On 20 April 2009, Oracle Corporation announced its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in a deal worth about US$ 6 billion. This would have been just another one of corporate mega-deals that sound interesting in the news but really have no effect on your life. Except for the fact that with the purchase, Oracle acquired the world’s most widely used open-source database engine- MySQL. About 12 million small databases, mainly in websites and small businesses, run on the open-source MySQL platform, since it is stable, easily adaptable and most important of all for cash-strapped small companies, free.

August 30th, 2009 Ar AppHello,I want to possibly use some open source libraries like the ones below to make a nice demo of a AR browseryou can see the type of libraries here http://blog.papervision3d.org/2009/01/07/augmented-reality-with-flartoolkit/ http://www.mperfect.net/wpfAugReal/ http://weareorganizedchaos.com/index.php/tag/open-source-toolkit/ http://www.techchee.com/2008/08/17/artoolkit-v44-augmented-reality-toolkit-for-the-apple-iphone/i want to use open source to recreate

August 30th, 2009 Iphone Song Request App & SiteTwo developments 1. Simple website interface & database. 2. iPhone applicationThis iPhone application will allow “requester” users to use their phone to request music selections when visiting a dance club. The “dance club” user can look at requests for only their club.a. The “requester” will create a profile through the iPhone application or webite. b. The “requester” user will select a club from a list found on our online database, enter a “club code #” if they know it, or using current GPS location.

Some of you have been e-mailing me recently, asking why I’ve been so uncharacteristically silent these past few months. Well, I’m finally ready to do the big reveal, to pull the covers off what I’ve been working on all this time. I’m pleased to announce the Open Virtualization Management and Monitoring (OVM^2) Initiative . If you’re at VMworld 2009 this week be sure to stop by the Hyper9 booth and see what we have to offer.

[Note: This comment comes from a reader of Dave Farber's IP list.   DLH] From: Russ Nelson nelson@crynwr.com> Date: August 30, 2009 10:40:49 AM PDT To: dave@farber.net Cc: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks) Subject: Re: [IP] Design For Corruption–Why US Healthcare is Failing Design For Corruption–Why US Healthcare is Failing Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on August 28 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2009/08/design_for_corr.html another Depression, the financial sectors have escape any serious re- regulation.

I am a big fan of open source software so at home I use Gimp which is an open source alternative to Photoshop.  One of my favorite features of Photoshop is its “save for web” feature which lets you downsize images so they will load more quickly on websites you support.  I found a plug-in today for Gimp which allows that capability so I thought I would share it in hope that those who also use Gimp could benefit if you happen to be reading this blog.  If you don’t have Gimp you can grab a copy over

Brian N. Hilton, «Emerging Spatial Information Systems and Applications» IGI Global | ISBN: 1599040751 | 2006 | PDF | 418 pages | 12.69 MB “ Several emerging phenomena and technologies, such as the increasing availability of open source software and the continuing evolution of distributed computing, are introducing a new dynamic into information system development.

August 30th, 2009 Need Social Netw. SoftwareI need a programmer who can sell me a social networking software which is fully customizable. I also need this programmer to delete my old software off my server and upload the new social networking software with my own logo and template. I can provide necessary files for logo and template.I need to be able to see a demo of the social networking software before I select a bidSimilar freelance jobsSocial Networking SoftwareNEED COMPETITIVE LOOKING

7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license The main features of 7-Zip * High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression * Supported formats: o Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR o Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.

7-Zip ??????????????????????? WinRAR????????????????????????? *.exe ???? Gmail ??????????? *.7z ?????????????????7z?ZIP?GZIP?BZIP2?TAR?????????RAR?CAB?ISO?ARJ?LZH?CHM?MSI?WIM?Z?CPIO?RPM?DEB?NSIS?? ?? ? what mean 7z file ????? [2007.10.22] ????? 7-Zip 4.55 Beta ??????????????????? 320 MB?????? 50 MB??????????????????????????? 1x MB ? *.7z.001?????????????… 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. 7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license.

