After the dust from the Snow Leopard and Windows 7 launch has settled, we have another important OS launch: the new version of one of the most popular Linux distributions, Ubuntu 9.10 , is available for download. Named Karmic Koala, the new Ubuntu – as always – promises to be faster and easier to use, bringing version 2.6.31 of the Linux kernel, latest version of GNOME, and Firefox 3.5. The biggest news, however, is Ubuntu One, a web sync service that gives you 2 GB of online disk space and lets you synchronize notes and contacts, as well as share files between several computers.

After the dust from the Snow Leopard and Windows 7 launch has settled, we have another important OS launch: the new version of one of the most popular Linux distributions, Ubuntu 9.10 , is available for download. Named Karmic Koala, the new Ubuntu – as always – promises to be faster and easier to use, bringing version 2.6.31 of the Linux kernel, latest version of GNOME, and Firefox 3.5. The biggest news, however, is Ubuntu One, a web sync service that gives you 2 GB of online disk space and lets you synchronize notes and contacts, as well as share files between several computers.

pdfsizeopt is open source project hosting on Google Code, the main feature is PDF file size optimizer.Aboutpdfsizeopt is a collection of best practices and scripts for Unix to optimize the size of PDF files, with focus on PDFs created from TeX and LaTeX documents. pdfsizeopt is developed on a Linux system, and it depends on existing tools such as Python 2.4, Ghostscript 8.50, jbig2enc (optional), sam2p, pngtopnm, pngout (optional), and the Multivalent PDF compressor (optional) written in Java.The author says it is A Linux solution, and I have test it on my DreamHost, it works.

The Symbian Foundation announced the addition of two new (and important) members to its board of directors: Qualcomm and Fujitsu . Qualcomm joined the Symbian Foundation through its wholly owned subsidiary Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC), which will have the role of “optimizing open source software for use with Qualcomm technology.” Fujitsu, which sold more than 40 million Symbian-based phones in Japan ( 1.2 million in Q2 2009 only ), “will work with foundation members to contribute to

If you have not yet heard of the Open Source desktop publishing software Scribus , well then this will be a pleasant surprise. Scribus, licensed under the GNU General Public License, is a completely free and open source alternative to Adobe’s Pagemaker and Apple’s Pages. With it you can create a variety of different documents that for one reason or the other, need to look good! Here is a screenshot of what the software looks like: Scribus runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac and can be downloaded here.

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC) and the Symbian Foundation, today announced that QuIC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, has joined the Symbian Foundation and has been appointed to the Symbian Foundation board of directors. QuIC will support the Symbian Foundation with active participation on the board of directors and each of the four councils that govern the development of the Symbian platform.QuIC’s charter is to focus on optimizing open source software for use with Qualcomm technology.

The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, the Deputy CIO of the Department of Defense, has authored a memo for the Department of Defense that outlines the technical and logistical advantages of adopting open source software within the military. It includes a guidance document that aims to clarify how and when open source software can be deployed and selected. We have been following the DoD’s growing open source enthusiasm for several years.

Microsoft Office is a wonderful suite of programs, but it’s not cheap. And some people I’ve talked to just can’t get used to the 2007 version and don’t want to. If you’re looking for free alternatives, you’re in luck – there are several options out there, and they will replace all but a couple of Outlook features. Open Office Open Office is a completely free, open-source software suite that handles “word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.” That means it handles everything Office does except email and OneNote, and has the addition of a very decent graphics program for editing images.

# “ U.S. Continues Quagmire-Building Effort In Afghanistan ” # Troubled L.A. Laker star Ron Artest releases a hip-hop ode “ to my Afghan women ” # Pentagon: open source software just as good as commercial code, maybe better # Germany to use Israeli drones in Afghanistan # Anti-missile porn

You know it’s going to be a good week when it kicks off with news that the Obama administration has officially embraced the open source content management system Drupal. Just a few days later, the Department of Defense issued an almost glowingly positive memo on open source software. “The government is acting intelligently. I feel strange,” quipped Zarf on Slashdot. “And thus another chair is thrown in Redmond,” wrote hrimhari. Just goes to show, never underestimate the power of freedom!

Ini ada aplikasi baru yang sangat bagus….. Menurut gw sieh… ) Tampilannya bagus dan aplikasinya ringan-ringan.. The next best thing kayaknya… ) Kalau mau di coba, silahkan donwload dan install dulu Adobe Airnya, trus br install aplikasi-aplikasi yang bersangkutan….. Adobe AIR was first introduced on 19 March 2007 with the name of Apollo and designed as a cross-operating system runtime that enables web developers to use their existing web development skills, code and tools to build and deploy rich web applications and content to the desktop.

