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(Feb 9, 2010, 09:03 UTC) (1125 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Daniweb: "The world's largest technical support, software and hardware companies use Linux on a daily basis for a variety of tasks and solutions. This post gives you an overview of all the ways in which large companies use Linux."
(Feb 9, 2010, 07:33 UTC) (672 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Too Much Information: "It's a common thing to admire the way someone solved what was previously a limitation. The funny thing is this can be true even when faced with things we normally consider evil, because we can see that the application of the technology is different from the way it was used."
(Feb 9, 2010, 06:03 UTC) (1147 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Alp Toker: "I’m glad to announce the first release of our fully managed Theora audio / video decoder implementation for the Silverlight platform! The Highgate media suite will bring installation-free support for HTML5 streaming video to an additional ~40% of web users overnight."
(Feb 9, 2010, 04:33 UTC) (894 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The H Open: "SourceForge, the open source project hosting site, has announced that it has turned off the "blanket block" on access from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria."
(Feb 9, 2010, 03:03 UTC) (748 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Just Me, Amber: "I have been working with the SCaLE 8x coordinators, and the CA Loco Team for the Ubucon event at SCaLE. I am giving a talk at the WIOS event at SCaLE - A Year NTEU the Ubuntu Community and the FLOSS World."
(Feb 9, 2010, 01:33 UTC) (2831 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Computerworld UK: "Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm a big fan of OpenOffice.org, and that I think it has the potential to break through into the mainstream. Maybe it's already begun..."
(Feb 9, 2010, 00:33 UTC) (1061 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Standards Blog: "Our story so far: Security expert Frank Adversego comes under suspicion when the Library of Congress is hacked by a mysterious cracker with motives unknown and a taste for the bizarre; to protect himself, Frank had better get to the bottom of things"
(Feb 9, 2010, 00:03 UTC) (1346 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux User and Developer: "As I’ve mentioned before, one of the longer-term goals of the kernel development community is to kill off the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)."
(Feb 8, 2010, 23:33 UTC) (735 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Dynasty: "Recently I just started to use the Citrix Netscalers again ( Load Balancers ). Being the person that I am, I wanted a way to grab the information using the SOAP API."
(Feb 8, 2010, 23:03 UTC) (890 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Serverwatch: "Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line input (and input for some other applications). The various customizable options for it are set either system-wide in /etc/inputrc or per-user in ~/.inputrc."
(Feb 8, 2010, 22:33 UTC) (1062 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Raiden's Realm: "Welcome to part 3 of our overview of the KDE 4.3 System Settings panel, the replacement for the old control panel of KDE 3.5. Today we're going to look at the Computer Administration master section. This will be a key area for those wanting to administer their own section."
(Feb 8, 2010, 22:03 UTC) (1802 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) LinuxLinks: "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 free high quality Linux interactive geometry software. We have included 2D and 3D software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest in this article for both students and teachers alike."
(Feb 8, 2010, 21:33 UTC) (1050 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The GNOME Journal: "GNOME Shell--
Jon McCann from Red Hat ran the first Shell session, on design. An amazing amount of progress had been made since the hackfast one year prior that spawned the Shell project, but some major tasks remained."
(Feb 8, 2010, 21:03 UTC) (1858 reads) (6 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Colorjack: "Sketchpad uses the little-known [canvas] tag to provide users and publishers with full control over the presentational qualities of their work. Directly accessing vector graphics, the [canvas] tag gives publishers real-access to their users’ display. The [canvas] tag will be available in HTML 5.0."
(Feb 8, 2010, 20:33 UTC) (1169 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Phoronix: "Yesterday Luc Verhaegen gave a talk at FOSDEM on reverse engineering a motherboard BIOS, but today we finally have X@FOSDEM for the last time. Luc has just begun his talk on unifying and simplifying the free software desktop's graphics driver stack."
(Feb 8, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (1762 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) LinuxPlanet: "When GNOME 2.0 was born, it left a lot of GNOME users out in the cold because it jettisoned the very features we loved. Eight years later, your editor takes another look at GNOME in the form of the Karmic Koala."
