Most likely you have already seen the story about a drunk driving case where the Breathalyzer's source code was turned over for third-party examination. Naturally, vast numbers of potential errors were found.
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Ubuntu Softwares - Not Just Another Top 5 List
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The popularity of linux has finally captured 1% of world desktops. then comes the need for softwares. Here is my list of softwares i have on my Ubuntu installation.
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Looking for Linux: InterOp Las Vegas
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This week I'll be at InterOp Las Vegas looking for the latest and coolest Linux-based technologies that InterOp exhibitors have to offer. My favorites are certainly the "new innovators."
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Paravirtualization With Xen On CentOS 5.3 (x86_64)
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0).
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Howto Enable Ctrl + Alt + BackSpace in Ubuntu Jaunty
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By default Ctrl + Alt + BackSpace key combination in Ubuntu Jaunty was disabled.This shortcut key is used to restart X.This tutorial will explain how to enable this key combunation.
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Noteworthy Mandriva Cooker changes
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Here’s a short update of some interesting package updates in Mandriva Cooker since the last update...
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #142
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 142 for the weeks May 10th - May 16th, 2009. is available.
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Recovering Lost Data On Linux Or Unix Using The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT)
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Part one of a quick-start guide to the oft-long process of recovering accidentally deleted (or maliciously removed) data on Linux or Unix partitions
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rasdaman array DBMS released under free license
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"We are happy to announce availability of the free version of the rasdaman (”raster data manager”) array DBMS, jointly developed by Jacobs University Bremen and rasdaman GmbH, for download at www.rasdaman.org [...] Rasdaman is in operational use in geo service applications run by both industry and governmental authorities since many years..."
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Run Windows and Linux: easy partitioning guide
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Setting up a Linux distribution isn't a difficult task anymore, but if you want to install Linux on a machine that already has a Windows installation on it, you'll have to slice your disk into smaller partitions to do so.
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University Free Software Contest
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"The last 7th of May I was at the III University Free Software Contest’s final fase. That event is a really interesting and (IMHO) very important for the free software community world in Spain. The event takes place at several universities in Spain and have this final fase in Seville.
Read more »Detecting memory leaks & invalid memory de-allocation in the Linux kernel
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Memory leaks and memory corruptions are problems that can be easily introduced in code written in C or C++ and generally in any programming language that does not have a garbage collector built in, causing system crashes and sometimes, even worse, unexpected behavior, creating bugs that are difficult to be detected.
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GtkLauncher 0.2.0
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"I'm proud to announce a new version of GtkLauncher, an IDE for GNU Smalltalk..."
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Opinion: Ask Not What GNU/Linux Can Do for You
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"Thanks to Canonical and its success with popularizing Ubuntu Linux, there has been an astonishing influx of new GNU/Linux users. This is one of those good news -- bad news scenarios; the growth is wonderful, but it also brings a growth in user demands, and a carryover of bad habits from the proprietary software world.
Read more »RMS participated in a IRC chat with BerkeleyTIP 5/17/2009
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"The BerkeleyTIP group got Richard Stallman to stop by and chat on IRC in #berkeleyTIP on freenode today, May 17, 2009. They pushed him to get on Ekiga, but he doesn't have it setup yet. I thought this was kind of neat to have him get on IRC and chat on an open channel. The nickname for Richard is rmsgnu..."
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