Posts about Open Source Software as of August 6, 2009

VirtualBox 3.0.4.50677 InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Some of the features of VirtualBox are: * Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design.

VirtualBox v3.0.4 Final | 71 MB VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See “About VirtualBox” for an introduction.

How fitting: the copyright-obsessed Associated Press has written a story about News Corporation’s plans to charge for access to its websites: Visitors to the Web sites of newspapers owned by News Corp. will have to start coughing up fees to read the news within the next year, Chairman Rupert Murdoch said. It’s risky for the company because a pay barrier could drive away Web traffic – and with it, advertising revenue.

August 6th, 2009 The Porno ChannelBrief Summary: I need to create a site like www.pornhub.com (PH) and in particular:It use a Clipshare software that has been personalized, you can se the base demo here: http://www.clip-share.com/product/demo/In the same page you can see that PH uses the same software.I already bought the software and i will give you but I need to personalize it with the same usability of PH and the same graphic features.I don’t need all the additional software features that

August 7th, 2009Khaled R.MousaLeave a commentGo to comments SymTorrent, a free and open source software, which will allow S60 device users to Download torrents through their devices. It is the only BitTorrent client currently available for Symbian OS ( S60 ).The application has some great features such as Download multiple torrents at a time, Seed and Share the torrent with others ( Can be Disabled ofcourse ), save status of unfinished torrents, detailed statistics of every torrent you are Downloading, Hash check at startup, etc etc.The application is Supported by Most of the Nokia N series and E series.

Looking down the road not that far…….. Cheap Andriod devices.  MIPS has announced a port of the mobile OS to its line of  processors.  With another player in the Andriod chip business, designers have more options. Plus, competition improves products on faster cycles and lowers prices.  It could be that there will be a Tightwad friendly Andriod coming.

Nine months ago, Linux.com stopped publishing. Four months later, the announcement came that its web address had been bought by the Linux Foundation. The change wasn’t the end of independent news about the free and open source software (FOSS)community, but it has left a gap that is still unfilled. And, although as a ex-stringer for Linux.com, my bias is obvious, I can’t help thinking that the community is poorer for it.

Years ago, I read an article in 2600 describing a system that would track down your stolen laptop. Presumably it was all open source software, I can’t remember Read the Read More Related posts: Laptop Burglar Caught After Owner Mocks Him Remotely [Thieves] Newsweek’s Joshua Alston got his laptop stolen when he… Lucid Imagination scares up funds for open-source search software Lucid Imagination , maker of open-source search software tailored…

Years ago, I read an article in 2600 describing a system that would track down your stolen laptop. Presumably it was all open source software, I can’t rememberRead the Read MoreRelated posts:Laptop Burglar Caught After Owner Mocks Him Remotely [Thieves] Newsweek’s Joshua Alston got his laptop stolen when he…Lucid Imagination scares up funds for open-source …

Software licenses are expensive and seem to get more so every year. They are also getting more restrictive, forcing the buyer to purchase extra copies for every PC in the business. To top it off, much of the most popular software requires the user to pay more every few years… read more