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Source: Linux Today

KDE.news: "Desktop applications for 'Information Management' that go beyond conventional card-index style databases are hard to find. The ideas behind such software are perhaps not that well known, so a prototype program, Knowledge, has been developed to put them firmly into the public domain."


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Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: "The GIMP development team has unleashed today (not yet on the official website) another development release of their popular image manipulation software. The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.7.1 comes with lots of improvements "


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Linux Journal: "As I mentioned in an earlier Linux Journal article, I decided to cut the apron strings with my television provider over a year ago. Bye bye, DISH Satelite TV!"


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Source: Linux Today

TechRadar: "Test new releases without harming your existing installation"


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Source: Linux Today

The Educated New Village Boy: "My perspective on using the Android isn't really so much of a comparison, mainly because I've never actually owned an iPhone before. But I still like, even love, the HTC G1/Dream that I first bought and the Nexus One that replaced it."


Source: Linux Today

Linux and Whatever: "MontaVista Linux and Robert Bosch Car Multimedia have signed an agreement that will enable Bosch Multimedia to use MontaVista software as their Linux based solution to the high cost of running proprietary software on their infotainment systems"


Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "I think everyone should keep in mind that when you're talking Apple iPhones vs. Android phones, you're really arguing ah apples vs. an orange grove. All iPhones 4 are identical to each other"


Source: Linux Today

TechDirt: "Through a series of events, Britannica ended up in possession of a rather infamous patent (5,241,671), originally granted to Compton's back in 1993. That patent was initially used to claim control over well pretty much all multimedia "


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Source: Linux Today

Serverwatch: "The big question is whether there's enough money in open source software to build strong and stable enterprise OS makers."


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KDE.news: "On June 1st, 2010, KDE Blog, one of the foremost KDE-focused blogs in Spanish, celebrated the publication of its 1500th post. The occasion seemed to be the perfect excuse to chat with its author, Baltasar Ortega"


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Source: Linux Today

the H Open: "As open source becomes more widely accepted, an obvious growth path for them is to be bought by a bigger, traditional software company. The concern then becomes: how does the underlying open source code fare in those circumstances?"


Source: Linux Today

Ohio LinuxFest 2010: "Bring your A Game and pitch a proposal that will help educate and entertain the masses at this year's Ohio LinuxFest. The organizers have extended the call for presentations until July 7th to ensure the best possible selection of talks for this year's Ohio LinuxFest."


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LinuxDevices: "Samsung announced a netbook claimed to offer up to 13.8 hours of battery life. The N230 also offers "Fast Start" technology, Bluetooth 3.0, a 250GB hard disk drive, a 10.1-inch display "


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Tech Radar: "Discover grep and never lose anything again."


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Enterprise Storage Forum: "Hadoop is an open-source software framework that facilitates the storage and analysis of large volumes of data.So what's all the fuss about? For one thing, it operates on commodity hardware."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux User & Developer: "As with most things on Linux, there is more than one system that you can choose from, but we're going to use something called Kickstart. Kickstart is an automatic install system that started life on Red Hat-derived Linux distributions, but it's supported on Ubuntu."


Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "Several weeks ago, I ended a comparison of the KDE 4 and 3 desktops by saying "Unless a project takes over KDE 3 development, sooner or later it may become unusable with the latest generation of computers.""


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Pro Magazine: "Just more than a month since the release of Linux Mint 9, the Linux Mint team has released a KDE-flavored release candidate"


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Tech Source: "As I've already said, Dropbox is currently my favorite online backup tool because it allows me to easily synchronize my data across multiple computers with different operating systems and also to my mobile phone."


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Source: Linux Today

Syslinux: "After 64 prereleases, 626 commits, 52,742 lines of changes, and tons of
work by many, many people, Syslinux 4.00 is now officially released."


Source: Linux Today

IT World: "Business methods, including software, are not excludable from patents"


Source: Linux Today

InfoWorld: "So you want to make a small fortune in open source software? It's simple, the joke goes: Just start with a large fortune."