A while ago I heard about an add-on for Visual Studio called Jetbrains Resharper – most people reading this article have probably heard of it, too. Anyway, I downloaded the evaluation version from the Resharper website and tried it out. If you are prepared to deal with a very slight slow-down in your Visual Studio environment (inevitable with add-ons) it’s an add-on well worth investigating.

The White House Web team decided to go with open source software for www.whitehouse.gov   “We now have a technology platform to get more and more voices on the site,” announced White House new media director Macon Phillips to the Associated Press. “This is state-of-the-art technology and the government is a participant in it.”White House officials described the change as similar to rebuilding the foundation of a building without changing the street-level appearance of the facade.

I feel as if we just crossed this path the other day. But that’s okay. On the grand scale of “pony-themed games” to “extremely useful freeware applications,” automatic application installers–or package mangers–tend to fall toward the latter end of the spectrum. I wouldn’t be broaching this topic so close to a previous, similar roundup were it not critically important for you to check out some of the apps that I’ve recently found.

In August I wrote about Facebook’s changes and upgrades . Then in September they put thing back and I was hoping it would stay that way. Well over the past few days you may have noticed they put it back again. If you have not read my previous article, read it now before I explain some important changes and how they may affect you and how to fix them. Third Party Advertisors Facebook is again allowing your information to be used by third party advertiser by default.

Egypt and beyond: Egypt Labour Updates – October 26, 2009 tags : Workers , Egypt , Strikes , Tanta , Flax Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Users – NYTimes.com Learning from, not competing with, the users is the key to success for any web tool. tags : Twitter , Internet It started two years ago as a bare-bones service, offering little more than the ability to post 140-character messages. Then, it outsourced its idea generation to its users.

In: All News 26Oct2009 I am writing this blog post in the aptly named “Post Blog Entry” program I installed into the latest Ubuntu release. I installed this several nights ago, and think I finally have a decent grip to be able to give an honest review of the latest.Let me be first to say that if you thought Windows 7 and Snow Leopard weren’t full releases, you’ll feel the same way here. It’s a little polish here, a little update there.

In 2005, Greenplum released an enterprise-level massively parallel processing (MPP) version of PostgreSQL called Greenplum Database. Greenplum Database is the industry’s first massively parallel processing (MPP) database server based on open-source technology. It is explicitly designed to support business intelligence (BI) applications and large, multi-terabyte data warehouses. Greenplum Database is the first open source powered database server that can scale to support multi-terabyte data warehousing demands.

100% green web hosting, eco-friendly servers, solar and wind powered services – the list of environmentally friendly products is growing every day.  One of the newest hot phrases flung around lately is “organic software.”  Exactly what is organic software and how is it implemented into hosted web sites?

The White House web site got an overhaul and was recently moved onto open-source software called Drupal. Fast Company has an interesting article about the change.  My only thought is that there is too much content on the front page, but I like the look and the simple color scheme.

[Windows only] As part of the WinX DVD range of product, Winx DVD Author is a cool tool that allows you to author and create your own DVD easily. For those who are looking for a professional, yet easy to use DVD authoring software, WinX DVD Author could be the one for you. At MakeTechEasier, we don’t usually review paid software as we are great believers of free and open source software. However, the WinX DVD team decided to give away a free 1 year license (scroll down for the download link), which makes it compelling for us to give this DVD authoring software a second look.

Mozilla Labs Thunderbird team is working on new, open source software aimed at making your email life easier by unifying many platforms in one place. Raindrop will use a smart filtering technology to separate the important, personal messages from the background noise of alerts, friend requests, direct message alerts etc. Possibly the most exciting part of this project is that, unlike Thunderbird, Raindrop is a web app. Email used to house the bulk of the conversations that took place on the internet, but that’s no longer the case today.

VirtualBox 3.0.6.52128 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.

RE: @@ MatthiasHeil Thomas Rau ( http://www.herr-rau.de ) kommentiert wegen Disqus-Problemen per Mail: Will auch, will a… http://disq.us/28xwk # Fundstück: ZDF-Fernsehrat kritisierte Teile des Beitrags »Sterben für Jesus« http://j.mp/41Zf61 # @ reportertanya Yes! http://bit.ly/41VqMP # affluent # Germans – but mind you it’s only 44 signatures so far… in reply to reportertanya # Fundstück: Funny comparision of Windows 7 to an old girlfriend http://j.mp/gB7tl # Fundstück: We’re too rich!

