RED Announces Hardware from the Future
In true uber-hype fashion, the RED Company announced today a series of cameras and imaging sensors that will revolutionize the movie (and still image) industry. Some commenters online jokingly said that this is where all the Roswell UFO reverse-engineering went into. RED announced sensors ranging from 10.1x5.35mm (2/3") size all the way to 186x56mm, and resolutions from 3k/120fps to 28k/25fps (that's 261 megapixels). If you have trouble visualizing that size, here's an image that might help. To add to all this, the RED Epic now supports stereoscopic (3D) capturing.
Microsoft Spoiling for a Red Hat Fight With Web Apps on Linux
The Open Road: "Microsoft is apparently going to support Firefox and Safari with its upcoming Office Web Applications (and, hence, Windows alternatives like Mac OS X and Linux)."
Webmail Directory: LinuxMagic's Tuxedo
ISP Planet: "The Canadian Linux development house LinuxMagic, founded in 1997, is a subsidiary of the hosting and support company Wizard IT Services. From the beginning, according to company president and CEO Michael Peddemors, LinuxMagic has been focused on serving ISPs and telcos."
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Is Proprietary Software to Blame for the World's Ills?
LinuxInsider: "Proprietary software might not be responsible for the economic downturn -- or is it? -- but it has set an unfortunate tone, writes columnist Jeremiah T. Gray. Teaching children, especially in the developing world, that the Redmond Way is the only way sets a dangerous precedent."
dmidecode: Finding Out Hardware Details Without Opening The Computer Case
HowtoForge: "dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware."
Lenovo Offers 60-Day Money Back Guarantee On Linux and Windows Servers
The VAR Guy: "Lenovo has introduced a special 60-day money back guarantee on its ThinkServers, which run Novell SUSE Linux or Windows and target small businesses. But the guarantee is only available from one specific Lenovo distributor."
Chrome For Linux Slowly Wriggles From Primordial Ooze
OStatic: "If you're a Linux user waiting to try out the Chrome browser, CNet offers some bad news, tempered by a tiny ray of good news."
Novell's FOSSA Architecture Document Out By December
CIO: "Novell plans to publish later this month or in December the architecture document of FOSSA, its long-term strategy for the management and deployment of resources both within and outside the enterprise."
Novell vs. Red Hat: Linux vs. Linux
Cyber Cynic: "If you think about where Linux is fighting for market and mind-share, chances are you're thinking about Linux slugging it out with Microsoft Windows or Sun Solaris on the server, or trying to tear desktop customers away from Windows, and to a far lesser extent, from Mac OS X. That's all true, but there's also fierce competition between Linux distributions."
Mixing Free and Proprietary Software: Not a Rosy Future
Free Software Magazine: "A recent article caught my eye and turned it a nice shade of red. It discussed the -- hardly new -- idea that the future of software usage must involve a mixture of free and proprietary products -- something the writer refers to as "mixed source". The piece was entitled "Mixed source -- the best of both worlds" which may give you a clue as to where I disagree with it."
The Shade Of The Ecosystem
jonobacon@home: "Adam Williamson...has posted a vitriol filled rant entitled Why I don’t like Canonical...Bollocks. Lets take a look each of these delicious nuggets of nonsense and break them apart."
Open Source: The New Patent Regime
cnet: "Open source drives innovation by making yesterday's technology a commodity, forcing proprietary vendors to innovate in order to justify their paychecks."
Open Source Apps in Your Brain
OStatic: "The OpenEEG Project wants to further the development of free and open source software for biofeedback and EEG analysis. Its Website tracks existing apps, including a few closed source options that offer support for OpenEEG hardware."
Portrait: FOSS Legal Leader Andrew Updegrove
Linux.com: "Updegrove says his introduction to open source included his unwitting participation in a seminal licensing discussion. "It was probably in 1993 that Bob Scheifler, the executive director of the X Consortium, emailed me to say that he needed a new kind of license to make the software available to whoever needed it." Updegrove and Scheifler went back and forth a few times to get the verbiage on the new license just right."
MySQL Replication Pitfalls
Database Journal: "Despite the technology's obvious power, it is not bulletproof. There are times when you find replication can break, throwing up errors in the slave error-log, and stopping the receiving of transactions in their tracks. In this article we're going to show you some of the issues and problems with MySQL replication, and give you examples to show you why those are issues."
Enhance PC Security with Open Source Apps
Intranet Journal: "For Windows users, this has often felt like a fact of life. Even while there are some great freeware options for PC security like AVG anti-virus or Zone Alarm firewall, wouldn't it be great if there were some open source options as well? As luck would have it, there are. In this article, I will highlight open source applications that will not only save you some money, but potentially put you back into the driver's seat with regard to your PC's security."
NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux
Phoronix: "Over the course of the past few months we have been saying that the NVIDIA 180 Linux driver to be released in the fourth quarter of 2008 would hold in store a few interesting features. Well, today that closed-source driver has been released in beta form."
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