OLPC and Windows
LiveJournal: "2. The reason these 10,000 systems had to be customized? Simple: Windows can't even boot on open firmware. Can't even boot! Which means that the other 990,000 XO (or so) systems in the wild CANNOT EVEN RUN WINDOWS with the firmware installed on them."
Share This: The Internet is a Right
Linux Journal: "Alas, things have changed much since then, at least as far as the Internet is concerned. In the light of recent events, now he would we have to say: they order this matter worse in France. Even more unfortunately, France's bad habits are spreading, and could have serious consequences for free software."
The Robot: A Body, Sensors and Good Progress
Adam's Tech Talk: "The body is ever so slightly lop sided by a few mm here and there which is a shame however from a short distance you wouldn't notice, it stands up straight and weight distribution is equal throughout the base plate so I’m happy with it."
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Create Your Own Linux Appliances
Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "That's right, create your own Linux virtual appliances with VMware Studio. Appliances are small, single purpose servers that provide a service to users."
Geek Ranch Accounting Solution
Linux Journal: "Back in February I wrote about my search for accounting software for the Geek Ranch project. At that time, I didn't have a good answer but, today, I do."
Why You'll Buy a Netbook On Black Friday
Datamation: "Last year I told you the "10 Black Friday Secrets Retailers Don't Want You To Know." All these secrets still apply (and the retailers still don't want you to know them). What's different this year is that Black Friday will be dominated by netbook deals."
Editor's Note: High-Tech Masquerades Perversion as Science
But a lot of things still have shaking my head in wonderment. The biggest one is the tech industry's enthusiastic glee for Peeping Tom-ery. It's like a perversion, an insatiable, pathological need to snoop and pry where, according to ordinary courtesy and respect, they have no business going.
Bug Labs Creates Open Source Lego for Software Engineers
Linux.com: "Most of the new breed of open source hardware centers on specific products. Bug Labs is taking a different approach. Instead of developing particular devices, Bug Labs' goal is to provide a Lego-like collection of open source hardware and software that customers can use to build their own devices."
Intel X.Org, Mesa Performance In Ubuntu
Phoronix: "While the open-source graphics drivers have matured a lot over the past eighteen months and many new features have been added, the ATI performance with an R430 GPU really hadn't improved in the newer releases. To see if the open-source Intel situation is any different, we have carried out similar tests with an Intel 945G Chipset across the past four Ubuntu releases."
Novell Bid to Cannibalise Linux Market
IT Wire: "ovell is getting increasingly desperate for sales. One can come to no other conclusion on reading the latest offer from the company which once dominated the world of PC networking."
Why Offshoring Software Development Will Fail
Datamation: "The SMFs suggest to anyone foolish enough to use them that the cost of software development is primarily dependent upon the per hour cost of programmers. Thus, the SMFs suggest the best way to reduce development costs is to find cheaper programmers."
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Nuclear Winter for Tech Startups? Not if You're Open Source
InfoWorld: "I've been looking hard for layoffs at startups and have noticed something pretty interesting. Web 2.0 is taking a big hit, but I haven't heard much about job losses in the open source world."
Learn Ubuntu with Comic Books
Geek.com: "Enter Hackett and Bankwell, a new comic book geared at introducing GNU/Linux -- specifically Ubuntu GNU/Linux -- to new users.
Updates on OpenLogic's New Wazi Site, and Microsoft's CodePlex
OStatic: "Wazi is the Swahili word for open, and is a new effort from OpenLogic, which provides enterprise open source solutions, to provide original content on topics such as how open source packages can efficiently work together."
ImageStream: Who Needs to Read Encrypted Traffic?
ISP Planet: "Instead, Utter advocates a system his company has come up with that uses some simple open source concepts to preserve user privacy. He calls this system Per User Fair Queuing (PUFQ)."
Sun Microsystems To Lay off Up to 6000 Workers
The world hasn't been kind to Sun for quite a while now, but with the economic downturn, things are getting worse. Sun announced today that it will be laying off 18% of its workforce, or about 6000 people. In addition, it was announced that Sun's software chief Rich Green has resigned for reasons that were not stated, although as part of Sun's reorganization and cost cutting efforts, many departments are being merged, and the software division is being restructured and reorganized.
BeRTOS 2.0.0 Released
BeRTOS is a real time operating system (RTOS) suitable for embedded platforms. It runs on many microprocessors and microcontrollers, ranging from 8-bit to 32-bit CPUs and even PCs. New features include: Major kernel refactoring, several new peripheral drivers, new PID controller algorithm, new configuration infrastructure, new testing harness, new logging infrastructure, and a first experimental embedded filesystem (BattFs).
PHP V5 and Object-Oriented Programming
IBM Developerworks: "It's designed to be a release to prepare developers for PHP V6 when it comes by adding many new features, cleaning up existing features by tweaking the functionality, fixing platform-specific issues, and deprecating old features that won't be in future versions of PHP. In this "What's new in PHP V5.3" series, we'll look at these new V5.3 features, and see how they are used and how they can be used in your Web application."
Perl, Outsourcing and China
17Lamp.net: "The advent of outsourcing has greatly impacted the face of IT. As you know, India has taken the leading role in IT outsourcing and China is quickly catching up."
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