Urgent Aphorisms: Notes on Organized Networks for the Connected Multitudes by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (The OrgMen) [posted on Net Critique ] [Forthcoming in Mark Deuze (ed.) Managing Media Work , Sage, 2010] Four Stages of Web 2.0 Culture: Use. Modify. Distribute. Ignore. – Johan Sjerpstra In between the blog posting and the tweet there is the aphorism, a centuries old literary form that should do well amongst creative media workers. Zipped knowledge of the 21st century.

Oct.23, 2009 in Computer certification, computer, computer Tuturials, hardware tutorial, linux, software, software tutorial, tutorialsWhat is disk cloning?Disk cloning is the task of copying all the contents and file structure of one drive to a file to another new drive with disk cloning software like Clonzilla, and Norton Ghost. It is kind of similar to how you download a Compressed Zip file from a website, and you use 7-zip or WinZip to extract the file to your computer.

The following is a list of the software I installed on the new MacBook Pro in the first 24 hours. Dropbox : A drop-dead simple piece of the “cloud.” 2GB for free and clients for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Adium : Hands down the best multi-protocol chat client for Mac OS X Tweetie : A twitter client. I had been using Twitterrific but decided to switch. Not sure I entirely like the user experience. iPulse : The most organic, and beautiful, system activity gage/ monitor you’ll ever see.

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Listen to this item Save money when setting up your own web site – PRIME business club – For people aged over 50 starting or running a business in the UK PRIME has teamed up with UK web site specialist Mr Site to offer a discount of up to 40 per cent on the company’s simple all-in-one web site creation packages.With the discount a year’s use of the Beginner package will cost you £15 rather than £19.99, a year of the Standard package £22.74 rather than £34.99, and of the Pro package

“It’s too bad I am not building an open-source SIEM … but if I would” ( extra credit : guess the inspiration for this line), I would actually not build a software security information and event management (SIEM) product. If I were doing it (and I am not!),  I’d built an open-source-based “cloud SIEM” with a default option to have it hosted by the vendor (that is you) as well as with a possibility to have it hosted by the customer (that is, old school on-premise model).

WordPress Goes Mobile – Plugins for your Self Hosted WP Blog With thanks to Jennifer Van Grove @Mashable for her article on WordPress Theme s for Mobile Browsers. For anyone hosting their blog via wordpress.com (yourblog.wordpress.com) this is automatic – According to WordPress, there are more than 60 million page views that come from mobile phones per month for WordPress.com blogs. With that kind of traffic, how your site renders on mobile devices could be a big boon to increasing engagement.

Recently, I had the chance to use Lotte to translate and, it simply blows me away. The Transifex crew deserve some well earned applause for including elements that make it incredibly helpful for those involved in the work of translations. There is a slight annoyance which has now been turned into a ticket . Read off Planet Sugar that “several weeks ago”, activities.sugarlabs.org has exceeded 1 million downloads of activities. That’s just too awesome not to talk more about.

Today we launched our revamped and renamed Novell News blog. Our old Open PR blog was originally conceived as a way to give voice to Novell’s views on open source software, Linux, and our mixed-source business model. Over time, the blog has become a much stronger information source for all of Novell, and increasingly a primary vehicle for breaking news. Hence, we’ve rechristened the blog to reflect its news agenda, and we’ve also given it greater prominence on our corporate website.

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I decided to launch a new site recently to promote computer repair products and services locally within the town I live. I am very comfortable building with WordPress, and it’s a very stable program. Commonly, most people use WordPress as blog publishing software ; however, WordPress can also be used as a content management system . And that is how I use WordPress most of the time. In other words, I use WordPress to build and maintain websites. The reason why is simple.

The Sony Reader 505 has been published at an attractive affordable eBook reader for the Sony Reader PRS-700. The screen offers that carry the real site search, the device is easy, and it’s easier than ever, the books you want with you at all times. When many people think of handheld ebook reader, they often assume that you are going to have to lug around something big and inefficient. While some of them are big and bulky, that’s just not the case with the Sony Reader.

Andrew Plumb is a really active member of the MakerBot community, and there’s a nice interview with him about his experiences up on the MakerBot blog. I’m writing a piece about MakerBot for Make: 21, and found his story particularly interesting. I was fortunate to be going through university in the early ’90s right when Linux was making the rounds – Math and Engineering, Control and Communications Systems program at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

Andy Updegrove has written an open letter to US president Obama, urging support for Free/Open Source Software. “It’s time for the Obama Administration to publicly state that it whole heartedly supports FOSS procurement by the federal agencies. Not in preference to proprietary software, but on an equal basis. Only by doing so can it ensure that when it comes to getting the best deal for the American public, the best software will win.”

