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Samba Team Releases Samba 3.2 The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.2, a major new release of the award-winning Free Software file and print server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. Announcement within. (Jul 1, 2008)
Linux Today Features
Sidux, a Great Alternative to Ubuntu LinuxPlanet: "Sidux announced a brand-new release on June 26, Sidux 2008-02, so we're going to kick the tires and take it for a drive, and see what sets it apart from other children of Debian..." (Jul 5, 2008)
Perl and Bash Versions Of Binary To Decimal Conversion Script (Jul 19, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (716 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "As promised, in yesterday's post on converting binary values to decimal in C, today we're going to follow up with straight-up ports to Perl and shell. Actually, they'll be slightly different. If you check yesterday's post, for some reason I left in a variable called "difference" which was a part of the code I mentioned that I had originally written to pad 0's on the left hand side of a binary number less than 8 digits."
E4X: JavaScript on Steroids (Jul 19, 2008, 09:30 UTC) (957 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "E4X is designed to simplify the task of writing JavaScript code for XML. It is an efficient, powerful tool that you can use to interact with XML nodes and attributes. The primary objective of E4X is to give JavaScript developers a straightforward and efficient way to manipulate an XML document without relying on the Document Object Model (DOM)."
Converting Binary Numbers To Decimal The Hard Way On Linux Or Unix (Jul 18, 2008, 09:30 UTC) (1278 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "If you recall a while back, we looked at using Perl's "unpack" function to easily convert binary values to decimal and convert decimal back to binary. Those were both (some folks may consider) relatively sophisticated methods of tackling the problem. Although, once you understand how "unpack" works, the first becomes incredibly simple to use and understand."
Themes in e107 CMS (Jul 18, 2008, 06:30 UTC) (831 reads)
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(feedback) Packt "The look and feel of any website is a major factor that drives traffic towards the site. A theme is responsible to give a consistent look and feel to a website. In this article by Theodore S Boomer, we will see how to select and delete themes for e107 websites"
Mono Man Accuses Mac Gtk+ Fans of Jeopardizing Linux Desktop (Jul 17, 2008, 17:15 UTC) (2279 reads)
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(feedback) The Register: "De Icaza, leading the Mono and Moonlight cross-platform .NET projects at Novell, has warned a "new crop" of developers pushing plans for Gtk+ 3 risk "throwing away years of work" on Gtk+. They're also failing to recognize the value of having an ISV ecosystem working to put Gnome on Linux. Gtk+ is the tool set for building the Gnome graphical user interface, with version three the next planned major update."
Getting Started with XForms in OpenOffice (Jul 17, 2008, 15:45 UTC) (1227 reads)
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(feedback) DevX.com: "Most developers have heard of XForms as an XML-based forms language meant to replace traditional HTML Forms. This is essentially correct; XForms was created as the next generation version of HTML forms—but the design goals are such that they can be implemented as forms in environments other than the web browser. One such environment is your typical office application. XForms is implemented as one possible method of doing forms-based applications in OpenOffice or Sun's StarOffice."
Google Android: The Difference Between "Open" and "Open Source" (Jul 17, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (1573 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "...developers - tired of fighting bugs in a months-old SDK build - started asking for a roadmap of future releases. Not only did Google ignore this request, but they did something worse (from the point of view of many developers): they released a fresh SDK build to a few favored developers, and then accidentally leaked the news themselves."
Persistent Configuration Options For X.Org Drivers (Jul 17, 2008, 02:00 UTC) (1263 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Thanks to more reliable EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) on LCD panels, it's generally no longer needed to manually specify mode-lines within this X.Org configuration file. With improvements for auto-detection, in many circumstances it's no longer even needed to manually specify your graphics driver and other options. However, the X Server currently lacks an infrastructure for supporting persistent device properties."
What Linus Torvalds thinks about BSD (Jul 16, 2008, 21:29 UTC) (4881 reads)
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(feedback) Internet News: "It's soo rude that it's 'funny' - that is if you're not an OpenBSD developer or have a particular affection for monkeys."
