A year has passed since Linden Lab, maker of the popular 3-D virtual world Second Life, released the source code to its Second Life viewer under the GNU GPL. In that time, a viable community of developers has grown up around the SL code, and the company is pleased enough with the success that it has branched out further into open source and open standards.
Read more »Using Weblogger mode in Emacs
"Wow finally i was able to blog from emacs. [...] All you have to do is to download the weblogger.el and the xml-rpc.el to a directory of your choice and enable them. Once you downloadthe el files add the following lines to your .emacs file..."
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Development Release: PUD GNU/Linux 0.4.8.5
"A new testing version of PUD GNU/Linux, an Ubuntu-based mini distribution with Xfce, has been released: ..."
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Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"
The new version 4.0 of the document "Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications" (SAGA) by the German Ministry of the Interior now recommends ODF for text documents. In SAGA 3.0 ODF was listed as "under observation". Nice to see ODF being upgraded by the SAGA expert group!
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The Fog of War and a Ray of Light
As regular readers will have noticed, I haven't blogged in awhile. This is in part because I'm on the road for most of six weeks, but also because the news about OOXML continues to be both more predictable as well as more intense.
Read more »5 Steps to a Quick Security Check
When it comes to IT, a lot more people talk about system audits than actually do them (of course, this could also be said for backups and many other things). In the spirit of building a solid foundation, this month we'll look at five steps that you can take on any Linux distribution -- but using Fedora as the example -- to perform a quick security check.
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Choke points in open source
One of the continuing fears among Internet mavens is someone will find a choke point, control the market, and drive innovation under... One feature of open source is that it frustrates the seeker of choke points.
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What to Expect from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Every two years, Canonical prepares an LTS (Long Term Support) release of one of the best desktop Linux distributions available today... This article is here to inform Ubuntu veterans, people that have discovered Ubuntu recently and future Ubuntu users, about the things that they should expect from Hardy Heron, in April 2008!
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Linux clients for three top P2P networks
You can find Linux clients for several file-sharing networks. Taking into account how many clients are available for each, the current top three peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are eDonkey2000, FastTrack (derived from Kazaa), and Gnutella. Here are some desktop applications that allow you to become a full-fledged file sharer.
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Drupal 6 keeps getting better
Drupal is a modular content management system. It allows a user or group of users to construct Web sites, blogs, or forums by providing the framework for users with little or no PHP or database experience. It grows more popular with each new release because it becomes easier to use each new release. Drupal 6.0 (and 6.1) were recently released after a year of development.
Read more »5 geeky Easter eggs for Easter
In time for Easter we thought that we should list a few funny and geeky Easter eggs. Easter eggs in software don’t do anything good besides being funny which we of course like. So here we present a few selected ones that we think are funny.
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How To Extract Values From top And Plot Them
Many researchers who are doing performance evaluation and benchmarking need to capture the values of the CPU and the RAM. Others might need to capture the throughput as well. In this short tutorial I will show how I capture the CPU and RAM values from “top” and then extract them in one line command.
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Web Developer 1.1.5 and User Agent Switcher 0.6.11
"...New versions of the Web Developer and User Agent Switcher extensions have been released. These releases are mainly to add support for the upcoming Firefox 3, but also contain a few other bug fixes..." -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
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Ex-FCC chair vows government control over the Google Brain
"The Cloud Computing Revolution will be regulated, according to former Federal Communications Chairman (FCC) Reed Hundt. [...] Hundt closes by claiming that Carr's book - wrong or right - will trigger a much needed public debate about how much regulation the "Internet’s next phase of evolution" needs..."
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Self-support tools work with Java, Linux
A small start-up based in Seattle has started selling a "self-support" tool for developers working with Java and/or Linux. SourceLabs says its "Self-Support Suite" can quickly identify problems and locate solutions for users of Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Axis, and Tomcat, as well as select Linux applications.
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