The Open Prosthetics Project (OPP) has applied the “open source” model—long used in developing “community-based” software—to the design of inexpensive prosthetic hands and arms that a small demand can still support. The designs are free for anyone to use.
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SCO Seems to Be Trying to Ramp Up AutoZone
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SCO sent the AutoZone judge a letter [PDF], which leaves me in little doubt that SCO yearns to ramp up the AutoZone case, which SCO tells the judge is in part about OpenServer.
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Just what is up with PCLinuxOS anyway?
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PClinuxOS is a Linux distribution that gets mentioned quite a bit actually. It often is mentioned in the same breath and at the same table when we discuss the "big boy" or commercially supported distributions, like ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse, etc...
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Webcams on Linux a hit
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With my parents living in Italy, my phone bill is often a little on the scary side when I see it each month. That was until recently, when my parents’ tiny village in the middle of the mountains where they run a bed and breakfast finally got broadband.
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Attorney Shaalu Mehra discusses emerging GPL trends (video)
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Shaalu Merhra, an attorney with Perkins Coie, spoke at LinuxWorld 2008 about the legal implications of adopting the GPL within one's organization, and about outsourcing and performing due diligence on the software stack.
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VirtualBox update brings improved performance and 64-bit support
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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.
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Install VirtualBox 2 Guest Additions in Ubuntu
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VirtualBox 2's guest additions provide better display drivers, mouse pointer integration, seamless windows, and more. If you're doing much work in a virtual machine you should have them installed.
VirtualBox 2's guest additions have been improved over older versions.
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Changing what time a process thinks it is with libfaketime
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With libfaketime you can tell a process that the current time is something different from the machine's system clock. This fake time setting affects not only the functions directly related to reading the system time, but also file timestamps such as modification times.
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More Git Madness
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"Today, I spent some time looking at better ways to organize the Portage tree in git, and I'm interested in getting feedback on what I've done. Please take a look at my new portage-new git repository..."
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Eye on Microsoft: Marketing Problems and Dumping
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Catch-up with problems around Vista, the Microsoft brand, and tactics in the Philippines
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Installing Google Android SDK 1.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
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«This guide explains how you can install the Google Android SDK 1.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With this stable release of the Android SDK, you can now develop applications for Android smartphones (like T-Mobile's G1) and offer them on the Android Market.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!»
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Rockbox 3.0 Released. Quietly. | OStatic
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«Three years after its last major release, Rockbox 3.0 is now available. This popular app is a great open source solution for replacing the firmwear on many types of portable media players including Sansa, iRiver, Archos, and iPod.»
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Roll custom social networking sites with Elgg 1.0
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Elgg is an open source application for rolling out a social network. It installs like any Web-based software, but instead of a blog or a wiki, it gives you all the components of a social networking site -- your own MySpace!
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New Class Action Lawsuit Against Microsoft; Microsoft Loses Anti-Monopoly Case in Japan
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News about Microsoft's latest legal setbacks. Japan trade commission rules against Microsoft
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