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Microsoft Uses Linux Technology 5 hours, 44 minutes ago

Microsoft has stepped into the territory of automatic translation with Windows Live Translator Beta. The online-based service went live at the end of the past week as an offer equivalent to what the Mountain View delivers with Google Translate. Both Windows Live Translator and Google Translate are at this point in beta stage, but the similarities fail to stop at this. Windows Live Translator was introduced as Microsoft took its Windows Live suite of products and services into the next phase of evolution focused around the unified Windows Live installer.
Want Security? Drop Windows and Move to Linux, or Mac OS X 7 hours, 44 minutes ago

There is no silver bullet solution for security, and no foolproof client operating system. But the fact of the matter is that while neither Linux, nor Mac OS X and not even Windows Vista are panacea solutions for protecting users, they are all less attacked than Windows XP and older versions of the Microsoft platform. And the lack of an evolved threat environment goes hand in hand with the perception of security. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft has played a counting game with the security flaws of various rival operating systems since Vista was introduced, just to highlight it as the most secure Windows platform to date.
Linux users receive local support boost 8 hours, 14 minutes ago

Regional Linux users received a boost today as open source leader Red Hat announced the opening of a regional support centre for the Middle East.
Linux-Powered Smartphone Use on the Rise 8 hours, 44 minutes ago

By 2012, smart phones that use a scaled-down variant of the open source Linux operating system will account for roughly 31 percent of all smart devices in the marketplace, according to ABI Research. Linux smartphone technology will see its fastest growth, with annual growth rates as high as 75 percent, in the 2007 to 2012 period.
AMD opens door to ATI Linux drivers 9 hours, 14 minutes ago

AMD's ATI division is reversing its open source strategy by offering better open source drivers.
Open Source Programmers, Developers to Hold First Power Powwow 9 hours, 44 minutes ago

"This is the first time the Power Architecture is being promoted in this manner. Through Power.org [the sponsors] are pushing hard for Power to be recognized for the incredible inroads and foundation it maintains in a wide variety of industries -- military, telco, automobile, spaceborne and interplanetary and consumer," Kai Staats, CEO of Terra Soft Solutions, told LinuxInsider.
Linux Follow Up 10 hours, 14 minutes ago

I’ve been following the discussion in the comments with much interest and a few things are becoming clear to me:
Linux Finds Home On More Desktops 10 hours, 44 minutes ago

The Linux penguin is finally marching onto more desktops. Some of the biggest names in computing are pushing harder for the Linux open-source operating system as an option for desktop PCs.
Despite Standards Vote, OOXML Still Has a Shot 11 hours, 14 minutes ago

While the outcome of the voting was a setback for OOXML, it is by no means the end of the road for the format. "A further meeting by the ISO in February in Geneva, Switzerland, next year will discuss the comments accompanying the votes, and voting members can withdraw their votes of rejection," said David Wong, chairman of the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry Malaysia.
Video Surveillance With ZoneMinder On Ubuntu 11 hours, 44 minutes ago

ZoneMinder is the top Linux video camera security and surveillance solution. In this document I will cover how to get ZoneMinder up and running on Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS or Dapper Drake with the recent updates included. The surveillance system I am covering here utilizes 4 Dome CCTV cameras hooked up to a single Kodicom kmc-8800 capture card, in addition I also used infra red LED's so my cameras could see in the dark (Honestly I'm abit scared to look). ZoneMinder also does a good job with IP Cameras, unfortunatly they are considerably expensive in my part of the world, hence 4 cameras would blow my budget.
Why Microsoft Should Abandon Windows, Embrace BSD 12 hours, 14 minutes ago

By now, it's fairly apparent that Vista is not such a good thing in the grand scheme of things. Even after considering Vista's successes, Microsoft needs to consider where Windows is going to be in the next 10 years. Windows 7 will have its work cut out for it, but what happens after that? Should Microsoft start a dual OS approach to the market? According to latest rumors about Windows 7 features, it sounds like a good idea.
Windows, Linux, OS X User Interfaces: All Fluff, No Function 12 hours, 44 minutes ago

I have been wondering about this for sometime now - what defines a professional looking UI for an operating system? Recently, with the release of OS X's latest, Windows Vista and Beryl on various Linux distributions, it seems that there has been plenty of emphasis on the OS interface.
The Open Source Solution to Solving Linux Wi-Fi Problem 13 hours, 14 minutes ago

Could this be the badly needed 'fix' that we need in the wireless world with regard to Linux? While it does present a new world of simplicity with getting innovation underway, I do not think this alone is going to help get more wireless vendors on board with the Linux movement anytime soon. Still, the efforts made with OpenHAL and MadWiFi hold out hope for many users out there, especially those of us who are tired of playing "musical wireless cards," thanks to the vendors who choose to use those darn Broadcom chipsets.
NVIDIA: Got Specifications? 13 hours, 44 minutes ago

