This in-depth, hands-on article introduces Android, Google's Linux/Java mobile phone SDK (software development kit). After a tour of Android's tools, documentation, and code samples, it suggests a path for further exploration and concludes with a simple applet showing the power and simplicity of the Android environment. Enjoy . . . !
Read more »A developer's perspective on Google's Android SDK
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How To Disable ipv6 on Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”
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I found a really quick fix today for disabling ipv6 completely on Ubuntu 7.10 (not yet tested on previous versions). This might be of interest to some of you that have had networking problems, as I’ve heard disabling ipv6 at least within the browser has been a help here. This tutorial will disable ipv6 completely on the machine.
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Firefox hack can expose your Google account
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GNUCitizen.org has discovered a way for malicious JAVA scripts to be hidden in a page that will be automatically extracted by Firefox’s JAVA reader. There is an easy fix if you install the NoScript Firefox extension, but this means that you’ll be running absolutely no scripts, making for a far more boring web browsing experience.
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Achieve enlightenment: The command line as a tool
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Supercharging package management with yum plugins and utilities
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Fedora's Pirut is a useful tool for basic software installation and package searches. However, if you really want to take control of package management, you need to get back to basics with yum. Just as, on Debian systems, dpkg is the back end underlying apt-get and graphical tools such as Synaptic, so on RPM systems, yum is the hidden power behind Pirut and the Pup updater.
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Firefox 2.0.0.10 Released in Beta Channel
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"The release candidate for Firefox 2.0.0.10 is now available. We would like anyone running 2.0.0.9 who wants to help to download it and run it over the next week..."
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Mozilla Foundation grants and related expenditures for 2007
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"I previously posted some information on the Mozilla Foundation's grants and related expenditures in 2006. Since then I've been expanding our internal database of information about such expenditures, and have now gotten to the point where I can provide the same information for 2007. I'll continue updating this post in the remainder of the year as we add new projects..."
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The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts)
Ubuntu and OpenSUSE LiveCD results in blank Screen
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If the graphics card is not supported by default (Nvidia or ATI propriety drivers), then the Live CDs do not boot normally. Both in case of Ubuntu and OpenSUSE, the users have to use alternative methods.
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Linux Media Player Roundup - Part 4
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Welcome to part 4 of our media player roundup. Today we'll be covering a couple of interesting players that most older Linux users may remember, and most new users may not even know exists. We'll also be covering players that don't typically fit what would be considered the norm for a media player, but which provide you with quite a wide range of possible applications for daily use.
Read more »Linux Lite: 5 Tiny Distros That Pack A Big Bang
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Some distributions of the open-source operating system are bloated, but Puppy Linux, Knoppix, SLAX, NimbleX, and -- yes -- Damn Small Linux will get you up and running fast.
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Water in the tank and KIWI updates
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David Mikos has been busy adding tons of improvement to atlantis plugin, fishes now move in school, another cool new addition is water and waves to complete the picture of a fish tank. It would be added to git packages soon.
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Radiohead knows more than Microsoft about security
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Music fans, recording artists, journalists, the RIAA, and digital rights activists have at least one thing in common right now. I’m speaking of the intense interests some people from each group have in the outcome of Radiohead’s recent experiment in business models for musicians, of course.
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Automatix lands a Linux user in trouble
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Tracking down the cause of Stan's problems has been easy. A few days after Ubuntu was installed, Stan wanted to play an encrypted DVD. He found that this was not possible on Ubuntu. Hence, like any budding Linux user, he searched in that great wasteland, the world wide web.
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OpenDocument Foundation’s ‘woes’ have little to do with OpenDoc Format’s future
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I’ve been so busy with other stuff that I’ve only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium’s Common Document Format (CDF) had been identified by the OpenDocument Foundation as a superior document format to the OpenDocument Format that it had been backing for so long.
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