As one of his clients told us, "Mark Radcliffe is the law when it comes to open source software."
Read more »Meet Mark Radcliffe: The man who rules open source law
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OLPC parts shortage manageable, says maker
The company manufacturing the One Laptop Per Child notebook played down the impact of component shortages, rebutting local reports that the shortages will affect supplies of the computer when it ships in October.
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Powerfile Uses Samba in Blu-ray Backups
Powerfile, a Santa Clara, California based backup storage vendor, has released a Blu-ray based backup solution supporting up to 120Tb of storage accessible using CIFS (via Samba) or NFS. The new story at Linuxworld.com begins:
Read more »Easy Ajax with jQuery
"Ajax [1] is changing web applications, giving them a responsiveness that’s unheard of beyond the desktop. But behind all the hype, there’s not much to Ajax — (X)HTML [2], JavaScript [3], and XML [4] are nothing new, and in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to simplify the process of adding Ajax to your application even further with the help of jQuery, a popular JavaScript library."
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Why Would You Want To Use Perl Scripts?
"First let me tell you the history of Perl scripts and then I will go into why I think Perl is the best overall programming language that there is..."
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Less is more for Ruby on Rails, inventor says
"Developer of the important Web application framework says he won't add much to the next version."
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Add Search Forms to the Firefox Search Bar
Wouldn't it be cool if you could add search plugins for any search form to the Firefox Search Bar, instead of having to create the plugin yourself or wait for the site owner to stop being lazy and make one?
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Open Source VoIP on Campus, Part 2
Open standard IP telephony is quite flexible. We have been able, using standard SIP loads on phones and the features implemented on open standard servers using only standard SIP signaling, to implement features beyond simple "plain old telephone service," including hold, call forward, ring groups, call park, multiple line appearances per set and more.
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Mozilla To Build Social Networking Into Firefox: Bad News For Flock
"Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser.
Read more »A Mountain of Filings in SCO v. Novell and a Kind Word About Groklaw
SCO and Novell have filed the most documents -- 16 filings, plus exhibits -- we've ever had in a single day. That only happens when I say I need to go to the beach. But one of the nicest things happened. Novell has responded [PDF] to SCO's slur against Groklaw
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Python 3.0a1 early alpha Release
Python 3000 (a.k.a. "Py3k", and released as Python 3.0) is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed.
Read more »subversion six commands in one script
Most of the time developers forget to checkin or update the file/folders from server, With this bash script file will automatically update from server, then lock and open in vi editor whenever developer save the file it will ask for commit message and checkin in server after that it will unlock for other developers.
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Apache high availability cluster in debian - Linux Discussion Forum
This is how to setup the apache high availability cluster in debian with NFS as data storage, In this setup you can add many servers in cluster.
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Astaro "paved the way" for VC-funded open source companies
When Astaro's founders launched the company in 2000, venture capital funding for open source businesses was hard to find. CEO Jan Hichert says he and his colleagues tried but failed to secure funding and had to bootstrap. After the company was proved successful, VCs proved more willing to contribute to a company built on open source.
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iplist - a list based packet handler
iplist is a list based packet handler which uses the netfilter netlink-queue library (kernel 2.6.14 or later). It filters by IP-address and is optimized for thousands of IP-address ranges.
Like Peerguardian for Windows and Moblock for Linux, ipList loads blocklists and blocks spies and adware sites from your system.
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