The Cobra programming language has been made available via open source, according to its author, Charles "Chuck" Esterbrook.
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Common newb mistakes, and how to avoid them
Newcomers to Ubuntu have any number of problems, but some of them are fairly common. Here are three I see a lot, and easy ways to avoid them.
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New game made in Ubuntu
We are CaninoStudios, a development group destined to make videogames under the free software philosophy. We are writing you to make a presentation of our latest release "Nimuh, searching for the andalusian treasure".
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Better Linux Sound Managment With ALSA, Part 2
Last week we learned how to configure soundcards for playback with ALSA. It's easy, it works on all Linuxes, it doesn't create conflicts or introduce latency, and it doesn't require the X Window System.
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Asus EeePC gets another competitor from ECS
The battle for the inexpensive UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) market has begun. Several companies already have them; such as the CloudBook from Everex and the EeePC from Asus. Both look “okay” but it would be hard to call them aesthetically pleasing. ECS will be introducing its version of a UMPC and it looks like the smaller brother to the MacBook
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Why Linux Market Growth Statistics Matter to Hackers
Today IDC announced their market sizing numbers showing revenues for servers running Linux or Windows outpaced the sales of the rest of the market in the final quarter of 2007.
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Firefox to Internet Explorer: Bring it on!
Yesterday, the Beta 1 version of Internet Explorer 8 was released for download. According to Microsoft, IE 8 is loaded with some exciting new features such as:
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Use Drupal to empower your OSS project community
When I started my tenure as marketing lead for the Haiku project in 2006, my highest priority was to renovate the project's Web site. Haiku had been using a custom-coded site which was showing its shortcomings as the project and the community grew in size.
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Prism 0.9 - Now as a Firefox Extension
"Prism 0.9 has finally been released. [...] The big news for this release is Prism for Firefox, a full blown Prism and a Firefox extension all in one. This means that you can now easily “make” web applications directly from Firefox. In addition, Prism now uses Firefox as its runtime, so you don’t need to download the XULRunner runtime..."
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Report: U.S. likely to maintain 'yes' vote for OOXML in ISO
An esoteric-but-key technical committee will recommend that the U.S. maintain its support for making Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML document format an ISO-certified open standard, despite controversy at a meeting last week discussing fixes to the proposed specification.
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Dasher: keyboard without keys
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” reminded me of a computer program I heard about a few years ago. The main character of the movie (which is based on real story of Elle Magazine owner, Jean-Dominique Bauby) is paralyzed in such a way that he can communicate with the external world only by blinking his left eye. Despite that he managed to write a book using a sophisticated text entry method and enormous patience. If he had Dasher he would be able to do the same thing way easier and faster.
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Choose the DVD ripper that's right for you
Linux is sometimes belittled for having inferior applications, but that's simply not the case. Take DVD rippers, for example -- a plethora of them work on Linux machines. With so many to choose from, which is the best?
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Flock 1.1 with WebMail is here
We’re very excited to tell you about our latest release, so let’s cut to the chase: Flock 1.1 is here. You can download it via any of the download buttons here on flock.com (the installer will upgrade older builds of Flock to 1.1 and retain your data). We will be turning on automatic updates from 1.0.9 to 1.1 in the coming weeks.
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Ballmer pledges PHP love in Microhoo future
Microsoft has committed to becoming a mixed ASP.NET and PHP shop for the "foreseeable" future should its proposed Yahoo! acquisition succeed, rather than convert popular services like Yahoo! mail to Microsoft's .NET architecture.
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Open Source Game Review: Secret Maryo Chronicles
Secret Maryo Chronicles is an open source PC game designed around the original Super Mario World side scroller that takes what was great about that old console game and brings it to the PC, dusts it off and tries to improve on it. While still not completely polished or fully matured, it does offer you a lot of gaming fun. So let's look at a little that it does offer you.
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