The seven deadly sins are, according to the FSF, the “seven major areas where proprietary software in general and Microsoft Windows in particular hurt all computer users: invading privacy, poisoning education, locking users in, abusing standards, leveraging monopolistic behavior, enforcing DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and threatening user security.”Beside the Web site, and a public demonstration at the Boston Common, the FSF elaborated on these points in a letter to the leaders of the Fortune 500 companies.

A few weeks back Nev wrote a post asking for feedback from his readers about his blog and himself in general.  In the comments someone mentioned that they wished he would post more about his e-commerce site, House of Rave . He responded: I sincerely wish I could post more about House Of Rave since I love writing about it. I’ve refrained quite a lot to reveal less to competitors and avoid copycats. There is a DIRECT correlation between how much I write about my business and how many people immediately try to emulate it.

Tomorrow, the Department of Health and Human Services will host its first “code-a-thon” dedicated to the National Health Information Network and its Connect software. About 80 programmers, led by Apache developer (and Collabnet employee) Brian Behlendorf , will spend about four hours trying to stamp out bugs in the open source software gateway, which is based on National Health Information Network (NHIN) conventions. Behlendorf’s presence is not ceremonial, as CollabNet runs the military’s forge.mil open source forge site .

I’ve used Moodle for about four years, and in that time I’ve found it to be an exceptionally useful, high-functioning and user-friendly learning management system (LMS). In my view, the one deficiency in its suite of resources is that it is less than intuitive in the way it enables administrators, teachers, and learners to create, integrate, manage, and deliver images, audio, video, animations and other media types.Enter Packt Publishing’s Moodle 1.9 Multimedia by João Pedro Soares Fernandes.I opened my copy of the text with a high expectation that it would be an informative and  practical reference text.

Bloggers: Should You Use Blogger.com or WordPress? Blogger.com (also known as Blogspot) and WordPress are the two most commonly used blogging platforms today. Blogger.com was a pioneer in the blogging industry, allowing users to set up accounts and blog for free beginning in 1999. Blogger.com was purchased by Google in 2003, which enabled it to grow using Google’s resources. Today, Blogger.com has an undisclosed number of millions of users blogging on their system.

The idea of making money online is attractive to many, primarily because of the benefits it offers. Making money online is mostly about customizing a monetizing formula for your blog. Depending on your skill level, network, and current traffic levels your blog has a variety of options. When you look for new revenue streams, think about what you do well. Whether you’re an expert in your field, a talented designer, a programmer, or a producer of content, there are ways to leverage your knowledge, skills and abilities, package them and provide them for a fee.

I haven’t been too happy with my current podcast capturing setup, so I decided to change it. The setup did include starting up a Windows 2000 VM, starting up Juice in that, then downloading any new podcasts. I then moved the files from the VM to a directory on my workstation. At that point, I had to change the ownership of the files and then move them to a USB stick. As I said, there are way too many steps in that sequence to do every morning. Last night I installed a Linux podcast aggregator called hpodder.

Posted on 2009 under True tones | 27Aug Nokia N900 runs on the new Maemo 5 Linux open source software. The N900 lets users open multiple application windows and run simultaneously while taking advantage of its cellular features. The N900 offers a high-res WVGA touch screen, QWERTY keyboard and a Mozilla powered browser.

Open Source Development with CVS: Learn How to Work With Open Source Software by Karl Fogel and Karl Franz Fogel Paperback: 316 pages Publisher: Coriolis Group Books; illustrated edition edition (October 25, 1999) Language: English ISBN-10: 1576104907 ISBN-13: 978-1576104903 Product Description The need for a modern source-code management strategy in the distributed open-source community is paramount.

Urgently Required Experienced PHP ProgrammersCandidates are invited to apply for the following positions, send your detailed resume on the below contact details.Position: Senior PHP DevelopersExperience : 1+ yearsNo. of Openings : 3———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— -Required Soft Skills:- Should have basics right.- Must have strong analytical and problem solving skills.- Strong communication skills- Able to give inputs and ideas in project meetings.- Able to understand

I’m a big believer in writing scripts for important occasions; the first time that I presented at the ATA annual conference (a presentation on free and open source software at the 2004 ATA conference in Toronto), I typed out every single word I was going to say, including a few pre-scripted jokes. When Eve Bodeux and I record our podcast episodes, we write out a fairly complete script for the episode; these days when I do presentations I don’t necessarily write out a full script, but I make a detailed outline of the talking points for each slide I’m going to cover.

