operate, and optimize messaging solutions that meet your organization's IT objectives.


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The smart way to learn the latest version of PowerPoint 2010-one step at a time! Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files available online.


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Two hundred years of industrial habits are embedded in our workplaces, our schools and our system of government. How do we change our work practices to win in the 21st Century? Full of practical, proven solutions to common workplace challenges, Gamestorming is a toolkit for inventors, explorers and change agents who want to use design thinking to navigate successfully in complex and uncertain knowledge and information spaces.


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Covering both ECMAScript 5 and HTML5, JavaScript Cookbook helps you take advantage of the latest web features, including HTML5's persistent storage mechanisms and drawing canvas. You'll find solutions for integrating these features with JavaScript into UIs that people will enjoy using. The recipes in this book not only help you get things done, they'll also help you develop applications that work reliably in every browser.


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Map Scripting 101uses a project-based approach to teach you how to create useful and fun online map mashups like weather maps and local concert trackers. Author Adam DuVander shows you how to use Mapstraction, an open source JavaScript library, to create and manipulate basic maps by setting zoom levels, showing and hiding markers, geocoding addresses, customizing maps for visitors based on their locales, and so on. You'll also learn to handle complex GIS (geographic information system) data and formats like KML and GeoRSS, and to create graphical overlays to make sense of data and trends. This is a perfect book for any web developer, whether their goal is to build a map to track earthquakes around the world, or to simply mark the best coffee shops in town.


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Server bottlenecks and failures are a fact of life in any database deployment, but they don't have to bring everything to a halt. MySQL provides several features that can protect you from outages, whether you're running directly on the hardware, on virtual machines, or in the cloud. This book shows you how to use these features effectively, and helps you determine which combination of features will give you the most reliable system for a price you can afford.


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It's not an iPhone and it's not a laptop: the iPad is a groundbreaking new device. You need to create true iPad apps to take advantage of all that is possible with the iPad. If you're an experienced iPhone developer, iPad Programming, will show you how to write these outstanding new apps while completely fitting your users' expectation for this device.


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Whether you're new to Microsoft Office or have used it for years, this clear and friendly primer helps you be productive with Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and the rest of the Office apps from day one. Learn what's new in Office 2010 and get a complete, step-by-step guide to each of its main programs, along with details on Publisher, OneNote, and Office Web Apps. With this Missing Manual on hand, you'll be creating professional-quality documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases in no time.


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Get expert advice and learn how to master Microsoft® Outlook® 2010 -- from the inside out! This book packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds in a supremely organized format.


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Google's Android is shaking up the mobile market in a big way. With Android, you can write programs that run on any compatible cell phone in the world. It's a mobile platform you can't afford not to learn, and this book gets you started. This third edition covers all Android versions from Android 1.5 through Android 2.



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Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

Learn how to create and manage hard and symbolic links to files on your
Linux system. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI
101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to explore the
differences between hard and soft, or symbolic, links and the best ways to link to files,
as opposed to copying files.


Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Several interface options are available to help you to interact with the
IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, which provides functionality for creating,
deploying, and managing IBM WebSphere Application Server virtual systems in a
private cloud. These interfaces include a Web 2.0 graphical user interface, a
Jython command line interface, and an HTTP REST API. This article discusses
the HTTP REST API, which provides a language-neutral interface that is ideal
for integrating WebSphere CloudBurst capabilities into existing applications
or user interfaces.


Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Because every user scenario is unique, the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst
Appliance has built-in features to help you configure and customize your IBM
WebSphere Application Server environments. Part 3 of this series describes how
to customize and enhance your deployed WebSphere Application Server
environments using script packages.


Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2 Expert Group member David Geary continues his article series offering in-depth coverage of JSF 2 technology. In this installment, you'll learn how to let page authors add Ajax to your composite components, taking a close look at a powerful -- but entirely undocumented -- JSF 2.0 tag. And you'll see how to implement a reusable, general-purpose, Ajax-capable icon component in fewer than 25 lines of XML.


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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Are you building a Web site or a Web application? The line between Web sites, which are largely informational,
and Web apps, which are more interactive, has blurred.
There are best
practices for building good informational sites, and those practices aren't
the same for building a good application. In this article, learn
the real, tangible differences between Web sites and Web apps, and then
analyze your own sites. Explore the kind of sites you're
managing, designing, and coding in a way that helps you improve their design
and usability. Learn to make informed decisions that support your Web
goals.



Updated: Wed Jun 2 23:55:02 2010


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