(Feb 8, 2010, 19:33 UTC) (2082 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) IT World: "Though most of the machines at home are currently Linux driven, there are a couple of Windows machines in the house that are used by my children for Software they Cannot Live Without."
(Feb 8, 2010, 19:03 UTC) (785 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Standards Blog: "As you may recall, the Linux Foundation last year ran a video contest that drew a lot of entries, many of which were not only entertaining, but had surprisingly high production values as well. Last year's invitation was to use the popular "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ad series as an inspiration, and you can see the winning videos here (all of last year's entries can be found here)."
(Feb 8, 2010, 18:33 UTC) (1404 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) PCLinuxOS: "The version label "2010" in that ftp URL caught my attention. Finally, PCLinuxOS is shaping up for a 2010 release!"
(Feb 8, 2010, 18:03 UTC) (1503 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Phoronix: "Since being let go by Novell last year where he worked on the RadeonHD Linux graphics driver and X.Org support within SuSE Linux, Luc Verhaegen has continued work on his VIA Unichrome DDX driver as well as other X.Org code..."
(Feb 8, 2010, 17:33 UTC) (1182 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Ghacks: "This time around I will visit two games. One of these games is one of my all time favorite second sucker – Frozen Bubble. The other, gnubik, is sure to frustrate you for hours. Let’s take a look at these two gems."
(Feb 8, 2010, 17:03 UTC) (1096 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The Economist: "Or what about those ludicrous business-process patents, like Amazon.com’s “one-click” patent or the “name-your-price” auction patent assigned to Priceline.com? Instead of stimulating innovation, such patents seem more about extracting “rents” from innocent bystanders going about their business."
(Feb 8, 2010, 16:33 UTC) (1343 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) MakeTechEasier: "Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) is a modified version of Ubuntu specially for the netbooks. The latest version of UNR runs Ubuntu Karmic in the backend, but the interface has been heavily customized to make it looks/functions good in small screen."
(Feb 8, 2010, 16:03 UTC) (589 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) SCOOP: "The LCA2010 conference is over, but the generosity of its delegates will leave a lasting impression on the Life Flight Trust."
(Feb 8, 2010, 15:33 UTC) (876 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Journal of Nathan Bibb: "I got this little Toshiba Libretto for myself for Christmas as a tinkering project, as I’ve mentioned previously. I like to tinker with computers, and I wanted a machine that I could use to experiment with a full installation of Linux."
(Feb 8, 2010, 15:03 UTC) (2651 reads) (4 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) CIO: "As the name indicates, Simple Groupware was developed as an open source groupware suite, but we've included it here because of the increasing amount of office suite-like applications it contains, including an online spreadsheet."
(Feb 8, 2010, 14:33 UTC) (1246 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux.com: " I broke down and bought a Nexus One last week.
I got the original G1 phone from google when it came out, and I hardly ever used it. Why? I generally hate phones..."
(Feb 8, 2010, 14:03 UTC) (1085 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Raiden's Realm: "Welcome to part 2 of our overview of the KDE 4.3 System Settings panel, the replacement for the old control panel of KDE 3.5. Today we're going to look at two more master sections. Namely, Personal and Network & Connectivity. So sit back and enjoy."
(Feb 8, 2010, 13:03 UTC) (1937 reads) (5 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Ubuntu: "[asac] how about dropping OOO and evolution - we will probably do for the armel variant ... ?"
(Feb 8, 2010, 12:33 UTC) (1408 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Tux Radar: "Sometimes it's easy to forget that we all had to start somewhere with Linux. When you're not used to the way it works, or the kind of concepts involved, Linux can seem like a foreign language. If you're struggling with free software, or if you know someone who needs help making the switch to Linux, we hope this feature will help."
(Feb 8, 2010, 12:03 UTC) (2408 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Gadgetopolis: "Would you like to get the Google/HTC Nexus One Superphone for a cool $49?"