Pi-Con was delightful! I’m always amazed at conventions by the people I meet. On panels, sure: it’s a pleasure and privilege to chat with the other panelists about the topic of the hour, and I’m not surprised to meet smart, accomplished, articulate panelists. But the people I talk to in the hallways, the vendors, and the folks who end up going out to dinner together are, as often as not, also smart and articulate and accomplished.

David Recordon , the Director of Corporate Development at Six Apart, is leaving the company to join Facebook after two years at the company. Recordon made the announcement on his blog , where he writes that he is joining Facebook’s Engineering team as a Senior Open Programs Manager, and will continue to work on open source and open standards inside Facebook. Over the last two years at Six Apart, Recordon was the Open Platforms Tech Lead.

Monday, August 24th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentDavid Recordon, the Director of Corporate Development at Six Apart, is leaving the company to join Facebook after two years at the company. Recordon made the announcement on his blog, where he writes that he is joining Facebook’s Engineering team as a Senior Open Programs Manager, and will continue to work on open source and open standards inside Facebook.

David Recordon , the Director of Corporate Development at Six Apart, is leaving the company to join Facebook after two years at the company. Recordon made the announcement on his blog , where he writes that he is joining Facebook’s Engineering team as a Senior Open Programs Manager, and will continue to work on open source and open standards inside Facebook. Over the last two years at Six Apart, Recordon was the Open Platforms Tech Lead.

David Recordon , the Director of Corporate Development at Six Apart, is leaving the company to join Facebook after two years at the company. Recordon made the announcement on his blog , where he writes that he is joining Facebook’s Engineering team as a Senior Open Programs Manager, and will continue to work on open source and open standards inside Facebook. Over the last two years at Six Apart, Recordon was the Open Platforms Tech Lead.

David Recordon , the Director of Corporate Development at Six Apart, is leaving the company to join Facebook after two years at the company. Recordon made the announcement on his blog , where he writes that he is joining Facebook’s Engineering team as a Senior Open Programs Manager, and will continue to work on open source and open standards inside Facebook. Over the last two years at Six Apart, Recordon was the Open Platforms Tech Lead.

David Recordon , the Director of Corporate Development at Six Apart, is leaving the company to join Facebook after two years at the company. Recordon made the announcement on his blog , where he writes that he is joining Facebook’s Engineering team as a Senior Open Programs Manager, and will continue to work on open source and open standards inside Facebook. Over the last two years at Six Apart, Recordon was the Open Platforms Tech Lead.

Monday, August 24th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentIt’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us and let’s establish a media partnership.Mashable’s Weekly Social Media and Marketing Event Guide is proudly supported by Eventbrite, the Web’s Event Marketplace.August 24, 2009, Charlotte, NC: Social Fresh is a 1 day Social Media Conference in the Southeast.

Facebook Reaps Recruits at High Levels Boosting hiring amid a job slump, Facebook snares Yahoo!’s security chief, an open-source guru from Six Apart, and talent from Genentech and Google By Spencer E. Ante So much for cutting back during the downturn. As Facebook ramps up hiring from about 1,000 employees today to as many as 1,200 by the end of the year, the social networking giant is recruiting technical and business leaders from some of the best-known firms in Silicon Valley to help accelerate its financial performance.

I’m reposting this from my facebook page – I’m interested to see if anyone else bites. Inspired by JohnO . Rules : Don’t take too long to think about it. List 15 books you’ve read that will always stick with you. They should be the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag as many friends as you want to, including me, because I’m interested in seeing what books my friends choose.

I’ve talked here before about open-source software development, and how it fits into the overall IT landscape.  Probably the largest and best-known open-source project is the Linux operating system .  Linux is a “work-alike clone” of UNIX; it was begun in 1991 by Linus Torvalds while he was a student at the University of Helsinki.  Although a complete Linux OS distribution, like Ubuntu, SuSE, or Debian contains a great deal of software, including the X Window GUI system, utilities and tools from

This is part of an ongoing startup review series supported by our sponsors Sun Startup Essentials . Ayojak.com India is an eventful country be it cities or towns there are innumberable conferences, meets, seminars, summits and even get togethers. Given that many of these are organized via email its a pity that India still lacks an online event registration and managing tool. So here comes Ayojak.com which aims at providing exactly this service.

