If you were planning to attend Ubuntu Live 2008 in July, we have some bad news for you: the event has been canceled. Speakers were quietly notified earlier this week and the event's Web site was updated late this morning.
Read more »Extract Mac Font Files (.dfont) into .ttf Files
Have you ever been in a situation where you desperately need a copy of a font for something you’re working on, but you can only seem to find a copy in the wrong format? Often this can happen, and you have the font elsewhere, but it’s not in the standard .ttf format you expect.
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Intel and Wind River driving Linux infotainment systems to cars
Linux is in our computers, our phones, our Wi-Fi equipment, and our TiVos -- why not our cars? Intel Corp. and Wind River have been working with both the embedded and automotive industries to advance in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) with open, Linux-based, standards-based, interoperable hardware and software called Open Infotainment Platforms (OIP).
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Manage your personal accounts at home with homebank in Ubuntu
HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
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Asus innovation taking Linux into the cloud
First through the Eee PC and now through its PC motherboards, Asus is rapidly carving a global reputation for itself as the company which knows how to take Linux mainstream. The question is will including the minimalist cut-down version of Linux called Splashtop on a million motherboards a month finally bring on the Linux desktop age or has it made the desktop redundant?
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Getting started with Ruby on Rails development on Linux and chosing the perfect IDE
Recently, I forayed into the cool world of RoR and my immediate question was, how to get started and which is the best IDE to start my RoR journey with. I found loads of options and I have decided to list them here for the benefit of others, who face the same problem. I will also detail the installation of the IDE that I am currently using, which I feel is the easiest for newbies to start with.
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Quick-boot Linux environment makes a splash
DeviceVM announced that its quick-booting Splashtop Linux implementation is being pre-installed in ROM (read-only memory) on four new Asus motherboards. Asus says it plans to ship over a million Splashtop-ready motherboards per month, making this one of the largest Linux deployments ever.
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Grandmom’s Guide to the Asus Eee PC
Well, my itsy bitsy teeny weenie seven inch Asus Eee PC finally arrived with the relatives visiting for fiesta season. I had bought it in the US six months ago, but it was back-ordered and not delivered on time. So my grandson Luke has been using it in the meanwhile.
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Git Management
Linus Torvalds: «So for that end-point-developer situation "git rebase" is absolutely the right thing to do [...] So doing "git fetch + git rebase" is *wonderful* if all you keep track of is your own patches, and nobody else ever cares until they get merged into somebody elses tree [...] BUT if you're a subsystem maintainer, and other people are supposed to be able to pull from you, and you're su
Read more »MySQL: the Australian connection
In an age when paper qualifications and certificates of one description or another are touted as evidence of competence, it's refreshing to know that the top MySQL expert in Australia has only been officially certified on a version of the program which came out years ago.
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Babies, grandmas and Linux
It’s not often that I can go to a friend or community gathering and get the chance to talk open source with new people. Some of them work in tech or related industries and know at least what Linux or open source is, vaguely. But last weekend, while attending a baby shower, it went beyond the usual, flimsy open source familiarity. I met a man who actually uses Linux.
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"A Strategy for Openness: Enhancing E-Records Access in New York State"
Remember the New York State group that was told to investigate longterm storage needs in government and ODF/OOXML? The report is now published, "A Strategy for Openness: Enhancing E-Records Access in New York State". You can get it here in doc, PDF and odt formats, although only PDF works currently. It's just been posted, so later they should all be there. What did they find?
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Red Hat and Seneca College Partner to Bring Fedora Linux to the Classroom
Seneca College students in the School of Computer Studies will work
within the Fedora Project while learning open source development and administration. As the principles and methodologies of open source are changing the software industry, Red Hat and Seneca College are committed to driving change through new models of computer science education.
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OOXML BRM Convenor: “It May Be Time to Start Again from Scratch”
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