This past week AMD raised the Linux graphics bar by not only announcing their new fglrx graphics driver, which delivers Radeon HD 2000 support, immense performance improvements, and AIGLX, but it was accompanied by an announcement that they will be delivering specifications to the X.Org development community. These two announcements came after intense work internally at AMD and over a long period of time, but literally overnight it changed the minds of many Linux users on how they judge this company with its once notorious binary blob. AMD has really set a precedence for showing that a semiconductor company once criticized to no end with their proprietary software can update their views to assist and embrace the open-source Linux community while remaining competitive as a company in a triopoloy market. They have also thus reaffirmed that Linux is a viable desktop operating system. But the ball has now landed in NVIDIA's court. NVIDIA can either play ball by pushing forward with a similar effort, and then all of the big three GPU manufacturers would be cradling an open-source strategy, or they may find themselves in trouble down the road.
Central Log Management System 1 day, 4 hours ago

"Central Log Management System is a simple web based logging system which allows logging all syslog messages from various Network Devices, Unix, Linux, Solaris and Windows Servers. This allows the visibility of logs from all these devices in one single interface ...."
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Download 'em with FlashGot extension

By Mayank Sharma on September 10, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)

A download manager can save you time if you download a lot of large files from the Internet, but it can be annoying to have to grab a link from your browser and pass it to the download manager manually. With the FlashGot extension for Firefox, you no longer have to. FlashGot sits between the two applications and fuses your favorite download manager with your Web browser.

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IBM dives into OpenOffice.org development

By Mayank Sharma on September 10, 2007 (12:13:30 PM)

IBM will join the OpenOffice.org community and contribute code and resources, the company announced today. IBM has been a major supporter of the Open Document Format (ODF) which originated at OpenOffice.org, but hadn't yet taken the plunge to help out with the development.

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How to give your low-end Canon digital camera RAW support

By Nathan Willis on September 10, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)

If you have a point-and-click digital camera made by Canon, you may be able to turn on all sorts of features usually reserved for more expensive SLRs. That includes live histograms, depth-of-field calculation, under and overexposure highlighting, and -- best of all -- shooting your pictures in RAW. The secret is CHDK, an enhanced, free software replacement firmware.

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Paterva Evolution is dead, long live Maltego

By Joe Barr on September 10, 2007 (1:10:44 AM)

As noted in the update to our review of Paterva Evolution, a personal data mining tool, Roelof Temmingh has removed the binaries for the application after having received legal threats over its use. In an email on the Paterva announcement's mailing list over the weekend, Temmingh revealed more about why the binaries had to be removed and unveiled his plans for future work on the project.

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It's time to retire the mom test

By Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier on September 08, 2007 (2:00:00 PM)

One of the more humorous ad series today is the Geico "caveman" commercials, featuring a caveman complaining about the stereotype of something being "so easy a caveman could do it." Since we don't have to worry about offending cavemen (or cavewomen), companies can safely poke humor at that demographic group and not worry about alienating anyone. However, you might want to think twice about saying "it's so easy your mom can do it."

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Mindbridge switches to Linux, saves "bunches of money"

By Tina Gasperson on September 07, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)

Mindbridge didn't start out as an open source company -- far from it. "We had a predominantly Microsoft-oriented shop," says David Christian, Mindbridge CTO. But the company, which at the time offered an "intranet in a box" application, began hosting the software for its clients. "That required us to get a good handle on Linux, because Linux was the only inexpensive, cost-efficient way of handling that in a scaled environment," Christian says. "And I didn't want to add Microsoft to our customers' overhead." The more Christian worked with Linux, the more he liked it. And, as they say, the rest is history.

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Secrets of the man command

By Shashank Sharma on September 07, 2007 (4:00:00 PM)

The most referenced and most often used command on any Linux distribution is man, which lets users read the manual pages of other commands. Here are a couple of less well-known but useful commands that let you bookmark a position within a man page, and test a command you read from the man page without closing the page.

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A quick guide to DVD authoring

By Rui Lopes on September 07, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)

If you have video footage that you want to capture, edit, and share with friends or family (or even use professionally), you'll be happy to know that you can do it all with open source tools. I'll show you how to author a DVD that can play on most home players.

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European Union sponsors new FOSS education portal

By Bruce Byfield on September 06, 2007 (11:49:22 PM)

Heavily funded by the European Union, the Science, Education, and Learning in Freedom (SELF) consortium launched the beta version of its site this week with the motto, "Be SELFish, share your knowledge!" By the end of the year, SELF hopes to develop into the Wikipedia of free learning materials, with a heavy emphasis on material about open standards and free and open source software (FOSS). All contributions, says David Megías, a Lecturer at the University of Catalonia and one of the SELF's organizers, will be "encouraged and accepted, unless they have to be removed for legal reasons." The twist here is that all contributions will be evaluated by the community, so that users can assess the quality of the materials that they are using.

