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| Four short links: 28 September 2012 by Nat Torkington
Mobile Content Strategy — Mobile is a catalyst that can help you make your content tighter without loss of clarity or information. If you make your content work well on mobile, it will work everywhere. Excellent presentation, one I want … |
| Seeking prior art where it most often is found in software by Andy Oram
Patent ambushes are on the rise again, and cases such as Apple/Samsung shows that prior art really has to swing the decision–obviousness or novelty is not a strong enough defense. Obviousness and novelty are subjective decisions made by a patent … |
| List of Known LinuxFest Events by adfm
Here's a list of known LinuxFest events:
California - Los Angeles
Southern California Linux Expo
SCALE
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
January
Illinois - Chicago
Flourish
http://www.flourishconf.com
March
Massachusetts - Worcester
Northeast Linuxfest
NELF
http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/
March
South Carolina - Columbia
Palmetto Open Source Software Conference
POSSCON
http://posscon.org ... |
| The State of Open Source by Kevin Shockey
Look at Pepsi and Coke. Do you think that they are willing to accept a decline in any aspect of their brand? No, they keep pushing, making sure everyone knows what they are drinking.
I propose a similar campaign for open source. Let us make sure that users of cloud computing, for example, know what they are using. They are using free and open source software. Google Drive anyone? |
| The Russians Are Coming: A First Look At Rosa 2012 Marathon by Caitlyn Martin
ROSA Labs has forked the Mandriva distribution, creating a distribution that, while still resembling Mandriva 2011 at first glance, actually has gone its own way in many important respects. The first post-Mandriva release, ROSA 2012 Marathon, was officially unveiled last Monday. This is also the first ROSA LTS (long term support) release, offering security and software updates for five years. |
| Linux Hardware Support Myths and Legends by Caitlyn Martin
With a new major Windows release just around the corner we are being treated to an onslaught of articles proclaiming the failings of Linux on the desktop. You'd think that such articles wouldn't be necessary if the Linux desktop had indeed failed. One recurring theme is the idea that Linux has terrible hardware support. The premise is always that Linux is impossibly difficult to install and that lots of hardware just doesn't work with Linux. |
| The New Desktop Paradigm: Blame the Success of Linux on the Desktop by Caitlyn Martin
The new Windows 8 Metro desktop, the latest incarnation of Mac OSX, Android, Ubuntu's Unity desktop and GNOME 3, love them or hate them, all came about because of the success of Linux on the desktop. |
| Developer Week in Review: When giant corporations collide by James Turner
If Microsoft and Linux can kiss and make up, why is Oracle having such a hard time getting along with Google? Elsewhere, a look inside elaborate game cheats. |
| Solving Display Problems With Some NVIDIA Chipsets After Installing Slackware 13.37 or SalixOS 13.37 by Caitlyn Martin
Slackware 13.37 and SalixOS 13.37, like most current Linux distributions, use the Open Source nouveau driver by default if an NVIDIA graphics chipset is detected. Nouveau works well with most NVIDIA graphics cards and chipsets but by no means all of them. In some cases the hardware detection works as it should but misconfigures X.org. In other cases, particularly older, legacy chipsets and very new chipsets, the hardware simply is unsupported. |
| Four short links: 3 April 2012 by Nat Torkington
Why Our Kids Should Be Taught To Code (Guardian) -- if we don't act now we will be short-changing our children. [...] their world will be also shaped and configured by networked computing and if they don't have a deeper understanding of this stuff then they will effectively be intellectually crippled. They will grow up as passive consumers of... |
| O'Reilly Radar Show 3/12/12: Best data interviews from Strata California 2012 by Mac Slocum
Hadoop creator Doug Cutting discussing the similarities between Linux and the big data world, Max Gadney from After the Flood explains the benefits of video data graphics, Kaggle's Jeremy Howard looks at the difference between big data and analytics. |
| Developer Week in Review: Flash marginalization continues by James Turner
If you use Linux, either start using Chrome as your browser or get ready to give up Flash. A developer faces execution in Iran because of how someone used software he wrote, and the world gets to see what it's like to build iPads and iPhones. |
| Four short links: 10 October 2011 by Nat Torkington
Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed --This fundamental investment vs. expenditure mindset changes everything. You think of education as fundamentally a quality problem. The average person thinks of education as fundamentally a cost problem. This and many other insights that repay the reading. (via Hacker News) Romo -- smartphone robotics platform Kickstarter project. Google Cloud SQL -- Google offers... |
| Developer Week in Review: Linux turns the big 3.0 by James Turner
The Linux kernel gets to version 3.0. Meanwhile, Oracle doesn't seem to remember the warm reception that Sun gave Android, and big players get lawsuits on their doorsteps. |
| Unix and Linux differences by DebiHopkins
My company is converting over from Unix operating system (running on HP) to a Linux under GNU. We are running korn shell now, moving over to bash.
I have been in an HP-UX environment for 15 years and am quite proficient in scripting.
My question is would I benefit from buying a Linux handbook/nut shell book?
I love the O'Reilly books and am the owner of several.
I still refer to my "U... |
| Helios Project Director Felled By Stroke; Linux Community Support Sought by Caitlyn Martin
One of the people behind the scenes has been Mr. Stark's partner, Diane Franklin, who has served as Logistics and Planning Director for the Helios Project for the past year. Ms. Franklin is retired and has served in this capacity without pay. Her skills allowed the project to better organize and distribute the resources they receive to those who need them. |
| Four short links: 9 June 2011 by Nat Torkington
Optimizing MongoDB -- shorter field names, barely hundreds of ops/s when not in RAM, updates hold a lock while they fetch the original from disk ... it's a pretty grim story. (via Artur Bergman) Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? -- focus is absolutely necessary if we are to gain knowledge. We will be ignoramuses indeed, if we merely... |
| Adobe: 64-bit Flash Player Later This Year by Caitlyn Martin
The note from Mr. Offerman reads, in part: "I can confirm that Adobe will make 64-bit support in Flash Player "Square" available in a shipping release of Flash Player later this year." |
| On Virtualization and The Cloud: The Most Ridiculous Article I've Read in a Very Long Time by Caitlyn Martin
In a piece published this morning called Don't Throw Away Your Physical Servers Just Yet, the author, Ken Hess, wrote a piece that ridicules and derides anyone who doesn't virtualize literally all, as in every last one, of their servers. No, I'm not exaggerating. |
| One Year Later: Adobe Abandons 64-bit Linux Again by Caitlyn Martin
Once again there are known security vulnerabilities in the now eight month old beta and no patches are available. In addition, the community forum page for discussing Flash Player "Square" has been deleted from the Adobe Labs website. If Adobe is continuing development on a 64-bit version of Flash Player they are not sharing any information with the public at this time. For the time being Adobe has effectively abandoned 64-bit Linux once again. |
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