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Open Office 3 new features

October 16, 2008 (12:00:00 AM) - 20 minutes ago

The latest release of OpenOffice.org has generated a lot of interest. Check out this gallery to see what's new.

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PHP, MySQL, Apache2 install HOWTO on Debian

October 15, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago

Setting up a PHP/MySQL/Apache2 environment on Debian is really easy. I’ll walk through a quick setup and optimization process. I’ve optimized it for a 1.5Gb to 2GB RAM machine with reasonable load.

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Intel CEO: Linux to dominate MIDs

October 15, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 2 hours, 50 minutes ago

Intel CEO Paul Otellini (pictured) reportedly told the Associated Press that Linux will dominate sales of mobile Internet devices (MIDs). Meanwhile, ABI Research predicts that by 2013, Linux will outsell Windows by two to one in the combined market for MIDs, netbooks, and UMPCs.

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6 Scripting Languages Your Developers Wish You'd Let Them Use

October 15, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 3 hours, 20 minutes ago

Several weeks ago, Lynn Greiner's article on the state of the scripting universe was slashdotted. Several people raised their eyebrows at the (to them) obvious omissions, since the article only covered PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl and JavaScript. As I wrote at the time, Lynn chose those languages because hers was a follow-up to an article from three years back. Plus, most IT managers are familiar with at least one of those well-known scripting languages, even if they haven't personally written a line of code in one of them.

SELinux and Security changes in the 2.6.27 Kernel

October 15, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 3 hours, 50 minutes ago

Here's an update on the main functional changes in security for the recently released 2.6.27 kernel.

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* Linux Summit Will Preview New Advanced File System

October 15, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 4 hours, 20 minutes ago

Linux Foundation is organizing a end user collaboration summit this week. A major topic will be a presentation on the new upcoming filesystems - Ext4 and Btrfs. Ted Tso, who is a Linux kernel filesystem developer on a sabbatical from IBM working for Linux Foundation for a year, has talked about the two-pronged approach for the Linux kernel, taking a incremental approach with Ext4 while simultaneously working on the next generation filesystem called btrfs. Read more for details.

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True Infrastructure On Demand

October 15, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 4 hours, 50 minutes ago

We already have Cloud computing systems available, however when will we be able to shopping list order our computing power or infrastructure - consider two pricing models, shared and dedicated:

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Scientists say 1 in 10 iPod users could go deaf

October 15, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 5 hours, 20 minutes ago

If you spend more than an hour a day in deep intimacy with your iPod, your Zune, or some other MP3 machine, a group of important scientists would like you to turn it down and listen to them.

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Open source gets pragmatic

October 15, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 5 hours, 50 minutes ago

Most of the time, changes in the technology landscape happen gradually. Sometimes we can look back and pick out some inflection point--though, in my experience, such are more about storytelling convenience than anything more concrete. However, at least as often, things just evolve until one day we've clearly arrived in a different place.

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Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

October 15, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 6 hours, 20 minutes ago

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange is a popular mathematical key exchange algorithm. It allows two parties to establish a ‘key’ over an insecure medium such as the internet. As you will see, it doesn’t matter whether the intercepting party captures each piece of transmitted information, they will not be able to break the key in any way, other than the usual brute force method.

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SteelEye joins Linux server failover, data replication

October 15, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) - 6 hours, 50 minutes ago

The all-in-one Linux failover clustering and data replication suite is a cheaper approach to disaster recovery than storage-based methods.

Canonical Publishes ATI Catalyst 8.11 Beta

October 15, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 7 hours, 20 minutes ago

X Server 1.5 was officially released last month with X.Org 7.4, but there had been server pre-releases going back to earlier this year. Fedora 9 had even shipped with an early version version of X Server 1.5. For those using the open-source X.Org drivers, running the latest server is not a big deal, but those with ATI or NVIDIA binary drivers they sometimes can be slow in supporting the latest version. NVIDIA has supported X Server 1.5 for a number of weeks now, but ATI has yet to update their Catalyst Linux driver with such support. With Ubuntu 8.10 being released in two weeks and it's using this newest X Server, how will ATI graphics cards be supported? Well, an interesting event has occurred and we will tell you what has happened in this article.

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Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 4 - Customization, Debian Scripts, Shaping, Firewall, NAT, picoLCD

October 15, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 7 hours, 50 minutes ago

Following on from the previous article, I’ve written some scripts which you’ll find in the /root/scripts/ directory of the prebuilt image. I’ve attached and commented them here, as they could also be useful elsewhere.

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The Robot: Hardware List, Wheel Plan, More Ideas, Steps to launch

October 15, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 8 hours, 20 minutes ago

Thanks to some further thought and some great comments and suggestions, I’ve got a clearer idea of what I’d like to build, and I’ve devised a preliminary hardware list. I’ve divided this into various categories to help planning and ordering.

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Robot: Initial Hardware Order [rev 2]

October 15, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 8 hours, 50 minutes ago

I’ve given up on trying to source separate motors, motor controllers, encoders and brackets. I’m concerned that my knowledge of mechanics and motors is limited, and that I’m going to spend too much time and money trying to build a movement package myself.

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Flimp - Graphical frontend for Command Line Image Manipulation tools

October 15, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 9 hours, 20 minutes ago

flimp is a generic graphical frontend to the many excellent command line image manipulation tools available. It allows you to create pipelines of commands that read from standard input and write to standard output. One can view and compare the result of each stage of the pipeline. flimp leaves the input image file untouched; the pipeline is saved in a text file.

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Linux Robot - Watch this space

October 15, 2008 (2:30:00 PM) - 9 hours, 50 minutes ago

I’ve been struggling to think of a good project to start on. I’m currently writing the APNIC Box series here, and I’m on part 4 of maybe 7 or 8 right now. I like to keep at least one personal project of interest on the go at a time so back to struggling for inspiration.. Feel free to tell me that this is an awful idea and suggest something else, but until I hear otherwise I’m going to roll with it.

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Linux Standard Base 4 is coming in for a landing

October 15, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 10 hours, 20 minutes ago

The Linux Standard Base, which brings rhyme and reason to Linux, has just had version 4's first beta release and it looks beyond great.

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Release-Critical Bugs Delay Release of Debian Lenny

October 15, 2008 (4:00:00 AM) - 20 hours, 20 minutes ago

Debian Lenny was originally scheduled for release in September. Now that we're well into October, Debian developer Alexander Reichle-Schmehl admits that plan was "too optimistic." Although there are still over 200 release-critical bugs still waiting to be patched, if the Debian community is willing to step up, Lenny can see the light of day sooner rather than later.

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Report: Pure open source no longer a viable business model

October 14, 2008 (11:30:00 PM) - 1 day ago
By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

How do you make money if you give your software away for free? That's the classic question asked of open source software vendors, and the expected reply is that they charge customers for software customization and support. That's not the way it works anymore, though, according to a report published by analyst firm The 451 Group.

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