GNOME's Stormy Peters on the Most Important Desktop Issue
OStatic: "The GNOME Foundation executive director, Stormy Peters, recently wrote a bit about why the focus on "the KDE versus GNOME" debate is not the real issue. Many commenters on her post agree (while others actively demonstrate) that it is counterproductive."
Time To Step Up, Steve
Datamation: "What did Ballmer know and when did he know it? That's arguably the biggest question in the Microsoft "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit being heard by a federal judge in a Seattle court."
Repaired Data Drives Restoring the Moon
CollectSpace: "Forty three years ago, Charles J. Byrne, a Bellcomm, Inc. engineer, became concerned about NASA's plans to archive the data to be sent from a series of Moon mapping precursor missions to the Apollo lunar landings."
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Rugged Linux Wrist Computer Upgraded
LinuxDevices: "Just in time for the latest 007 movie release, Eurotech subsidiary Parvus announced a new version of its military-targeted personal wrist computer. The Linux-ready Zypad WR1100 offers a faster Marvell PXA 270 processor, more memory, a higher-resolution display, plus ZigBee and fingerprint scanner options."
21 of the Best Free Linux Home Computer Emulators
LinuxLinks: "This article focuses on software which emulates home computers, a class of personal computer which reached the market in the late 1970s, and became immensely popular in the following decade, selling many millions of units. Leading home computer companies included Commodore, Sinclair, Atari, Apple, Acorn, Tandy Radio Shack, and Amstrad."
RetroMessenger Linux - Secure and Serverless Instant Messenger
RetroMessenger: "RetroMessenger, the small tiny Instant messenger for pc & mobile phones, has been released - for Linux. It provides secure and serverless Instant Messenger, is open source and is portable to all operating systems."
Norway Pledges Funds for Government Open Source Usage
OStatic: "Norway has become the the latest country to pledge funds for public sector use of open source software. Minister of Government Adminstration and Reform Heidi Grande Roeys is granting 2 million kroner ($285,000) to the national center for free software, and the terms of the deal are interesting."
Understand Commonly Used Features in Java Development Tools
IBM Developerworks: "This "Mastering Eclipse" series of articles teaches complete newcomers to Eclipse the ins and outs of the Eclipse IDE. By the end of the series, you'll be on par with advanced users. In this article, learn about working with various parts of the Eclipse JDT."
WFTL Bytes! for Nov 17, 2008: Sun rise, Sun set, Black Friday, Microsoft Steals Penguins...
WFTL Bytes!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, November 17, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne."
Founding of the Freedesktop Group in Beijing
17Lamp.net: "I was honered to be a guest at the founding meeting of the Freedesktop Group Bejing (which is part of the College Open Source Society) last Saturday, November 8, 2008 at Tsinghua University and to introduce LXDE to some of the brightest IT students from universities in Beijing."
Administering RBAC in PHP 5 CMS Framework
Webreference: "The administration of the system could be done by writing directly to the database, since that is what most of the operations involve. There are strong reasons not to do so."
Now You Can Have Linux And Active Directory Too
Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "...now you can learn how to do it straight from the source at Microsoft's TechNet site in the article: Authenticate Linux Clients with Active Directory."
The Robot: Base, Wheels, Motors, and Sabertooth Motor Controllers
Adam's Tech Talk: "Rather than another visit to Homebase for some steel reinforcement, I just stuck (melted) two pieces firmly together with polycarbonate acid glue and then trimmed the edges with an electric saw."
A Review of StarOffice 9
Linux Loop: "For several weeks now I have been testing an early copy of StarOffice 9, Sun’s commercial alternative of OpenOffice.org. Finally, today, I can tell you about it."
Who's the Greatest Geek of All Time?
LinuxInsider: "The Linux blogosphere was buzzing last week with chatter about an article that asked who the top 10 geeks of all time are. Topping the list was Linus Torvalds, and notably absent were both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs -- omissions that sparked significant discussion."
Singularity RDK 2.0 Initial Release
Microsoft has released an initial release of version 2.0 of the Singularity operating system (research development kit, as it likes to call it). Singularity is a microkernel research operating system, where the kernel, drivers, and applications are all written in managed code. Singularity is released under a shared source academic license, and you can do whatever you want with it, except making money (simply put).
Contiki 2.2.2 Released
Contiki is an operating system for networked embedded systems such as radio-equipped networked sensors that have 8-bit CPUs with a few kilobytes of memory and a few milliwatts of power budget. Within these constraints, Contiki provides full IP networking, multi-hop radio routing, a web server, a telnet server, and a networked command-line shell. The 2.2.2 release contains uIPv6, the world's smallest fully compliant IPv6 stack, SICSlowpan IPv6-over-802.15.4 header compression, and command line tools for HTTP interaction: wget and httpd.
Mandriva Linux 2009 One Xfce Released
Thanks to the Mandriva Xfce volunteer development team, a community Xfce One edition of Mandriva Linux 2009 is now available for download from all official Mandriva mirrors. A list of download locations can be found on the Wiki page. This release gives you all the benefits of Mandriva Linux 2009 along with a fast and stable Xfce desktop.
USB 3.0 Is Ready to Go
Unveiled on Monday by the USB Implementers Forum, the USB 3.0 spec can theoretically support data-transfer speeds of up to 4.8Gbps - 10 times the speed provided by USB 2.0. The new standard, also known as SuperSpeed USB, is also expected to be more power-efficient than its predecessor. "SuperSpeed USB is the next advancement in ubiquitous technology," Jeff Ravencraft, the president of the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the industry group that promotes USB technology, said in a statement on Monday. "Today's consumers are using rich media and large digital files that need to be easily and quickly transferred from PCs to devices and vice versa. SuperSpeed USB meets the needs of everyone, from the tech-savvy executive to the average home user."
Adobe Advances Flash with New AIR, Cloud, Flex Solutions
At its annual MAX user conference, Adobe puts on the dog and serves up new tooling and other support for Flash. Adobe introduces Flex Builder Gumbo, Flash Catalyst â€" formerly known as Thermo, the availability of Adobe AIR 1.5 and a pre-release of the 64-bit Linux version of Adobe Flash Player 10. Adobe also opens up its cloud initiative, known as Cocomo, as a public beta.
the Five Most Talked-About Features
"Depending on where you look, Windows 7 is being called a savior for the embattled Vista, or a disaster waiting to happen. Regardless, certain interface features in Windows 7, whether brand new or streamlined, have been mostly applauded by experts who have tested the pre-beta. Which features are the most interesting and controversial? Here are five that deserve your attention."
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