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>Linux Journal:</b> "After a recent O/S version upgrade (to openSUSE 11.2) I noticed that bash started being a bit more intelligent when I did something stupid: it started giving me a useful error message..."
<b>PACKT Publishing: </b>"In this article by Michel Anders, author of Blender 2.49 Scripting, we will now look at scripts that may be used to act on certain events."
<b>LinuxInsider:</b> "Ubuntu's latest Lucid Lynx upgrade gave the distro a needed facelift and endowed it with a speed boost as well. Users may find the new music store attractive, and social network butterflies can pipe friends' updates directly into the OS."
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "Canonical's Steve Conklin presented the Patchtracker in the kernel roundtable during the first day of the international Ubuntu Developer Summit. "
One of the major initial goals of the HTML 5 effort was to update the core HTML form elements to reflect more contemporary thinking. Find out how well the HTML 5 specification has fulfilled that goal so far.
<b>Techcrunch:</b> "Will Firefox have double-digit market share in 3 to 5 years? Straightforward enough. Yes, says (outgoing) Mozilla CEO John Lilly. No, says Firefox co-founder Blake Ross."
In a move to convince IT shops to adopt Windows 7 sooner instead of later, Microsoft may be looking to get Windows 7 Service Pack 1 out before the end of 2010.
<b>Linux Devices:</b> "Earlier this month, an Adobe employee told Apple to go screw itself over its new restrictive developer policies for the iPhone 4.0. Now, Adobe says, it's moving on, officially focusing its Flash technology on Google's Android and other competing smartphone platforms."
<b>WorksWithU:</b> "Each time Canonical ships a new Ubuntu release, I'm inclined to reach out to two specific PC companies: ZaReason and System76. Both companies focus intensely on Ubuntu netbooks, notebooks, PCs and servers."
In a presentation to financial analysts, Microsoft's head of server and tools, Bob Muglia, admits the Azure computing cloud initiative is still years from making a profit.
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "At this rate, it will not be long before you have no choice at all, and when alternatives disappear that offer something different -- lower cost, higher performance, better reliability -- it's bound to be bad news."
<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."
<b>IGN:</b> "A class action lawsuit has been filed against Sony Computer Entertainment America for the removal of the 'Other OS' feature from the PlayStation 3. "
<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.
The enterprise security software maker wants companies and consumers to take a more proactive stance against emerging and increasingly targeted malware attacks.
<b>openSUSE Lizards:</b> "I am very happy to announce the new stable version 0.40 of the KDE office software Kraft. After eleven month of porting work, Kraft 0.40 is the first version which is based on the KDE 4 software platform."
<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."