Using Static Analysis Tools to Identify Code Smells (Jul 16, 2008, 11:00 UTC) (1151 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "Over the years, I've seen lots of source code from many projects, ranging from elegant designs to code that appeared to be bundled together with duct tape. I've written new code and maintained other developers' source code. I'd rather write new code, but I enjoy taking some existing code and reducing complexity in a method or extracting duplicate code into a common class. Earlier in my career, many believed that if you weren't writing new code, you weren't being productive. Fortunately, in the late 1990s, Martin Fowler's book Refactoring (see Resources) helped make the practice of improving existing code without changing external behavior — well — cool."
Hamsterdb: a Small, Fast Database That Won't Weigh You Down (Jul 16, 2008, 08:00 UTC) (1346 reads)
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(feedback) Developer.com: "Cristoph Rupp's hamsterdb is a lightweight, embedded database engine designed for ease of use, high performance, stability, and portability...embedded systems such as cellphones and other portable devices, where memory is at a premium, also will benefit from the lightweight hamsterdb. It also supports in-memory databases, which may be helpful for these platforms as well."
Intro to Awk, the Great Language with a Strange Name (Jul 16, 2008, 06:30 UTC) (1867 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "Sure, awk doesn't have a great name. But it is a great language. Awk is geared toward text processing and report generation, yet features many well-designed features that allow for serious programming. And, unlike some languages, awk's syntax is familiar, and borrows some of the best parts of languages like C, python, and bash (although, technically, awk was created before both python and bash). Awk is one of those languages that, once learned, will become a key part of your strategic coding arsenal."
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS vs. 8.10 Alpha 2 Performance (Jul 15, 2008, 17:30 UTC) (2320 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "With Canonical having pulled many new packages into Ubuntu 8.10 from Debian unstable and there being the Linux 2.6.26-rc8 kernel, a near-final version of X.Org 7.4 / Mesa 7.1, and GCC 4.3 among them, we've decided to run a few early benchmarks of Intrepid Ibex. In this article we have enclosed 32 benchmark results from the Phoronix Test Suite comparing Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS to Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 2."
Hot skills: Mobile Linux (Jul 15, 2008, 16:45 UTC) (983 reads)
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(feedback) Computer Weekly: "The initial surge of Linux in the server market has settled down in recent years. But in embedded applications, particularly mobile devices, the open source operating system is soaring."
Linux 2.6.26 Opens Up to Debugging (Jul 15, 2008, 11:30 UTC) (1645 reads)
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(feedback) Internet News: "KGDB is the new Linux source level debugger and enters the mainline Linux kernel despite the past objections of Linux founder Linus Torvalds. Eight years ago, Torvalds wrote in a Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) post: "I don't like debuggers. Never have, probably never will.""
Big Buck Bunny Builds a Better Blender (Jul 15, 2008, 07:00 UTC) (1526 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Big Buck Bunny is the colorful product of the Peach open movie project: an animated short released online and on DVD. But in addition to the 'toon itself, Peach has produced an altogether different yield: improvements to the Blender 3-D modeling application. Like its predecessor Project Orange, Peach pushed the open source tool forward with the demands of a real-world media production, in a way that hobbyist usage cannot. Could other free software projects use the same model?"
Keep Thunderbird from Building Too Big a Nest on Your Hard Disk (Jul 14, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (1805 reads)
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(feedback) TechRepublic: "Through its support for the POP3 and IMAP4 protocols, the program is compatible with nearly any messaging system, and its cross-platform nature makes it ideal for mixed-client environments..."
Dynamic Languages and IDEs: What's the Market? (Jul 11, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (2066 reads)
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(feedback) tecosystems: "For those of you that missed the news, Sun's Ted Leung recently announced that an upcoming version of NetBeans would be supporting the Python language..."
GNOME 3.0 Is Coming, And Coming Soon! (Jul 10, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (4823 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Well, in addition to announcing Stormy Peters joining GNOME, at GUADEC 2008 they have just announced plans for GNOME 3.0...!"