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A look at VMware Fusion

By Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier on September 06, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)

If you're a Linux user who's just been issued an Apple computer, you might want to look into a virtualization solution for Mac OS X. VMware's Fusion, which was officially released from beta at the beginning of the month, works well for running Linux (or other x86/AMD64 OSes) on the Mac desktop, and provides a great solution for multi-OS users who need simultaneous access to all their operating systems on the same machine.

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It's official: ATI Radeon drivers to be open sourced

By Joe Barr on September 06, 2007 (5:30:00 PM)

AMD briefed Linux.com this morning on a pending announcement regarding the open sourcing of drivers for ATI graphics cards. It's official -- AMD will make code and specifications for ATI graphics cards available on the Internet on September 10.

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VirtualBox 1.5.0 update includes seamless windowing

By Lisa Hoover on September 06, 2007 (4:00:00 PM)

Innotek rolled out a significant update to its VirtualBox open source virtualization software this week. According to Achim Hasenmueller, managing director of innotek, the release of VirtualBox 1.5.0 for Windows and Linux marks the first time seamless windowing -- the ability to display a single Windows application on a Linux desktop -- is available for Linux systems.

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KDE 4 Beta 2 released today

By Lisa Hoover on September 06, 2007 (2:30:35 PM)

KDE 4.0 continues to edge closer to completion with today's announcement of the Beta 2 release. Improvements have been made to Bluetooth support and blogging functions, and a freeze is in place so developers can begin working on bug fixes. Beta 2 also includes KOffice 2.0 Alpha 2 and a complete overhaul of remote desktop client KRDC.

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Configuring your webcam to work under Linux

By Bruce Byfield on September 06, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)

If you want the old-time GNU/Linux experience, try configuring a Web camera. Unlike most peripherals, webcams are generally not configured during installation. Moreover, where printers have the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) and its interfaces, with webcams you are generally thrown back on whatever resources you can find on the Internet and your own knowledge of kernel modules and drivers. These obstacles means that configuring webcams can be a challenge -- but with determination and thoroughness, and maybe a little luck, you can get your webcam running in less than an afternoon.

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Red Hat High campers are bridging the digital divide

By Tina Gasperson on September 05, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)

One of the things Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik loses sleep over is the digital divide, especially when it comes to children. He wanted to do something about the disparity in the availability of computing resources and skills between social classes, so he set aside corporate funds to create Red Hat High, a week-long technology summer camp for eighth- and ninth-grade students.

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Qualcomm sets the record straight on Penelope (Hint: it's not Eudora 8)

By Lisa Hoover on September 05, 2007 (4:00:00 PM)

Last fall, Qualcomm announced plans to join forces with the developers of Mozilla's Thunderbird email client to produce an open source version of Eudora. Since some code in the original Eudora client is proprietary, engineers needed to rebuild the application from scratch. When the first beta release of Penelope -- a Thunderbird add-on developed by Qualcomm -- was announced this week, many people assumed it was actually a beta release of a new open source Eudora client. Adding to the confusion is the fact that Penelope is not supported on Linux systems. Jeff Beckley, co-project lead at Qualcomm, sets the record straight.

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PhpGedView puts your ancestors on the Web

By Lorenzo Simionato on September 05, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)

PhpGedView is an open source application that lets you post your genealogy records on your Web site. It has a lot of interesting features, and makes viewing and editing all aspects of your genealogy easy and fun.

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Palm cancels Foleo sub-notebook

By Nathan Willis on September 04, 2007 (10:46:24 PM)

Palm CEO Ed Colligan announced the cancellation of the company's Foleo mobile companion today in a post on the company's official blog. Colligan cites the need to focus effort on Palm's next-generation smartphone operating system as the reason behind the decision.

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A Linux user group in a Pacific paradise

By Ladislav Bodnar on September 04, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)

What springs to your mind upon hearing the words "Tahiti" or "Fiji"? White sandy beaches? Spectacular sunsets? Blue lagoons with colorful marine life? While natural beauty is indeed one of the most attractive aspects of the South Pacific, you might be surprised to learn that on some of these paradise islands there are active Linux user communities and even officially registered Linux user groups (LUG). New Caledonia, which I had the pleasure to visit last month, is one such place.

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Keep your laptop and PC in Unison

By Federico Kereki on September 04, 2007 (4:00:00 PM)

I usually carry my laptop everywhere and do work on it, but I do also need to work at my desktop PC, so I need to synchronize the files on the two machines. I have used several sync tools in the past, ranging from simple commands like scp and rsync to utilities like Krusader, which includes a way to synchronize directories on different machines. Recently I started using Unison.

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