March's patch drop from Microsoft is a rather lean one from the software giant, and a zero-day flaw in the way Windows handles help files and scripting remains unpatched for now.
The social publishing site abandons Adobe's Flash after three years in favor of HTML5, in the latest black eye for Flash since Apple CEO Steve Jobs's criticism of the technology.
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "Web-based applications are fantastic, except for that whole "running in the browser" thing. Looking to free your browser-based apps from your Web browsing? Take a look at Mozilla Prism."
C++ Programming is having a revitalization of Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) which continues to deliver simple integration with powerful Windows features. In this article, we'll look at Preview and Thumbnail Support, and how these features can be easily implemented in an MFC application.
<b>Linux Journal:</b> "If you remember my December Linux Journal column, I was excited about a particularly cool-looking submarine simulator, Danger from the Deep. This month, I'm proud to feature it."
<b>Ghabuntu:</b> "Today I'd like to see the distributions number with a little of humor: I often wondered if the Linux distributions names could cover the whole alphabet and be used as sort of “ spelling alphabet”. The answer is ... “Yes we can!” "
At long last, after seven years SCO vs. Novell is at an end, and the jury verdict is "SCO. No. Go." But is this really the end of the case that would not die?
After a week-long investigation, Microsoft bug sleuths claim they've hunted down the cause of multiple reboots and crashes inflicted on Windows XP users.
DRBD is a Linux project that provides a real-time distributed filesystem. Sean Hull demonstrates how to use Sun's virtualbox software to create a pair of VMs, then configure those VMs with DRBD, and finally install and test MySQL running on volumes sitting on DRBD.
<b>Tech Source:</b> "Since our collection of Free and Open Source finance/accounting software for Linux has been quite popular, I would like to add 7 more to that list."
DRBD is a Linux project that provides a real-time distributed filesystem. Sean Hull demonstrates how to use Sun's virtualbox software to create a pair of VMs, then configure those VMs with DRBD, and finally install and test MySQL running on volumes sitting on DRBD.
Plus, Andrew Lock offers a small business marketing lesson on solution selling and an interview with business success coach, Marc Accetta on the value of edutainment.
<b>Mandriva Blog: </b>"I'm now a researcher in bioinformatics working as a post-doc on bone cancer. During the past ten years Mandriva has proven rock solid on all the installations I had to perform for my own usage and for my colleagues."
<b>Linux.com:</b> "Nokia's Vice President of MeeGo Devices, Ari Jaaksi, will kick off the afternoon at today's Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with his keynote at 1:15 p.m. PT. He took a few minutes with us this morning to share what he'll be speaking about and how the MeeGo project is going."