Is It Time for Open Source to Grow Up? (Jul 8, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (1497 reads)
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(feedback) ITtoolbox: "In the past ten years Open Source software and its poster child, Linux, has expanded quite remarkably. It has changed from a rebel without a cause to an entity that even the tried and true establishments have sat up and taken notice..."
Reiser Reportedly Leads Police to Wife's Body (Jul 8, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (2442 reads)
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(feedback) CNET News: "Hans Reiser, the Linux programmer convicted in April of murdering his estranged wife, has led police to what is believed to be her body, authorities told the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday..."
Developing for Linux Netbooks (Jul 8, 2008, 09:45 UTC) (1522 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux Distillery: "Here's my tips for developing software for the emerging and widely popular netbook market..."
BSD or GPL: Choosing an Open Source License (Jul 8, 2008, 02:15 UTC) (1017 reads)
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(feedback) DevelopersVoice: This article will explain the fundamentals of each license, and will help you in choosing the right license for your open source project..."
Nokia Acquires Symbian: So What? (Jul 8, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (1080 reads)
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(feedback) DeviceGuru: "The reaction to this news by most mobile device market analysts has generally ranged from indifference to cautious praise..."
Interface Obsession Syndrome (Jul 8, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (1179 reads)
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(feedback) Penguin Pete's Blog: "Who has Interface Obsession Syndrome? The computing world, that's who. All of it: designers, users, open source software, proprietary software, web designers, web surfers. Everybody. It's a disease..."
Codeplex Wastes Six Months Reinventing Wheels (Jul 7, 2008, 22:00 UTC) (1973 reads)
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(feedback) Ryan's Tech Blog: "This cool thing they spent six months (six!) writing is called Subversion, and it had a 1.0.0 release three years ago. Subversion had its first beta in late 2003, so the Codeplex folks are waaay behind the state of the art on this one..."
ODF Translation to be Simplified (Jul 7, 2008, 17:30 UTC) (1014 reads)
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(feedback) Tectonic: "South African localisation experts, Translate.org.za, have launched a new project to simplify ODF document translation..."
New Firefox Versions In The Works (Jul 7, 2008, 17:00 UTC) (1698 reads)
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(feedback) InformationWeek: "Firefox 3 has only been out the door for a couple of weeks, but Mozilla.org, which develops the browser, is already looking ahead to the next versions..."
Linux 2.6.26-rc9 [Released] (Jul 7, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (1487 reads)
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(feedback) LKML.org: "Ok, the last -rc obviously wasn't the last one after all, since here's a new one..."
KDE Developer Quits (Jul 4, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (9799 reads)
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(feedback) Practical Technology: "Being grumpy is almost part of the job description for developers..."
Microsoft Rebuilds Open Source Sandcastle (Jul 3, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (3639 reads)
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(feedback) Netstat -vat: "Sam Ramji who runs Microsoft's Open Source Lab has now confirmed on his blog that Sandcastle is now set to re-appear on CodePlex as a fully compliant open source project..."
Dtrace vs SystemTap, Redux (Jul 3, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (2237 reads)
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(feedback) tecosystems: "Three years ago come August, O'Reilly's Nat Torkington, interviewing Sun's Jonathan Schwartz, pressed the CEO on the issues of patents generally and DTrace patents specifically..."
Lawyers to Judge: Hans Reiser May Be 'Mentally Incompetent' (Jul 2, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (3679 reads)
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(feedback) Threat Level: "Lawyers for Hans Reiser claim the Linux developer convicted of murdering his wife may be 'mentally incompetent,' an argument that, if successful, could send Reiser to a mental institution instead of prison..."
Yes, We Need Users Too! (Jul 2, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (2628 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "I'm a bit taken aback by this post by Jason Harris over on the KDE Developer’s Journals site. Harris says that 'KDE, like many other open-source projects, doesn't really need users at all, whether they are poisonous or not...'"
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