Source: Linux Today

Wired: "A gang of unknown thieves has stolen nearly $10 million using micro charges made to more than a million credit and debit cards in an elaborate multiyear scam, according to a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission in March."


Source: Linux Today

fewt@blog:~$ _: "We believe in democracy as Aurora is a Linux distribution built by its users for its users. We know that by definition, without users there is no distribution."


Source: Linux Today

Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "Android and iPhone OS (iOS) have been at loggerheads for quite some time now. This is a take on which has a better security model to protect its users."


Source: Linux Today

Sola's blog: "The AC100 smartbook, recently announced by Toshiba, has some intriguing features, worth to blog about."


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IT World: "Novell announced their first service pack release for SUSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES), and if you like virtualization, this is a very strong platform from which you can get started."


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Tech Source: "The Eee PC 1015PE is a sleek and environment-friendly mini laptop/netbook that was introduced by ASUS just recently."


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Eff.org: "The stakes are high for anyone identified in USCG's slipshod cases. USCG's strategy appears to be to threaten a judgment of up to $150,000 per downloaded movie "



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Will the antenna problem with the iPhone 4 derail Apple or is it just a speed-bump



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Source: Security DevCenter

F. Randall "Randy" Farmer (Building Web Reputation Systems) will debunk common web reputation design fallacies, drawing on real-life examples of actual deployed reputation systems from some of our industry’s biggest names: EA, Google, Yahoo! and Ebay. You might be surprised at how pervasive, and persistent, these fallacies have been through the years. But don’t worry—we’ll also tell you how to avoid falling into the same old traps! [Email randy.farmer@pobox.com with your name if you are not a Google employee and plan to attend, so Google security can be alerted.]


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Source: Security DevCenter

Whether you're promoting your business or writing about your travel adventures, Head First WordPress will teach you not only how to make your blog look unique and attention-grabbing, but also how to dig into the more complex functionality available on the WordPress platform. You'll learn how to customize your blog with your own URL, templates, plugin functionality, and more.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Covers Service Pack 1! Apply best practices for administering Exchange Server 2010 and SP1--and optimize your operational efficiency and results. This guide captures the field-tested solutions, real-world lessons, and candid advice of practitioners across the range of business and technical scenarios--and across the IT life cycle. Gain expert insights on what works, where to make tradeoffs, and how to implement the best decisions for your organization.


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Source: Security DevCenter

At our last day at Flashbelt we were able to squeeze in 8 interviews with 12 awesome people including: Val Head, Lisa Larson-Kelley, Josh Sager, Drew Blom, John Mindiola, Jobe Makar, Joel Stewart, Keith Peters, Ralph Hauwert, Richard Galvan, Shad Petosky, and Rob Reinhardt.


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Source: Security DevCenter

At Velocity 2010, John Rauser presented four funny & powerful examples of cultural change, from a campaign at his office to get people to fill the coffee pot after taking the last cup, to an award winning advertising campaign. This talk explains how to "sneak past people's mental filters" and make things happen .


Source: Security DevCenter

Speed is part of Google search ranking now. If your website is slow, you're going to drop down in rankings. Users do not like slow sites. If there are two equivalently ranked sites, we are providing a better service to the user by putting the faster site up front. Read more.
More from O'Reilly Answers:

How to outsource the updating of my iPod's music library
A modern approach to server push
How to render anti-aliased lines with textures in iOS 4
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Source: Security DevCenter

Joseph Dal Molin, co-founder of the WorldVistA project and a speaker at the upcoming OSCON convention, discusses the Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA system and its expansion as an open source effort.


Source: Security DevCenter

The Diary of Samuel Pepys -- a remarkable mashup of historical information and literature in modern technology to make the Pepys diaries an experience rather than an object. It includes historical weather, glosses, maps, even an encyclopedia. (prompted by Jon Udell) The Tonido Plug Server -- one of many such wall-wart sized appliances. This caught my eye: CodeLathe, the


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Source: Security DevCenter

A novice climbed the mountain and asked the guru for advice. The guru said, "when I hire, I want to know you're a good developer. I am much more likely to hire you if I can see public commits in an open source repository. I love to hire open source developers and recommend you do it too." The novice nodded


Source: Security DevCenter

Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu discusses his company's internal "university," which brings in kids unlikely to attend college and uses self-learning to prep them for IT careers. Could the U.S. benefit from a similar model?


