Bruce Allen is perhaps the world's best do-it-yourselfer. When he needed a supercomputer to crunch the results of gravitational-wave research, he built one with his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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Open source can also close markets
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We rightly celebrate how open source opens markets. But it can also close them...This is one of the ironies of open source. Quick access to code lets you close things down just as quickly as you open things up.
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FOSDEM: Open source developers to meet in Brussels
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The 9th Free and Open Source Developer Meeting (FOSDEM) scheduled for the 7th and 8th of February, is expecting 5,000 open source developers to attend at the University of Brussels.
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Install Zimbra Mail Suite on Ubuntu 8.04
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Zimbra has both commercial and Open Source versions. The Open Source project is very interesting in that it has many features that people want and looks great. You can use Zimbra Desktop to gather mail from many different accounts including Zimbra Mail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL, Outlook or any other work or personal email account using POP or IMAP.
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Microsoft Open Source Code Is Part Of Google's Chrome
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Much of the reader feedback to "Why Windows Must Go Open Source" is saying, "No way." But part of my hypothesis is the fact that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) as a developer culture is much less averse to such a move than Microsoft as a business culture. Consider the Windows Template Library, code that's now part of Google's browser, Chrome.
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How Microsoft (with Novell) Subverts the Virtualisation Space to Harm Red Hat
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News about Microsoft and VMware/EMC with additional analysis .
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M.C.C Panel
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Karytron is manufacturer & suppliers of Electrical control pane, Power Control Panel, Motor Control Panel, Distribution Panels, Bus Duct, P.C.C Panel, M.C.C Panel, L.T Panel, A.M.F Panel.
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Best Linux Distro for Mac
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I've been using Xubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” on my Macbook Pro Penryn (Early 2008 model) for several months now.
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Novell's newly-appointed UK boss remarks on Microsoft's relationship with Novell
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A truly light-weight OS: Written in ASM, with GUI, networking and apps
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Much has been written about resource hungry operating systems. Microsoft Vista or even various GNU/Linux desktop editions, which can't be happy unless you throw gigabytes of RAM at them. Today I came across an operating system that can truly claim to be light-weight. It is called Kolibri. Check this out...
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E-tailer dumps Windows for Red Hat
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UK-based online lingerie and nightwear retailer figleaves.com has turned away from Microsoft and to virtualisation and open source software to revamp the technology platform that will support its upcoming ecommerce site.
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Second netbook wave begins
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Asus is taking pre-orders for a netbook based on Intel's second-generation netbook platform, the secret-shrouded N280/GN40 chipset. Early product specs confirm that the second wave of netbooks are likely to offer faster graphics and lower power use, along with room for much, much larger batteries.
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14 of the Best Free Linux Wiki Engines
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A Wiki engine is a type of collaborative software that runs a wiki system. This facilitates web pages being created and edited using a web browser. This type of software is usually implemented as an application server that runs on one or more web servers.
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Free Ubuntu book tops 150,000 downloads
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Keir Thomas informs us that his new Ubuntu book has been downloaded 150,000 times. Freely downloadable in PDF format and available from Amazon in paperback form for $10, MacFreda Publishing's 164-page Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference offers a beginner's overview of the popular distro.
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Is open source becoming like Microsoft?
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Talking with Microsoft officials last week, I was surprised to hear a key reason for the company getting involved with things like optimizing Windows for PHP: it was the only way to ensure products like PHP work with Microsoft technology at all.
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