The repercussions of the credit crunch have continued to occupy headline news in recent weeks. We have witnessed the demise of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, the rescue . financial software linux Related Linux Financial Software Articles . Aftermarket Business (Continue Reading) Adopting open source software: the Linux wave is cresting—and it will change everything financial software linux Personal Finance Software for Mac and Linux – Free Mac and Linux . Manage money on your Mac or Linux system.

Product Description As the ultimate resource on the basics of the Linux desktops, servers, and programming tools, this book is written by the ultimate author on all things Linux. This transition resource is ideal if you are making the move from Windows or Macintosh to using Linux as your desktop system, and explains the Linux technology, offers detailed installation instructions, and includes step?by?step descriptions of key desktop and server components.

Hot on the heels of the news of UNIX’s 40th anniversary comes a Linux Foundation report entitled Who Writes Linux . This report investigates who is contributing to the Linux kernel, and how much: “Since 2005, over 5000 individual developers from nearly 500 different companies have contributed to the kernel. The Linux kernel, thus, has become a common resource developed on a massive scale by companies which are fierce competitors in other areas.” Wow! It bears noting that an analysis like this is only available because Linux is open source software.

The annual  Linux 18th Anniversary Picnic  happened last weekend at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in Sunnyvale, CA. It happens around the weekend following the Linux World Expo (now  Open Source World ) and generally in the same time frame as the anniversary of the  announcement of Linux . Sbay.org , a local non-profit, organizes this social event to get the Free and Open Source community together for a day of fun, and some form of the picnic has happened every year since 2001. This year was great fun.

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The feds are gettin’ open source with it! And by that we mean Open Source for America ( news , site ), a movement to increase the adoption of open source technology in the U.S. Federal Government, is gaining some traction. The Linux Box , a company dedicated to providing customized open source software services, is the latest to join the flux.

I was thinking about the changing tides in software buying trends and how these changes can be such a huge win for education.  Education professionals have always known the value of collaboration and sharing of ideas.  It just took the technology industry a bit of time to catch up.  The good news is it is happening. The days of expensive, proprietary software packages are ending.  The new way of collaborative, standards-based open source technology is here.  And with it comes, more development, more innovation yet for less money and much easier.

The “study” can be found at the following places   http://www.mcit.gov.eg/General/08%20PIRACY%20STUDY%20BSA%20IDC2009518124035.pdf   also found  at the BSA/IDC site ( http://global.bsa.org/globalpiracy2008/index.html ) who seem to have done the report. I really don’t know how they can substantiate this data on our country.   Regards,   Shabbir Software Architect UNIQA KK       On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Factification factia@gmail.com> wrote:   One has to ask why Bangladesh media keeps publishing these bogus reports on Bangladesh uncritically.

An alpha prototype of JHOVE2 is now available. JHOVE2 is a tool for the characterization (i.e., identification, validation, feature extraction, and assessment) of digital objects that is used for digital library and digital preservation purposes. Here’s an excerpt from the announcement : An alpha prototype version of JHOVE2 is now available for download and evaluation (v. 0.5.2, 2009-08-05). Distribution packages (in zip and tar.gz form) are available on the JHOVE2 public wiki at ( http://confluence.ucop.edu/display/JHOVE2Info/Download ).

Jim Whitehurst says that Red Hat is defining a whole new business model… Open source is nothing but a specific instance of the power of participation. It’s applying the power of participation as Facebook or Wikipedia do, specific to computer source code. – SAN FRANCISCO — Red Hat Chief Executive Officer Jim Whitehurst, finishing his second year as head honcho of the world’s most commercially successful open source software company, told eWEEK Aug.

News, OSSRich HoustonAugust 18th. 2009, 5:03pm Hi everyone,Just a quick note to let you all know that version 1.9 of the WinOSSCDRom (700 Megs of open source software goodness) is ready for download. I am still updating the mirror right now but I hope to have that ready soon.You’ll see lots of changes in this version — I added a few new items and removed a few to make room. Almost every package has been updated.