October 20th, 2009 Posted by Jason Perlow @ 11:03 amCategories:Desktop, Linux, Open Source, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Virtualization, Web TechnologyTags:Desktop, Children, Desktop Linux, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow“Hannah Montana Linux” may not be ready to give to your kids yet, but it’s an idea that has legs.My partner in crime in the Frugal Tech Show, Ken Hess, who blogs over at Daniweb, recently published his list of Top 10 Linux Distributions for 2009.

Jolicloud ! You sure may have came across the name NetBook, now a days this word is very famous around us. Net books are laptops, whose working and uses are mostly dependent on(related to) internet, as many thing makes it different from laptop. Ok . Tariq Krim and team created a OS named Jolicloud to satisfy the users of NetBooks. Jolicloud is a Linux-based netbook OS based on Ubuntu NetBook remix (UNR), it is designed specifically for  Netbooks. Jolicloud is in its alpha testing mode and only you can download it through invitations.

In this week’s omnibus of technical news debris, John looks at expert reaction to Windows 7, rumors of new quad core iMacs, some of the best open source software for the Mac, the demise of passwords, supercomputing with the iPhone, and what everyone knows about the future of newspapers — except the newspaper publishers. Read the full story here, from The Mac Observer

October 16, 2009 — Colocation and managed provider UnitedLayer announced on Friday that it has signed a multi-year colocation contract with open-source software developer Internet Systems Consortium.

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Livid Releases MIDI Controller Block Oct 16th, 2009by Conrad. The Monome controller has garnered a lot of attention (used by Daedelus) as a key component in live electronic music performance but there are several new controllers coming out with cheaper price tags and more features than ever before. One example is the new Block by Livid. It’s made by the same company that brought you the Ohm 64 however this option is a lot more affordable and easier to transport.

Friday, October 16th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentJim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, is one of the platform’s most vocal cheerleaders. He never misses an opportunity to point out that many important emerging trends in the technology industry are contributing to Linux growth and adoption. During his keynote address at the recent Maemo Summit in Amsterdam, he suggested that the trend towards mobile convergence is favorable for the open source software operating system.As netbooks and smartphones redefine the boundaries of computing, he argues, Linux will take on even greater importance.

by Stephen Shankland Mainstream servers are growing increasingly brawny with multicore processors and tremendous memory capacity, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh think 98-pound weaklings of the computing world might be better suited for many of the jobs on the Internet today. This first-generation FAWN system has an array of boards, each with its own processor, flash memory card, and network connection.

October 16th, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 8:47 amCategories:Anti Virus, Arbitrary Code Execution, Browsers, Complex Attacks, Data theft, Denial of Service (DoS), Malware, Open source, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Responsible disclosureTags:Flaw, XSS, SQL, SQL Injection, phpMyAdmin, Programming Languages, Databases, Security, Open Source, Software DevelopmentA new version of phpMyAdmin has been released to plug two serious security holes that could lead to SQL injection and

XviD is an open source codec for MPEG4. It will enable you to play the videos available in this format with your usual player like Media Player Classic, Zoom Player, PowerDVD or Windows Media Player. XviD video codec will also allow you to encode your own videos in MPEG4 format, according to industry standards, using a suitable program such as VirtualDub, Avid Free DV, Adobe Premiere, etc. The proposed settings allow beginners to easily encode their videos using the available profiles.

Blender is a complete suite to make pictures and animations. It brings together, in a stable interface and modern, powerful tools for 3D modeling, animation and rendering of high quality. You can download it for free here.Tags: 3D, 3D Renderer, Downloads, Freeware Software, Open Source Software Related PostsXfire: new version of the IM client for gamersWinyl: a free audio player for WindowsRecuva: new version of the free file recovery softwareMore than 2000 free TV channels on your desktopGoogle

Gimp is a program to create graphic and photo editor which is very powerful. It contains all the tools needed to create drawings and any filters to correct and improve a picture. Gimp can be used by users of various levels as a paint program, a program of advanced photo editing, a format converter, etc.

Apache Tomcat is a free and open source software implementation for JavaServlets, providing support for Java Server Pages (JSP). Many popular web-based applications use servlets. You may choose to run Tomcat with either Sun’s Java implementation or the OpenJDK implementation of Java. (…) Read the rest of How to install Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) (345 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2009.

