Google restricts the download of entire PicasaWeb albums to users of its proprietary (and Windows only) software Picasa. A fairly simple Bash script can do that and even more.
Read more »FOSS Meet @ NITC (one of the major foss event in India) 4th edition dates announced
FOSS Meet@NITC is an annual event on Free and Open Source Software at NIT Calicut. This event brings together open source enthusiasts from all over india. The 2008 edition of the event is being planned and is scheduled to be held from March 21st to 23rd.
If you are interested in participating in the meet, you will have to register at this site. Speakers may register at this site and post details of talks, workshop or bofs that he/she would like to conduct. They may also post polls to know the audience better. Delegates can post comments and vote on polls. We hope that this way the event can be molded by the participants themselves in the spirit of a true community event. Please feel free to inform us about your queries, suggestions and complaints.
Read more »Modernization of Emacs Lisp - by Xah Lee, 2008-01
"...This essay is meant to put off some common wishful thinking. As noted before, a major benefit of a emacs with Common Lisp or Scheme Lisp is that they provide a unified, packaged, system for development of these languages, and since it uses the same language to extend functionality of the editor, it will transparently increase the number of developers for the editor as well as the language..."
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Linux users answer the call: Ubuntu wireless-adapter glitch resolved
The first thing you learn when you write about technology is that the people who read your stuff are smarter than you'll ever be. So let me start by saying "Thank you" to all the Linux users who responded to last Friday's post on my travails trying to get Ubuntu 7.10, or "Gutsy Gibbon," to recognize my Linksys WPC300N wireless adapter.
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Open Source Journalism: Crowdsourcing the Media
Technology has been a big driver of the adoption of citizen journalism, equipping it well for speed, collaboration and delivery. Without needing to invest in expensive GPS phones or briefcase satellites, Citjos are filing stories via text messages, grainy pictures on camera phones, cyber cafes and, when necessary, proxy servers to cover their tracks.
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Find the items you want with GNOME Do
The wealth of applications on a modern Linux system is phenomenal, but sifting through screen after screen of menu items is no fun. Likewise, it's convenient to have all of your files in one place, but the more you have the longer you have to look for the one you need.
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Voltalinux 2.0 is out
"Voltalinux is a GNU/Linux distro based on Slackware GNU/linux and the pkgsrc package system from NetBSD. The two pieces of software put together give you great power." -- About Voltalinux: http://voltalinux.sicurezzarete.com/?page_id=2
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Croatia and Norway sign up to EPO as patent body outlines need for reforms
Croatia and Norway have signed up to the European Patent Convention taking the total number of European Patent Organisation member states to 34.
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Bash Emacs Editing Mode Cheat Sheet
"When you are working in a shell you certainly don’t want to waste your time using arrow keys or home/end keys to navigate around the command line. One of the most popular shells, bash - Bourne Again SHell, uses GNU’s Readline library for reading the command line. The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. The readline library also includes functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands. Both emacs and vi editing modes are available.
Read more »How Do You Install Linux Applications?
If you are a command line guru, you call upon your zypper, yum, conary or apt-get from the terminal, and you awk sed grep your way to what you're after.
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Howto Install KDE 4.0 (Stable) in Ubuntu Gutsy
KDE 4.0 is the innovative Free Software desktop containing lots of applications for every day use as well as for specific purposes. Plasma is a new desktop shell developed for KDE 4, providing an intuitive interface to interact with the desktop and applications.
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Tux Untangled: A Gateway Distro That's Easy to Use
Charlie Schluting
One of the best uses for Linux is special-purpose, tightly managed distributions for a single purpose, and Untangle has created one of the most impressive applications of this principle. The Untangle Gateway bundles together a list of applications that even seasoned sysadmins couldn't install and effectively manage in a timely manner. We've been playing with the Untangle Network Gateway for a few months, and we must say: "well done."
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OpenVZ joins forces with Ubuntu
OpenVZ and Ubuntu Linux developers on Tuesday will release pre-built Ubuntu virtual machines, designed to allow system administrators to deploy a specialised Ubuntu system in about a minute.
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Mozilla Public License to be Updated?
One of the key reasons that Mozilla and its technologies are open source is the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Now, the closely watched MPL may be seeing an update after remaining unchanged for years.
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$4 billion Mozilla IPO… then you wake up
"...The problem is that the moment Mozilla becomes public it will exist for its shareholders benefit and not the web and its users. Not that their interests are diametrically opposed but any intersection less than a 100% could signal the end of Mozilla as we know it..."
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