Appcelerator has taken the beta tag off its open source Titanium development kit, a means of building native desktop and mobile applications using traditional web-development tools such as JavaScript, Python, Ruby on Rails, html, and CSS.
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Switch tittle bar buttons sides in Lucid and Karmic
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A ton of users are dissatisfied with the decision to change the buttons on the title bar, however, it’s incredibly easy to change back and forth between the old (Karmic) look, and the new (Lucid Alpha) look. You do not have to be on Lucid to test out the new look. These commands work fine on Karmic and (probably) older.
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"shopt -s cdspell" : Automatically correct mistyped directory names on cd
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Use shopt -s cdspell to correct the typos in the cd command automatically as shown below.
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Virtualization With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless Fedora 12 Server
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This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless Fedora 12 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment.
Read more »Elementary Gnome Theme Updated, Now More Gorgeous Than Ever!
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A new version of the Elementary gnome theme has been released in the Elementaryart PPA. There were some previews of this new update, but only now the theme has been officially updated. It was mainly the Metacity theme who has been redesigned, as you can see in the screenshot below:
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Digg switches to "NoSQL" Cassandra
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The Digg developers have announced that they are abandoning MySQL, the database that has been powering the social link sharing site, and are moving to Cassandra, a distributed, scalable "NoSQL" database. The move is another win for the NoSQL movement which looks to move from centralised SQL based databases to distributed key/value stores more suited to large scale web applications.
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Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.34 goes into testing
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Linus Torvalds has released the first RC of Linux 2.6.34 and completed the integration of the next version of the kernel's most important changes. Improvements include graphics drivers for recent Radeon GPUs and for the graphics cores of some Intel processors that are only expected to be released early next year. Another new addition is the LogFS solid-state storage file system.
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A fork is not a bad thing
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It has happened again, so I have to wonder again: What’s the reason for a sudden, vitriolic knee-jerk reaction to the idea of someone forking a distro?
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How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Ubuntu 9.10
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This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the lighttpd server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.
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If Novell gets bought, will Red Hat follow?
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Elliott's proposed acquisition of Novell promises to shake up the software industry, which has grown a bit staid in the past year or two. But what will it mean for Red Hat, and for the broader open-source software industry?
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Get Started with Omnis Studio
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Omnis Studio is a cross-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) Rapid Application Development tool. It allows you to quickly build applications using a combination of graphical elements as well as a code editor. In this tutorial we look at installation on Ubuntu and getting familiar with the excellent tools on offer...
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US eases sanctions to allow freer web
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The US treasury department has eased sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of web services and support opposition groups.
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Ex-Novell officers back SCO over copyrights
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The top two negotiators for Novell Inc. in its 1995 deal to sell the Unix computer operating system testified Wednesday their former employer believed it sold the copyrights to that software along with the entire Unix business.
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Last-Minute Filings from Judge Stewart, SCO, Novell
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My, if we think we're having trouble keeping up, how'd you like to be Judge Ted Stewart? Or Sterling Brennan, for that matter? So many filings already, and more today.
Read more »Conquer Video on Linux with MPlayer
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MPlayer is not your run-of-the mill video player. It's a multi-platform codec-chewing monster truck of a video player for the connoisseur of video players. It has options galore and has the flexibility to play almost anything under the sun.
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