I’ve been researching and musing over how open source and business go together like two slices of bread. The contraption tastes good only if the stuff in between meshes well. Over the next few days I want to cover three main themes: What is Free and Open Source Software all about, where did it come from, when were the conditions right , why did it come about, and how is it relevant to open source hardware and the work going on at FeF?

The federal open source software conference is around the corner and we are recruiting volunteers to organize and sponsor the local user groups. You can check out the conference here FOSE . If you can help please comment below this story or hit up the mailing list.

Just stumbled on this new transparency website See.Click.Fix . The site states its reasons for existance as: Transparency – governments and most organizations work best when they conduct their business in plain view. We’ll do our best to do the same. Collaboration – Four brains are better than one. And millions of brains are better than three. Our goal is to give everyone else the tools to accomplish what we never could ourselves. Open source software and wikis are good models for us.

WordPress is a fantastic content management system that has been adopted by the masses. With huge demand and community support, many web designers are taking advantage of the open-source software to create innovative product themes that go beyond just looking great. These 10 WordPress themes and plugins could each be used to launch your own online business or breathe new life into your existing website.

I originally put this post together for RSC NewsFeed , but thought worth reposting here: One of the great features of open source software is the potential for the wider community to start rapidly developing and integrating new features, in many ways utilising the power of the crowd. The web browser Firefox is a great example. Its origins lie in the developers frustrations of developer driven feature creep. Creating an open project has resulted in a staggering number of add-on customisations.

There have been a few open source projects that have made the GNU/Linux community all happy as hell and one of the best is GNOME Do . While not really a member of the GNOME project many of us will admit to considering it one of the best apps ever written, which you can see on their new Preview page , and once you’ve used it for a while you hate having to use an operating system without it. When they brought out version 0.8 they added a new theme, Docky .

Document Formats BE: OpenOffice boom in Belgium The Port of Antwerp started preparing the migration of 1300 desktops to OpenOffice earlier this year. The completion of the migration is expected around September 2010. The IT-department decided not only to move to ODF, but also to use ODF as their primary file format for communication with third parties. Virtual Worlds Vuzix iWear VR920 – The New Virtual Reality for Gamers This would be a heck of a lot cooler if it didn’t just work on Microsoft Windows.

One increasingly important aspect of modern document management and enterprise content management software is effective records management . Properly defined, records management is the collection, classification and planned retention or destruction of an organization’s information. Unfortunately, records management tends more often to be two things: not clearly understood and not properly implemented. Faced with increased regulations and the fear of legal action, organizations are working towards doing it better.

Do you know who visits your website? How many visitors you get? On which pages they arrive and leave? How long they stay? You should know the answer to all these questions. Your webhost analytics will give you some data. If you have C Panel (very popular webhost interface), webalizer is provided as standard. But, 3rd party analytics programs will give you much more information. Google Analytics is free and it’s an excellent program, but choice is good.  Sourceforge is the world’s largest open source software development websites with more than 230,000 software projects.

In an attempt to improve performance and also consolidate some of this blog’s functionality I have been busy decommissioning a few plugins. As I have mentioned previously WordPress Plugins are excellent value and potentially give one’s blog that little bit of extra pizzaz. The self hosted blog of course, has the added advantage of being able to install and run the full collection of plugins as opposed to a hosted blog which has only a limited choice available.

October 11th, 2009 Posted by Jason Perlow @ 4:39 pmCategories:Business, Desktop, Enterprise Computing, Free operating systems, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Web TechnologyTags:Desktop, Desktop Linux, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Jason PerlowI personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn’t mean you or someone you know can’t make the switch.

* NOTE: This project requires someone with an understanding of e107.org open-source software. – PHP amp; MYSQL required. This project is for www.ekilla.com which is using the open-source software e107.org… (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: Game Design, PHP)

WorkRegistration Opens For LCA2010 By Angus Kidman on October 12, 2009 at 10:00 AM Registration for Linux.conf.au 2010, which takes place in Wellington, NZ, has now opened up, and the organisers of the region’s premier open source software conference are offering discounted early bird prices until November 13. It’s an impressive schedule, and Lifehacker will be attending; if you’re also heading over, get in now for the best deal.

In 1999, Eric S. Raymond published the essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” championing open source software development. The essay contrasts two different free software development models, the Cathedral model, where source code is available with each release but the code developed between releases remains restricted, and the Bazaar model where the code is developed over the Internet in view of the public.

