<b>Huffington Post:</b> "And while no two DIYers are alike, in general they're an upbeat and friendly group that shares a special trait: the courage to screw up."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "One of AMD's low-priced offerings is the Athlon II X3 425, which is a triple-core AM3 processor that can easily overclock past 3GHz and is priced to sell at around $70 USD."
Moving from self-hosted to cloud-hosted e-mail services makes a lot of people nervous, but with a little planning and good communication with your user base, there's no reason it has to be hard.
<b>LinuxDevices:</b> "Intel announced six new 32nm processors intended for ultra-thin laptops. Topped by the Core i7-660UM, with a clock speed of 1.33GHz and "TurboBoost" frequency of 2.4GHz"
<b>LWN.net:</b> "[Esfera] The Ubuntu "Ayatana" mailing list is discussing a proposal from Pablo Quiróor a new user interface element to put in the upper right corner of windows which has been recently vacated on Ubuntu systems."
Besides generating a chuckle or two, a manure-powered data center may be the ultimate in sustainable energy for both developed and developing countries. HP Labs presented the concept at the ASME International Conference on Sustainability last week.
<b>Click:</b> "At the recommendation of reader David Gurvich, as well as the enthusiastic endorsement of "Linux Outlaws" co-host Fabian A. Scherschel and Larry "the Free Software Guy" Cafiero, I burned my first Fedora disc in some time and am testing Fedora 12 in the live environment."
<b>jd:/dev/blog:</b> "Two years ago, while working on awesome, I joined the Freedesktop initiative to work on XCB. I had to learn the arcane of the X11 protocol and all the mysterious and old world that goes with it."
WPF data templates let you determine the pieces a repetitive control uses to display its items. Learn some unique and interesting ways to use data templates for displaying the items in ListBoxes, ComboBoxes, and ListViews.
Convenience is great, as long as you don’t inadvertently place your business at risk. We show you how to encrypt the data on those very convenient, if easy-to-lose, flash drives.
Convenience is great, as long as you don’t inadvertently place your business at risk. We show you how to encrypt the data on those very convenient, if easy-to-lose, flash drives.
Virtually Speaking: As more enterprises move their apps to a cloud computing environment, data centers will grow bigger and bigger, and how they are powered will be critical. A recent report by Greenpeace International sheds some light.
<b>Desktop Linux Reviews:</b> "The .iso file of Puppy Linux 5.0 weighs in at an incredibly petite 128 MB. It's much, much smaller than all of the usual desktop heavyweight distros. But don't let its small size fool you, Puppy Linux 5.0 is anything but an also-ran in terms of functionality and usability."
The enterprise security software maker wants companies and consumers to take a more proactive stance against emerging and increasingly targeted malware attacks.
<b>Financial Times:</b> "Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft�s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees."
Lenovo unveils a lighter, slimmer netbook, with features ranging from face recognition to almost-instant-on Web and IM access. Can it compete with models offering slightly larger keyboards and slightly lower prices?
<b>Opensource.com:</b> "It's not often that I find something in the comments on a major news site that's more interesting than the original article. But that's exactly what I just came across--and it's a comment about comments."
<b>Mark Shuttleworth:</b> "The Ayatana Indicators work has given us a crisp, clean basis for indicators in the panel. We've said they will all look a particular way, and behave a particular way. And we've said they will be placed on the right of the panel. But why limit indicators to the panel? Let's make it possible for applications to use indicators themselves, for all the things that indicators are good at:"