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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Patrick Verner has released Parted Magic 4.11, a utility live CD with various data rescue and disk management tools: "Parted Magic 4.11. This version of Parted Magic updates FSArchiver 0.6.10, gDisk 0.6.7, LFTP 4.0.7, OpenSSH 5.5p1, Chromium 6.0.424.0, Linux kernel 2.6.32.15, Parted 2.3, NTFS-3G 2010.5.22, syslinux 3.86, udev .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Opinion: Binary firmware and your freedom News: Fedora 14 features, Slackware and Peppermint OS interviews, ZFS for Linux Questions and answers: Encrypting hard disk partition Released last week: Zenwalk Linux 6.4 "GNOME", sidux 2010-01, Zorin OS 3 Upcoming releases: openSUSE 11.3 RC1, Fedora .



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Source: Linux Today

The Register: "As developers await word from Steve Jobs that applications coded with Appcelerator's Titanium kit are still welcome in the iPhone App Store, the company is testing a new version of the kit for RIM BlackBerries."


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Source: Linux Today

ComputerWorld UK: "When I said recently that we still need the Open Source Initiative (OSI), it started a flood of comment. There's no doubt that we need OSI - but we need a better OSI. The one we have now is just too small to be effective and too mired in past successes; a renaissance is needed. You can help."


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on an Ubuntu 10.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support."


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Source: Linux Today

Systhread: "The thesis of the material is to provide some small examples of various system programming that are practical and within easy reach. A new programmer or someone just looking to expand their skillsets might find it useful."


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Source: Linux Today

Handle With Linux: "This is the Q7, a very nice mobile Internet device available running ubuntu or android. It has 1080p HD video playback and that could make it a top gadget. Sadly it's missing one important feature."


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Source: Linux Today

The Blog of Helios: "For those who do not know, Linux Against Poverty is an event that couples the Austin Tech Community with businesses and individuals who donate computers to be given to disadvantaged kids in the area."


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Source: Linux Today

Beez Speaks: "The only conclusion I can draw is that the audience that Ubuntu attracts are not your usual 'computer-savvy' user who has no problem reinstalling something, switching distros or even forking a distribution. They obviously seem to want something that just works, which is not the product Mark Shuttleworth supplies."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Drive-in: "Finally! The much discussed about F-Spot vs Shotwell battle is over. The new default image organizer app for Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 is going to be Shotwell."


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Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "Simon Phipps, recently elected member of the board of the Open Source Initiative, has announced he has been asked by the board to create a group to develop a new member-led governance charter for the organization."


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Source: Linux Today

Systhread: "I have branched a new version of the netreconn tools. There have been some major changes to it and there is still a lot of work yet to go."


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Source: Linux Today

Channel Register: "In the tablet space, the Ubuntu OS will compete with Apple's iOS, Google's Android, and the Intel-Nokia-Novell mash-up, Meego."


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Source: Linux Today

fewt@blog: "Yesterday, it was announced that a popular software package for Linux distributions contains a backdoor giving full access to execute commands as a user on the host where this software package is installed."


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Source: Linux Today

Mercury News: "I've been hearing from the penguins since I wrote recently that if Silicon Valley CEOs want the state to improve K-12 education, then they should take a bigger role in helping those schools deploy classroom technology from this century."


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Source: Linux Today

Webopedia: "A Linux networking function. IP Masquerade, also called IPMASQ or MASQ, allows one or more computers in a network without assigned IP addresses to communicate with the Internet using the Linux server's assigned IP address."



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

When you install the Ubuntu Netbook Edition in October, don't look for Firefox on the desktop — it won't be there. Chromium, Chrome's open source cousin, is going to be taking its place. After years of desktop dominance on Linux, is Firefox losing its foothold or is this an anomaly?



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Source: ONLamp.com

I first ran into what turns out to be a recurring problem when I installed Pardus 2009 last fall. The installer would lock up. Since then I have run into an almost identical problem in openSUSE11.2, Slackware 13.1 and SalixOS 13.1. It appears that the wireless chipset as implemented in these netbooks conflicts with the ssb module, causing the system to freeze.



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Source: Security DevCenter

The smart way to learn Outlook 2010-one step at a time! Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and skill-building exercises.


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Source: Security DevCenter

We have a massive and growing supply and demand imbalance in the book business. And, as the technologies for creating and distributing books becomes trivial, the supply of books is just going to keep growing exponentially . How are people going to sift through all these books to find what they want?


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Source: Security DevCenter

"If you have one of the numerous phones that run on Google's Android platform, you can not only alleviate some of the inconveniences of traveling, but also gain some extra productivity from your device while in the office, on the road or at home," writes Mike Hendrickson, O'Reilly's associate publisher and co-author of Best Android Apps. In his new O'Reilly Insights column posted on Forbes.com, Hendrickson identifies the best apps for business travelers. Read more about Best Business Apps for Android.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Here at the O'Reilly School of Technology, we're always looking for ways to make it easier for busy people to fit valuable career training into their lives. So now that Facebook and Twitter have become ubiquitous, it only makes sense that we utilize these tools for the betterment of our students, alumni, and potential students.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Use iPhone's onboard sensors to build cutting-edge location-based and augmented reality apps. With this book, you'll learn how to combine input from the three-axis accelerometer, GPS, digital compass, and camera with outside data sets to create apps that interact with the physical world. It's ideal for experienced iPhone programmers, game programmers, augmented reality programmers, and geo hackers.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Well the short answer is more like, what isn't e-publishing?


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Source: Security DevCenter

Will the Department of Health and Human Services make community health information as useful as GPS or weather data?


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Source: Security DevCenter

Three news items caught my interest this week. all slightly related: Dr. Neelie Kroes has made a significant speech How to get more interoperability in Europe on practical steps on interoperability and standards. She presents this as building on the


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Source: Security DevCenter

Open source advocate Marco Fioretti has just announced the start of a
study on open data for the European Union, with a focus on economic
benefits for local businesses. Related surveys are also mentioned.


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Source: Security DevCenter

So, I'm here at Flash Belt, stoked about getting to hobnob with some of the best minds in the business, and, by the way, go to some fantastic sessions. The schedule is thick with fantastic presentations, so I have


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Source: Security DevCenter

Today's technology lets us choose if we want to absorb other people's ideas or build our our own. Shouldn't that be starting point when we argue about the role of technology in schools?


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Source: Security DevCenter

Learning from Libraries: the Literacy Challenge of Open Data (David Eaves) -- a powerful continuation of the theme from my Rethinking Open Data post. David observes that dumping data over the fence isn't enough, we must help citizens engage. We have a model for that help, in the form of libraries: We didn’t build libraries for an already literate



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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Produce and record a 60-second theatre sound play using XML, PHP, and Festival, and provide stage directions, inject sound effects, and control dialogue flow, with a cast of dynamically allocated Festival voices.



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