Home | Wine Culture At Wine Culture boutique wine s are our passion. Stocking the likes of Torbreck, Rusden, Spinifex,Craggy Range,Kaesler Wine – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wine is an alcoholic beverage typically made of fermented grape juice. [1] The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars Wine Development HQ Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.

This topic has always interested me, ever since I first wanted to make a “real” Website when I was in middle school. I didn’t know much about how it all worked, except that you needed a big computer to be on all the time and hooked up to the ‘net. Well, while that is true in theory, I eventually learned that most people don’t host their own Web sites because it’s often always a very practical use of one’s time. On the other hand, if you’re interested in knowing more about running a server, even if it’s in mini scale, there’s a reason to try self-hosting.

This past week the 2009 Utah Open Source Conference was held October 8th thought October 10th. I was fortunate enough to attend both Thursday and Friday. This was the third year it has been held and the first year I attended. I definitely plan on attending next year, and I might even submit a few abstracts for presentations. So without further ado I’ll give you a run down of my experience. SWAG As you can tell I picked up ton of free stuff! For starters everyone received a nice laptop bag from Novell and a UTOS conference T-Shirt when they registered at the door.

“The GeeXboX is no more than an awing standalone media player. Why much a study ? Well, its important determine is to endeavor DivX movies and, as everybody commonly call this category of projects DivX boxes, we’ll meet prepended a “GeeX”, intend that’s for the geeks you every are. GeeXboX is a flooded operative system, livecd that crapper separate on some organisation and it is supported on the superior MPlayer. No requirement for a hornlike drive, you meet hit to place the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of some Pentium-class machine to rush it.

Big banks, big pharma, big problems , writes John Martin, MONEY has thrown society out of kilter. Banks that once appeared to have mountains of cash have collapsed. As a consequence of the global recession, governments now recognise that banking is too important to be left to the bankers. States have taken action, from wresting control of financial institutions to introducing new regulations. I believe the financial meltdown has implications for pharmaceutical research.

It is really really cool. All the things published so far are static modules. And, they are working on motors ! Looking forward to … By the way, they use customized python script to design these things. The talk was given by William Shih, a professor in Harvard Medical School. I would like to reference three papers here, which basically cover the things he talked about today. Nature. 2009 May 21;459(7245):414-8. Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes.

October 8th, 2009 Posted by Jason Perlow @ 7:22 pmCategories:Business, Free operating systems, Linux, Microsoft, Open SourceTags:Software, Leadership, Richard Stallman, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Jason PerlowAfter over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is truly able to compromise with the realistic needs of business and end-users without carrying the baggage of strict adherence to an ideology that is by definition a culture of exclusion.

Would like to share this news about the progress we’re making in the Philippines as regards Free and Open Source Software. Thanks to Roli for sharing. From the article: Open source adoption still strong in RP By Alexander Villafania INQUIRER.net First Posted 18:34:00 10/05/2009 http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20091005-228524/Open-source-adoption-still-strong-in-RP MANILA, Philippines – Open source software development, particularly Linux, is seen to have a strong following in Asia Pacific as companies look to incorporate virtualization and cloud computing in their IT infrastructure.

A mixture of good and bad in Clare Curran’s blog on productivity: We have a productivity taskforce set up by the National Government and led by the ignominious Don Brash. It’s likely to come up with an argument for economic growth which is about selling our state assets and keeping wages down, or cutting jobs to create more profits. Because that’s what the conservative side of politics believes productivity to be. Gordon Campbell’s piece on this a couple of months ago is worth reading.

Guest post by Elisabeta Ghidiu . Time trackers have been more and more popular these days in different ways if you choose to use them on your computer at home or at work. These applications allow you to have a general view over the activities performed in a specific day and see the achievement level. Here is a list with the most used time trackers – Image by Temari 09 under CC Paid Time Tracking Applications 1.

In The Mythology of Intellectual Property , I mentioned that “The Product of the Intellect Isn’t Property” and pointed out that, consequently: Even the law doesn’t recognize copyright as “property”. If you violate copyright laws, it is not called “theft”; it is called “copyright infringement”. There’s always someone willing to argue the point, though, no matter how wrong the person might be. I guess not everyone in the world has read my comments on the subject yet.

Google wants to enable Google applications to run as well as possible as many places as possible. Here is how: Google applications: Web applications run in browsers, on all kinds of systems. No need to be installed or updated, and hard to block. Anyone with IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, or, of course, Chrome has access to all the latest applications. Gears: Web applications run in a sandbox and don’t have much access to your system. Gears enables more access.

