SCO Bankruptcy Filings -- Is SCO Resurrecting the Name Caldera?
Groklaw: "We need to take a quick break from the Bilski series because there are a number of filings in the SCO bankruptcy, including a notation in one filing that seems to indicate that SCO is considering resurrecting the name Caldera International. Take a look at this, Exhibit D [PDF], attached to Dorsey & Whitney's 9th monthly application for compensation. On page 9, we see two notations:"
More Touch-Screen Machines Malfunction
Mercury News: "If more evidence was needed to explain why California has mostly abandoned touch-screen voting, Santa Clara County provided it this week. Fifty-seven electronic voting machines for the disabled malfunctioned Tuesday and could not be replaced for hours, despite requirements that they be available in each precinct."
What Outsourcers Can Learn from Open-Source Communities
CIO: "Yet a closer look from open-source software developers and industry analysts reveals that enterprises using outsourcing for their programming needs could stand to learn some management and process techniques from the open-source community."
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Dell Offering White Spaces Connectivity With Future Laptops
tgDaily: "Dell said it will be adding a new option for wireless connectivity in future laptops. The company plans to install radio chips that will be capable of connecting to the unused U.S. television spectrum referred to as White Spaces."
Open Source in Consumer Electronics: What, Why and How
DSP Design Line: "This article looks at the motives behind open source, explains where open source is (and isn't) succeeding, and reveals Texas Instruments' thinking on Linux and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)."
Improvements in GNOME 2.24 and Ubuntu 8.10
Bizarre Linux: "It'll be really hard for me to keep track which feature was done by which, so I'll post GNOME 2.24 and Ubuntu 8.10 as one. How is it hard? Well, I used to think that most of the things in Ubuntu were done by GNOME, but I was proven wrong when I looked deeply into the progress of Ubuntu 8.10 from alpha to final."
Top 10 Best Cheat Sheets and Tutorials for Linux / UNIX Commands
nixCraft: "Cheat sheet act as a reference tool which provides cut and paste kind of commands to complete a specific task. I often recommend following set of best cheat sheets to students and IT professionals. It include Linux / UNIX command and shell scripting."
The Terminal: Navigation
That Linux Guy: "Now that we’ve learned all about the terminal and what it can do, we’re going to start using it and begin showing off the power of it. We’ll use the pwd, cd and ls tools to move around and and list directory contents, and we’ll also take a look at the file and less tools."
Five Tweaks for Your New Ubuntu Desktop
Lifehacker: "This morning, though, we're taking a more nuts-and-bolts look at changes you can make to your newly-installed system to make it faster, reliable, and more enjoyable from the inside out. Read on for five tweaks that any Ubuntu user (or Linux user in general) should consider making to get started on the right foot."
Warning: Ubuntu/Arch Linux Slowdown? Check Your Swap
The Linux Hardcore: "Well, djsroknrol posted on The Linux Hardcore Forum about having a few issues with his Ubuntu install. After a bit of investigation, he realised that even though he had created and enabled a swap partition, it wasn't listed in /etc/mtab."
Using IPv6 On Debian Etch
HowtoForge: "This document describes how you can configure a Debian Etch system for IPv6 so that a) it can connect to other IPv6 hosts and b) other IPv6 hosts can connect to it. IPv6 should become more important in the future as recent estimates assume that there will be no more IPv4 addresses left by 2010 or 2011. Therefore it's time time to learn IPv6."
Linux Gnome Nautilus: "Add Open Terminal Here" Right Click Menu Option
nixCraft: "Question: How do I open a shell prompt or gnome-terminal at the current location while browsing directories and files via nautilus file manager? I'd like to see Open Terminal / Prompt here option added to my right click menu."
Filenames by Design, Part Two
Linux.com: "The first article in this series showed ways to use the names of files and directories as a simple database -- to organize collections of data and find them quickly from either a GUI menu, from a program, or from the command line."
Creative Gives In, They Open-Source Their X-Fi Driver
Phoronix: "However, Creative Labs today has finally turned this situation around and they have open-sourced the code to this notorious driver. The source-code for the Creative X-Fi driver is now licensed under the GNU GPLv2."
