Microsoft appears to be serious about making Outlook more accessible to open source developers. On May 24, the Redmond, Wash software giant announced two new open source projects designed to complement its recently released technical documentation for Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders (.pst).
Read more »Microsoft launches open source Outlook tool, SDK projects
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SabreDAV PHP framework becomes calendar server
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Most calendar clients are able to use the CalDAV protocol which allows remote swapping of appointments - however, there is a shortage of open source CalDAV servers
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HylaFAX on CentOS
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HylaFAX on CentOS allows you to send and receive faxes from your server. This tutorial will help you set up so that you can receive faxes and have them converted to a PDF upon delivery to the user.
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Btrfs and the Ubuntu spin machine
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Alone among GNU/Linux distributions, Ubuntu has managed to project the impression that it is the best first choice for someone who wants to test the Linux waters. Put this down to slick media management.
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Automation With Expect, an Open Source Software Utility
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I recently came across expect (the expect package in Debian and Ubuntu): a powerful utility that can script interactive operations. If you're not familiar with TCL syntax, you can get autoexpect from Wi-Fizzle.com. This spawns a shell, and then records everything you do in that shell.
Read more »New phishing attack exploits tabbed browsing
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Mozilla's Aza Raskin has demonstrated a phishing technique which exploits tabbed browsing by changing page contents while the user isn't looking at the tab
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Rails 2.3.8 released to fix 2.3.7's "Facepalm"
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Ruby on Rails 2.3.8 has been released to fix yesterday's release of Ruby on Rails 2.3.7 which had unintended consequences for all Rails users
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How to install NOSQL cassandra DB in ubuntu and debian via ppa repository
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Cassandra is a distributed database with a BigTable data model running on a Dynamo like infrastructure. It is column-oriented and allows for the storage of relatively structured data. It has a fully decentralized model; every node is identical and there is no single point of failure.
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Recent changes in dpkg
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The versions 1.15.6 and 1.15.7 of dpkg introduced several important changes. Let's skim over them:
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Wanted: Virtual Personal Email Servers, obviously made with Free SW
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One of the biggest obstacles to personal email management is lack of user demand for Virtual Personal Email Server (VPES) software.
Read more »PV on HVM at Xen 4.0 on top of Fedora 13
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Posting bellow follows recent submission of Stefano Stabelinni to xen-devel mailing list. Add to /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES new patch callback_4.0.patch to implement event channel for HVM DomUs at Xen 4.0. Rebuild xen rpms, updating xen.spec correspondently and reinstall rpms performing hot upgrade of Xen 4.0 Hypervisor. Then reboot.
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Technical Limitations of Client-Side-Decorations
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All windows have KWin decorations and they should not have them. Yakuake has a kind of own CSD – you see the controls at the bottom. The window manager may reparent the window and the window has no control over it.
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OpenBSD is switching to GCC4
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OpenBSD -- free software multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system, emphasizing portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography, is switching on amd64 and sparc64 architectures over to GCC 4.2.1 (last GPLv2 licensed version).
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Ruby on Rails 2.3.6 released, rapidly updated to 2.3.7
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After six months of development, the Rails developers released Ruby on Rails 2.3.6, but only a day later released version 2.3.7 after some bugs were found in code back ported from Rails 3
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MeeGo v1.0 Core Software Platform and Netbook User Experience project release
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Today we are announcing the project release of MeeGo v1.0. This release provides developers with a stable core foundation for application development and a rich user experience for Netbooks. The MeeGo Netbook user experience is the first to appear, with the development of the MeeGo Handset user experience moving to the open in June.
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