Cropping refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change aspect ratio. Depending on the application, this may be performed on a physical photograph, artwork or film footage, or achieved digitally using image editing software. The term is common to the film, broadcasting, photographic, graphic design and printing industries. In the printing, graphic design and photography industries, cropping refers to removing unwanted areas from a photographic or illustrated image.

YouTube – Donate wasted clock cycles to a worthy cause  “You can donate the spare processing power on your computer via one of the dozens of ongoing volunteer computing projects, many based on open source software called BOINC. Just by using a screen saver! The grid supports research into cures for muscular dystrophy, influenza, AIDS and childhood cancer, among other things. The grid, which was headed for half a million members as of August 2009, runs on BOINC software and is funded by the NSF.

International Business Machines ( IBM ) has been charged by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a non-profit trade group organized by IBM’s rivals Microsoft ( MSFT ) and Oracle ( ORCL ). The allegation is directed at its Mainframe computer business, which is taking revenues and pressurizing profits of its competitors by withdrawing the license access to customers using non-IBM hardware operating systems. The U.S.

I don’t want to pay for some software because it cost too much. A couple of websites pointed me to use bit torrent to get the software for free. Thoughts? Is it legal? Related posts: What Is The Best Open Source Torrent Download Software For Windows? What is the best open source Torrent download software for… What Are The Advantages From A Software Developer’s Standpoint Of Making Open Source Software? I am new to the tech industry (I am in…

In the essay, “ Post-Medium Publishing ,” Paul Graham claims that consumers never pay for content. He begins with the observation that publishers set prices based on the cost of production and distribution of the format. The essay offers some consideration about the future of book publishing. I present a few observations and argue that consumers pay for content. The essay helps demonstrate a writing tip in the second paragraph: In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either.

from http://www.loadingreadyrun.com With today’s advances in Open Source software, we can implement Linux anywhere we want. And a little places we substantially shouldn’t. Similiar Post Ipod Nano 1st Generation Battery/lcd Installation Dell Mini 10v – Os X/windows 7 Dual Boot – Installation – Part 3 Complete Home Audio Install In A Car -portable Dc/ac Inverter Installation [hd] White Samsung Nc10 Unboxing, [...]

Although many graphics professionals turn to Windows or Mac OS to execute their designs, Linux is far from helpless in this area. While it helps that Adobe Photoshop, the undisputed gold-standard program that most professionals use for raster graphics, runs on Linux through Wine, there are several native Linux programs that offer some of the same functionality. Furthermore, there are many free vector graphics programs that can produce infinitely scalable graphics much like what Adobe Illustrator can do.

Steven A. Reisler , who spearheaded the Law of the Commons Seminar here in Seattle, and Elaine Y. L. Tsiang have a great article up about running an open source legal office over at law.com. The article is realist and post out both the positive aspects and the challenges here is a sample: I am not a computer geek and, chances are, neither are you. I did not go with FOSS on my own, any more than I tell clients to try their own lawsuits or do their own brain surgery.

The nerdiest amongst you need no introduction to these, but for those of you whoever want to some information or do a little command line coding on open source software, shall I introduce you to Floss Manuals ? In my weird associative (hypertext) way of thinking, I think of the command line coding like teeth. Teeth are, in essence, living bone that can be exposed for short periods of time but need a constant evolving (replenishing) environment. This how I visualize their function.

El webinar del Proyecto Darkstar esta agendado para el 21 de Octubre , sera dado en Inglés. (Atentos los de Argentina porque cerca de esa fecha habrá cambio de horario nacional en algunas regiones) Sumate a OSUM y participa! http://osum.sun.com/events/osum-webinar-project-darkstar 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) which corresponds to: 12:00 PM – Sao Paulo, Brazil 4:00 PM – Berlin,Germany 6:00 PM – Saint-Petersburg, Russia 9:00 PM – Jakarta, Indonesia Please use the World Clock Meeting Planner to convert to your local time.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks such as the Internet. SSL encrypt the segments of network connections at the Transport Layer end-to-end. Several versions of the protocols are in wide-spread use in applications like web browsing, electronic mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging and voice-over-IP (VoIP). SSL is now called Transport Layer Security (TLS).

Dorkbot NYC is this Wednesday! Featuring the pale green and salt-forming: Torino:Margolis is a performance art team that crosses physical and psychological barriers, using invasive electronics and biomedical tools. They explore the idea that the self is transient, elusive and modular by playing with the notion of control and free will. In their new media/dance piece, Action Potential, they harvest a dancer’s neuronal impulses using electromyography machines.

