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Google Chrome Considered Harmful

September 05, 2008 (8:00:00 AM) - 1 hour, 21 minutes ago

IconIt appears that Google scored a PR success with their Chrome browser. In short, the promise is a web experience where web pages are allowed to behave more like desktop applications.

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Lists vs. Strings: Perl List Permutations For Linux Or Unix

September 05, 2008 (6:00:00 AM) - 3 hours, 21 minutes ago

I think I promised yesterday that all posts having to deal with Number Pools And Guaranteed Combinations Within Fixed Lists would have that string in their title, but, upon further reflection, it seems like it would make every title waaaay too long, and none of the parts would get indexed correctly, since Google might discard them as duplicate content based on the title tag.

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ATI to Show Linux Some Love

September 05, 2008 (4:00:00 AM) - 5 hours, 21 minutes ago

According to recent reports, AMD's graphics subsidiary is set on becoming more Linux-friendly. The company plans to release new Catalyst drivers for Linux-based operating systems, which will allow playback of protected high-definition content on a Linux OS. The new drivers should become available sometime in October 2008, thus enabling the company to address the market of Linux-based computers by bringing to the table a feature currently unavailable.

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Google on Chrome EULA controversy: our bad, we'll change it

September 05, 2008 (2:00:00 AM) - 7 hours, 21 minutes ago

Google's new web browser Chrome is fast, shiny, and requires users to sign their very lives over to Google before they can use it. Today's Internet outrage du jour has been Chrome's EULA, which appears to give Google a nonexclusive right to display and distribute every bit of content transmitted through the browser. Now, Google tells Ars that it's a mistake, the EULA will be corrected, and the correction will be retroactive.

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Dell's Ubuntu-powered mini-laptop arrives tomorrow

September 05, 2008 (12:00:00 AM) - 9 hours, 21 minutes ago

Sources tell me, OK friends actually, that tomorrow, September 4th, is the long-awaited day that Dell will announce the release of its Inspiron 910... whoops they changed the name on me, it's the Inspiron Mini 9 -- mini-laptop. It will come with your choice of (Boo!) Windows XP Home SP3 or (Yea!) Ubuntu 8.04.

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zim - a desktop wiki for Ubuntu Linux

September 04, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 11 hours, 21 minutes ago

Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor. It aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to your desktop. For example every page is saved as a text file with wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other pages, and are saved automatically.

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Managing Users In Active Directory From Linux - adtool

September 04, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 11 hours, 51 minutes ago

Last week I found a truly excellent tool for adding, modifying and managing user in Active Directory from Linux. It’s in Ubuntu.

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EFF: We're concerned about Google's Omnibox

September 04, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 12 hours, 21 minutes ago

Privacy advocates are starting to sound the alarm over a feature in Google's Chrome that sends anything typed in the browser's Omnibox back to Google.

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Red Hat acquires way into Windows game

September 04, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 12 hours, 51 minutes ago

Just four days after Red Hat closed its second quarter, the company has announced the acquisition of Qumranet, an open-source virtualization company, positioning the open-source leader to close many more successful quarters to come.

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Nvidia, AMD gaming graphics buck green-PC trend

September 04, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 13 hours, 21 minutes ago

There is an ungreen revolution taking place in enthusiast game PC circles. The eye-opening graphics possible on today's game PCs come at a cost: light-dimming power consumption. The trend, rooted in the perennial quest for more speed, bucks the overall greening of the PC industry.

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Technology lobbyists gather at Republican convention

September 04, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 13 hours, 51 minutes ago

The streets of the twin cities were relatively quiet Wednesday afternoon: convention attendees were busy wandering from one private event to another. For technology lobbyists, the choice was Chambers, a self-described luxury art hotel here.

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Linux in U.S. Schools: Why the Resistance?

September 04, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 14 hours, 21 minutes ago

Contrary to popular opinion, there are a number of effective low-cost options for the classroom.

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Using FIGlets for open source CAPTCHA with PHP

September 04, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 14 hours, 51 minutes ago

Captcha images are commonplace on Web site applications and forms. With its latest framework, Zend is introducing a new Captcha Form Element that can provide multiple types of Captcha mechanisms. Among them is Captcha integration for something called FIGlets, group of large characters built out of ASCII characters that outline a letter or word. "We've finally found a use for them other than just drawing pictures," Sinclair explained. "You can use them for Captcha now and it's hard for machines to figure out the characters."

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An Open Source Mashup for Amazon EC2

September 04, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 15 hours, 21 minutes ago

Great article showing you how to get started with Amazon EC2. The author walks through the development of an open source mashup using Javascript/AJAX. Also highlighted is a solution to cross-domain scripting constraints faced by AJAX developers, using Tinyproxy and Apache. Javascript used in the mashup application is based on Elasticfox, a popular Firefox extension which lets you manage EC2 resources.

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Android Challenge winners push location awareness

September 04, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) - 15 hours, 51 minutes ago

Google and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) have announced the final winners for part one of the Android Developer Challenge. The OHA granted ten $275,000 awards and ten $100,000 awards for the best applications created for the Linux- and Java-based Android mobile phone platform.

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Atmel-based industrial SBC runs Linux

September 04, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 16 hours, 21 minutes ago

Taiwanese industrial computing specialist Artila Electronics is shipping a single-board computer (SBC) for industrial applications. The M-508 Linux Computer and its temperature-resistant M-508T twin are based on ARM9 Atmel processors clocked to 180MHz, and include a preloaded version of Artila's Linux 2.6.14 based distribution.

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Atom squeezes onto Pico-ITX board

September 04, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 16 hours, 51 minutes ago

Axiomtek has announced what it says is the world's first pico-ITX SBC (single board computer) packing Intel's Atom processor. The PICO820 offers 1.1GHz or 1.6GHz Z5xx CPUs, gigabit Ethernet, a SATA port, a VGA port, and headers for four serial ports, the company says.

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Via frees Chrome graphics driver source

September 04, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 17 hours, 21 minutes ago

Via has released an open source Linux "Xorg" driver for its integrated graphics chips. Announced in a blog by open source leader and new Via consultant Harald Welte, the "chrome" driver release follows up on Via's vow to start opening up its chipsets to the open source development community.

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Dell's Ubuntu-powered mini-laptop arrives tomorrow

September 04, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 17 hours, 51 minutes ago

Sources tell me, OK friends actually, that tomorrow, September 4th, is the long-awaited day that Dell will announce the release of its Inspiron 910 mini-laptop. It will come with your choice of (Boo!) Windows XP Home SP3 or (Yea!) Ubuntu 8.04.

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Webinar dissects Linux multicore migration

September 04, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 18 hours, 21 minutes ago

A free webinar aims to show embedded Linux developers how to migrate existing code to a multi-core environment. Hosted by MontaVista Software, Freescale Semiconductor, and TechOnline, the Sept 11 webinar will use the multi-core Freescale QorIQ P4080 and MPC8641D processors as examples.

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