LinuxCon 2009 represented the Linux Foundation's first big-tent technical conference. Did it deliver on its promise to innovate, or will OSCON remain at the top of the open source conference heap?
Recent studies may have you thinking that it’s time to give up the blog and focus on Twitter or Facebook. But don’t be rash. Search engine optimization is a major benefit of keeping a business blog.
For the second time in as many weeks, Facebook users are being tricked into downloading adware disguised as a video of attractive young women in bikinis.
<b>OS News: </b>"The [street-smart] people at MPEG-LA have made sure that from the moment we use a camera or camcorder to shoot an mpeg2 or h.264 video, we owe them royalties, even if the final video distributed was not encoded using their codecs."
Oracle Database's ADR Command Interpreter is a great for the new XML logs but let's not forget about the old style logs as ADRCI can do a few things with them as well. Read on to learn more...
Jump Lists provide a simple and convenient way for users to open documents and perform common tasks, and Windows 7 provides basic support for Jump Lists with no explicit application development. C++ developers can improve their applications by using the MFC class CJumpList to provide custom jump list items for easier application interaction.
<b>Zona-M:</b> "If you need to produce slideshows and think that the cleaner they are the better, but don't like the time it takes to put them together in a GUI, here's a solution. Like any other ODF document, OpenDocument slideshows are very easy to generate and process automatically."
The search giant buys a company that offers real-time bidding on display ad space, making it easier for advertisers to find audiences, manage campaigns and get their ads seen.
<b>Jonobacon@home:</b> "Recently I got one of these new System 76 ultra-thin laptops, the Lemur: System76 are well known in the Open Source community for shipping Ubuntu on their machines, being active community members and for helping LoCo teams with machines too."
Software giant rushes out Security Advisory to warn customers about code for a zero-day vulnerability in SharePoint collaboration server that's making the rounds on the Web.
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "I have accounts on a number of Linux machines that I ssh into from my MacBook, using Terminal. On some -- but not all -- of them, I've found that if I run screen after connection, the backspace key is interpreted as a delete..."
Google poised to release new and improved Google Docs & Spreadsheet service as it makes a stronger push in the enterprise market against Microsoft Office.
<b>Groklaw:</b> "The sale of the mobility business to Darl was approved, but he ended up paying $100,000 for it instead of the original $35,000 because there was a second bidder that responded to the sale ad in the newspaper."
When it comes to blade servers, x86 is the most frequent architecture of choice. Bladed or not, however, x86 servers are not the perfect tool for every task. Non-x86 blade server options, while limited, fill many of the gaps that their x86 siblings leave.
When it comes to blade servers, x86 is the most frequent architecture of choice. Bladed or not, however, x86 servers are not the perfect tool for every task. Non-x86 blade server options, while limited, fill many of the gaps that their x86 siblings leave.
<b>The Open Road:</b> "Novell, once the king of the software world, is like that. Over the years it has built up a broad portfolio of software (with associated revenue streams) in repeated attempts to regain its glory days. That portfolio now stifles its ability to focus on other areas with the most promise."
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "I decided to ask the good people at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, what they thought about the new Ubuntu, scheduled to arrive on April 29th, and this is what Gerry Carr, head of platform marketing had do say."