October 5th, 2009 Posted by Jason Perlow @ 3:54 pmCategories:Apple, Desktop, General, Hardware Infrastructure, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, VirtualizationTags:Hypervisor, Apple Inc., Psystar, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Litigation, Desktops, HardwareMiami, Florida-based Psystar, which is currently under litigation from Apple for producing Mac-compatible clones and is counter litigating the company for monopolistic practices, has announced

The push to “Buy American” could start to mean something quite different than a patriotic call to purchase homemade cars and appliances in the coming years. Sensing a more stabilized economy, the largest technology companies have started to put their massive cash war chests into action, acquiring companies once again. Oracle led the way with its purchase of Sun Microsystems . EMC gobbled up Data Domain. VMware bought the open-source software maker SpringSource. And this week, Cisco made a

The push to “Buy American” could start to mean something quite different than a patriotic call to purchase homemade cars and appliances in the coming years. Sensing a more stabilized economy, the largest technology companies have started to put their massive cash war chests into action, acquiring companies once again. Oracle led the way with its purchase of Sun Microsystems . EMC gobbled up Data Domain. VMware bought the open-source software maker SpringSource.

The push to “Buy American” could start to mean something quite different than a patriotic call to purchase homemade cars and appliances in the coming years. Sensing a more stabilized economy, the largest technology companies have started to put their massive cash war chests into action, acquiring companies once again. Oracle led the way with its purchase of Sun Microsystems. EMC gobbled up Data Domain. VMware bought the open-source software maker SpringSource.

The push to “Buy American” could start to mean something quite different than a patriotic call to purchase homemade cars and appliances in the coming years. Sensing a more stabilized economy, the largest technology companies have started to put their massive cash war chests into action, acquiring companies once again. Oracle led the way with its purchase of Sun Microsystems. EMC gobbled up Data Domain. VMware bought the open-source software maker SpringSource. And this week, Cisco made a $3.0 bi

Aid agencies turn to open-source software – science-in-society – 03 October 2009 – New Scientist A VIRTUAL emergency response centre dubbed Collabbit could be just what relief agencies need to coordinate their aid efforts in the aftermath of a disaster when speed is crucial. Collabbit is the handiwork of the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software project (HFOSS). It acts as central repository for information, sending out project updates to workers via RSS or text message.

After the fantastic week in Bathurst at Charles Sturt University and AuSakai 09 I spent a fun weekend in Sydney with Clay Fenlason. He and I hung out with my friend Mike Erlin, a former colleague at DigitalThink who went to Australia (with his Australian wife) to work for WebCT. He now is CEO of an e-learning company in Sydney called Workstar and he and his family were very nice to host us for a day at the beach and then an early dinner at their place near Yowie Bay (some photos on Facebook and Flickr).

Red Hat has decided to take its fight against software patents all the way to the Supreme Court. I know you guys are kinda split on the issue but do you think Red Hat has a chance or are they just wasting their time? “Red Hat continues its commitment to the free and open-source software community by taking a strong position against bad software patents,” said Rob Tiller, vice president and assistant general counsel for Red Hat. “Our patent system is supposed to foster innovation, but for open-source and software in general, it does the opposite.

Sky is blue, water is wet If everything is free in the Land with No IP – not TCP/IP, but rather intellectual property – then it stands to reason that IT managers and programmers in China would love open source software.… The power of collaboration within unified communications See the original post: Chinese IT shops love the free-ness of open source

Web hosting providers, CirtexHosting and HostV, will join the fight against cancer by donating a portion of its sales in October to the Jimmy Fund, which supports cancer research and care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. John Xie, President of Cirtex Corp. remarked, ”In one way or another, cancer affects us all. At Cirtex Corp, we’ve seen the effects of cancer up and close, and it’s our moral obligation to stand up and do our part to help advance the important research that offers the hope of better treatment and higher survival rates.

Discover Channel: ‘Ardi,’ Oldest Human Ancestor, Unveiled – “ The world’s oldest and most complete skeleton of a potential human ancestor — named “Ardi,” short for Ardipithecus ramidus — has been unveiled by an international team of 47 researchers. “ Joel Achenbach: A Nation of Engineers – “ Advice to graduates: Become an engineer. Design the future. Become someone who knows how to squeeze energy out of seawater or turn sunlight into electricity for pennies on the kilowatt.