As we select a CMS for my project, I’ve got quite a rant boiling about news organizations and the use of proprietary software. For now, I’ll just tip my hat to Pat Thornton. No related posts.

Shafer homes in on the industry’s expensive efforts to popularize proprietary technology – the subject of an imminent rant as I explore content management software. Related posts: Pat Thornton on proprietary vs. open-source software As we select a CMS for my project, I’ve got… A little history For some time now, I’ve been thinking and writing about…

Via BJ Wishinsky (@anitaborg_org) , via Gerald Thurman (@nanofoo) , a post from the CACM blog, Only the developed world lacks women in computing , by Mark Guzdial. Mark talks about a study that shows that in Malaysia, 52% of computer science graduates are women. Sure, that’s fantastic. But if his headline is anything to go by, I think Mark’s missing the point pretty badly. How did this get generalised from “In one developing country women are in a slight majority” to “Only in the developed world are women in a minority.” Logic fail.

We’re very excited to announce the 1st Annual Latin American Open Source Health Informatics Meeting (IMeCA 2009) in Lima, Peru the 26-31 of October 2009. The principal objectives of the 1st IMeCA 2009 are: Show the benefits of open source electronic medical record software and community development to empower local organizations Understand the issues and needs of health care organizations in Latin America in using such systems Strengthen networks, promote coordination of efforts between

After a great response to our earlier post of 12 free open source games we are going to cover some fantastic 10 addictive open source games that every gamer would easily get hooked on to. 1. The Battle for Wesnoth The Battle for Wesnoth is a free open source turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. You build up a great army by gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans.

Open source customization means use open source software like Magento, Zen cart, Joomla for Ecommerce website development. Open source software is free to use to develop Ecommerce shopping cart website just do to download the free open source code and customize it with clients requirements. Day by day open source becomes popular among web developers because it is easy to use and a fully efficient Ecommerce shopping cart website can be developed using these open source software.

Next month’s Gov2.0 Summit (9-10 Sep) is going to be a great event.  From what I’ve seen of the agenda and the hard work the conference organizers have been putting into this I can tell it will bring together a great mix of techies, govies, innovators and citizens in a fast-moving, productive discussion about Web2.0 [...] Related posts:Vision for the Enterprise CTO: Lessons from DNI Vision 2015The Technology Implications of the Obama WinSome “Must Attend” Events in the Federal IT Space [This

Software designed by open source standards has security built in and has been found to be fielded with far fewer faults per unit of code than proprietary development houses.  There are many reasons for this.  This factor is especially true when the open source code is commercially supported.  For example, Linux, which has the strength [...] Related posts:A proposal for government certification of open source softwareOpen Source for America: A resource for the Gov2.0 CTOOpen Source Databases

WordPress is simply the best blogging platform on the planet! Being open source software, developers around the world have produced hundreds of plugins to enhance its basic functionality, as a result blogging has never been easier, and the search engines love it! Blogging with WordPress offers two huge advantages:1. It’s FREE to download and use2. The [...]

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Incredible though it may seem, the Australian government seems bound and determined to use taxpayer money in an enterprise to spy on taxpayers on behalf of the Korporate Kopyright Kartels who, of course, are not taxpaying citizens of Australia. “In the Australian Federal Government’s latest assault on the internet,” writes [.] Did it ever really go away? New report shows developers are using more JavaScript and PHP, but C still dominates in one measure.

I’m starting to realize that my cell phone is out of date. So, I’m looking to get a new one soon-ish. My current cell phone is an LG VX6000 through US Cellular. For the purposes of talking on the phone, it gets the job done just fine. I don’t use the easyedge features. I wish it were a bit more customizable. It only supports MIDI sound that I’m aware of. The only way I’ve found to add my own music is to buy this USB cable off ebay, and use some open source software to access it, but even then I can’t completely customize.

So far this is my favorite piece on the “Freemium” concept.  It comes via Union Square ventures a vc based in NYC. Click Here To Find Out Why Chris Anderson & Malcolm Gladwell Are Wrong! Introduction (Via UnionSquare) Anderson’s book points out that the cost of providing web services is declining as a result of open source software, commodity hardware, and cheap bandwidth. Gladwell agrees with the trend but notes that it is very expensive for YouTube to host video.

