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InternetWeek; By Mitch Irsfeld (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 11:33 PM)
[Story Type: News Story]
Browsers always bring out the passion in readers, perhaps because they've become such a personal extension of our computing experience. Did you ever borrow someone else's computer to check out something online? It feels awkward, right, like going through their clothes drawers. Even if it has the same browser that you use, everyone configures their browser to their own taste, so it's different.
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KernelTrap (Posted by bstadil on Sep 30, 2005 11:21 PM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: Kernel]
In a conversation that began as a request to include theSAS Transport Layer in the mainline Linux kernel, there was an interesting thread regarding specifications. Linux creator Linus Torvalds began the discussion saying, "a 'spec' is close to useless. I have _never_ seen a spec that was both big enough to be useful _and_ accurate. And I have seen _lots_ of total crap work that was based on specs. It's _the_ single worst way to write software, because it by definition means that the software was written to match theory, not reality."
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Softpedia (Posted by bstadil on Sep 30, 2005 10:36 PM)
[Story Type: News Story]
ShrinkTo5 announced version 1.52 of its open source product. Designed as a cross-platform DVD copy engine, the software enables you to shrink and copy an entire DVD or the main movie only. You will also discover the ability to manually select the DVD content to copy, which lets you get more space for the main movie and achieve better quality.
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The Register (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 9:01 PM)
[Story Type: News Story]
Eolas and the University of California sued Microsoft in 1999, and many were stunned when a jury agreed with the claim in 2003 and awarded damages of $520.6 million plus interest. That verdict was upheld in January 2004 and a Chicago District Court imposed an injunction on Microsoft, banning it from distributing the infringing software. But the ban was stayed pending an appeal, and in March this year an Appeals Court granted Microsoft a reprieve.
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Linuxworld (Posted by bstadil on Sep 30, 2005 8:32 PM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: LXer, Microsoft]
If Dell is to continue to grow, making inroads into the enterprise market is essential. Chavis wants the world to know that her group is doing just that, with the help of an unlikely ally: Linux.
It may seem ironic that a free OS could become such an important profit driver for a company the size of Dell, but Chavis takes it in stride. Asked where Linux will take Dell next, her answer is simple: "All the way up the food chain."
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LinuxDevices.com (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 8:03 PM)
[Story Type: News Story]
Chip and boardmaker Via has partnered with an online retailer to create a car PC targeting in-car navigation and infotainment applications. The $300 "Voom PC" is supported by a media-oriented embedded Linux operating system, and is based on one of Via's newest, most powerful mini-ITX motherboards.
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InternetNews.com; By Rosemarie Graham (Posted by bstadil on Sep 30, 2005 7:59 PM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: Community, IBM]
I sat down for a Q&A; with Pat Gibney, IBM Director, Software Group Componentization to dig into IBM's Community Source development strategy. IBM has been touting the benefits of open source for years . Taking that to the next level, IBM developers are now applying a methodology borrowed from the open source community to create its own commercial software.
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LinuxDevices.com (Posted by bstadil on Sep 30, 2005 7:35 PM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: Intel]
Team ASA is shipping an XScale-based Linux system designed to fit in a CD drive bay.
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Investor's Business Daily (subscription); By Frank Barnako (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 7:06 PM)
[Story Type: News Story]
The European Union proposed stripping the Commerce Department and the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers of authority over domain name management and other regulatory tasks. David Gross, the State Department official in charge of America's international communications policy, reacted saying, "No intergovernmental body should control the Internet, whether it's the United Nations or any other" according to the International Herald Tribune. He said such a system would lead to unnecessary bureaucracy.
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CRN (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 6:09 PM)
[Groups: IBM, Sun, Oracle, MySQL; Story Type: News Story]
On Linux, the software can integrate well with MySQL, Oracle8i/9i and Postgres 7. When it comes to Sun Solaris, the automation software runs with MySQL and Oracle8i/9i, and on IBM AIX, the utility can work with MySQL, Oracle8i/9i and DB2 v8.
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LinuxToday; By Jacqueline Emigh (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 5:12 PM)
[Story Type: News Story]
Now that a laptop with pre-installed Mandrake Linux is available in France, will Dell follow up with Linux laptops in the US or other nations? In the words of Dell CEO Michael Dell, the many distributions of Linux are too "alienated" from each other to make that work.
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InformationWeek; By Matt McKenzie (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 3:57 PM)
[Story Type: News Story]
Want to test-drive the Firefox 1.5 beta and bring most of your favorite extensions along for the ride? We'll show you how to make your brand new Firefox update less picky about installing extensions -- and explain why doing so isn't always a good idea.
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OASIS (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 2:51 PM)
[Groups: Sun; Story Type: News Story]
Sun irrevocably covenants that, subject solely to the reciprocity requirement described below, it will not seek to enforce any of its enforceable U.S. or foreign patents against any implementation of the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0 Specification, or of any subsequent version thereof ("OpenDocument Implementation") in which development Sun participates to the point of incurring an obligation, as defined by the rules of OASIS, to grant (or commit to grant) patent licenses or make equivalent non-assertion covenants. Notwithstanding the commitment above, Sun's covenant shall not apply and Sun makes no assurance, covenant or commitment not to assert or enforce any or all of its patent rights against any individual, corporation or other entity that asserts, threatens or seeks at any time to enforce its own or another party's U.S. or foreign patents or patent rights against any OpenDocument Implementation.
