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>Groklaw:</b> "GPL enforcement is successful in Europe. In several court decisions and out of court settlements the license conditions of the GPL have been successfully enforced. In particular, embedded systems are the main focus of such compliance activities. The article describes the practice of enforcement activities and the legal prerequisites under the application of German law."
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 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>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>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..."
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>Softpedia:</b> "Another interesting feature, but one that you will see only once (theoretically), is the new slideshow of the Ubiquity installer. It is really beautiful! See the screenshots below..."
<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. "
<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."
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.
<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."
<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."
Despite identifying itself as "Web Application Testing in Ruby," WATIR can perform automated acceptance testing for websites powered by any language, PHP included.
Despite identifying itself as "Web Application Testing in Ruby," WATIR can perform automated acceptance testing for websites powered by any language, PHP included.
<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"
The enterprise security software maker wants companies and consumers to take a more proactive stance against emerging and increasingly targeted malware attacks.
<b>Enterprise Mobile Today:</b> "MeeGo combines elements of Intel's Moblin Linux with Nokia's Maemo Linux effort into a new mobile operating system that can be used for netbooks, handheld devices and other mobile applications. The initial MeeGo 1.0 release is only available for netbooks, with a MeeGoo handset version planned for a June release."
<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."