3 More Things Every Good Linux Adminstrator Knows
Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "Since my "5 Things Every Good Linux Administrator Knows" post the other day...I left out three very important things that every good Linux administrator should know."
Ballmer: Microsoft 'May Look' at WebKit
Most of the popular browsers these days are based on one of the two open source rendering engines - khtml/WebKit and Gecko. The most popular browser, however, is based on proprietary technology: Internet Explorer. Even though IE made some progress during the past few years, it's no secret that it took Microsoft far too long to counter the success of Mozilla's Firefox. Currently, Microsoft is working (and thus, spending money) on Internet Explorer 8, and this prompted an audience member during a keynote by Steve Ballmer to ask an interesting question: is it worth spending money on IE, with so many open source engines readily available? Ballmer's reply may surprise you.
Ballmer Says Unequivocal 'No' to New Yahoo Deal
Steve Ballmer said at an economic forum in Sydney today that any new Yahoo deal was totally of the cards, despite Yahoo's share price being less than half Microsoft's initial offer. At same time, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said that "I believe the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo." Google pulled out of its deal with Yahoo! earlier this week.
Getting Started in Android Game Development
Android is a java based environment. This is nice for new developers as Java is widely accepted as a much easier language to get started in than C++, which is the norm for mobile development. Google has also done an excellent job with documenting the API and providing examples to use. There is an example to show functionality for almost 100% of the API, called API Demos. If you're familiar with Java and have already used Eclipse, getting your first app working should be fairly simple. If you've never coded anything in your life before, you will have a lot to absorb as you move forward, but don't get discouraged.
More Quick Ways To Find CPU Bottlenecks On Linux
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "This post will be different from yesterday's in that we'll be focusing on specific CPU-related commands you can use, in a time of crisis (or, perhaps, just a long, drawn-out eternity of soul-crushing boredom ;), to determine if the CPU(s) on your machine are at the fore of whatever problems your system is having."
Microsoft 'Interested' in Open Source Browser: Ballmer
Techworld: "Microsoft has given its most ringing endorsement of open source Web browsers to date with chief executive officer Steve Ballmer not ruling out adopting such technology as an alternative to its own popular Internet Explorer, saying it is "interesting".
DRM Firmware Adopted by Mobile Linux Stack
LinuxDevices: "A Tokyo-based vendor of embedded security technology says its DRM product will be ported to Access's Linux stack for mobile devices. Discretix says its Content Protection for Recordable Media Client offers software-based protection for music, video, and other premium content on SD cards and mobile handsets."
Upcoming Fedora 10 Release Has Style and Substance
OStatic: "I have not seriously sat and looked at a Fedora release since FC2. As Fedora's new release started to take shape, I was hearing a lot of positive things -- comments about how good it looked, and how fast and solid it was. It seemed the right time to overcome the mental block I'd developed, and see what the fuss was about."
Available Now: KDE 4.1.3
Softpedia: "The KDE community announced yesterday (November 5th, 2008), in a press release, the immediate availability of the third maintenance of the K Desktop Environment, one of the most popular desktop managers, also known as KDE. The new release, KDE 4.1.3 (dubbed Change), ships with numerous bugfixes, some translation updates and many performance improvements."
ReactOS 0.3.7 Released
OSNews: "The ReactOS team has released version 0.3.7 of its Windows NT compatible operating system. This release along with the rest of the 0.3.x series is still considered alpha quality software."
Barack Obama Proves the Power of Open Source
Michael Tiemann's blog: "It would be a bit of a stretch to claim that Barack Obama won the 2008 election because his website ran open source software while John McCain's ran on proprietary software. But what is not a stretch at all is that Barack Obama's campaign built a powerful synergy between grass-roots politics and grass-roots technology, while presenting what many consider to be the most disciplined campaign of any candidate in modern history."
SanDisk Claims Hundredfold Speed Boost for Flash
OSNews: "Instead of resorting to things like delaying all writes until shutdown and storing them in RAM, SanDisk claims it has a better option. At WinHEC yesterday, the company introduced its Extreme FFS, which it claims will improve write performance on SSDs by a factor of 100."
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