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Source: Linux Today

IBM Developerworks: "Dojo is being used more and more in Web-based applications. Many developers have strong skills in Java™ programming, but only limited experience in JavaScript. They can struggle with the conceptual leap from a strongly typed, object-oriented compilation language to a dynamic, weakly typed scripting language. This confusion can make it difficult for developers to correctly declare Dojo classes. This article helps clear up this confusion, shows why it may be necessary to set context, and describes how to go about it."



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Source: Linux Today

SUSE & openSUSE: "GNOME Do" not only allows you to search for items in your desktop environment (e.g. applications, contacts, bookmarks, files, music), it also allows you to specify actions to perform on search results (e.g. run, open, email, chat, play)."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Dynasty: "This is our first ScreenShot review of Elive Linux! I just want to say congratulation to the Elive Linux team for making such a sweet desktop OS. I have used Enlightenment in the past but not as much as I have used Gnome. From trying out Enlightenment just a few seconds ago it was amazingly fast and quite east to navigate, with just clicking once on the desktop the Enlightenment menu appears."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Pro Magazine: "If you struggle to keep tabs on PDF documents scattered all over your hard disk, then the gPapers tool can come in rather handy. Described as "iTunes for PDFs", this Gnome-based application sports a few clever features that can help you to manage PDF documents with consummate ease."


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Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "With the news that Google's Android platform is now downloadable under an open source license, there are also some clear signs emerging about what's about to happen to Android. One doesn't have to be an expert reader of tea leaves to discern two things that lie ahead for this open source mobile platform: 1) it will arrive in commercially supported versions; and 2) it won't stay restricted to handsets."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxToday Blog: "Ken stepped up to the mike at the panel discussion and asked a simple question that visibly discomfited the panel: "My customers can turn on their cable television and in 30 minutes watch five Microsoft Windows commercials. When are IBM and HP going to put the same things on? When are my customers going to be able to see about Linux? Television and radio legitimize the product.""


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Source: Linux Today

IT Wire: "At a time when economic problems dog the world, people's thoughts generally turn to saving. It is not surprising, therefore, to find many technology writers beginning to recognise that GNU/Linux and other open source software can reduce the amount that companies spend on IT."


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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "Let's get this out of the way first. Adobe Flash is still a proprietary program and I, and a lot of other open-source people, wish that it wasn't. That said, the latest Flash Player 10 on Linux is a lot faster than the last version and it opens up the doors to a lot of Web-based video content."


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Source: Linux Today

TuxArena: " this new version brings tons of new improvements, changes and features, the biggest of them being tabbed browsing. Yes, Dillo allows now browsing using tabs, which is a must-have functionality for any desktop browser, no matter how small it is. The changelog is huge. This release is also the first one written in FLTK, as the application was ported from GTK."


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Source: Linux Today

Heise Online: "After the release of Linux 2.6.27, kernel developers are currently busily integrating patches for the next kernel version into the main development branch of Linux. This usually involves discarding some old code and adding new code thouhg on balance, there are usually more new lines than old ones, making the kernel grow continually."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Pro Magazine: "nternational Data Corporation (IDC) has analyzed PC sales figures for EMEA in the third quarter of 2008 and discovered that netbooks are responsible for more than half the nearly 30% sales growth. Linux is to ride along on the wave, which is to remain at its current level."


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Source: Linux Today

Quick Tweaks: "Spent countless hours figuring how to install Ubuntu to make use of those extra GBs in your pen drive? pendrivelinux.com has got everything done for you. All you lazy folks have to do is:"


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "The quest for easy wireless client management on Linux continues; Eric Geier takes us on a tour of three Linux network management tools for managing roaming, profiles, and encryption keys."


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Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "Debian is gearing up for a bug sprint to fix remaining bugs (about 100 key ones) and is offering a unique incentive to developers - free cookies."


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Source: Linux Today

Open Enterprise: "Last week I noted that the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 seems to mark an important milestone in its adoption, judging at least by the healthy -- and continuing -- rate of downloads. But in many ways, success teaches us nothing; what is far more revealing is failure."


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Source: Linux Today

IT Wire: "Ahoy there me timbers, if ye be piratin' Microsoft software, then ye better start shiverin' and be warned: Microsoft is comin' out to make software pirates walk the plank, in a co-ordinated global effort across 49 countries in six continents to "combat the sophisticated, illegal trade of pirated and counterfeit software"."


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet Education: "Lately, I've been so enamored of OS X and so busy plotting what I can do for my wife to convince her that a new MacBook Pro really is a good investment that I haven't taken much time for Linux. Overall, our Windows network is working well, my Mac is the best computer I've ever used, and my oldest son is perfectly content with his Vista machine."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Ah, cryptographic security: a boon to those who understand the algorithms, but all too often a lost cause to those who don't. The secure HTTPS protocol for Web surfing is widely accepted, but has one fatal flaw: users ignore certificate error warnings. A Firefox extension called Perspectives aims to close that security hole."



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Source: Linux Today

Linux Pro Magazine: "The upcoming version 5.0 of Debian GNU/Linux, codenamed Lenny, provides for the first time not only image downloads for CD and DVD, but also for Blu-ray disks, along with live images."


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ZDNet: "Tools such as Gentoo, Krusader and Midnight Commander, offer something different--here's a look at the basics."


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TechRepublic: "You've been using the same Linux distribution for years now, but something has been eating at the back of your brain some zombie process trying to tell you to switch to a different flavor of your favorite open source operating system."


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Linux Loop: "Operating systems, at least those made today, just don’t suit everyone equally. This returns me to my original question: who should use Linux?"



