European Space Agency's Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) is a pilot program that offers student developers stipends to write code for space-related open source software projects. Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios.
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How to use Jenkins for python development
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Recipes to configure Jenkins and its plugins to be useful for python development.
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New Identi.ca Share Button
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"Identi.ca still doesn't have a proper share button. For a long time I've looked for a good Identi.ca share button. One like Twitter's, one that: displays a count of posts, and lets people share the page with the post automatically containing the page title and URL. I looked so long without finding anything that I wrote one myself.
Read more »Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL, SquirrelMail (Fedora 15)
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This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.
Read more »A quick look at rollApp, which puts your desktop apps in the cloud
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I was interested in using rollApp for two reasons. First, it seems to provide a neat way to access those few Windows only applications that Linux users occasionally need access to. Although the functionality to upload an application and make it available through the rollApp infrastructure is not currently available, it is going to be a large part of the attraction of the service.
Read more »Develop SharePoint websites and applications for Windows Phone 7
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This book introduces the reader to the improvements found over the desktop version of Internet Explorer 7. It gives an overview of the features of Windows Phone 7 and the capabilities of Internet Explorer Mobile for Windows Phone 7. Topics such as SharePoint Communities, Windows Phone 7 Web Development, and building SharePoint Sites for Windows Phone 7 are also spoken of in detail.
Read more »LibreOffice 3.4.1 released, installation guide
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LibreOffice 3.4.1 is ready to download and targets home deployments. Check out this guide to install LibreOffice on Debain-based Linux distributions.
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How to set the default program for a batch of filetypes in Linux Mint/Ubuntu
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This small guide details how to change the default application for a batch of filetypes, for example all audio files or all video files, on Linux Mint and Ubuntu.
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Who Says You Can’t Make Money with Open Source?
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This week yet another major global IT vendor will launch a product based on Linux - the HP Touchpad, which looks quite promising from early reviews. Even so, it is ironic that I still hear the following comment from a number of investors and business people:
“Open source is great, but you can’t make any money with it.”
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DE: Munich's move to a vendor independent desktop "on track"
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The German city of Munich's migration to a vendor independent IT infrastructure is "in time, in budget and on track", says one of the external consultants involved in the project. The city aims to migrate about 80 percent of all the city's fifteen thousand desktop PCs to Ubuntu Linux.
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Dangerous Prototypes: An Open Source Hardware Project A Month
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"Dangerous Prototypes is a two-year old organization with the stated mission of producing "one new open source project every month."[...]All are being sold by another interesting company, Seeed Studio."
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop (With The Unity Desktop)
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This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) desktop with the Unity interface (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card which I assume it has because otherwise Unity wouldn't start, and GNOME would be used instead). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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Installing Android x86 in VirtualBox
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In a previous post I showed you how to install and configure the Android SDK emulator to boot up quickly. What you may have found out by now is that the emulator is incredibly slow. In fact it is only any good if you have the kind of PC that can render the entire Transformers movie in a few minutes.
Read more »How to dual-boot Fedora 15 and Windows 7
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Previous tutorials published on this website about dual-booting Fedora and Windows 7 have shown how to do it by creating partitions for Fedora manually, either on an existing or a new installation of Windows 7. This tutorial will show how to do it, by modifying the logical volumes automatically configured by Anaconda, the Fedora system installer.
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Changing resolutions in Android x86
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Chances are, if you are installing Android onto a desktop system, you will want to make use of the higher resolutions that are available, since your desktop probably has a bigger monitor than the average mobile phone or tablet. Android is quite flexible in the resolutions it offers, and most Android apps can take advantage of higher resolutions.
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