Source: Security DevCenter

They Don’t Complain and They Die Quietly (Derek Powazek) -- In this hyper-modern age of real-time always-on location-based info-overload, perhaps a moment of true peace and quiet is the greatest gift one can receive. The Slow Media Manifesto -- Slow Media inspire, continuously affect the users’ thoughts and actions and are still perceptible years later. Steven Levy ran a


Source: Security DevCenter

The gnomes of ISO (err, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 WG5) have released the "second draft of their Technical Report comparing ODF and OOXML (PDF). It is up to 126 pages now, and much more fleshed out than the first draft. One


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Join us at JaxLondon 2010 and meet our author Neal Ford (The Productive Programmer). At JAX London delegates will benefit from hand-picked technical contents with no marketing bushwah.


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DevCon London is a brand new conference for software developers, project managers and architects to learn about the latest Technology, Architecture and Agile Methodologies. Its roots lie in Germany, where since the late nineties the BASTA! conference has become one of Europe's leading resources for .NET experts, enabling them to delve into technical knowledge that facilitates their success. O'Reilly will be there so come and see us.



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

HTML 5 comes with plenty of new features for mobile Web applications, including visual ones that usually make the most impact. Canvas is the most eye-catching of the new UI capabilities, providing full 2-D graphics in the browser. In this article you learn to use
Canvas as well as some of the other new visual elements in HTML 5 that are more subtle but make
a big difference for mobile users.


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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

The increasing reliance on data-driven Web sites has caused an incline in
the number of attacks launched against them. As a developer, understanding how a
site can be attacked is paramount to making it secure.
Discover some of the more common attacks, and learn about the tools you can use to
spot them.


Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

IBM Lotus Forms help organizations of all sizes automate their
business processes through data capture, review, approval, and submission of
eForms. Lotus Forms can be run from the cloud, which significantly lowers
the cost of ownership and dramatically increases scalability. In this
tutorial, learn how to write a simple application that allows a small
car repair company to track its customers using Lotus Forms, and then run it on
the cloud using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). No prior cloud computing
experience is necessary.


Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Technologies are often linked together, and knowledge that you have in one
area can help you gain skill in another. This article introduces the major features of Dojo
Grid from an Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern
perspective. Using the article, discover how you can understand and easily master
Dojo Grid, even you haven't used it
before.


Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

The IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance provides the capability to create
highly customized IBM WebSphere Application Server environments and then
deploy them into their own cloud. However, the job of the appliance does not
end once the environments have been deployed. WebSphere CloudBurst delivers
users function that helps you update and maintain these environments. This
article discusses how to use WebSphere CloudBurst to apply WebSphere
Application Server Hypervisor Edition iFixes, fixpacks, and your own fixes to
both images and actual WebSphere Application Server virtual system
environments.


Source: developerWorks : Web development : 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. Part 2
tapped into Adobe Flex and ActionScript to create the user interface of your application. In this article, the final part of the series, you will learn how to use your pureXML Web Services to publish your microblog entries to an HTML page.


Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

With the Web 2.0 technology of OpenSocial gadgets, developers can easily
include their applications in popular Web sites, such as iGoogle, MySpace, Hi5,
LinkedIn, and others. In this article, explore OpenSocial gadgets through hands-on construction of an application that leverages the pureXML
capability of DB2. This article is the last in a series of three that illustrates how to build a
pureXML application whose user interface is a gadget that you can deploy in any OpenSocial compliant
Web site. Follow the steps in this article to build a user interface that stores and retrieves the
JSON data described in the first article through JSON Universal Services created in the second article.


Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Create a custom Dojo build for your custom widgets without
including any modules from the dojo/dojox/dijit packages into your build output.
Custom Dojo builds reduce the number of modules to be downloaded by combining all
the modules into a single file, thereby reducing the number of network calls
required for the individual module files. These techniques were developed with a
real-world project where compact packages were a requirement. This article helps you to create
optimized Dojo builds using the Dojo build tool.


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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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Git offers Linux developers a number of advantages over Subversion for
software version control, so developers working collaboratively owe it to
themselves get familiar with the basic concepts behind it. In
this installment, Ted dissects branching and merging in both Git and
Subversion, introduces "git bisect" for bisecting changes, and shows how to
resolve merge conflicts.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Emerging capabilities to process vast quantities of data are bringing
about changes in technology and business landscapes. This article examines the
drivers, the new landscape, and the opportunities available to analytics with
Apache Hadoop.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Creating mashups in applications with JavaServer Faces (JSF) can be a headache.
Developers need to know intensive JavaScript, RSS and Atom parsing, JSON
parsing, and parsing of other formats. Adding to these complexities, you also
need to study the low-level APIs provided by the mashup service providers and
write a great deal of code to integrate JSF applications. Mashups4JSF is
an open source project in incubation that aims at integrating mashup services
with the JSF world. You will be able to construct rich and customized
mashups by using simple tags. The goal of Mashups4JSF is to have an integrated
set of tags and APIs that produces a maintainable mashup application. This
article illustrates the architecture of Mashups4JSF, configuration of the
library, and creating a mashup application with few lines of code, using
Mashups4JSF and the IBM JWL (JSF Widget Library) on the IBM WebSphere Application
Server V7.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

With the increasingly widespread use of computers and the pervasiveness
the modern Internet has attained, huge amounts of information in many
languages are becoming available. Automatic information
processing and retrieval is urgently needed to understand content
across cultures, languages, and continents. A recent Apache software project,
Tika, is becoming an important tool toward realizing content
understanding.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

The popularity of social networking sites has given rise to an emerging standard for web feeds that express what people are doing online. With Activity Streams, an extension to the Atom format, your websites can syndicate social activity. Explore how the Activity Streams format expresses social objects, learn how to build an activity-feed encoder in PHP, and discover some uses Activity Streams might serve in the enterprise.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

The Eclipse Helios simultaneous release of 39 Eclipse projects and 33 million lines of code showcases the diversity and innovation going on inside the Eclipse ecosystem. Get an overview of several projects, along with resources to find out more information.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

This is the first of a five-part series of articles written for the PHP developer interested in learning about an open-source, flexible, and scalable framework called Agavi. In this first article, you walk through the installation of the framework and the other required components, get an overview of Agavi and its functions, and create your first Web application.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Continue to build the Web Automobile Sales Platform by adding the ability to add, delete, and update the automobile records in Part 3 of a five-part series. You will also see how to separate user functions from administrative functions with authentication.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Work with the scalable, open-source Agavi framework to create an input form, use Doctrine to auto-generate the data models for the project, and integrate these models into the Agavi project in Part 2 of this five-part series.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Produce and record a 60-second theatre sound play using XML, PHP, and Festival, and provide stage directions, inject sound effects, and control dialogue flow, with a cast of dynamically allocated Festival voices.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

If you're considering using Spring or Hibernate with IBM WebSphere
Application Server, this article explains how to configure these frameworks
for various scenarios with WebSphere Application Server. This article is not
an exhaustive review of either framework, but a critical reference to help you
successfully implement such scenarios. (Updated with new security information.)


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

As OpenAFS is now using Kerberos-5 for authentication instead
of its own built-in authenticating server, many AFS cells are
planning for migration from the old authentication style to the new Kerberos-5
mechanism. This article gives a comparative view of the old OpenAFS commands
and their respective new Kerberos-5 commands, specific to authenticating
entities. This comparison would help OpenAFS and IBM AFS systems
administrators relate the old and new commands in a 1:1 fashion
and become familiar with Kerberos-5 commands.



Updated: Wed Jun 30 23:55:02 2010


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