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Source: Linux Today

TuxArena: "BasKet has so many features I can't think what to begin with. It allows notes to be taken on more than one column or free choice, which means you can put each note wherever you want in the workspace. It allows tags, custom tags, global shortcuts, export to HTML, import notes from text files, Tomboy or KNote."


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The VAR Guy: "Businesses don't buy operating systems. They buy applications. With that fact in mind, Canonical is gradually expanding its online store for Ubuntu Linux applications. It's a smart move "


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Source: Linux Today

Works With U: "Apple, while its products may be prettier and more intuitive than Microsoft's (or so I'm told; I've never really used a Mac, iPod or iPhone myself), is in some respects worse than Redmond when it comes to respecting the fundamentals of software freedom."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Last month we had looked at the ATI Radeon HD 4670 under Linux. This graphics card had worked just fine with the Catalyst Linux Suite, but when using either of the two open-source ATI drivers there were problems with the DVI connectors."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Radar: "Linux and OS X are traditionally seen as isolated from Windows for this reason. However, this is no longer the case. Read on to find out how to configure Linux, OS X and Windows to freely share each other's resources, and in some cases, even log into each other."


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IT World: "We've learned over the last five years that using the portfolio to enable deep interoperability collaboration discussions, for example, is one of the clearest ways in which we can bring value and we've had a whole range of successes in that area."


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Linux.com: "If you were born before 1975, you may have a collection of records that you want to convert to digital format. Some open source software and a cable are all you need to convert your prized vinyl to something portable."


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Technologizer: "Yup, I’m thinking about the infamous Sony BMG rootkit scandal of 2005, which involved audio CDs that installed anti-copying software that made fundamental, hard-to-reverse changes to Windows computers that left them more vulnerable to hacker attacks, and didn’t tell users they were doing it."


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The Cartoon Lounge: "Last night I was out shopping for groceries at my local grocery store when I ran into none other than Randall Munroe, creator of the webcomic XKCD (and, it might be noted, the guy in the grocery store who pushes his cart extra slow and then stops right in the middle of the aisle "


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Tech Source From Bohol: "Here are some of the most notable software packages which were published under a proprietary software license but later released as free and open source software. Note that some software from this list are still published commercially alongside their free and open-source version."


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The Open Road: "Microsoft's complaint? Red Hat wasn't a good enough competitor and hadn't done enough to make Linux popular "


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Linux Dynasty: "Our first ScreenShot review of PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta. My first thoughts is that WoW PCLinuxOS uses the apt-get Debian utility for its package management system as well as the Control Center from Mandrake. The best of 2 worlds! Also PCLinuxOS makes sure that Java and Flash is already integrated into the standard install "


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Ubuntu Geek: "Access with a browser to this machine, in my case, to 192.168.50.126
http://192.168.50.126/pandora_console/install.php
A webpage should show you a welcome screen to install wizard. Read carefully and press 'NEXT" to begin installation and go to step 2."


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Adam's Tech Talk: "I’ve used OpenWrt previously to this project to build some firmwards for the Linksys Router WRT54 range. OpenWrt is an incredibly powerful and small Linux distro. Although debian is probably better suited to the reasonably powerful hardware, I wanted to give OpenWrt a go anyway."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

ocularb0b writes "Cray has announced the CX1 desktop supercomputer. Cray teamed with Microsoft and Intel to build the new machine that supports up to 8 nodes, a total of 64 cores and 64Gb of memory per node. CX1 can be ordered online with starting prices of $25k, and a choice of Linux or Windows HPC. This should be a pretty big deal for smaller schools and scientists waiting in line for time on the world's big computing centers, as well as 3d and VFX shops."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

arashtamere writes "Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst predicts the enterprise open source software business will emerge from the economic crisis stronger than the proprietary market. 'I've had a couple of conversations with CIOs who said, "We're a Microsoft shop and we don't use any open source whatsoever, but we're already getting pressure to reduce our operating costs and we need you to help put together a plan for us to use open source to reduce our costs." And we've had other customers literally looking at ripping and replacing WebLogic or WebSphere for JBoss I think we'll know in about six to nine months but there is no question that open source will come out of this in relatively better shape than our proprietary competitors,' he told Computerworld."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

The Semantic Web envisioned by Berners-Lee, Hendler, and Lassila in 2001 was a
grandiose vision that involved the use of agents to book doctor appointments and to find
the best driving routes with the least hassle. The envisaged system was built upon formal
ontologies that had already achieved a large following of scientists and agent developers.
Although they raised some important issues and put forward interesting connections between
technologies, they missed one thing: the fact that the Web had turned into a web of
documents. Therefore, a middle way needed to occur between the formalism of ontologies and
the informalism of documents. This is known as Linked Data. Linked Data coupled with agent
technology is an ideal way of dealing with Semantic Web data. This article provides an
overview of the Interlinked Semantic Web, agent technologies, and an example of the two
combined.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Discover the techniques and technologies you can use
to build a mashup application using Apache Geronimo, a REST-based protocol, and data
from multiple sources. The mashup combines data from Google Maps and Twitter tweets to
pinpoint Twitter users as they update their Twitter status.



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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

A Google Mapplet is an application that runs inside a Google Maps results
page and lets you add your own custom information and behavior to the page and the
map. In this tutorial, you will write a Google Mapplet that uses the Yahoo
Weather RSS feed to display the local weather in Google Maps. To demonstrate
different techniques while using the Google Mapplets API, you'll implement two solutions. The first is on the client side and uses RSS and JavaScript. The second is on the server side and uses XSLT, PHP, KML, and JavaScript.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Learn how to use Argus and client/server Perl code to monitor your network connections and
shut down machines no longer in use.



Updated: Wed Oct 22 23:55:02 2008


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