Has your wife ever deleted photos from her camera and begged you to recover them? (Mine did!) Did you accidentally delete a movie off of your hard disk that you really wanted to watch? Thanks to some wonderful open-source software named PhotoRec , it’s really easy to recover your data. It’s available for free for Windows, Mac OS X, and most UNIX flavors. PhotoRec is a command-line utility, but also surprisingly user-friendly.

For starters, Adbard is a new advertising network for technology based websites based upon the promotion of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) friendly products and services. Adbard had the blessings of Free Software Foundation(FSF) which described Adbard as “ethical alternative to ad networks that promote proprietary software”. Read the full article by FSF on Adbard .  read more »

I was reading this month’s Computer magazine and found an interesting article by Charles Rich entitled Building Task-Based User Interfaces with ANSI/CEA-2018 . It sounded like an interesting UI abstraction so I went after the standard to look through it. And that’s when I was reminded of something: ANSI/CEA-2018 is one of those paid standards. If I want to read anything beyond the index of the standard, I have to pay $85.00 (or $63.75 if I was a member).

August 15th, 2009 Video Animation For CommercialHello. We are creating a web/commercial video and need an animation overlay at the end, lasting a few seconds. It will animate our current logo of a rabbit. He will need to take his hat off.Similar freelance jobsYoutube Branding CommercialLooking for a programmer that specializes in video productions for a Youtube video commercial.

The Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management came out for the first time this month.  I say the first time because it was always a Market Scope before the 2009 report.  If you look at it, you can learn many things.  The one thing you won’t learn is if any of the products are right for you, but we’ll get to that in a minute. Jon Marks did a good job of comparing Gartner’s and Forrester’s latest rankings and highlights how a “Niche Player” may be worth considering.

Now i know its not greatly safe to download programs from torrents and i do it at my own risk (blah blah blah), however, i’ve used them before to get “Regcure”. I recently downloaded the “Vegas movie studio platinum” torrent and when installing the actual program, it said it was removing software. Obviously i went crazy as it should never remove ANY software when installing a new program, tried to cancel, and wouldnt work. Then my computer reset itself, and reloaded saying it had recovered from a serious error.

I’m a huge believer in doing what you say others should be doing. Libraries are dedicated to open access to information. I think that’s a very good thing because when information is withheld, enormous amounts of energy are wasted duplicate efforts since everyone has to start from scratch. It really limits what you can accomplish.I keep running into situations where libraries increasingly fail to live up to their rhetoric.

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.   • Update : 8/11 and 8/12/2009 VMware’s SpringSource acquisition, other additions • My forthcoming Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform book’s cover gets a facelift(?) that’s being applied to all new Wrox Programmer-to-Programmer series members: Jim Minatel ’s New Wrox Covers post of 8/7/2009 explains the change from Wrox’s tradition of author mugshots on the cover of “Programmer to Programmer” titles.

There are four lessons that corporate innovators can draw from Y Combinator:You can do a lot for a little. It amazes me when corporations complain that they lack adequate financial resources for innovation. With open source software, online market research tools, and the ability to create virtual prototypes, you can do a huge amount for $10,000. A lack of financial resources is very rarely a rate limiter.Tight windows enable “good enough” design.

DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for creation professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played on any DVD player, but also creation of own-designed DVD menus. It is Open Source Software and is completely free. Features · creation and burning DVD video with interactive menus · support of AVI, MPEG and other file formats · support of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats · using

Another one bites the dust. Add SpringSource to the expanding list of independent open source companies that have been gobbled up by proprietary software giants. Let’s consider the growing list: IBM’s purchase of Gluecode, Novell’s purchase of SUSE, Citrix’s XenSource deal, Nokia’s Trolltech buy, Sun’s purchase of MySQL, Oracle’s purchase of Sun (and hence MySQL and OpenOffice) and now VMware’s planned $420 million acquisition of SpringSource.

