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Source: Linux Today

The Motley Fool: "No, the sneaky sales strength of Red Hat comes from a habit of landing long-term contracts with only small payments due at signing."


Source: Linux Today

Developer.com: "Android devices come in many shapes and sizes, often making it very difficult for developers to design applications that look great on all the various screen sizes and orientations. For addressing this challenge, NinePatch graphics can be indispensable."


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Source: Linux Today

MyBroadband: "Clearly Ubuntu is among the most popular Linux distributions, but which other versions of this operating system are proving popular with users?"


  popularity

Source: Linux Today

Tuxmachines: "It's been a while since the last release. Quite a few bug-fixes have piled up in the stable branch, so here's another release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series."


Source: Linux Today

Hardware Central: "Intel Corp. has apparently tipped its hand, revealing an upcoming processor design in a session entry to a program guide for an upcoming semiconductor conference"


Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "A lot has changed over the past decade. But one thing that hasn't are the worn out sets of beliefs, ideologies and arguments spouted by hardcore fanbois. Let's take a quick look at just a few of these outdated modes of thinking."


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Source: Linux Today

The Register: "Linux has changed almost beyond recognition since version 1.0 in 1994 and Ubuntu is about as polished and professional as it gets."


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Source: Linux Today

Model Airplanes and R/C Flight: "
I've recently switched entirely to Ubuntu Linux as my primary operating system. Phoenix Flight Simulator has been my primary sim for the last few years, and it only runs under Windows."


Source: Linux Today

ZDNet Education: "Have you used Ubuntu 10.04? It's my desktop and server platform of choice for basically everything I do. As far as I'm concerned, it has only two weaknesses:"


Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsider: "Album Shaper's menu-driven structure simplifies the process without depriving the user of many must-have photo manipulation tools."


Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "Open formats are taking center stage at Mozilla, Opera, and Flock as lock-in (or freeze-out), security concerns, and performance issues fuel the drive toward the VP8 video format."


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Source: Linux Today

Free Software Magazine: "I'm going to extract the sound from the video (with VLC), cut out the sound I need, clean it up, and insert it into an existing sound mix (all with Audacity). This should give you some insight into using Audacity and a VLC on a real project."


Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "Microsoft and Red Hat, Linux and Windows aren't supposed to get along right?

But they do "


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Source: Linux Today

Mandriva Linux Chronicles: "In my net surfings, I have encountered that smoke screens about Linux security are becoming popular. The way in which certain threat alerts were made public amused me"


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Devices: "HP announced a netbook for students that includes a metal-hinged case, carrying handle, and worldwide V.92 modem."


Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "The fact of the matter is that not everyone out there thinks that relying on a single distro is the way to go.

So thankfully, despite Ubuntu's success, there are some fantastic alternatives out there that fit the needs of most people."


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Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "This just in: Google has beaten Viacom on summary judgment. The judge has just ruled [PDF] that Google does qualify for DMCA safe harbor protection. "General knowledge that infringement is 'ubiquitous' does not impose a duty on the service provider to monitor or search its service for infringements," the judge wrote. So "the burden is on the owner to identify the infringement." This is huge."


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Source: Linux Today

IT World: "Open source, like rock and roll, will never die."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Yesterday we reported that Ubuntu 10.10 gained Btrfs installation support and since then we have been trying out this Btrfs support in Ubuntu "Maverick Meerkat" and have a fresh set of Btrfs benchmarks to serve up."


Source: Linux Today

Scott Photographics: "David Hockney is known for his unusual panoramas that are made up of differently scaled and angled photos. To produce the 'Hockney' effect it is best done with multiple photographs that can be arranged later "


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Source: Linux Today

TechCrunch: "Today, Skype is releasing an open software development kit (SDK) for developers called SkypeKit which will allow Skype calls, instant messaging, video chat and other features to be integrated into consumer electronics and computers."


Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "Conditions remain challenging for IT professionals seeking work, but several signs suggest that hiring may heat up soon."


