Perl script to ping, check ports and create a CGI page report. This time written a bit more complicated than necessary to highlight some uses of Perl.
Read more »IBM Accessibility Internet Browser for Multimedia
A tool that enables multimedia content on the Internet to be enjoyed by people with visual impairments.
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KDE 4.0 is NOT a failure; it is a place to start
There is an old saying that "Any press is good press", amongst the marketing types. Well, I was checking on KDE in various news sources today, and we must be getting a lot of "good" press. Is bad press still "good" press?
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Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard to be licensed under the GPL?
"I think that a GPL-ed Mac OS could provide a true alternative to several other OS'es." -Steve Jobs, WWDC 2008.
Stand back for a moment. A Mac running on a PC, and licensed under the GPL? The truth is much stranger than fiction.
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IBM says it has 'no plans' to open-source DB2 database
IBM said today that it doesn't plan to open-source its DB2 database, despite a published report quoting a company executive in the U.K. saying that an open-source move might become necessary.
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Movie download device runs embedded Linux framework
Trolltech announced that the Roku-developed Netflix Player streaming-media device incorporates its Qt for Embedded Linux development stack. Recently introduced by Netflix as a simplified embedded device version of its "Instant" movie downloading desktop software, the Netflix Player sells for $100.
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Why Linux is not coming to a desktop near you
For many years now, Linux has been a remarkable success story at the server level. However, at the desktop level, the tale is patchy - there are some success stories but for the most part one factor or another holds back the operating system from repeating its feats.
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Interview with Clint Savage, Fedora Ambassador
Please welcome our guest today, Clint Savage, Founder of the Utah Open Source Foundation, and Fedora Ambassador. He is also a Linux Instructor by way of profession. Having met him in person and finding him a neat and interesting person, it seemed appropriate to find out more about him. I contacted him via email and asked a few questions, to which he was kind enough to respond.
Read more »Rakarrack: Guitar FX For Linux
Linux-based guitar effects processors haven't exactly been flourishing recently. Until recently, the guitar FX processors page at linux-sound.org listed twelve projects, of which the most recent maintenance date is 2006. Clearly, not a flourishing domain for Linux audio developers.
Read more »Konqueror 3.5.9 Review - The Great Swiss Knife
I can't say exactly whether Konqueror is mainly a file manager, web browser, document or image viewer. Of course, it's mainly used for managing files in KDE and some also prefer to use it as a web browser due to better KDE integration and an obvious more responsive interface than Firefox. Konqueror is so many things that I really can't cover all of them in a single review.
Read more »ODF Op-Eds from South Africa, Malaysia
Another quick summary of where ODF stands and why it has made further inroads
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How-To: Easily Add Web Shortcuts to Firefox
A tutorial showing how to add web shortcuts to Firefox in order to search with any search engine faster. Exmaple: type 'gg download ubuntu' to automatically search for 'download ubuntu' on Google.
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Microsoft ‘Buys’ Parts of the Open Source Movement - Part Deux
Microsoft keeps using its money to stick its nose inside the Open Source world
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Couple of easy steps to Speed Up Linux
By default there are lot of services that are running on your system (Any Fedora system) and all these services consume your resource like CPU and Memory, increase your booting time and also open your system for attack, So in order to make your system run faster and safer we need to stop all these unwanted services.
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Few Quick How To’s for Fedora
Few Quick How To’s for Fedora users, this can be used in daily works.
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