"On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.5.2 "P.e. nipalensis." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages..."
Read more »Elisp Lesson: Process A Thousand Files
"This page shows a real-world example using emacs lisp to process HTML files in a directory recursively, searching for a text pattern, and generate a report. If you don't know elisp, first take a gander at Emacs Lisp Basics..."
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Open Source Search Wikia : Could Community Search Kill SEO?
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales - "alpha" version of his open source community-driven search engine, 'Wikia Search.' The basic premise is that instead of using a typical algorithm to prioritize search results, users can rate them on relevance.
I had a play with the site today, and it appears this will initially take the form of a simple five star rating system placed alongside each search result -- though the system is not yet active.
Although Wales insists the engine could eventually become a significant player in the search space, its reliance on user feedback means that it will take some time to become effective. As a result, don't expect it to challenge Google in terms of depth and relevance of results any time soon.
Read more »Submitshop Open Source Social BookMarking Tool
Please check this tool which will be provided as open source for public so that they can freely use it under GPL! This is good social bookmarking tool for SEO community!
Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and "tagging" them with keywords. Bookmarking, on the other hand, is the practice of saving the address of a Web site you wish to visit in the future on your computer.
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Acer laptops with Ubuntu Linux available now
I think this is a temporary offer only, and I don't have many more details than what is in the product page, but it looks like Acer is making a limited laptop series available now with Ubuntu Linux pre-loaded.
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SSH: Best Practices
If you're reading LinuxSecurity.com then it's a safe bet that you are already using SSH, but are you using it in the best way possible? Have you configured it to be as limited and secure as possible?
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Top 10 Linux FUD Patterns, Part 1
The following is my Top 10 list of themes used by anti-Linux FUD campaigns.
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Free/Open-source P2P File Sharing Software
A peer-to-peer (P2P) computer network utilizes varied connectivity linking participants in a set of connections and the collective bandwidth of network members rather than the usual centralized resources where a fairly low number of servers provide the core value to a service or application.
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Adventures with Necko continues
This is my first attempt to write something for school students. The idea is to write a small book which will teach elementary programming concepts in a fun way to school students. What age am I targetting at? Maybe, 7th standard (12 years) and above.
Pramode CE, comes up with more detailed plan about his book.
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The Making of KDE 4.0
How do you produce a major update of a popular desktop for GNU/Linux? Following the release of KDE 4.0 last week, I talked with Wade Olson, the press contact for KDE in North America, and a member of KDE e.V., the German non-profit organization that is the financial and legal arm of the project. Olson talked about the goals of the release, its highlights, what was left out, and where development of KDE is going next.
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SE Linux--a great open source success story
I just read an excellent summary of the top 10 SE Linux stories of 2007, and it reminds me that I owe the world a blog posting about the amazing vision and accomplishments of the SE Linux project.
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WiFi Radar - Simple tool to Manage Wireless Profiles
WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles.It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an available preferred network and connect to it. You can drag and drop your preferred networks to arrange the profile priority.
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Open source on the big screen: Matt Ebb tells tales of Elephants Dream
Lead artist from Elephants Dream speaks about what it is like to make your own open movie using open source tools and the power of the community.
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Is Hidden Open Source Code Putting Your Apps at Risk?
The most overlooked open source security vulnerabilities, according to Palamida researchers, occur in Apache Geronimo, JBoss Application Server, Libtiff, Net-SNMP and ZLIB. "The most popular projects appear in every test. This always surprises companies. There is from three to 10 times the use of open source code [in software enterprise uses] than companies realize," said Theresa Bui-Friday, cofounder of Palamida.
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Ubuntu Tutorial: How To Redesign Your Desktop The ‘WOW’ Way
I love Ubuntu as it is simply the best operating system that I have come across. If there is one thing that I dislike about Ubuntu, it has to be the desktop. Don’t get me wrong, it is not GNOME that I dislike, but the default color and theme that Ubuntu use for their distribution. I just can’t stand the brown color and theme.
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