Perhaps they are concerned about staying in Microsoft’s good graces, they have been slow about adopting Linux as an alternative on the computers that they sell to the public. But their has been some progress.
Read more »Faster, Stable Google Chrome 3
After a year's development, a new, stable version 3.0 of Google's open source Chrome browser is now available. Developers promise "significant speed improvements," although current beneficiaries are Windows Vista and XP users only.
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Code project: create a Python Twitter bot
Once upon a time, there was a person who decided that people needed more distractions in their lives, so he created Twitter.
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What Did SCO Pay Maureen O’Gara For?
Self-proclaimed "journalist" who plants stories for Microsoft has made transactions with SCO
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Fox ‘News’ Brings Microsoft to “Open Source”
The connotations of “Open Source” carry on changing as Microsoft would like
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Patents Under Fire While Microsoft Escapes Patent Law (Again)
Microsoft keeps dodging laws that are very controversial to begin with; Broadcom still on patent warpath
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The Pyramids and the Bazaar
Eric Raymond's software bazaar is a fantasy. What really goes on in open source projects has nothing to do with his "great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches".
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Advanced gmail notifier for linux - Checkgmail
Checkgmail is an application that stays in your notification area and whenever u receive a new email, it opens a small notification window and by clicking the window you are taken to u r gmail account and when hovering the mouse over the icon,
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The FOSS image is important.
We live in a world where, unfortunately, image is everything to the general public, enterprise business and the media. This image provides the reputation from which the validity of the product, person or business is judged. In the computing world, regarding software, I would say that there are three main players.
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RAID's Days May Be Numbered
In my opinion, RAID-6 is a reliability Band Aid for RAID-5, and going from one parity drive to two is simply delaying the inevitable.
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Sophisticated Picture Taking With gPhoto
My kids were watching a fancy fashion-model photography show recently on television. The shoot director barked orders from under a little tent and squinted at a big monitor. Every time a shot was taken, it magically appeared on the director's monitor. How do they do that?
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Flogr: Flickr Your Way
Flickr is, without doubt, an excellent service for shutterbugs and professional photographers alike, but if you are looking for a more streamlined interface that makes it easier for you to view and manage your precious shots, you might want give Flogr a try.
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ARM Flexes Its Muscles, Sizes Up Intel
The embedded chip known for running in the MHz range gets pumped up to 2GHz and sets its sights on Intel.
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How To Install And Configure Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) On CentOS 5.3
This tutorial explains how you can install and configure APF - an interface to IPTables which lets you easily configure a full featured firewall to secure servers and workstations connected to a network. This guide describes an example installation on a server with cPanel but it's only a matter of port numbers which must be open for everything to work. APF can be used on any system.
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London Stock Exchange platform acquisition ignites open source war of words
But that system, known as TradElect and built by Accenture, will be replaced by an open source-based system.
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