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Scott Photographics: "In this tutorial I'll show you how to create light leaks in GIMP. It is sometimes used aesthetically in photographs creating a sense of vividness or soft blurs of colour."

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Linux Magazine: "The concept is based on building clusters using low cost nodes (less than $500 each). Because lower cost nodes will run slower and have less cores than the big server nodes, they would need to be smaller and use much less power."

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Tech Drive-in: "Many Robots built by multi billion organizations like NASA for advanced space exploration and other complicated tasks are powered by Linux. Here is a nicely compiled list of Robots powered by Linux from around the world."

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PACKT: "This article will teach you how to reap the benefits of Plone by dealing with the problem of creating content types in which the objects' final HTML rendering performs badly, and how to benchmark these improvements."

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ConsortiumInfo.org: "'ORDERED that SCO's Renewed Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law or, in the Alternative, for a New Trial is DENIED.' So ends the ruling of District Judge Ted Stewart. And so also, perhaps, ends the seemingly endless quest of SCO to tax or kill Linux."

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ServerWatch: "I admit it: I was a huge fan of Solaris as recently as two years ago. Solaris is really a great operating system, and when developers at Sun were given free rein they created some amazing components, notably ZFS and DTrace."

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The Inquirer: "Open source software developer Canonical is preparing a version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system for tablet computers."

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The H Open: "Its HyperSpace system is said to stand out because it can use the virtualisation functions of various Intel processors to run simultaneously with the main operating system."

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The Register: "Novell needs all the help it can get in its seven-year battle to get its SUSE Linux business growing and profitable."

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Computer Weekly Blog: "The point here is that technology vendors are waking up to the reality of open source and the so-called community contribution model of code development and enhancement."

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Linux User & Developer: "The market for open source hardware is hotting up, with the top 13 companies in the space turning over nearly $50million last year."

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Computing.co.uk: "Technology companies that want to sell software in Europe, will find they are soon subject to new rules governing the interoperability of their products."

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Free Software Magazine: "How do you get a flurry of images in your head into a concrete description of a film so that you can produce it? One important step is to create storyboards.This article is part of an on-going series on the challenges I've faced in producing two free-licensed movies."

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Webopedia: "Open source tools are viable alternatives to popular closed-source applications and some open source tools offers features or performance benefits that surpass their commercial counterparts."

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Hubfolio: "Getting access to your remote Ubuntu desktops through an ISA HTTP proxy can be a pain. This article shows you how to create a HTTP tunnel that will allow you to bypass even the most restrictive proxies and firewalls."

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The VAR Guy: "Even as Dell ships millions of Windows 7 systems, the PC giant is making a bold statement on its web site."

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Linux User & Developer: "Besides being a HDD player and a full gigabit ethernet network streaming NAS box, it's also a media server (including Samba, NFS, UpnP, Bonjour and myiHome) and plays host to the MSP Portal, not to mention other third-party media server apps."

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An anonymous reader writes "I was asked to manage a number of Linux servers at work. I would like to use volume snapshots to improve my backup scripts and keep recent copies of data around for quick restore. I normally manage Windows servers and on those I would just use Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy for this. I tried Linux LVM snapshots, but most of the servers I manage run regular partitions with ext3 file systems, so LVM snapshots will not work. I found some versioning file systems out there like ext3cow and Tux3. Those look interesting, but I need something I can use on my existing ext3 file systems. I also found the R1Soft Hot Copy command-line utility, but it does not yet support my older 2.4 Linux servers. What are you using to make snapshots on Linux?"

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An anonymous reader writes "It seems that with the release of the 10.1 security patches, Adobe has, at least temporarily, killed 64-bit Flash for Linux. The statement says: 'The Flash Player 10.1 64-bit Linux beta is closed. We remain committed to delivering 64-bit support in a future release of Flash Player. No further information is available at this time. Please feel free to continue your discussions on the Flash Player 10.1 desktop forums.' The 64-bit forum has been set to read-only."

