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Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "In an effort to coax more users to take advantage of the many extensions for its Firefox browser, Mozilla has just launched FashionYourFirefox.com. The site is divided up into categories, which cater to individual interests and "online lifestyles," according to Mozilla's announcement."


Source: Linux Today

The Linux Distillery: "Linux rocks; if you have a netbook, a GPS, a portable media player or any of a number of gadgets chances are it's running Linux under the hood. That's because Linux is reliable, it's versatile, it's robust and it has no licensing fees. So why isn't it mainstream in the desktop world?"


Source: Linux Today

Neowin: "But if they were to hit Google, they would be getting much more that just names and credit card numbers and an address - they would essentially be getting everything that makes us us. Search history, emails, friends lists, past conversations, pictures and even a voice sample"


Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Criminals, intruders, and corporate saboteurs leave data behind on the hard disks of any computers they visit. Many of these computers are Windows systems, but you don’t need Windows to extract valuable forensic information from a Windows hard disk. In this article, I will describe some simple techniques for getting forensic data from a Windows disk using Linux."


Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "While I remain in agreement with many observers who see the economic downturn as potentially very positive for open source, I have to wonder whether we're going to see some of the leadership open source companies swallowed up in all the financial carnage."


Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: "The hard working team behind the UbuntuME (Ubuntu Muslim Edition) project announced today a new version of their Linux-based operating system. Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.10 is based on Intrepid Ibex, also known as the Ubuntu 8.10 operating system."


Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "Over the course of a month Apple's downtime was 2 minutes, putting them in the middle of the pack. Microsoft's? An hour and 19 minutes.

This proves what, exactly?"


Source: Linux Today

Royal Pingdom: "All Linux distributions have their own home base: their homepage. How well is this homepage taken care of and how well does it perform? To answer these questions we have monitored the uptime and load time of the homepages for 16 Linux distributions for a month."


Source: Linux Today

TGDaily: "The company's most famous employee, Linux inventor Linux Torvalds, kept the buzz and rumor mill about the company throughout its stealth phase alive and guaranteed a flashy technology announcement in early 2000. Almost nine years later Transmeta’s journey is over."


Source: Linux Today

AppleInsider: "The Intel-developed technology is called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) and aims to prevent copying of digital audio and video content as it travels across a variety of display connectors, even if such copying is not in violation of fair use laws."


Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "Talk about a change in priorities! When Adobe decided it was time to start work on a 64-bit Flash Player, they didn't release the first test version on Windows or Mac OS X. No, they released it on Linux and Solaris. Wow."


Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "Mozilla Chief Wrangler Mitchell Baker today reported Mozilla's financial position which shows 2007 revenues of $75 million up by 12 percent from 2006 revenues of $67 million. Though Mozilla is on the upswing, Baker's report shows some areas of potential future financial concerns."


Source: Linux Today

Realeyes Technology: "Jazz fans will recognize the title of this post as one of the most famous jazz pieces ever written. It was composed and performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet and was part of the album Time Out, which contained several pieces in unusual time signatures."


Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "StarOffice 9 reminds me of the classic Monty Python skit in which Graham Chapman wrestles himself. Although StarOffice is being aggressively presented as an alternative to Microsoft Office, it seems to be equally marketed and bundled to compete against OpenOffice.org, the free software project that is sponsored by Sun and that shares a common code base with StarOffice. The trouble is, the differences between the two have diminished with each release, until, with StarOffice 9, you have to wonder who the potential customers might be."


Source: Linux Today

O'Reilly Media: "Join us for this free live webcast:

Everything you wanted to know about Drupal but were afraid to ask;
Presented by Jeff Eaton and James Walker, authors of "Using Drupal"


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Security is based on three characteristics: prevention, protection and detection. Grsecurity is a patch for Linux kernel that allows you to increase each of these points."


Source: Linux Today

SearchEnterpriseLinux: "In the event that something happens to a Xen virtual machine (VM) that prevents you from starting it, it's a good practice to have the virtual machine storage back end mounted in the Linux file system of the Xen-based server. By doing so, you'll be able to repair the VM quickly and painlessly. In this tip, I'll cover how to do this for physical devices that are used as storage back ends."


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Source: Linux Today

Ulteo: "Following its commitment to desktop virtualization solutions, Ulteo, an Open Virtual Desktop Infrastructure company, announced today that they were releasing the first installable version of their Open Virtual Desktop solution for enterprises."



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Perhaps the most versatile, feature-rich web browser available today is on your Desktop and you may not even know its name.



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Source: Security DevCenter

Join Nancy Duarte (slide:ology) who will be presenting "Telling a Visual Story." Why are we so quick at believing that we can't draw or tell stories well? We're in an era of history where our innovations are some of the most exciting yet when we introduce slides into our stories, our magnificent ideas become marginalized. Learn how to clear your head, clean up your slides and interact in your own human way so that you and your ideas will be remembered.



previous    The latest content from IBM developerWorks    


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The potential benefits of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in terms
of loose coupling and reuse, leading to business agility, have been well
publicised for some time. But for SOA to provide a truly flexible platform for
business process management (BPM), you need to introduce an element of
abstraction into your service invocations. This article shows you how to use
XML extensions and dynamic service invocation techniques to provide a double
whammy of polymorphism, creating truly flexible service invocations while
simplifying business processes.



Updated: Thu Nov 20 21:55:01 2008


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