Since 2005, a small band of volunteers in many countries has been gathering together on one day of the year to give away free and open source software in order to spread awareness about this genre.
Read more »The problems of counting Linux desktops
Here's what we know beyond doubt. First, the Linux desktop is gaining in popularity. Second, it's doing so at the expense of the Windows desktop. After that, things get muddy.
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OpenSolaris will challenge Linux says Sun
Sun seeks to apply the lessons of Linux and turn open source Solaris into an operating system to rival Linux and to be as commonly used as Java.
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Parsing Microformats
"...This article will focus more on how to extract microformats data from the HTML, how the basic parsing rules work, and how they differ from XML..."
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ASSP With Embedded ClamAV Integrated Into Postfix With Virtual Users And Domains
This document describes how to integrate ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy) with embedded ClamAV into a mail server based on Postfix featuring virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database.
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Keep your laptop and PC in Unison
I usually carry my laptop everywhere and do work on it, but I do also need to work at my desktop PC, so I need to synchronize the files on the two machines. I have used several sync tools in the past, ranging from simple commands like scp and rsync to utilities like Krusader, which includes a way to synchronize directories on different machines. Recently I started using Unison.
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Mozilla keeps Eudora alive, releases new version based on Thunderbird
The Eudora team might have called it quits on commercial aspirations and released the product as open source some time ago, but that doesn't mean you should get the trash bin out just yet.
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Watch out for CouchDB
"...CouchDB is not a relational database but rather a distributed document database. Instead of inserting a row of column values into a table, you save a document, with any number of named fields and values (now represented as JSON objects) into the database where it exists in a kind of addressable pool.
Read more »Speed up Firefox browsing with keyboard shortcuts
"...I have been researching keyboard shortcuts for Firefox and here they are. They all work as they have been tested beforehand. Now the trick is to remember them all..."
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Damn Small Linux V4.0 RC3 released
The latest version, V4.0 RC3, of Damn Small Linux was released today and it is really very small indeed. Described as a 50Mb mini-desktop oriented Linux OS, DSL is actually small enough to fit and boot from a business card CD as a live Linux distribution.
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Microsoft hits jackpot ahead of Linux
GAMING giant Tattersalls has chosen to abandon Linux as it moves ahead with a $43 million project to streamline its multi-state Maxgaming poker machine business.
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Configuring phpGroupware's Core Applications
Don Parris walks you through the process of setting the core applications of phphGroupware.
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Set up a system tray temperature monitor with KSensors
he CPU inside your computer is a very complex bit of electronics that can probably do an awful lot of number crunching. All this mathematical muscle generates heat, though, and a hot processor isn’t a happy processor. Keeping an eye on your CPU temperature (and other temperatures in your system if you can) is a useful thing to do.
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Source-Open?
"So I have a new word to add to my open-source lexicon: source-open (reference). It's when you start an open-source company and back-pedal on your original license when you reach a certain critical mass..."
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Getting Back to Patent Application Bug Spraying...
We've been pretty busy with other tasks recently, and now I'm getting concerned about the Peer-to-Patent project participation, because I see some looming deadlines, and I forgot to tell you about them.
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