"The problem with the REST folks these days is that they are just hell-bent on having constructive conversation all the time. This piece should have been the pudding-pack that started the cafeteria food fight but, no, everyone decides to concentrate on the one concrete critique of WS-* mentioned in the entire rant, kicking off a level-headed debate about description languages, documentation, and service discovery..."
Read more »Help! The WS-* vs. REST Debate Has Been Hijacked By People Who Want To Have Logical Discussions About Actual Real World Issues!
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logfeed 1.15
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"logfeed is a Perl script which generates custom-filtered, templated Atom
feeds from Apache access logs. Feeds are defined by simple configuration files, fragments of Perl code, which define the metadata (the title, URI, etc.), filtering rules, and (optionally) a template for the resulting feed entries. You can literally filter on anything you can write a regular expression for and it’s simple to format the results however you like—it’s pretty easy to get creative..."
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Zenwalk 5.0 has been released !
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"Zenwalk 5.0 is here ! Since the conception of Zenwalk the decision was made to focus on simplicity and optimum performance. You will be happy to learn that Zenwalk 5.0 even while being a major release continues to follow those very same principles. The Zenwalk GNU/Linux OS continues to provide bleeding edge system focusing on optimal performance and ease of use. This latest release now features the 2.6.23.12 Linux kernel, includes modern hardware detection based on HAL, and continues it's tradition of showcasing the powerful XFCE 4.4.2 desktop..."
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Debian 3.1r7 ("sarge") CD/DVD images available
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"After some delay because of an omission in the 3.1r7 release regarding the Debian Installer images, the Debian CD team is happy to announce that new CD and DVD images for Sarge are now available from the Sarge installation information web page..."
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FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE Announcement
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"The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights..."
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Need a Mac Support Tech? Find a Linux Guru.
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If your company is deploying Apple Macintosh systems, say experienced IT administrators, don't expect to retrain your Windows support staff. Instead, find a Linux or UNIX admin. You'll save yourself from a world of hurt.
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Running VitrualBox (OSE) on OpenSuse 10.3
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Innotek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Some of the features of VirtualBox are: Modularity, virtual machine descriptions in XML, guest additions for Windows and Linux and shared folders. The following workshop describes how to install VirtualBox (OSE) on OpenSuse 10.3 and to install a WindowsXP guest addition.
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Red Hat and Firefox more buggy than Microsoft
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Secunia has found that the number of security bugs in the open source Red Hat Linux operating system and Firefox browsers far outstripped comparable products from Microsoft last year.
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College students design Linux-based stethoscope
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A team of engineering students at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. is designing a digital stethoscope based on uClinux. The team, called "Rhythm Reloaded," released a project proposal on the open source device, which runs Freescale's Coldfire MCF5275 CPU.
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Linux Releases: Fixed vs. Rolling Release; Mandriva, Turbolinux, and Microsoft
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Many distributions have what is called a "fixed" release. While they may have several names for it, it is simply a fixed release where several things happen...
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Getting Started With Ruby On Rails
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Generally there are 3 installations: OSX, Windows and Linux, and the latter is the most easy one.
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Mandriva/TurboLinux partnership raises questions
http://www.tectonic.co.za –
Mandriva and TurboLinux this week announced their partnership to create Manbo-Labs, months after its inception. The partnership, which began last October but was only announced publicly this week after its first internal delivery, will see the two companies sharing resources and technology to produce a common base system for their Linux distros.
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Open source web conferencing
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Have you ever wanted to attend a webinar but quickly discovered that the web-conference service doesn't even support your operating system? This has happened to me several times and it irks me greatly! I always make sure to tell the company that they should switch their web-conferencing service to one that supports multiple platforms including Linux.
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Five Questions Facing Sun’s MySQL Acquisition
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Sun Microsystems finally matters again. The company is buying MySQL, the open source database leader, for $1 billion.
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Open Source Support: When Should You Go Commercial?
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These days we can assume that most large enterprises have some sort of open source software presence in the data center. Whether it is racks full of Linux servers, a few contrasting Linux instances, or even just Apache running on Windows, open source is prevalent.
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