"Now that Emacs has encryption functions built-in (previously, an external library had to be added), you can use GnuPG to keep all your sensitive data secret..."
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NetBeans 6.0 Beta 1 Released (Ruby Edition available)
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"NetBeans is an open-source IDE written in Java (somewhat like Eclipse, but not the same), and version 6.0 is the first with a Ruby-specific edition that focuses solidly on the things that Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers need. The NetBeans team have just released the first beta version..."
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Stealth updates, deletions — BadVista
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"Microsoft's Nate Clinton has used a bogus excuse to explain why Windows Update installs stealth updates without the user's consent..."
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Microsoft controls your computer
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"...any computer that runs Vista is under Microsoft's total control. Microsoft can alter the software in any way it wishes, or make the machine inoperable. It can do this to any user, at any time, for any reason."
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The Rest of REST
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"...Dr. Fielding's keynote entitled 'The Rest of REST' will highlight the advantages of developing software based on the Representational State Transfer (REST) model for web interactions. REST has received a great deal of industry attention as an alternative to SOAP-style Web Services, and stems directly from Fielding's doctoral thesis.[...] Dr.
Read more »Build and Deploy your own Service-Oriented Application with PHP and ActiveBPEL
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SOA and WS-BPEL is a new book from Packt that helps users to compose Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions with PHP and Open-Source ActiveBPEL. Written by experience author Yuli Vasiliev this practical book explains in extensive detail how to build Web Services with PHP and then utilize them within WS-BPEL orchestrations deployed to the ActiveBPEL engine.
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Freeing the Grid
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"...The position of the corporations using Dojo is obvious: They want to see Dojo succeed, and having a unified Grid component will ease their development costs significantly. However, for Mozilla, the goal is slightly more esoteric: We want to see the Open Web succeed (and by which, we mean the advancement of open software, standards, and development practices).
Read more »GPRename: GTK2-Perl Batch Renamer
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GPRename is a complete batch renamer for files and directories coded in GTK2 and Perl.
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Parrot 0.4.16 Released
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"On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.16 "A Farewell to Alex." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages..."
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At Night, the Robot Slept
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And with this Roomba, we run in to another Proprietary Agreement. ... Wasn't there some quote, maybe from Ben Franklin, about trading essential liberty for clean floors?
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My First Look at KateOS 3.6 Live
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KateOS 3.6 Live was release just a day ago and after 8 months of development I just thought I would take a quick look at it. Enjoy the few screenshots and flash video of the desktop in action.
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Canonical to Provide Optimized Ubuntu OS Layer for VMware Virtual Appliances
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VMWORLD/SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – September 11, 2007 – Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced the availability of its Ubuntu JeOS (Just Enough Operating System) edition.
Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced "Juice") is an efficient variant of the popular desktop and server operating system, configured specifically for virtual appliances.
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Microsoft resumes bashing open source
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What I got from Clint Patterson, public relations director for Microsoft's Unified Communications Group, went a couple notches beyond the "competition is healthy" category of platitudes I'd expected. Instead Patterson offered a broad criticism of open-source businesses that hark back to days of yore when top executives called the collaborative programming philosophy "un-American" and a "cancer."
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Theme Applications Running as Root in Ubuntu
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Once you start installing new GTK themes in Ubuntu, you will notice that applications that run as root, such as the Synaptic Package Manager, look unthemed and ugly. This is because although the root user is hidden in Ubuntu, it is still technically a separate user with separate appearance settings.
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Swedish pharmacies fight fevers with Red Hat
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Apoteket, the Swedish State Pharmacy and Sweden’s largest state-owned pharmacy chain, has chosen to replace all of its servers at approximately 900 pharmacies with Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel hardware. Can we call that Rentel now?
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