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Glyn Moody writes "If open source is such a success, why aren't there any billion-dollar turnover open source companies? A recent briefing by Red Hat's CEO, Jim Whitehurst, to a group of journalists may provide an answer. Asked why Red Hat wasn't yet a $5 billion company, as he suggested it would be one day, he said getting Red Hat to $5 billion meant 'replacing $50 billion of revenue' currently enjoyed by traditional computer companies. If, as is likely, that's generally true for open source companies, it means they will need to displace around $10 billion of proprietary business in order to achieve a billion-dollar turnover. Few are likely to do that. Perhaps it's time for managers of open source startups to stop chasing the billion-dollar dream. If they don't, they will set unrealistic ambitions for themselves, disappoint their investors, and allow opponents of free software to paint one of its defining successes — saving money — as a failure."

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This week I am taking FreeBSD 8.0 for a spin. So far, I like it enough that it will probably be my normal desktop environment. It seems to have the right stuff: my PC seems markedly faster. FreeBSD's slogan is

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Photographer and environmentalist Uwe Skrzypczak wrote this book with several goals in mind--to teach the technical aspects and the workflow of digital wildlife photography; to show the beauty of East Africa and his beloved Serengeti National Park and to educate about its habitat; and to provide a guide for the photographer who is planning to go on an African photo safari and wants to be prepared to capture the finest possible images. Beginning with digital photography techniques and workflow, Skrzypczak draws his own vast experience in wildlife photography to teach about the equipment, the pros and cons of camera types and lenses, and the specific requirements for this demanding task. Also covered are appropriate techniques for exposure for this demanding task. Also covered are appropriate techniques for exposure and autofocus-the latter being one of the major challenges in wildlife photography. He discusses an "on the road" workflow, the logistics of transporting your gear, and image editing. The book goes on to cover the practical aspects of wildlife photography, from shooting animal portraits to panning the camera in order to capture that speeding leopard. Example images are accompanied by a small set of pictograms showing which techniques are ideal for capturing the specific situation. Loaded with hundreds of breathtaking images, this comprehensive textbook is perfect for the beginning wildlife photographer as well as the seasoned pro. Whether your subject is African wildlife or bird photography in the Arctic Circle, Uwe Skrzypczak's Wildlife Photography will teach you the fundamental concepts and techniques that can be applied to all forms of wildlife photography. Topics include: Equipment and accessories Planning your trip Conditions on the road The right place at the right time Image composition Where to stay and daily routine The light in east Africa Migrations and mating seasons Habitats and animal behavior River crossings The big cats, rhinos, giraffes, etc.

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There was a time when Windows Mobile was actually the most interesting phone platform around. And then came the iPhone

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Ever stopped to consider that Steve Jobs might just be a puppet run by a parasitic black-turtleneck-shaped alien?

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In this post, we'll cover a technique for clean separation of business logic and views/skins in Flex 4. The Flex 4 skinning model allows us to easily create custom skins for our components. This skin can contain all display information, such as how the components appear, fonts, colors, and even visual animations and transitions. This abstraction of presentation also allows us to completely separate the view logic from the application logic.

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Availability of government healthcare data is giving rise to an ecosystem of innovative applications, many of which were on display at the Community Health Data Forum. We take a look at some of the most promising health-data apps showcased at the event.

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Joshua at Seven on Seven -- Delicious creator Joshua Schachter participated in a Rhizome "Seven on Seven" recently. He was paired with artist Monica Narula and together they explored guilt and absolution with the help of the Mechanical Turk. Check out the presentation PDF for the quick summary. How to Align Researcher Incentives with Outcomes (Cameron Neylon) -- the

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Adobe has somewhat silently released AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 today. If you haven't been part of the pre-release, here's what these releases mean to you.

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AIR 2.0 and Flash 10.1 have been officially released! You can download AIR directly from: http://get.adobe.com/air/, and Flash Player 10.1 directly from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. Go get them!

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The O'Reilly eBook deal of the day is the Flex 4 cookbook by Joshua Noble, Todd Anderson, Garth Braithwaite, Marco Casario, and Rich Tretola. Today Only! You can get it for only $9.99. Flex 4 Cookbook http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805623/ Use discount

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Standards, formal or not, make the Internet, the Web, and much much more run. Unfortunately, the process of creating standards can make both sausage factories and political processes look like excellent places to visit. Though lots of people say "just give me the results I want", I've learned that the process used to create a specification really matters. Shifting to a standards model where developers innovate and users select might produce cleaner standards with less design by committee.