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NASCAR drivers get boost from HPC

http://www.linuxworld.com.au

John Picklo, manager of high-performance computing (HPC) at Chrysler, describes himself simply as an "IT guy" who's also a NASCAR fan. And he will be rooting Sunday for drivers of Dodge cars in the final race of this year's Nextel Cup.

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World’s most remote island gets advanced medical support

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Project Tristan, which is based on open standards and runs on the Linux Operating System, is expected to greatly enhance the island’s level of medical care and standard of living.

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IBM unveils 'cloud computing' initiative

http://www.linuxworld.com

Blue Cloud itself consists of Xen and PowerVM virtualized Linux operating-system images and Hadoop parallel workload scheduling, all supported by IBM Tivoli server-management software.

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Open sourcing the mobile web with Goo...err, Volantis

http://blogs.cnet.com

There's been a flurry of excitement about open source in the mobile world in the past few weeks, what with Google's Open Handset Alliance and its associated Android software platform. In all the hype (some deserved, some not), people seem to have forgotten one Very Big Problem in mobile...

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New Day Dawning for Desktop Linux?

http://www.sci-tech-today.com

With Wal-Mart reporting that it is sold out of the Everex gPC -- a $200 Linux-based desktop -- some are suggesting that a new day for Linux is dawning. But, said analyst Greg Sterling, if initial gPC buyers find that not being able to run Microsoft Office is problematic, the excitement around the $200 Everex computer could soon dissipate.

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Linux helps to squeeze the last drop out of oilfields

http://www.guardian.co.uk

Grid computing makes modelling of energy sources very accurate and helps manage them as efficiently as possible

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Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out and gets great reviews

http://www.walmart.com

"About a week ago Wal-Mart began selling a $200 Linux machine running on a 1.5 ghz VIA C7 processor and 512 MB of RAM. While the specs are useless for Vista, it works blazingly fast on Ubuntu with the Enlightenment Window Manager. The machine is now officially sold out of their online warehouses (it may still be available in some stores).

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Google Android Screenshots & Video

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As expected Google released their Android Software Development Kit (SDK) today. It provides all of the tools needed to start creating applications that run on the next generation mobile operating system, and Google is getting their checkbooks out to help ensure that Android won’t be a flop…

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Compiz, Beryl, eyecandy vs. productivity. My approach to quantify interfaces

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Now Compiz, Beryl is all over the place and there are massive discussions about it. But I have a few doubts about it. First of all, how do we benchmark an interface, especially its efficiency. I would like to propose a few speculations that could hopefully evolve into some sort of quantifying standards of a desktop interface.

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Install, Configure, Build, and Integrate Secure Directory Services with OpenLDAP server

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Packt is pleased to announce a new book on OpenLDAP for Application Developers and System Administrators running OpenLDAP. Written by Matt Butcher, this book prepares the reader to build a directory using OpenLDAP and then employ this directory in the context of the network, taking a practical approach that emphasizes how to get things done.

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Open Source ERP: Today's Hottest Emerging Technology?

http://www.cio.com

What's the most exciting technology of the next few years for the enterprise? Forget folding displays and virtual worlds: Think open source ERP, say some pioneering information technology leaders.

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I Wanted a gPhone, But All I Got Was This Android

http://linux-mag.com

After months of media-built hype, the mythical "gPhone" was unveiled this week as Android, a Linux-based software stack for building mobile phones. Despite the disappointment, Android might be just what the market needs, if the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) can actually get an open stack shipping on real devices.

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Fans shafted as Major League Baseball revokes DRM licenses

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The crack of the bat, the smell of the grass and the pain of losing your purchased content to DRM deactivation. In what can only be called the biggest bonehead move since Bill Buckner's error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, Major League Baseball has deactivated a DRM license server used to verify your worthiness to play back video of games you purchased online.

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VistA - The First Amputation

http://www.linuxmednews.com

In an unprecedented announcement, the VA has signed a 9 year deal with Cerner to replace laboratory information system at 150 hospitals and 800 clinics.

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Trends in web development according to Google

http://www.onderstekop.nl

Today I had another go with Google Trends; a web application John 'Beautiful Mind' Forbes Nash would possibly drool over. I started comparing some of the programming languages, standards and aspects that are used in modern day web development and I was quite suprised by what it came up with.

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