<b>Datamation:</b> "Despite all the talk about the mythical Year of the Linux Desktop, somewhere in the last few years, free software passed a milestone without anyone noticing."
A number of factors are driving the requirement for applications to correctly support high DPI settings--increased monitor resolutions are making it more difficult for users to read text on the screen, compliance with disability access legislation is an increasingly important factor for corporations, and users are now expecting applications to behave well at higher DPI settings. MFC 10 and Visual C++ 2010 have built-in support for high DPI, making the development of a DPI-aware application quicker and more simple.
<b>Enterprise Storage Forum:</b> "We've all probably heard more than we want to hear about clouds this week, thanks to EMC World, but there are some things you need to think about if you're considering adopting a cloud model as part of your storage networking architecture."
<b>Scribbles and Snaps:</b> "Of course, renaming each and every photo by hand is not particularly practical, especially if you take dozens or even hundreds of photos each day. This is when digiKam's Rename feature can come in rather handy. You can use it to define rather advanced renaming rules and apply them to multiple photos in one fell swoop."
<b>The Register:</b> "Open-source CRM developer SugarCRM has been snared by the dark, so-called brilliance of Apple's whip-tongued chief executive Steve Jobs."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "Bash error messages, like so many error messages, can be more cryptic than helpful. But the good news is bash has a built-in mechanism for creating your own customized error messages, and you don't have to be an ace programmer to do it. Ubuntu and openSUSE already use this; Akkana Peck shows us how to do it ourselves."
Andrew Lock outlines must-have small business website design features, offers tips on standing out from the crowd and highlights a marketing lesson from the Four Seasons that you can use for free.
Andrew Lock outlines must-have small business website design features, offers tips on standing out from the crowd and highlights a marketing lesson from the Four Seasons that you can use for free.
<b>System 76:</b> "System76 has partnered with a non-profit, Kids on Computers, to help bring computers and free and open source software to disadvantaged kids."
<b>Linux User & Developer: </b>"Besides being a HDD player and a full gigabit ethernet network streaming NAS box, it's also a media server (including Samba, NFS, UpnP, Bonjour and myiHome) and plays host to the MSP Portal, not to mention other third-party media server apps."
<b>Linux Magazine: </b>"Q: What did one lumberjack say to the other lumberjack? A: Watch those logs. Now, what will you, as a system administrator, use to watch logs? Logwatch, of course."
From growing your email list to creating an online community, a contest can be a valuable small business marketing tool. Strutta CEO, Ben Pickering, offers Web shop owners' tips for running online contests.
Despite the poor economy, adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management helped this segment of the software market grow.
<b>ars Technica:</b> "Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg sat down for an on-the-record conversation yesterday at the Council for Foreign Relations, and he pulled no punches: the US is number one in the world when it comes to broadband. We're so far ahead of everyone else, it's "not even close.""
<b>Wolfire Blog:</b> "We've always advocated cross-platform development -- in fact, last year, we wrote a post explaining why you should support Mac OS X and Linux"