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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Superb Mini Server 8.1 is a Slackware-based distribution for small servers. A new release, version 1.5.2, was announced earlier today: "Superb Mini Server version 1.5.2 released (Linux kernel 2.6.33.5). This minor release clears the name of SMS to Superb Mini Server and brings new graphics and logos. Some .


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The first release candidate for PC-BSD 8.1, a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD, comes with KDE 4.4.4 and improved support for the ZFS file system: "The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.1-RC1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RC, and KDE 4.4.4. Version 8.1 .


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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: An introduction to Peppermint OS News: Open letter to Mandriva, openSUSE strategy proposal, Debian release update, anti-vuvuzela filters and plugins Questions and answers: Slackware-based live CDs Released last week: Parted Magic 4.11, SystemRescueCd 1.5.6, MINIX, 3.1.7 Site news: Package database update New .



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Tech Source: "If you are new to Linux and are using Ubuntu, you may find it frustrating that there's no instant option to easily hide/show desktop icons just like in Windows."


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Techradar: "People don't just like Windows 7, it's the anti-Vista: loved for as many often spurious reasons as Vista was hated."


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Help Net Security: "IEEE announced the ratification of IEEE 802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet, a new standard governing 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet operations. "


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IT World: "Barnes & Nobles just started an e-reader price war with price-cuts on the Nook, but it's not going to matter. Dedicated e-readers will be dead within a year."


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LinuxBSDos: "If you are coming from the Windows world and want to install a Linux or BSD distribution while maintaining your Windows installation, dual-booting is one means of accomplishing that."


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Tech Drive-In: "The default menu application in Ubuntu is functional, but it is also down to earth basic. GnoMenu tries to replicate the looks and functionality of KDE's Menu application."


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Linux Planet: "He'd done it entirely on his own, which is testimony not only to his defiance of the obstacles of age, but also to the ease with which an interested beginner can come to terms with the Ubuntu version of Linux."


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Scott Photographics: "Lomography is most commonly recognised in old film photographs and is used aesthetically in photographs. I will show a quick process to achieve this "Lomo" effect in GIMP!"


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Datamation: "The last two years have seen the KDE desktop not only rewritten from scratch, but adding innovation after innovation. Sooner or later, the moment had to come when its breakneck pace of development slowed -- and, judging from the second beta, that moment is the upcoming 4.5 release."


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Linux.com: "This is the first in a series of a "Linuxables," short, quickly consumable tutorials that can provide easy reference while at work or at home. We hope they're useful for you."


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Salon: "Seeking real freedom of choice in a technology ecosystem where vendors are exerting more and more control"


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Tech Drive-in: "Bisgi themes just won't stop improving. They stunned everyone before with their incredible collection of themes downloadable via bisigi PPA. Now a new theme called ECO is released which for me is the best so far."


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My Open Source Wish List: "But what about the rights of the creators of original code? The programmer sometimes pours his money, his time, his energies, his own life into a program, and is unfair to demand or expect him to put it into the public domain right away or license it under a free license "


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Cyber Cynic: "Recently Dell did something amazing. The Austin, TX computer giant admitted on one of their Web pages that "Ubuntu [Linux] is safer than Microsoft Windows." (PDF Link) But, now Dell has backed off to the far more generic "Ubuntu is secure"."


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LinuxLinks: "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 4 high quality open source econometric software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to use econometrics in everyday life. Also worthy of a mention is X-12-ARIMA, a specialist open-source seasonal adjustment software used by the U.S. Census Bureau."


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LinuxPlanet: "You're probabably familiar with the Ubuntu LiveCD, which lets you run Ubuntu on any PC without installing it. Did you know there are dozens, maybe hundreds of other Linux LiveCD/DVD/USB distributions? Everything from desktops and servers to routers to troubleshooting to security to multimedia, and many more. Eric Geier rounds up eight for us to look at."


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Hubfolio: "Shane Shields recently posted an article suggesting that Mono was a disease created by Microsoft to propagate a flawed technology that will ultimately weaken Linux. It was an interesting read, but I would have to disagree."


