It's been nearly three years since Sun Microsystems kicked off its OpenSolaris project by releasing most of the code that comprises its Solaris operating system under an open-source license. And yet, it's only just now, with the release of the first official distribution of OpenSolaris, that the project begins in earnest.
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Latest Live Examples of Patent Failure™
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Based on previous and very recent posts about Red Hat, Sun and Firestar, it could be concluded that the main loser was software patents. The world learned that:
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stumpwm: Control emms
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– You can hack anything you want on a LISP Machine :)
* EMMS, The Emacs Multimedia System: http://www.gnu.org/software/emms/screenshots.html
* The Stump Window Manager: http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
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What's Next? Jacking Iguanas?
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Linus Torvalds is on the spotlight this week. First he calls OpenBSD crowd a bunch of masturbating monkeys.
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Explore your database with Talend Open Profiler
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Over time, organizations replicate, migrate, or add complexity within database systems, often times losing control of the quality of their data.
Read more »Microsoft: Our Biggest Competitors in SMB Space Are OpenOffice.org, MysQL
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A Microsoft job advertisement drops some interesting clues about Microsoft's Achilles heel.
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Eight Reasons for Linux OS Is Like a Religion
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1. Christianity has Jesus as Lord and Savior. Linux has Linus Torvalds.
2. Jesus Christ was followed by the disciples, while Linux Torvalds was assisted by the original programmers.
3. Christianity has different Denominations. Linux has Distributions.
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Patently Absurd: Microsoft, BSA, IDC, Alsup, and Trend Micro
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News about software patents and Microsoft's involvement in their 'politics', too.
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Jump start your Web app deployment with a JumpBox
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Software installation, deployment, and configuration can be a headache and a time sink for systems administrators. To ease the process, JumpBox delivers preconfigured Web apps that run as virtual appliances on any machine, across platforms, irrespective of operating system.
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Italian Perl Workshop to take place in September
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The guys at Perl.it are at it again! The fourth Italian Perl Workshop is taking place next September in Pisa, Italy.
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ISO/IEC Recommendations on Appeals - Complete document as text
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We have the entire ISO/IEC recommendations document [PDF] as text now, the memo with attachments, including all four of the appeals against OOXML, sent by Alan Bryden, Secretary-General and CEO, ISO, and Aharon Amit, General Secretary and CEO, IEC to the Technical Management Board regarding the disposition of the four appeals. They suggest deep sixing them. Thank you to everyone for helping.
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Start new project with an expired domain
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There are two important thing while starting a new project. Domain name and the basic trafic. One of good way to get both of them is to search for expired domains with traffic. Learn how to find them here.
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Should Ubuntu Brand It’s Wallpaper?
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Recently, I read an article describing some of the things people say about the author's Ubuntu laptop. The post described the funniest quotes, not the most popular, but I was still interested to see that many people seemed to think that the Ubuntu laptop was running Mac OS X or a new version of Windows.
Read more »Piracy and Malware - Pfft!
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A frequent meme in piracy trash talking is that piracy is linked to malware (example). If your child is downloading pirated material (so the argument goes) they will be downloading it from a malware infected site and infecting their own computer resulting in poor performance, data loss and ID theft. A variant of this argument is that the downloads expose the kids to evil pornographers.
Read more »Ten Bookmark Plugins for Firefox and Camino
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If you spend any length of time on the Internet, then you know how helpful a broswer's bookmarking feature can be. If, like many of us, you practically live on the Internet, you know bookmarks are essential. Firefox 3's revised bookmark system is great, but if you still need more than it offers, you've got plenty of other options.
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