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 Anonymous writes "In an article seen recently on the Washington Post...
Altered BP photo comes into questionApparently BP is no more adept at doctoring photos than it is at plugging deep-sea oil leaks.
A blogger
has noticed that the oil giant altered a photograph of its Houston
crisis room, cutting and pasting three underwater images into a wall of
video feeds from remotely operated undersea vehicles. The altered photo is displayed prominently on the company's Web site.
Read full story and see the doctored image.
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Posted by icecold on Thursday, July 22 @ 09:51:46 BST (65 reads)
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| Linux - the other operating system |
Anonymous writes "Most people have used some form of either a Windows or Macintosh
operating system (OS) to run their computers, but what's the open
alternative all about?
Some people may have never heard of Linux - and who could blame
them? It can be a bit difficult to digest, with the technical jargon
and relative obscurity compared to the two big systems.
In terms of worldwide usage, it's small fry: according to December
2009 statistics, about 92 per cent of computers use Windows, 5 per cent
use Mac OS and 1 per cent use Linux (source - Ed:- somewhat biased and perhaps inaccurate statistics from Ars technica, make of it what you will).
But those who do use it swear by it for a number of reasons.
I wanted to find out more about Linux, and to explain the main points in terms we can all understand (my explanations will look like this).
Read full article and comments for the whole picture.
Ed.Note:- Any article that attributes Linux's existence solely to Linus Torvalds, and fails to give due credit to the GNU Foundation, for the huge amount of work it did prior to and following Linus's creation of the Kernel (that which brings the operating system together), fails to understand the philosophy behind Open Source software and further shows a lack of understanding for what the GNU/Linux operating system is really all about. Some of the comments correct these inconsistencies.
Microsoft may well have gained the bulk of the desktop user market, by the fact that it created a system which detaches users from an understanding of what a computing system is. As a corporate monopoly, it must be said that its bottom line must not only put the interests of its share-holders above the interests of its customers, but this detachment offers many options to strengthen its control over its users.
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Posted by icecold on Sunday, June 06 @ 13:36:15 BST (88 reads)
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| WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code |
Anonymous writes "Seen today on Slashdot...
The White House has released four custom modules for
the Drupal content management system. The modules address scalability, communication, and accessibility for disabled users, and the release is expected to benefit both the Drupal community and the WhiteHouse.gov site as the code is reviewed and improved by the open source community.
Reader "ChiefMonkeyGrinder" adds an opinion piece with a somewhat
envious view from the UK where Open source is treated as something akin to devil-worshipping in some parts of government.
So, the idea that a major project in the government backyard would be based on something as basic as Drupal is pretty far-fetched.
No, this side of the Atlantic would have involved a closed-tender process; a decision made behind closed doors based on proprietary software and we'd be completely in the dark about costs, about delays, and about functionality.
Read report on the WhiteHouse Blog."
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Posted by icecold on Saturday, April 24 @ 10:34:25 BST (159 reads)
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| EditShare Announces First Ever Lightworks Open Source Platform |
Anonymous writes "Industry
leader blazes new path for creative editing solutions; introduces
Lightworks Open Source; an extensible platform for developing
collaborative features and creative workflows
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PR Log (Press Release) –
Apr 11, 2010 – Boston, MA – EditShare®, the technology leader in
cross-platform collaborative editing and shared media storage, unveiled
plans for the newly acquired Lightworks solution at the NAB 2010
exhibition on opening day. The company has transformed the time-honored
editing solution into Lightworks Open Source, the industry’s first
open-source development initiative for a large-scale, non-linear
editing (NLE) platform. A departure from standard 3rd-party developer
programs that limit access, the Lightworks Open Source platform offers
an unprecedented gateway into the NLE’s core engine, enabling a
wide-range of creative developers to implement forward-thinking
features and workflows. “EditShare has built a reputation for offering
open solutions that enhance collaboration.
Read full story and press release |
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Posted by icecold on Thursday, April 15 @ 09:56:31 BST (134 reads)
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| Is Linux Finally Hitting the Mainstream? |
Anonymous writes "It seems as though every day more people are tasting some flavor of
Linux for the first time. There are a lot of reasons that cause users
to choose this type of operating system, including the fact that it is
open-source.
Linux is becoming so popular amongst power users (and even
novices) that companies are starting to work harder to make their
products compatible with Linux. Lexmark is a great example of this. All
of their printers and scanners now have the cute little Tux logo
alongside those of Windows and OS X.
