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Top 10 IT Billionaires -- A Closer Look (Mar 13, 2010, 16:02 UTC) (900 reads)
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(feedback) DevX: "Forbes released its annual list of the world's billionaires Thursday, and technology companies are well represented, even though Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest person."
Proof Of Concept: Open-Source Multi-GPU Rendering! (Mar 13, 2010, 12:02 UTC) (1174 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "David's goals with Prime are to allow a second GPU to render 3D applications onto the screen of the first GPU, with it being configurable by the client, and just to handle the rendering side."
How to compile the Linux kernel (Mar 13, 2010, 08:02 UTC) (1734 reads)
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(feedback) TuxRadar: "Do you want to remove bloat from your Linux installation? Are you looking to enable extra features that aren't provided by your distro? Fancy trying some of the cutting-edge patches doing the rounds? You'll need to recompile your kernel, and while it might look like black magic if you've never done it before, it's actually pretty straightforward."
Novell's Motion to Allow Evidence: SCO Opened the Door (Mar 13, 2010, 04:02 UTC) (1847 reads)
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(feedback) Groklaw: "SCO's attorney Stuart Singer may have gotten carried away with his theatrical indignation. And when a party slips like this, what lawyers call opening the door, it can indeed have consequences. Novell was just waiting for a moment like this."
Blake Stowell Email to Maureen O'Gara: "I Need You to Send a Jab PJ's Way" (Mar 13, 2010, 00:04 UTC) (1699 reads)
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(feedback) Groklaw: "So. Now I know. Now we all know.
Blake Stowell, then the PR guy for SCO, sent an email to Maureen O'Gara, saying "I need you to send a jab PJ's way," and then right afterwards she wrote that invasive so-called expose, in which she revealed, or at least intended to reveal, things like who I called on my phone."
'Rising Tide' for x86 Servers Lifting Intel, AMD (Mar 12, 2010, 23:32 UTC) (888 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Stating it believes server sales are being underestimated by Wall Street, Broadpoint AmTech's latest report predicts both Intel and AMD will post better-than-expected earnings in the first quarter."
Digg Moves From MySQL to NoSQL (Mar 12, 2010, 23:02 UTC) (2029 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "Social networking and voting site Digg is rewriting its underlying software infrastructure in an effort to improve performance and scalability. Part of that effort involves moving away from the MySQL database that has helped to power Digg since its creation."
Elliott Associates: Novell Won't Go to Pieces (Mar 12, 2010, 22:32 UTC) (1021 reads)
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(feedback) The VAR Guy: "Elliott Associates, the hedge fund that’s seeking to acquire Novell and SUSE Linux, is denying a report that it plans to break up Novell and sell off the pieces. Hmmm…"
Text-to-Speech Software for Linux (Mar 12, 2010, 22:02 UTC) (1527 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Source: "If you've been looking for a free speech synthesizer for Linux, the one that I can highly recommend is a program called Festival."
Microsoft Office 2007 on OpenSolaris (Mar 12, 2010, 21:32 UTC) (1695 reads)
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(feedback) Wine-Reviews: "Today I thought I would show everyone just how easy it is to install and use Microsoft Office 2007 on OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 2010.03 with Bordeaux for Solaris. I have installed Office 2007 on both OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 2010.03"
Here comes Linux's iPad clones (Mar 12, 2010, 21:02 UTC) (2458 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld: "You can pre-order an Apple iPad starting today, March 12th, but seriously, do you really want to?"
Does HTML5 Really Beat Flash? The Surprising Results of New Tests (Mar 12, 2010, 19:32 UTC) (3064 reads)
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(feedback) ReadWriteWeb: "However, recent tests have put Flash up against HTML5, the new web markup language that eliminates the need for the Adobe plugin. The results of these tests show that this is not a simple black-and-white issue. Is Flash really a CPU hog?"
Apple's patent attack (Mar 12, 2010, 19:02 UTC) (1399 reads)
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(feedback) LWN.net: "Those who worry about these things have expected that attacks might come from patent trolls, or from software companies with fading prospects. Apple's lawsuit against HTC shows that the real threat may come from a different direction."
Ubuntu Server: The Linux OS Dark Horse (Mar 12, 2010, 18:02 UTC) (1805 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Everyone has heard of Ubuntu Linux and how great it is on the desktop, but have you heard that there's a server version of that same uber-cool operating system? There is, and you should know about it."
Vimperator: Use Firefox the Vim Way (Mar 12, 2010, 17:32 UTC) (1177 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "Bring the mightiness of Vim to Firefox! If you’re ready for a fully keyboard-driven browser, the Vimperator add-on for Firefox can help you do away with mouse-based drudgery and add the awesomeness of vi-like keybindings to Firefox 3.5 and later."
Jetway NC96 NC96-510-LF (Mar 12, 2010, 17:02 UTC) (865 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Jetway is one of the vendors that was quick to design a new IPC motherboard that bears the Intel Atom D510 dual-core processor with Intel GMA 3150 graphics and the NM10 Express Chipset."
Design firm accuses Mozilla of UI plagiarism (Mar 12, 2010, 16:32 UTC) (1100 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld: "A Canadian interface design firm accused Mozilla of stealing user interface (UI) elements for a development tool in the browser maker's Jetpack project, which aims to simplify add-on making."
SECURITY: Q&A: Google hacking (Mar 12, 2010, 16:02 UTC) (1548 reads)
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(feedback) Help Net Security: "Anything connected to the web, is indexed by Google. Even administrator's portals of devices connected to the web, such as printers and webcams are crawled and discovered by Google. You’ll be surprised by how many unprotected webcams are connected to the internet..."