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InternetNews.com; By Clint Boulton (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 2:35 PM)
[Groups: Microsoft, PHP; Story Type: News Story]
Internet visionary Marc Andreessen has taken an interest in PHP (define), an open source programming language some consider a threat to languages, such as Java and Microsoft's Active Server Pages and .NET. The Netscape co-founder along with Informatica Founder Gaurav Dhillon joined the board of directors at Zend Technologies, the top provider of PHP software, services and technical support. The company's two co-creators are the authors of PHP 3, which is what all subsequent versions are based on.
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Linux Journal (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 2:06 PM)
[Story Type: News Story]
See how Linux can be used to prototype a sophisticated Internet appliance.
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dW (Posted by VISITOR on Sep 30, 2005 1:05 PM)
[Story Type: News Story]
Knowing a little bit about how the Linux 2.6 scheduler treats CPU affinity can help you design better userspace applications. Soft affinity means that processes do not frequently migrate between processors, whereas hard affinity means that processes run on processors you specify.
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Techtree.com (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 11:38 AM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNU]
Wikibooks, sister project to Wikipedia - the online encyclopedia that can be accessed and edited by anyone, has been introduced. Previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks, Wikibooks is a collection of free textbooks, manuals, and other texts, with supporting book-based texts, that is written collaboratively on the website. It works on the same principal as Wikipedia, meaning that anyone can edit any book module by clicking on an "edit this page" link, which appears in every Wikibooks module.
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NewsForge (Posted by dave on Sep 30, 2005 10:30 AM)
[Groups: Sun; Story Type: News Story]
Sun Microsystems must have figured digital rights management (DRM) never sounded so good when it recently announced a call for partners in its quest to use open source DRM to "compensate rights holders and stimulate innovation," but Sun's open DReaM (DRM everywhere available) Project is as scary as any other content control nightmare to open source and digital freedom proponents.
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Silicon.com; By Ingrid Marson (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 10:12 AM)
[Story Type: News Story]
An agency of the French Ministry of Defence is planning to install a high-performance Linux cluster for technical and scientific work. The Technical Establishment of Bourges (ETBS), which tests and manufactures armaments, has issued a tender for the supply of a 64-bit Linux cluster, according to a document on an EU website. The deadline of the tender was reached on Thursday but it was unclear from the tender document when the ETBS plans to start implementing the cluster.
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Network World (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 9:58 AM)
[Groups: PHP, MySQL; Story Type: News Story]
Linux, Apache Web server, MySQL and PHP - the widely used LAMP platform - are key parts in a recently-built voicemail system that is helping displaced residents of the Gulf Coast keep in touch with family and friends around the country. LAMP technology is the engine running contactdlovedones.org, a project that provides freely accessible voicemail services to people who had to evacuate their homes due to Hurricane Katrina.
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Search Enterprise Linux; By Mark Brunelli (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 9:01 AM)
[Groups: HP, SUSE, KDE, GNOME, JBoss; Story Type: News Story]
SearchEnterpriseLinux.com caught up with Featherly to talk about his new book and to get his thoughts on where Linux and the open source applications market is heading. The author also offered tips for SUSE administrators and developers, those comparing KDE and GNOME, and those mulling the deployment of JBoss with SUSE. Featherly, who in addition to being a writer is currently a consultant with HP Services and Consulting Integration Group, is a 20-year veteran of the IT industry.
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NewsForge (Posted by dave on Sep 30, 2005 7:30 AM)
[Story Type: News Story]
Many businesses are turning to Voice over IP (VoIP) to save money on infrastructure and communications costs, but just ripping out your existing phone system and replacing it with VoIP will not work. VoIP systems require IP phones or analog telephone adapters to allow your existing phones to work. If equipment costs are stopping you from experimenting with VoIP, softphones can provide an inexpensive way for businesses to get up and running with VoIP, as I recently discovered by putting Kiax, Linphone, Twinkle, and CounterPath's X-Lite to the test.
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LinuxDevices.com (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 7:07 AM)
[Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story]
Kontron is sampling a mini-ITX board that supports Linux and targets cost-constrained, high-volume applications such as gaming, POS (point-of-sales/service), data communications, and medical equipment. The 786LCD/mITX is based on a mature Intel chipset and low-voltage processor, yet supports USB 2.0, SATA, FireWire, and LVDS, Kontron says.
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GlobeandMail; By PETER LAVIN (Posted by tadelste on Sep 30, 2005 6:09 AM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: MySQL, PHP]
IBM has supported Linux for some time, and Dell's recent announcement that it is now shipping servers with the open source Web platform LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is yet another indication that open source is entering the corporate mainstream. Even so, some IT managers are still reluctant to use open source products. This book is the perfect antidote. You won't find any rants here — just a reasoned and prudent assessment of open source products, how to evaluate them and determine if they suit your organization's needs.
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Dual-Browsers Are Here To Stay, Readers Tell Why
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Linux: Linus On Specifications
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Shrinkto5 Unveils First Open-Source DVD Shrinker
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Patent Office upholds Eolas browser patent
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Dell bets on Linux to capture enterprise market
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Via teams on Linux car PC kit
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