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8:37 pm , July 2 - Android smartphones are sending waves of excitement through the mobile community that they are a serious contender to knock iPhone off its smartphone perch. But, are they really a threat or have they already missed the ...

7:50 pm , July 2 - Bordeaux 1.8.0 beta 1 for Mac OSX systems has been released, this release adds support for Microsoft Office 2003 Applications (Word, Excel, Powerpnt) Microsoft Project 2003 and Visio 2003. Their are still a small number of known problems around libgphoto2 and libpng ...

7:08 pm , July 2 - Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a missioncritical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE (London Stock Exchange)'s Windowsbased TradElect system brought the market to a standstill ...

6:04 pm , July 2 - The Mono discussion may be tiring, but the fact of the matter is that thanks to this discussion, various major Linux distributions are now making official statements detailing their position in the Mono/C# debate. The latest to do this is Ubuntu, which ...

5:07 pm , July 2 - The GNU General Public Licence is falling in popularity, looking at all the versions of the GPL as a whole, according to figures released on Tuesday by Black Duck. At the same time, Microsoft's open source software license, MSPL, is gaining ground ...

4:09 pm , July 2 - I have trolled my Twitter feeds looking for something exciting or provocative related to Open Source, but nothing, other than the release of Fedora 11 and Firefox 3.5 is jumping out at me and frankly neither is particularly news worth, despite the ...

3:12 pm , July 2 - Linux Journal's Shawn Powers shows us how to use nice and renice to change the priority level of your ...

2:15 pm , July 2 - One of the benefits of moving the different graphics hardware drivers over to using kernel modesetting, an inkernel GPU memory manager (whether it be GEM or TTM), and other newer X innovations is the possibility of now running the X Server without ...

1:18 pm , July 2 - Adobe AIR is a technology that lets you run Internet applications on the desktop. With AIR you do not need a browser to run such desktop applications. This tutorial explains how you can install Adobe AIR 1.5.1 for Linux on an Ubuntu ...

8:04 pm , July 2 - We've all heard the scornful criticism against idealism, as though it were something to be ashamed of, and mocking of the fundamental ideals of Free Software. I'm not embarrassed to have ideals, I am ...

7:34 pm , July 2 - HowtoForge: This tutorial explains how you can replace passwordbased SSH authentication with keybased authentication which is more secure because only the people that own the key can log in. In this example, we're using PuTTY as our SSH client on a ...

7:04 pm , July 2 - Tuxarena: Eschalon is a turnbased RPG (roleplaying game), which tries to reproduce the feeling of classic RPG games. It's closedsource, available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, and it comes with a demo too. The full version is available as ...

6:34 pm , July 2 - Netstat vat: The AES (Advance Encryption Standard) (Define:AES) is a standard encryption mechanism in use by the US Government and many others and it is now at risk from a very theoretical ...

6:04 pm , July 2 - Business Week: So Ken Saunders, a 41yearold, legally blind volunteer for Mozilla, took it upon himself to create a tool that makes the player easier to use for people with vision ...

5:34 pm , July 2 - Linux Magazine: VirtualBox 3.0, with its improved 3D support, can ensure that some users won't need to boot Windows even when ...

5:04 pm , July 2 - Electronic Frontier Foundation: But as part of a ploy to squeeze more money out of the mobile phone companies, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) has told a federal court that each time a phone rings in ...

4:34 pm , July 2 - A Million Chimpanzees: Welcome to Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python . Not a book about learning Python as such, but an introduction to the discipline of Computer Science with Python as your ...

4:04 pm , July 2 - InternetNews: In total, PostgreSQL 8.4 includes 293 enhancements from the previous 8.3 release, an update that was primarily centered around ...

7:25 pm , July 2 - I noticed that the videos from the most recent Ubuntu Developer Summit are now online, and thought I’d have a play with the new embedded HTML5 video stuff in Firefox 3.5. Rather than view all the videos by downloading them individually I ...

6:25 pm , July 2 - Just in case you missed it, the plenary videos from UDS are now up: ...

3:15 pm , July 2 - Hello, folks. This is a quick post (written in the airport, while waiting my flight to Gran Canaria) just to tell you that GNOME Brazil one more time rocked at FISL – International Free Software Forum, which took place (again, as every ...

1:58 pm , July 2 - A feature I would really like on my computer is reasonable file content and meta data indexing, not such full text indexing for doing searched but field indexing for doing date/time boundaries, size indexing and other useful components that would make meta ...

12:42 pm , July 2 - The perl and python solutions presented for dumping Firefox current session URLs are not very accurate if you navigate around in the same tab using backwards and forward buttons while remaining on the same domain, as they always print the first visited ...

11:26 am , July 2 - As others on PlanetKDE already wrote we had a really great time in Berlin last week. The KDE/Kubuntu/Amarok booth was well staffed with my favorite gearheads and new KDE people now to be added to the former group It was nice ...

10:31 am , July 2 - Everybody is blogging about it, so do I. Tomorrow I will be travelling to Gran Canaria to attend the Desktop Summit. If you're interested in testing, I will be presenting Mago on Wednesday. I hope to see you there and meet a ...