And thank you for the penguins (Mar 12, 2010, 15:32 UTC) (1405 reads)
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(feedback) Raiden's Realm: "But what if Linus had chosen to instead use the Gnu (I know, that one was already taken, but humor me here), or a beaver, or a bear, or maybe a demon like Freebsd uses? (already, it's technical a "daemon", but let's ignore the technicalities for the sake of this argument.)"
Unix Tip: Sed & Awk -- Still friendly after all these years (Mar 12, 2010, 15:02 UTC) (1523 reads)
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(feedback) IT World: "Even after decades of using Unix on thousands of systems, I find that it's still fun to discover various convolutions of sed and awk commands to perform command line wizardry. There's a lot more to each of these tools than those uses I make of these commands on a routine basis."
A Modest Proposal for Toyota: Release the Code! (Mar 12, 2010, 14:32 UTC) (1879 reads)
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(feedback) Bnet: "Things look bad for Toyota. There was yet another unintended acceleration incident involving a Toyota yesterday. A Prius in New York on its way to the dealership to have its gas-pedal checked out crashed into a stone wall."
HP Elite 7000 Microtower review (Mar 12, 2010, 14:02 UTC) (1220 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User and Developer: "In an age when Linux has become a powerful platform for development work, graphics processing and video production, it’s a welcome relief to see a mid-range system built for people who may or may not have experience with Linux."
GP-GPUs: OpenCL Is Ready For The Heavy Lifting (Mar 12, 2010, 13:32 UTC) (1472 reads)
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(feedback) Lnux Magazine: "The CUDA wave has definitely hit the beach and I’ll have more on nVidia as the Fermi GPU begins to filter into the HPC trenches. In this column I want to talk about the other GPU language: OpenCL"
Deferrable functions, kernel tasklets, and work queues (Mar 12, 2010, 13:02 UTC) (985 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "For high-frequency threaded operations, the Linux® kernel provides tasklets and work queues. Tasklets and work queues implement deferrable functionality and replace the older bottom-half mechanism for drivers."
Simon Phipps elected as OSI director (Mar 12, 2010, 12:32 UTC) (692 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has elected Simon Phipps to the board of directors; Phipps recently left Oracle after serving as Sun's Chief Open Source Officer."
Beginner’s Guide to Git (Mar 12, 2010, 12:02 UTC) (1953 reads)
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(feedback) Make Tech Easier: "Git is the revision control system created by the Linux kernel’s famous Linus Torvalds due to a lack of satisfaction with existing solutions. The main emphasis in the design was on speed, or more specifically, efficiency."
Day 3 of the Trial, Through the Eyes of Groklaw and the SL Tribune (Mar 12, 2010, 11:02 UTC) (1284 reads)
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(feedback) Groklaw: "Here's what the Salt Lake Tribune reports happened today at the SCO v. Novell trial, all of which it records as if it were all so. Let's see if it is, by comparing what is reported about the testimony with what we already know. Part of what Groklaw does is insist on checking facts. So, let's do that."
AMD to Introduce Netbook Chip in 2011 (Mar 12, 2010, 09:02 UTC) (1656 reads)
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(feedback) Hardware Central: "Advanced Micro Devices plans to release a processor in its "Fusion" line that will be positioned for the netbook market, putting it in competition with the Intel Atom, and, to a lesser degree, the ARM processor."
Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Deployed on Intel Hardware (Mar 12, 2010, 07:02 UTC) (1176 reads)
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(feedback) Softpedia: "Canonical, the company behind the very popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, recognizes the potential of the emerging market and has partnered with Intel and Eucalyptus to promote its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) offering as part of Intel's Cloud Builder program."
Health Check: Mandriva (Mar 12, 2010, 03:02 UTC) (1898 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "Mandriva began life in July 1998 as Linux Mandrake in France in Gael Duval's bedroom after he ported a KDE 1.0 desktop onto Red Hat Linux 5.1, uploaded the result onto two FTP servers, went away on holiday, and came back to find that he had a popular and successful Linux distribution on his hands."
How to Install Debian Linux on an Embedded System (Mar 12, 2010, 01:32 UTC) (1510 reads)
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(feedback) The Bitsource: "In this article, I will describe how to bring up Debian Linux on an Embedded System. The hardware chosen for the embedded system is a PowerPC 440EPxX. "
First Fedora 13 Linux Alpha Shows Promise (Mar 12, 2010, 00:02 UTC) (2517 reads)
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(feedback) Netstat -vat: "The first alpha milestone of the Fedora 13 Linux distribution is now available and it's loaded with a number of innovative features."
How to Create Space Scenes Quickly and Easily in Gimp (Mar 11, 2010, 23:33 UTC) (1857 reads)
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(feedback) MakeTechEasier: "Creating a cool space scene can be done in a few minutes once you’ve got the basic method down, and Gimp provides several ways to go about adding random elements to keep things interesting."
Survey of MySQL Storage Engines (Mar 11, 2010, 23:03 UTC) (1402 reads)
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(feedback) Database Journal: "MySQL has an interesting architecture that sets it apart from some other enterprise database systems. It allows you to plug in different modules to handle storage. What that means to end users is that it is quite flexible, offering an interesting array of different storage engines with different features, strengths, and tradeoffs."
SCALE 8x: Color management for everyone (Mar 11, 2010, 22:33 UTC) (960 reads)
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(feedback) LWN.net: "Color management is sometimes unfairly characterized as a topic of interest only to print shops and video editors, but as Cruz explained at the top of his talk, anyone who shares digital content wants it to look correct, and everyone who uses more than one device knows how tricky that can be."
