From now, until the submission deadline of 11:59p on July 9th, The Open Clip Art Library will be accepting user-created and remixed entries, as a part of the Free Culture Research Conference Logo Design Contest.
Read more »Open Clip Art Library Launches Logo Design Contest
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VirtuaWin - Multiple virtual desktops
VirtuaWin - Multiple virtual desktops, is an application for the Windows user community that misses the wonderful multiple desktop functionality often used on Unix systems. It is simple, reliable and highly configurable, supporting up to 20 virtual desktops.
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Learn to make Web Applications impenetrable using Spring Security 3
Through real world business scenarios, developers will learn to protect their web applications from attacks using Spring Security 3 and implement basic authorization and credential storage. Readers will be introduced to basic fundamentals of Spring Security 3 like setup and configuration as well as security concepts and techniques.
Read more »Canonical, OIN's 1st Associate Member, Commits to Freedom of Action in Open Source
OIN has just announced a new associate membership program, and Canonical is the first associate member:OIN Associate Members, such as Canonical, demonstrate support and commitment to limiting the effects of patent disputes in Linux.
Read more »Design Powerful Applications with Spring Python
Developers will be introduced to Spring Python and will learn to develop powerful applications after applying concepts of Spring to the environment of Python. Readers will shown how to use the IoC or Dependency Injection container for Python. Using Jython, developers will be able to link Python and Java components together efficiently as well as learn to add security to their Python application.
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Hopefully Install & Remote Kill-s the Cloud OS
Oh the Cloud OS which ever so beautifully floats above the heads of corporate America as the ultimate dream of power and money.
Read more »Linux game time refined with latest Wine
Wine, the project that lets Linux users run Windows apps within Linux, has released a major update that fixes a number of bugs and includes 64-bit support.
Wine 1.2 includes a new set of icons, a number of fixes for video rendering – improving Windows gaming – and better font anti-aliasing and handling of desktop link files.
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Android Phone-Top Programming: Part 1
Building on what we already know about Android development, we take a look at adding App Widget functionality for your phone's "desktop."
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User Space File Systems
Having file systems in the kernel has its pros and cons. Being able to write file systems in user-space also has some pros and cons, but FUSE (File System in Userspace) allows you to create some pretty amazing results.
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Marten Mickos says open source doesn't have to be fully open
The term "open core" essentially means that the heart of a software project is built on, and remains, open source but added features may not be (particularly a commercial version intended for enterprise use).VC-funded software startups love this model.
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Why did I choose to use Ubuntu
Currently I prefer to use Ubuntu, after I felt the ability to provide Ubuntu Graphical on my laptop, especially Ubuntu 10.04. There are a few that made me feel at home using and choosing Ubuntu Linux operating system, which are as follows:
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How to: Fix the tab auto-complete problem in Ubuntu 10.04
I use it a lot to install programs and related packages, but now i need to know the specific name instead of tabbing to see what i can type. After considerable searching I found the cure.
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Reverting to Alsa Sound System in Ubuntu
Oh the fun! I removed package pulseaudio from my system this morning and reverted to alsa, thinking this would fix my sound lag problems on Doom 3 and Quake 4.
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Linux Foundation Announces Linux.com Store T-shirt Design Winner
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the winning design in its Linux.com Store T-shirt Design Contest, "The People's Product." The design won by a large margin with 57 percent (4,501) of all votes cast, with the other five finalists sharing 43 percent of the vote among them.
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The Beat Goes On: Open Source Multimedia Tools Part 2
Last week, I started to share information on FOSS multimedia tools, covering some integrated multimedia distributions and some audio tools. This week, in part two, I will cover video editing, scanning, converting from one format to another, and publishing your creative arts.
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