A new data-mining service launched Monday traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation, which until now have surfaced only piecemeal in investigations of specific allegations...
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Xandros, Microsoft Make Scalix Mail Server Exchange Friendly
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In a surprising move, Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros announced on Aug. 15 a messaging protocol license and collaboration agreement that will allow Scalix e-mail servers interoperability with Microsoft mobile- and PC-based e-mail applications.
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Increasing Virtualization Insanity
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People are starting to realize how broken the Xen model is with its privileged Dom0 domain. But the actions they want to take are simply ridiculous: they want to add the drivers back into the hypervisor. There are many technical reasons why this is a terrible idea...
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Legal Ruling Removes Open-Source Cloud
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Fans of open-source software are breathing easier after a ruling reduced the legal threats against their most pervasive product, the Linux operating system.
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U.S. ITS project chooses Parvus Linux computers as in-car servers
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Parvus Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of the Eurotech Group, has announced that the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium (VIIC) in the U.S. has selected its DuraCOR 1100 computer for the federally-funded Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) initiative aimed at reducing highway congestion and collision prevention.
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Review: Dell Inspiron 1420N with Ubuntu
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After two weeks of using the new Dell Inspiron 1420N with Ubuntu, I decided it’s time to write down some of my thoughts about this new Linux offering from Dell.
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To Groklaw's 'Pamela Jones': Get Your Facts Straight
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A misleading article appeared Monday on an anti-SCO Web site called Groklaw run by a blogger who calls him or herself 'Pamela Jones.' Jones tried to pick apart a story I wrote about SCO v. Novell. I need to set the record straight because virtually everything 'PJ' said about my article is wrong.
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Sunny forecast for Linux kernel predictions
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One of the first things many decision-makers want for any given software product is a roadmap, so they can plan around releases. However, the Linux kernel is and always has been bereft of a roadmap.
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IBM's customer training and support group SHARE is holding a week-long seminar and conference at the Manchester Grand Hyatt here this week.
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Dell Confirms Virtual PCs in the Works
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Dell Latest News about Dell is developing consumer PCs that can run multiple versions of Microsoft's Latest News about Microsoft Windows Make the Mac a 1st Class Citizen in a Windows Shop and Linux software at the same time, the personal computer maker's chief technology officer, Kevin Kettler, has confirmed.
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Xandros expands Microsoft deal with Exchange protocols
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Linux distributor Xandros is licensing messaging protocols from Microsoft as part of an expansion of the partnership the two companies forged in June.
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When "RTFM" becomes "Oh, Just Forget It!"
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One event was the posting of "The 10 Commandments for New Linux Users", which really deserves to be carved in stone and delivered from a mountain. And you can tell from the comments: flamers, trollers, and 1337 N00Bz, oh my! You can always tell when a great truth has been spoken on the Internet, because 1000 dung-flinging howler monkeys immediately show up to scream it down.
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The future of Lightning... after the Thunderbird announcement
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"...YES! We'd like to state publicly that we will continue to work on our two products Lightning and Sunbird in the foreseeable future and that we still envision great things for Lightning and Thunderbird..."
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Resources and Representations Redux
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"...Let me repeat. People don't create links to server software; they create links to information. Service Oriented Architectures are about creating links to software. Resource Oriented Architectures are about creating links to information. Change your frame of reference."
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Why Is REST So Hard to Understand?
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"...Now lets change our frame of reference to a ROA. In ROA, the most important part of the system is the data. Anything of interest gets a globally unique identifier, which is done via URIs.Next, the service becomes uninteresting because every service has the exact same API. On the Web, the service API is defined by HTTP verb's GET, POST, PUT, DELETE,..."
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