Linux at retail has been a hit-and-miss proposition for more than a decade. Canonical's new CEO explains her company's strategy for getting desktop Linux into more customers' hands.
<b>WWdN: In Exile:</b> "It's taken me this long to share it, because shortly after I upgraded my Macs to Snow Leopard, all of my Macs and my HP scanner stopped talking to each other."
<b>Intellectual Property Watch:</b> "“Apple is selling directly to consumers, who aren’t the best guardians of their own self-interest. The open PC model works for knowledgeable users who know what they are doing and how to protect themselves, but not so for 15-year-old fashionistas and techno-phobic geriatrics,” Kahney said."
<b>Neoseeker:</b> "Google has been working diligently on its Android phone OS, and update 2.2 is coming up quite soon. So far, the Linux-derived phone OS is selling well, recently thought to have overtaken the iPhone in monthly sales."
<b>Polish Linux:</b> "Filmaster.com, a social network for film lovers, has recently presented a new movie recommendations engine. The algorithm that generates recommendations is open source and has been released under AGPLv3 license."
<b>fsckin w/ linux:</b> " Awhile back I read the small print about Microsoft’s Moonlight software distribution. It specifically mentions the stuff they don’t like about the GPLv3. Interesting. Let’s see what they are worried about."
For developers who have to live with an enterprise that has legacy and component architecture-based applications, here is a way to introduce SOA in a manner that is not too disruptive. SOA can be leveraged to preserve business logic investments made within component architecture-based systems while incorporating a better and more standards-based infrastructure.
Despite its benefits, SQL Server Integration Services Import Export Wizard has a number of limitations, resulting in part from a new set of rules that eliminate implicit data type conversion mechanisms present in Data Transformation Services. This article discusses a method that addresses such limitations, focusing in particular on importing the content of Excel spreadsheets into SQL Server.
<b>ZDNet:</b> "The search for the next-generation video codec for the open web has reached an impasse. Few of the options are truly open or free, and those that are free are not being pushed by the major forces."
<b>Begin Linux:</b> "This is part two of a three part series on distributed monitoring. You can usehttp://newsadmin.linuxtoday.com/ passive service and host checks to allow non-central Nagios servers to collect data from a network of machines and then transfer that information to a central Nagios server."
<b>Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris:</b> "Install Xen 4.0 and Libvirt like on F12 ( [1] ). Via my experience xend will hang for 5-7 min at startup and xen managed bridging will fail as well. This behavior stays the same under either 2.6.31.13 or 2.6.32.13 pvops kernel"
It's no surprise that the concept of a proxy has made its way into the database arena. The MySQL Proxy sits between your application and your MySQL database. Future articles will discuss the myriad of uses for this technology.
<b>Redmonk:</b> "I am against software patents because it is not reasonable to expect that the current patent system, nor even one designed to improve or replace it, will ever be able to accurately determine what might be considered legitimately patentable..."
<b>LinuxDevices:</b> "ZaReason is shipping a Linux-ready, 10-inch netbook that uses the Intel Atom N450 processor and is claimed to offer eight hours of battery life."