Posts about Open Source Software as of July 31, 2009

I’ve always been happy with Linux on the server, and I’ve never felt any need to experiment with OpenSolaris, until I read this bit about ZFS : ZFS is the most amazing filesystem I’ve ever come across. Integrated volume management. Copy-on-write. Transactional. End-to-end data integrity. On-the-fly corruption detection and repair. Robust checksums. No RAID-5 write hole. Snapshots. Clones (writable snapshots). Dynamic striping. Open source software. It’s not available on Linux. Ugh. Ok, that sucks.

Published at LXer: A group of developers has released open-source software that gives administrators a hand in making the Internet’s addressing system less vulnerable to hackers. The software, called OpenDNSSEC, automates many tasks associated with implementing DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions), which is a set a set of protocols that allows DNS (Domain Name System) records to carry a digital signature, said John A. Dickinson, a DNS consultant working on the project.

A group of developers has released open-source software that gives administrators a hand in making the Internet’s addressing system less vulnerable to hackers. The software, called OpenDNSSEC, automates many tasks associated with implementing DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions), which is a set a set of protocols that allows DNS (Domain Name System) records to carry a digital signature, said John A. Dickinson, a DNS consultant working on the project.

34 of the MEPs elected in June this year have signed the Free Software Pact : Of the 232 candidates for the European Parliament that pledged their support for free and open source software, 34 have been elected, from Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The Free Software Pact commits MEPs to support free software; the list of those who’ve signed is here . The UK MEPs who signed are Caroline Lucas and Jean Lambert of the Greens and Nigel Farage of UKIP.

As time goes by, the variety of text editors available for the use of web developers keep on increasing. It is always that the new one has something better or something new to offer.  Good thing that due to the number of choices they have, they could weigh which one would be most appropriate for their project. Here are the most used text editors by web developers:NotepadNotepad is the most popular text editor based on the survey. It does not support any format or styles, which makes it very suitable in a DOS environment.

Gadget mixes Wi-Fi gateway router, open source software, and hardware made in home to leave his creator informed about the last innovations in Twitter . It seems that the new fashion among the hackers is to find exotic forms of verifying the most recent messages in Twitter. First, we had a “electric carbon typewriter”. Then, a customer for Commodore 64 , a computer of the 80’s. And now we have Tweetser. The apparel is based on a Wi-Fi gateway router, an ASUS w520-gU, modified to use OpenWRT , a Open Source firmware based on Linux.

Mind the Bridge: The Open Source Innovation Backbone for Startups Open innovation is taking over in many areas, and open source plays an important role especially in software sequential innovation, where each successive invention builds in an essential way on its predecessors. tags : openinnovation , opensource , businessmodels OpenGoo: An Open Source Answer To Google Apps A resource like Google Apps may seem like an easier choice for collaborative office applications, but some businesses can’t or won’t risk their company’s data to resource it can’t fully control.

The CodeX chip source code was released under the GPL open source license.Pretty much everything needed to flash any chip/board that uses the PIC microchip was just released today. Hopefully this source can help bring down chip and board prices if there are enough people to contribute and port the firmware to other paintball guns. Im pretty excited. Open Source Released: DM4/5 CodeX Chip Firmware and Schematics + Datasheet ShotTimer – Handheld Timer Here is the link to the source code.

Headline of the Week: The Summer Doldrums (not) I, along with many others at Luther I am sure, am often asked about summertime work and how relaxing it must be around Decorah when school is not in session. While it is true things do quiet down in some ways, summer is a time when a lot of work gets done, and needs to get done in preparation for the coming school year. This summer is no exception. In fact LIS has had a number of significant projects underway, which I’ll review over the next several weeks as we slide into the fall semester.

Headline of the Week: The Summer Doldrums (not) I, along with many others at Luther I am sure, am often asked about summertime work and how relaxing it must be around Decorah when school is not in session. While it is true things do quiet down in some ways, summer is a time when a lot of work gets done, and needs to get done in preparation for the coming school year. This summer is no exception. In fact LIS has had a number of significant projects underway, which I’ll review over the next several weeks as we slide into the fall semester.