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Realeyes Technology: "While I am not a conspiracy theorist, I do believe in the law of unintended consequences. And I have a nagging feeling that the LSB could actually be detrimental to GNU/Linux."

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Linux Magazine: "Would you be shocked to know that your favorite VDI vendors don't use their own technology?"

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ars technica: "Curious developers have been sniffing through the source code for Google's new Chrome web browser."

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internetnews.com blog: "Though the financial services market in the US is in bailout mode this week - the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) is hedging its bets -- with Linux."

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Phoronix: "Yes, it's finally here! In this article we have information on the features that make up this release along with what it's taken to get X.Org 7.4 primed for release."

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Packt: "The aim of this article by Javier Collado is to show how tasks may be automated using Python together with STAF (Software Testing Automation Framework) by means of an example."

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Linux.com: "Umit is a user-friendly graphical interface to Nmap that lets you perform network port scanning."

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Slashdot: "Zarafa decided to put their successful Exchange server replacement under GPLv3."

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The Linux Society: "If your a security nut such as myself, Port knocking, and the more effective Single Packet Authorisation methods are invaluable."

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Datamation: "If free software is to achieve its goal of guaranteeing that users can control their computing, then a completely free operating system is a basic necessity."

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IT PRO Blogs: "There's nothing more through the looking glass than writing complex pattern recognition statements in awk. There's also nothing quite as much fun as rolling your own Linux distribution from scratch."

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LinuxPlanet: "But they don't really give you the feeling of being there like a couple of newer entries on the Linux astronomy scene: Stellarium and Celestia."

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ComputerWorld Blogs: "Want to know one of the things I really like about open-source software? The price."

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LinuxPlanet: " we learn how to harmoniously swap documents between OOo and MS Office. And we explore OOo's wonderful Navigator tool, which is a powerful time-saving tool for managing large complex documents such as books and long reports."

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Linux Magazine: "Behind the open source project is the British firm New Bamboo, specialists in software development based on Ruby on Rails."

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IT PRO: "Issues remain because of the reluctance of some vendors to release open source drivers or specifications."

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The Open Road: "The OpenRemote blog suggests that Digium remains Spencer's primary home, but that he moonlights as the principal hardware designer for OpenRemote."

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Crunch Gear: "CG will be at the event in force with a liveblog and images but before we walk to the well of hype and drink deep and hearty droughts of orgasmic praise, let’s talk about what Android is and isn't."

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That Grumpy BSD Guy: "Your logs contain an ever-growing mass of data on spammers. How about making an effort to make that data useful to others?"

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Engadget: "While the world waits to see the first Android cellphone revealed in New York later today, others are hard at work extending the reach of the open-source OS beyond just handsets."

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Free Software Magazine: "What's missing is a practical implementation strategy: here I present ten relatively simple changes in how you run your project, to make it more attractive to would-be contributors—especially women."

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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is yet another follow up to a whole cavalcade of scripts we've written to mine the knowledge on tap at reference.com, although this one is grabbing its material from QuotationsPage.com."

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OStatic: "Unlike NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games, DIRECTV customers who have the NFL Sunday Ticket SuperFan viewing package can now watch live football games on computers running Linux."

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Linux.com: "Sun has released the first update to its recently purchased desktop virtualization program, now called Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0. While not a major update, it does bring improved performance and 64-bit operating system support to the popular open source virtualization program."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

CrazedSanity writes "I have been working at my state job for about 7 months now, using the Exchange plugin for Evolution to check my email. Very recently the higher-ups decided to migrate to Exchange 2007, which effectively destroyed my ability to check my email through any method other than webmail (which means I have to constantly refresh/reload the webmail window). I'm sure somebody else has encountered the problem, but I'm wondering if anybody has come up with a working solution?" Note: CrazedSanity's looking for a client that will work with Exchange in a situation where replacing the Exchange install with an open-source equivalent isn't an option.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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An anonymous reader writes "Some Intel cards don't just not work with the new OpenSUSE beta, they can get bricked as well. Check your hardware before you install!" The only card mentioned as affected is the Intel e1000e, and it's not just OpenSUSE for which this card is a problem, according to this short article: "Bug reports for Fedora 9 and 10 and Linux Kernel 2.6.27rc1 match the symptoms reported by SUSE users."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

People love Ajax applications so much that they are willing to use them instead
of their desktop equivalents. The only problem occurs when they fail to have network
access. This is when an offline feature is necessary. Apache Derby is a great option
for enabling offline access to Ajax-powered applications. Learn how to use Apache Derby
as a local data store that can be used to take your Ajax application offline.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

This second article in the jQuery series looks at how to add more
interaction to any Web site to create a dynamic Rich Internet Application. Learn
how jQuery utilizes a combination of events produced by user interaction,
information gathered from the Web site itself, and the ability to change the look and feel of the application without reloading to create these RIAs quickly and easily.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Pass It Along is a stand-alone Web application built internally at IBM
that combines various Web 2.0 features to facilitate learning and sharing among
participants. The application has been available on alphaWorks, IBM's premier site
for emerging technologies, since June, and now we at developerWorks want to
introduce it to you. This article explains the high-level concepts of Pass It
Along as a segue into the application itself, where you'll find step-by-step
tutorials on how to use Pass It Along to learn from others and share your
expertise. So think about what you know -- and what you'd like to know -- and
explore how Pass It Along can help you with both. (You might just earn some money
along the way -- virtually, that is!) And don't forget to tell us what you think.
Your feedback is valuable to us as we roll out new, interactive features on
developerWorks
now and in 2009.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

The session state management mechanism provided by the Servlets framework, HttpSession, makes it easy to
create stateful applications, but it is also quite easy to
misuse. Many Web applications that use HttpSession
for mutable data (such as JavaBeans classes) do so with
insufficient coordination, exposing themselves to a host of
potential concurrency hazards.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Use Perl and the Imager module to enhance mapping applications by extracting and
applying height information based on color to reveal a third dimension of data, showing more information in the same space.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The addition of new values to a list is a common and necessary requirement. Schema designers often seek to build into the architecture a means to permit additional values that were unknown at design time. How can schema designers create an enumerated value list that is extensible and easy to implement? Discover several approaches used to achieve this goal.