Full article on LockerGnome
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Posted by icecold on Tuesday, April 06 @ 10:59:52 BST (116 reads)
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| Shuttleworth goes Maverick with Ubuntu's 'Perfect 10' |
Anonymous writes "10.10 is an insect eater
By Cade Metz in San Francisco • Get more from this author
Posted in Software & Security, 6th April 2010 05:58 GMT
Mark Shuttleworth has named Ubuntu 10.10 after a very fast, highly social, and primarily insectivorous African mammal. With a Friday blog post,
Ubuntu's "benevolent dictator" announced that version 10.10 of the
Linux distro will be known as "Maverick Meerkat". According to
Shuttleworth, this means that Ubuntu's "Perfect 10", as he calls it,
will be very fast and very social - if not insectivorous Read all about it at Channel A Register |
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Posted by icecold on Tuesday, April 06 @ 10:59:35 BST (110 reads)
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| What's your school project? An alternative to Microsoft Windows! |
Anonymous writes "The final year of all Italian High Schools (18/19 years age students)
ends with a formal State Exam. Depending on which category of school
they attend, all students are tested in a different group of subjects
and the final vote also depends on personal projects prepared for each
subject.
Read full article
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Posted by icecold on Wednesday, March 31 @ 12:47:41 BST (147 reads)
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| SCO vs Linux: Jury decides Novell own the Unix copyright |
Anonymous writes "The jury in the SCO vs. Novell case have decided that the copyrights
for Unix were not passed to SCO. SCO had claimed that the copyright had
passed to it under the "Amended Asset Purchase Agreement", one of the
documents from the deal Novell had made with SCO in 1995, but the case
is not over yet.
Read full story
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Posted by icecold on Wednesday, March 31 @ 12:47:26 BST (144 reads)
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| When using open source makes you an enemy of the state |
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Posted by icecold on Thursday, February 25 @ 10:37:17 GMT (200 reads)
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| Connecting my opensuse 11 with LAN adapter Edimax Ew-7711UTn |
bzidler writes "Some time ago I explained how you could use a Safecom adapter based on the Zydas 1211B chipset. I have given this one away and decided to buy a nicer one, the Edimax Ew-7711UTn. This one comes with a usb flexible extension, that can be useful. The adapter is supposed to be the smallest in the world. And indeed it is really small, but surprisingly good. You can find the specifications on
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http://www.edimax.co.uk/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=280&pl1_id=1&pl2_id=44
One of the interesting feature (that I did not test) was the ability to use the 802.11n draft standard, allowing a connection at 150Mb/s, to a router such as the Netgear DGN2000.
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Posted by icecold on Thursday, June 11 @ 14:39:32 BST (914 reads)
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| Novell ponders "open-source apps store" |
titan writes "Novell plans to bring the wealth of open-source software to everyday users through an "open-source apps store".
The vast amount of free
software available to open-source users has long been one of the major
benefits of switching to a Linux distro such as Ubuntu, or openSUSE.
The problem has always been in explaining this to customers reared on a
Windows diet.
However, with the growing popularity of Linux on netbooks and the
public's familiarity with apps stores on smartphones, Novell believes
offering an "open-source apps store" could solve this problem for
vendors. The fruits of this strategy are set to appear in the openSUSE
edition of the Moblin OS.
Read full article at PC Pro"
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Posted by icecold on Wednesday, June 10 @ 10:49:16 BST (268 reads)
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| Ubuntu 9.04 Released |
Anonymous writes "The Ubuntu team has released the release candidate for Ubuntu 9.04;
'The Ubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. This is their latest result, the Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate, which brings a host of excellent new features.' The various other Ubuntu-derived
distributions, like Kubuntu, have also had their RCs released."
Click here to visit download site.
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Posted by icecold on Sunday, April 19 @ 18:57:19 BST (300 reads)
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| To Linux or not to Linux? |
Anonymous writes "Seen this week on ZDNet by Christopher Dawson.
One request that actually made it past the budget gods for FY10 was 60 convertible Classmate PCs
(30 for each of two schools). These will replace aging stationary labs
in the schools, freeing up needed space and allowing for redeployment
of the older computers for individual classroom and student use.
This
leaves me with a question to answer, though: Do I use Windows XP Home
or Edubuntu?
The teachers largely favor Windows. It’s familiar and they’ll have
enough to do learning the new applications and integrating the tablets
in class, let alone learning a new operating system (or so they say).
Yet Intel has assured me that there will be an equivalent software
stack between the two operating systems, I’ve found that our RTI
software runs quite well under Wine, and Edubuntu itself has quite a
body of educational software available in its repositories.
