<b>ars Technica:</b> "GNOME has attracted a vibrant community of open source artists who are collaborating to produce aesthetically sophisticated visual styles for the desktop environment"
<b>Linux.com:</b> "MPlayer is not your run-of-the mill video player. It's a multi-platform codec-chewing monster truck of a video player for the connoisseur of video players. It has options galore and has the flexibility to play almost anything under the sun."
<b>Linux Foundation:</b> "The Linux Foundation, on behalf of its members, would like to register its serious objections to the current BBC/OFCOM proposal, which would impose content management controls on new free-to-air high definition channel"
Last week's article, <a href="http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/051910-1.aspx">Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Part 1)</a>, was the first in a multi-part article series exploring how to add store locator-type functionality to your ASP.NET website using the free <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/">Google Maps API</a>. Part 1 started with an examination of the database used to power the store locator, which contains a single table named <code>Stores</code> with columns capturing the store number, its address and its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude">latitude</a> and <a
<b>Tech Source:</b> "But do you know that from there you can also create cool text graphics or banners that are made up of ASCII characters, which you can use as email signature or simply show off to friends?"
<b>Linux Journal:</b> "Ever wanted to instantly have Drupal, Moodle, OTRS, MySQL, WordPress, Zimbra, Bugzilla, phpBB or a slew of other open source software packages up an running in a hassle-free manner to try out or available for rapid deployment? TurnKey Linux gives you just that."
<b>Techdirt:</b> "The big news yesterday, of course, was the district court ruling that found that genes were unpatentable. The full decision was over 150 pages, so I wanted to spend some time reading through it"
<b>Tech Broiler:</b> "What's the big deal about Linux Mint and why is it so popular among Linux users? It's because that it includes a number of improvements and tweaks that aren't set up out-of-the-box in the base Ubuntu distribution"
<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>Experimenting with GNU/Linux:</b> "There are several graphical front ends for clam av which can make your life easy. The most popular among them are clamtk and Klamav."
<b>Netstat -vat:</b> "The first alpha milestone of the Fedora 13 Linux distribution is now available and it's loaded with a number of innovative features."
<b>Blog of Helios:</b> "But to quote Yoda, "Short of native game choices we are." There's a reason for that...I mean aside from the myth that the Linux market is too small to support game development."
Having a good set of indexes on your SQL Server database is critical to performance. Efficient indexes don't happen by accident; they are designed to be efficient. Greg Larsen discusses whether primary keys should be clustered, when to use filtered indexes and what to consider when using the Fill Factor.
<b>OStatic</b> "AOL has closed the doors on its Open AIM program. Pidgin developer Mark Doliner where to go from here to support AIM, but maybe it's time to close the door on the protocol altogether."