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Source: Linux Today

RWDub's Reviews: "During the past few weeks I've continued to work on getting X-Plane to function well on my Core i7 Ubuntu 10.04 box . It has been a long journey, and I've learned many things. "


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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "I love it. KDE 3.x, which has always remained my favorite Linux desktop interface, is making a come back. A tiny group of open-source developers from Pearson Computing is trying to bring KDE 3.x from the grave in a project that they're calling Trinity."


Source: Linux Today

Scribbles and Snaps: "Can't wait till the latest version of digiKam appears in the official Ubuntu software repositories? You don't have to: using the personal package archives (PPA) provided by the Launchpad service, you can install the latest release of digiKam with a few simple commands"


Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "The last three months have been good ones for Red Hat. The enterprise Linux vendor reported its first-quarter fiscal 2011 financial results this week, showing growth coming from all sides "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxBSDos: "So how easy is it to configure full disk encryption on Sabayon 5.3? Very, very easy. Just follow the directions outlined below."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Nokia announced that moving forward, MeeGo would be the default operating system in the N series of smartphones (original Reuters report). Symbian will still be used in low-end devices from Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The move to MeeGo is a demonstration of support for the open source mobile OS, but considering the handset user experience hasn't been rolled out and likely won't be rolled out in time for its vague June deadline outlined at MeeGo.com, could the decision be premature?"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: Security DevCenter

Stan Kelly-Bootle coined the term curtation to refer to this phenomenon in his book "The Devil's DP Dictionary." He cited the example of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte appearing as MOZ DONG on a music club statement.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Fast-paced and easy to use, this guide shows you how to get the most out of Excel 2010. You'll learn how to develop a spreadsheet from scratch, create formulas, add data, and analyze and graph data so you can make informed business decisions. With clear jargon-free explanations, step-by-step instructions, tons of illustrations, and lots of undocumented tips and shortcuts, you'll get hands-on guided tours and explanations of Excel's new features.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Network flow analysis is the art of studying the traffic on a computer network. Understanding the ways to export flow and collect and analyze data separates good network administrators from great ones. The detailed instructions in Network Flow Analysis teach the busy network administrator how to build every component of a flow-based network awareness system and how network analysis and auditing can help address problems and improve network reliability.


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Source: Security DevCenter

On the second day of Flashbelt we were able to snag a few terrifically talented people including: Seb Lee-Delisle, Jesse Freeman, Dave Schroeder, Bruno Fonzi, Stephen Braitsch, Mark Anders, Branden Hall, Wade Arnold, and John Lindquist. Seb Lee-Delisle and Jesse


  popularity

Source: Security DevCenter

I've been surprising people more people than I expected lately with the revelation that it's possible to write iPhone and Android applications as a pile of HTML and CSS documents with some accompanying JavaScript. I'm far from the first to


Source: Security DevCenter

Fred Trotter, a longtime developer in the open source healthcare world and a speaker at next month's OSCON conference, discusses the history of open source and health IT in this podcast interview.


Source: Security DevCenter

The App Store has exposed incumbents in the mobile industry to the same sort of asymmetric competition that has reshaped the media industry over the past decade. Developers are responding in droves to the economic incentives that lower barriers to entry create, as well as the fact that the App Store has generated $1 billion in royalty payments in just a few years.


Source: Security DevCenter

Crowdsourcing the Goldman-Sachs Investigation (Crowdflower) -- Goldman-Sachs turned over "several hundred billion pages" of documents in response to a government investigation request. Crowdsourcing may be the solution, as with UK MPs' expenses. Clearly, technology presents a double-edged sword for investigators and other regulators. On the one hand, companies under investigation can use technology to more efficiently bury investigators in


  popularity

Source: Security DevCenter

Once, many years ago, I was waiting in line at the Post Office on election day. One postal worker asked another if she had voted, and the second responded, "Hell yes, I voted. If you don't vote, you can't bitch, and I am not giving up my right to bitch!" I was thinking about that the other day when trying



Updated: Fri Jun 25 23:55:01 2010


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