Read more
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Posted by icecold on Thursday, February 19 @ 08:56:36 GMT (323 reads)
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| Cuba launches own Linux variant |
Anonymous writes "HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba launched its own variant of the Linux
computer operating system this week in the latest front of the
communist island's battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony.
The Cuban variant, called Nova, was introduced at a Havana computer
conference on "technological sovereignty" and is central to the Cuban
government's desire to replace the Microsoft software running most of
the island's computers.
Read full story
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Posted by icecold on Friday, February 13 @ 10:14:41 GMT (353 reads)
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| Stallman: "we still have a fight on our hands" |
Richard Stallman on the state of GNU, 25 years on
Seen recently on techradar.com
25 years after Stallman first set the GNU project in motion, what
have these ideals achieved, and what can we do to ensure the future of
free software? Linux Format spoke to him to find out.While
Linux Torvalds gets most of the plaudits nowadays for the Linux kernel,
it was Stallman who originally posted plans for a new, and free,
operating system. Free had nothing to do with the cost of the operating
system, but with the implicit rights of those who were using the
software to do with it exactly as they pleased. "I launched the
development of the GNU operating system back in 1983 specifically to
make it possible to use a computer without ceding these freedoms and
accepting the dominion of the software's developers," he told us. read full article
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Posted by titan on Sunday, January 04 @ 17:33:20 GMT (303 reads)
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| iPlayer download version reaches Mac and Linux |
titan writes "The download version of BBC iPlayer is now available for Mac and Linux users.
The BBC has worked with Adobe's AIR developer platform to create a
desktop download manager for its online on-demand TV service, meaning
users can now watch BBC content whether they are on or offline.
The beta version is now available to members of the BBC iPlayer Labs testing group with a full rollout expected early next year.
Although
a download version of iPlayer has been available since its initial beta
launch in July 2007, it was compatible only with Windows XP and Vista.
A streaming version for Macs and Linux was launched around a year ago.
Read more
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Posted by icecold on Monday, December 22 @ 12:49:54 GMT (294 reads)
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| IBM and Business Partners Unveil a Linux-Based, Virtual Desktop |
Anonymous writes "(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
IBM, Virtual Bridges and Canonical have announced availability of a
Linux-desktop solution designed to drive savings by amplifying Lotus
collaboration software and Ubuntu to a larger user base through
virtualization.
The solution runs open standards-based email, word processing,
spreadsheets, unified communication, social networking and other
software to any laptop, browser, or mobile device from a virtual
desktop login on a Linux-based server configuration.
Read more
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Posted by icecold on Friday, December 12 @ 11:42:00 GMT (271 reads)
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| Fixing Linux: What's Broken And What To Do About It |
ginga writes "
Despite the fact that it's been around since 1991, Linux remains a work
in progress. It's not perfect, nor does anyone pretend it is. The
places where it needs the most immediate improvement are also a matter
of debate: what's crucially important to some is only marginally
important to others.
Still, there's no question that there are key areas where Linux is
lacking -- not just missing individual features, but things that are
actively dysfunctional and which need immediate attention.
This five page mega article, published on Information Week,
runs down several major areas where Linux, as an operating system and as
a platform, needs work, before it can be accepted for corporate use on the desktops of America.To read the full article by Serdar
Yegulalp Click Here"
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Posted by icecold on Wednesday, December 03 @ 17:10:43 GMT (309 reads)
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| Research on BBC content for GNU/Linux |
Titan writes "In an article seen recently on the BBC Blog, by George Wright...
This week, we're really happy to be sharing some work we've commissioned to deliver BBC content (mainly radio shows from the BBC Audio & Music team) on demand for users of GNU/Linux.
In RAD, we've wanted to experiment with non-DRMed content for a while - and managed to assemble some content which was available to access in a number of ways.
One of the complex things about putting content on desktops or OSs (apart from the two closed operating systems) is the number of options available. Free software's all about choice.
read full article on the BBC site."
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Posted by titan on Saturday, November 01 @ 09:53:29 GMT (310 reads)
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| Connecting my UC-Logic WP5540U tablet to opensuse 11 |
Today I explain how you can connect a cheap tablet using mouse or pen to a pc under opensuse 11. Some of these usb tablets are well supported by linux and it is easy to configure them starting sax2, selecting Tablet, and choosing the right tablet reference. But the UC-Logic (http://www.uc-logic.com/products/products_wp5540-tab1l.htm) tablet is not in the list and getting a driver and making it work is what we do here.
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Posted by bzidler on Tuesday, October 28 @ 21:38:27 GMT (1284 reads)
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