moc users might know this and might not, but you can poll the moc server process to spit out information about the tune it’s playing.
Read more »New Papers Explain the Harms of Software Patents
Critics of the misguided scope of patents point to scholarly work that arguably supports the abolishment of software patents; Pirate Party UK promises to abolish software patents
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Top 7 Open Source Applications for Enterprise
Sourceforge.net estimated that there are 230,000 open source projects on its site till Feb last year. Some of the projects are outdated, some of them do no not provide any support and others are in development phase. So, it is hard to find the right one for your need.
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YourSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL: The MySQL Conference Report
There has never been a time, in my opinion, that MySQL has faced a more diverse set of threats than at present. Of these, one gets a disproportionate amount of the attention: Oracle’s stewardship, and the implications this has for the future of the database.
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24 More of the Best Linux Commercial Games (Part 3 of 3)
There is no denying the huge selection of open source games available for Linux. Playing through all of these games would entertain many gamers for years. Nevertheless, there is still a massive market for commercial games. If Linux is ever going to usurp the desktop market, it needs a regular source of native high quality games that rival commercial games available on Windows.
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The New Zealand Computer Society Opposes Software Patents
While groups representing the interests of foreign companies lobby for software patents, actual computer scientists from New Zealand reject them
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SCO Receives More Money From Darl McBride; Novell-SCO Resumes Monday
Updates on the SCO case, including McBride's latest cash infusion for the company and Findings and Conclusions (on the 19th)
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Company That Pays Microsoft for Unknown Patents in Linux Joins the Linux Foundation
The IBM-led Linux Foundation allows Microsoft to make money from Linux by accepting another member which engages in this questionable practice
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Stereotypes
The phrase "you’re the man!" leads to a little debate about sexism in SUSE
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How to Install Google Go in Ubuntu
What do you get when you mix Python and C? According to Google, it’s Go – a new programming language developed in-house and later open sourced. Go was created by a small team inside Google, including the well known Ken Thompson, co-inventor of Unix and major influence on C.
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Choosing Open Source Solutions
Part of my job is finding and testing open sourced solutions for already prominent commercially available software. The concept is simple: If it's open sourced, it can be customized, be platform independent, and it can be free. In the business world, this poses two key benefits.
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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx beta 2 - it's pretty snappy on the desktop
I've been writing about such cockle-warming subjects as how Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx beta 2 and its 2.6.32 kernel handles such things as turning off kernel mode setting for Intel video that can't deal with said mode-setting, as well as the ever-moving buttons on application windows, and how the new gthumb is the best damn Linux/Unix photo-editing program for journalists.
Read more »Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory
Software engineering tends to be an evolutionary process. Problems are addressed with solutions that can create new problems and subsequently new solutions. Ideally, the new problems that are created justify the original solution. The technology discussed here is one of the secondary solutions to a problem created by server virtualization.
Read more »Microsoft is Not Promoting the Open Source Community, It’s Just Exploiting It
Embracing, extending, and extinguishing something is hardly a case of promotion, but gullible minds remain
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Hearing on Sale of the SCO's Java Patent April 20th
The SCO bankruptcy hearing on the sale of the Java patent will be on April 20. That's this proposed sale to Liberty Lane for $100,000, and that's an LLC affiliated with Allied Security Trust, the anti-patent-trolls company, if you've dropped a stitch and can't keep up as SCO's assets get sold off bit by bit.
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