Another one bites the dust. Add SpringSource to the expanding list of independent open source companies that have been gobbled up by proprietary software giants. Let’s consider the growing list: IBM’s purchase of Gluecode, Novell’s purchase of SUSE, Citrix’s XenSource deal, Nokia’s Trolltech buy, Sun’s purchase of MySQL, Oracle’s purchase of Sun (and hence MySQL and OpenOffice) and now VMware’s planned $420 million acquisition of SpringSource.

PmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. PmWiki pages look and act like normal web pages, except they have an “Edit” link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website, using basic editing rules. PmWiki is a clean and simple wiki system with a friendly user interface made easily deployable with the JumpBox for PmWiki. Benefits of running a JumpBox Deploying an application as a JumpBox provides a dramatically-reduced path to getting started with the software.

Movable Type is Six Apart’s flagship blog software product, launched in 2001. Today, this robust social publishing platform powers the websites and blogs of many of the world’s largest media companies, Fortune 100 businesses, small and medium sized businesses, and power bloggers. Movable Type is a fully integrated, scalable, proven social publishing platform upon which to build highly interactive websites, blogs and social networks.

August 10th, 2009 | by Sean | I had this great idea to write about politics and open source software, and rented isono.my for a year as a domain to do it on. I decided after a few months that I wouldn’t continue with it, for … the same reason I’m not going to finish this sentence. It’s a pity to let the articles just disappear though, so I’ve copied them from the now defunct blog to this one.Copying articles from one WordPress blog to anotherIt’s very easy, just go into the Dashboard of the origin blog and use Tools..Export to export the articles to a file on your own PC.

Popular Science bitches and moans about how the rumored Apple Tablet could ruin computing. [h/t Instapundit ] The Apple Tablet is rumored to be a cross between a laptop and an iPhone. The iPhone isn’t really a cell phone, rather, it is a handheld computer employing a touch interface with a cell phone built-in . It uses a slimmed down version of Apple’s MacOS X operating system that Apple uses on all its computers.

filed in Laptops & Notebooks on Aug.09, 2009 User ReviewsSend this to a friendApple MacBook MC240LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop  Manufacturer: Apple ComputerCustomer Rating:  List Price: $999.00Sale Price: $978.70Availibility: Usually ships in 24 hoursFree Shipping AvailableBuy Now Product Description Stylishly and intelligently designed for your on-the-go digital lifestyle, Apple’s MacBook is the perfect confluence of affordability, innovation, and powerful computing.

Review Link: http://aplawrence.com/Books/kernel-primer.html Full Text: I’ve been less than happy with other kernel books I’ve read. Admittedly,it’s a difficult subject: there’s a lot to cover, and you really need quite a bit of programming and general Unix knowledge before you could even consider jumping into this area. But I have the background,have even written simple Unix drivers, and yet every other kernel programming book has disappointed me.

1. It almost goes without saying, but open source software (OSS) is free. 2. A vast array of high quality open source applications already exist to solve almost every conceivable business problem. 3. OSS is developed from a more efficient programming paradigm which means more applications can be hosted on a given server. 4. It is incredibly cheap to implement. £30 per year will buy a web hosting package from eukhost.com capable of running a content managed website, a CRM system, a customer support forum and a mailing list manager with 24/7 high quality server-level technical support.

Tony Maro posted a video: These buggers don’t come with instructions! This video was captured, edited and published entirely using Linux and free open-source software. No cool titles were added simply because of the time limit on Flickr videos.

hey, I want to fully clean out my laptop, acer aspire one. but i do not wish to format it, i have programs to clear the junk out:- Adaware Argente registry cleaner CCleaner Free RAM xp pro and i also use disk cleanup and defragmentor. i have AVG as the anti-virus. I’m just wondeing if theres any more FREE software i can download and use to clear the clutter, and what else can i do? thank you. Related Posts Good XP/Vista Optimizers? I’ve been working on computers for a while now, just small stuff, anti virus, tweaks,…

A Guide To Host Reseller Hosting Resellers You’ve determine to receive a reseller web hosting account to resell web space . What are the steps to become Host Reseller ? You must select a platfrom which you want to use Currently, many open source software programs are available for Linux than Windows , so Linux looks cheaper. Programs such as Perl, PHP, Flash, and others can not run all in the second platform is. For example : a website that requires MS Access or ASP need a Windows platform.

