Pictured here is Microsoft's great new patent application on a portable touchscreen device's user interface, filed refiled within days of a certain cellphone going on sale. Look familiar? Well, my spite and disdain is all spent: we're at the point where such patent filings are neither good nor bad.
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How to turn on Compiz Fusion and get great custom effects in Ubuntu’s Gutsy Gibbon
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So you want to get extra cool effects using Compiz Fusion as it’s built into your new Ubuntu 7.1o install but you’re unsure how to get more than a few wobbly windows or how to even turn on wobbly windows? Here’s the quick way to do it.
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Government geeks send their bosses to open source
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I’m home in Portland (arguably the open source software conference capital of the world) for the third annual GOSCON get-together. Linux Foundation Executive Director and keynote speaker Jim Zemlin says he may have been mistaken in thinking that attendees were fairly well-versed in Linux and open source.
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Review: Amarok Live CD 1.3
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Amarok is a fairly new, but well known music management and playback program designed to help you organize and listen to all of your music in a simple, yet powerful interface full of nearly every tool you will need. But few people outside of the Linux community know of this program.
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Nokia unveils Linux-powered N810 Internet Tablet
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Nokia has announced a new version of its Linux-based Internet tablet. The N810 is smaller, heavier, and faster than the older N800, with new features that include a slide-out hardware QWERTY thumb keyboard, GPS receiver, FM transmitter (for in-car listening), and a light-sensing screen dimmer.
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'Choice Is Absolutely Essential'
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Linus Torvalds, head of development for Linux, comments on the operating system, its rival Windows, what motivates software developers and the occasional messiness of free choice
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Novell lays off 250 U.S. workers
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Software developer's Provo operations to shed 200 jobs, offshoring positions to India
Novell is laying off 250 software development positions in the United States and offshoring the majority of these to its operations in Bangalore, India. The company announced the layoffs to its workers today.
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The challenge to providing innovative ruby and rails documentation
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"The speed with which ruby on rails has achieved success as a web framework is mind blowing. Along the way, many great features have been created by the core team and by the community as well. There have been some decent attempts at creating good supporting documentation, but they have been mostly fragmented and not generally effective for most developers..."
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Help! Mozpad Website Needs a Makeover
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"...If you have any kind of graphic design skills and want to support our effort to promote the Mozilla platform for developers, why not consider giving the Mozpad website a makeover..."
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SVG and text/html
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"...The other interesting thread is about an HTML compatible syntax for SVG. In other words, integrating SVG in text/html..."
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Tom Calthrop: Barnraiser Collaboration Software Born Out of Amish Tradition
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One of the things I thoroughly enjoy about the Free Software community is the creative names developers give to their projects. Tom Calthrop's AroundMe and Barnraiser projects definitely fit the mold. Barnraiser was born out of Tom's experience in Kosovo and is a small, scrappy little project that just might surprise you.
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Paragent Released as Open Source
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Paragent has recently released their web-based desktop management application as open source. It runs on Linux, and supports Windows clients. Functionality includes hardware and software inventory, alerting, remote desktop and help desk functionality.
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Linspire 6: Two steps back
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Former Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony was pretty gung-ho about the company's upcoming release back in June. He said it would "fill some key holes in our current offering." Unfortunately Linspire 6, released last week, lacks the refinements you'd expect in a distro you pay $50 to download.
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IBM first brought Eclipse to the development scene in November 2001 as a project supported by a software vendor consortium. Three years later, Eclipse Foundation became an independent entity with a stewardship role. IBM nonetheless remains a key cheerleader for the community.
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Ubuntu by Dummies: switching between saved network settings
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I never read the manual. That can be a detriment in Slackware, baffling at the command line, soul-killing in FreeBSD (OK, that's just my experience) and ... just slightly irritating in Ubuntu.
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