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The H Open: "Meeks has long contended that OpenOffice.org has failed to attract and keep individual and corporate developers due to "a half-hearted open-source strategy that is not truly 'Open'" and lacks transparency."


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Begin Linux: "Using the expire option will allow the administrator to lock down an account without destroying the data so that it may be available for a short time."


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MakeTechEasier: "There are several options for Linux, so we've decided to check out each of the major photo management options for Linux to see exactly what each one offers. Today we'll be comparing Picasa, F-Spot, Shotwell, DigiKam, and Geeqie."


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life at the end of the universe: "So as you might have heard KDE is going to host its own git infrastructure. This means that the projects currently on gitorious will have to be moved one by one."


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Managing L'unix: "Overall this is a case in which the next surprise has almost always seemed a red herring to those judging on the basis of the underlying issues - and red meat to those to those using any available means or information to attack SCO."


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Mandriva Linux Chronicles: "Find the computer that works in the picture above."


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Technology & Life Integration: "With Linux being able to do so much. With it being stretched, squished, pulled and pushed into so many different applications and uses I am beginning to wonder. Like silly putty being pulled too far and fast is Linux starting to snap? Like stomping on an empty can is it about to be crushed?"



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Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts


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Learn what it takes to build and maintain high-traffic websites with Web Operations. Featuring essays from today's top web veterans, this insightful book shows you how to run your web ops as reliably and effectively as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo run theirs. Even if your site never gets that big, you'll profit from the experience and knowledge of the people who created sites for these and other industry giants.


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My new O'Reilly book about iPhone user experience - Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps - hits bookshelves in the next few days (the ebook is already available). I thought it'd be fun to share a few of the book's big-picture design ideas here. For instance, choose a personality for your app. Don't let your app's personality emerge by accident. Before you start designing, choose a personality for your app. The right personality for the right audience and features makes an app irresistible and creates a bonafide emotional connection. Tapworthy designs have the power to charm and beguile. Read more.
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How to use UIAutomation to create iPhone UI tests
How to adjust audio on an iPad
How can commenting systems be improved?
How to store iPhone app data
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Arien Malec, coordinator of NHIN Direct, has led a uniquely open, community-based project to define health data exchange standards. In this podcast, Malec discusses health care privacy, the difficulties of securely exchanging patient information, and the types of applications NHIN Direct can facilitate.


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In case you missed it last week, all video content from the recent Apple WWDC conference is available for free to all registered Apple Developers (including HD videos). Just go to http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2010/ and log in with your developer account to access everything.


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Law of Success 2.0 -- a blog of interviews with famous and/or interesting people, from Brad Feld to Uri Geller. Pioneer One -- crowdsourced funding for TV show, perhaps a hint of the future. Pilot shot for $6,000 which was raised through KickStarter. Distributed via BitTorrent. DrasticTools -- PHP/MySQL visualisation tools, including TreeMap, tag cloud, hierarchical bar chart, and


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This week's review comes as the nation comes to grips with the expanding scope of its worst environmental disaster in living memory, as the extent of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico becomes more clear. Despite the dire circumstances, the fact that I was able to stream President Barack Obama's first address to the nation from the Oval


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In my previous entry I talked about establishing a career path for developers in your organization. Now I will talk about using that career path to then create a framework for advancement. Create Framework for Advancement You've taken the initiative


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"I Promise Never To Program A Computer To Play Something I Can't"


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I've spoken in the past how part of my over all responsibilities are around managing my team of developers and fostering their career growth. I've described ways to keep them engaged in their work and the work place in general .


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Higher education institutions find themselves having to rethink almost everything they do in today's highly-connected, highly competitive digital age to ensure they maintain their pivotal role of advancing the opportunities of individuals worldwide by providing a productive, efficient learning environment.



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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Real-time web applications are networked applications, with web-based
user interfaces, that display Internet information as soon as it's published. Examples
include social news aggregators and monitoring tools that continually update
themselves with data from an external source. In this tutorial, you will create
Pingstream, a small notification tool that uses PHP and JavaScript to communicate over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), a set of XML technologies designed to support presence and real-time-communications functionality.



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