UKGovOSS – Open Source Government Community — Home This discussion and networking space has been set up by Public Sector Forums to share information and ideas on using open source software and open standards in government. This is a community site and not supported or funded in any way by the UK Government. tags : opensource , governament , openstandards Developers Take to the Cloud — Redmondmag.com Nearly half (48 percent plus) of the 500-plus developers surveyed expects to deploy private cloud applications in the coming year.

Jean Paul pinged me with the following mail : Maybe it escaped your attention that the Call For Papers for T-DOSE 2009 is already out. It has been announced on 12th of June 2009. Below you will find the original announcement. Call for Papers and Projects Fri, 06/12/2009 – 13:57 — jpsaman T­-DOSE is a free and yearly event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Open Source Software. During this event Open Source projects, developers and visitors can exchange ideas and knowledge.

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

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Software Freedom Day 2009 planning is getting into full swing! As the Ubuntu Maryland team did last year, we are planning a day of talks and discussions about Open Source Software and its benefits. While there may be a bias towards the Linux platform in general and the Ubuntu distribution in particular we are open to talks on Open Source projects for any OS platform. In addition we are hoping to have some talks on open formats and standards. The important aspect to remember about these talks are they should be geared toward end users.

So it has been a little while since I last blogged.  Actually that is an understatement.  In all honesty I could come up with a range of excuses but none are really that “excusible”. Quick update of the last year!! Exactly one year ago I made the decision to return to the classroom having specialised as an ICT specialist for two years.  Rational….I missed having my own kids, I missed the relationships that go with being in the classroom, I hated not having the follow through of what I did in

espeak is, in the developers’ words, “a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows.” I cannot comment on the Windows version, but the Linux version has a command-line interface with a lot of options.  So I wrote three wrappers, called, respectively, mespeak, mespeakf, and mespeaku.

I use Open Office to write and create my PDF ebooks. It is open source software and a great alternative to using Microsoft products. If you try to do something a little more advance though, you will find some quirks with the software. One thing I had been trying to do for [...]

SourceForge.net: Grsync for Windows – Project Web Hosting – Open Source Software A hack/port of Piero Orsoni’s wonderful Grsync – rsync frontend in GTK – to Windows(win32). (tags: rsync ) Business Guys on Business Trips Business Guys on Business Trips Buy your own crap, just don’t eat it (tags: funny advertising marketing blog ) Processing.js Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets.

Last week Microsoft included SugarCRM’s Community Edition as a free download in the Windows Web App Gallery . SugarCRM , a popular open source CRM platform, is one of 8 applications added to the gallery since its inception four months ago. The Community Edition is SugarCRM’s free service offering that provides a variety of sales, customer support, and marketing features. Complementing the core feature set are module building tools that allow for the development of custom applications and integration.

Leave a commentGo to comments “The much-loved Firefox Web browser reached a milestone Friday morning — its billionth download.“Quite a feat for a browser that, unlike Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Apple’s Safari, is run by a nonprofit organization with fewer than 250 employees.“Firefox, the free browser built on open source software that debuted in 2004, consistently gets high marks for speed, efficiency, adaptability and user-friendliness, and has become hugely popular worldwide.”Source: Los Angeles Times via San Jose Mercury-NewsDownload Firefox hereTweet This!Share this on FacebookShare this on LinkedinShare this on del.icio.usStumble upon something good?

The August 2009 meeting of the North Idaho Linux Users Group will be held on Saturday, 8 August, 2009 at the River of Life Friends Church in Post Falls. The meeting will start at 1pm. Everyone is invited to attend, especially those who are tired of having their computers infected with viruses, spyware, trojans or adware. Bring your computer along if you want to try Linux. We will help you determine if Linux will run on your machine or, if you want, we will help you install it on your computer.

I went down to Emory University this Thursday & Friday to participate in a workshop on the open source software program Zotero. Zotero is a citation management program developed at the Center for History & New Media at George Mason University. A graduate student in reference first introduced us to it and I started using it for a way to manage the Liam Miller personal library. The ease of use & the ability to organize the material make me a fan.