MICROSOFT has suffered further set-backs in the UK education sector this week after Becta, the government procurement quango, reformed its purchasing regime to break the software giant's hold on education, and launched a programme to get schools to adopt open source software.
Read more »Open source trumps Microsoft in UK schools
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Novell’s Second-Class SUSE Citizens
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Novell's Service Pack raises some questions about the company's commitment to non-paying users.
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HOWTO: Stream music to your Xbox 360
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i just got X360MeditServe working in Gutsy, then i wrote a shell script to start the program on boot
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PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter
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I remember my first experience with PHP way back in 2001. Despite my questionable pedigree in ASP and Visual Basic, browsing an alphabetical PHP function list was enough to scare me away for years. Somehow, perusing the above list, I don't think things have improved a whole lot since then.
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Transforming your Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop to look like Mac OS X
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Step by Step detailed instructions on how to make your Ubuntu 8.04 desktop look like Mac OS X.
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Open source must co-op to win govt contracts
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Open source players will need to swap baggy jeans for suits if they want to secure lucrative enterprise and government contracts, experts say.
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'PatentGate,' one year later: Microsoft against the open-source world
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It was just over a year ago that Microsoft Corp. dropped a bombshell of a claim: users of Linux and open-source software were unwittingly violating as many as 235 Microsoft software patents.
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DHS report: Open-source code "quality" is up
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A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored project has not only discovered that the quality of open source software code has improved significantly over the past two years, it has debunked a widely held assumption that longer function strings within source code are associated with an increased number of code defects.
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OLPC: following in the steps of Microsoft
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When Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the One Laptop Per Child project, said two months ago that the project needed to be managed "more like Microsoft" he was speaking nothing but the truth.
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Litigating against innovation: Legal attacks on Linux
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Patents and how they're controlled are damaging the way technology is developed - and the Linux case is a key example of this.
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A New Goal for Open Source
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RoboCup, an international joint project to promote artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and related fields, has set a goal for fully autonomous, humanoid robots to win the world soccer championship by 2050. With the use of Fedora, one RoboCup team, the AllemaniACs, is already winning international acclaim with world champion titles in 2006 and 2007 in the RoboCup@Home service robotics league.
Read more »Design, Develop and Deploy a Fully Featured Website with New book on Ruby on Rails
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Building Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites with Ruby on Rails is a new book from Packt which helps users to design, develop, and deploy a fully featured website using Ruby on Rails. Written by A. P. Rajshekhar, this book is a tutorial to create a complete Web 2.0 website with Ruby on Rails.
Read more »ODF in MS Office? No, really!
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Microsoft declared yesterday (May 21st, 2008) that Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 would include (among others such as PDF 1.5, PDF/A and some more) built-in support for OASIS OpenDocument Format version 1.1 (finalized, submitted to ISO, supported by OpenOffice.org, Kofffice, GNOME office apps and their forks) while ISO-submitted OOXML support would wait for Office 14.
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Destroy annoying bugs part 4: the end is near
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In this the last part of this four-part series I will zoom carefully into the ease of use of PMD. I totally enjoy PMD. The reason for this is the relative simplicity of writing your own bug pattern-capturing rules and using them under fire. More on that later. To round off we have included an in-depth interview with Tom Copeland, the author of PMD Applied and the newer JavaCC .
Read more »Asus EeePC, Part Four: A miscellany of Tips and Tricks
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Since the first three parts of this series came out, (One, Two and Three) the beginning of May has seen the launch of the new EeePC 900 series; it's slightly larger and heavier, with a nine-inch screen and higher resolution.
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