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Summer Schedule. We meet each first
Thursday on the month at 7 p.m. at Dooley's
Pub, We are NOT meeting this week. Next
meeting is 03-SEP-09.
VMware
buying SpringSource for $420
million. Business software
maker VMware Inc has agreed to buy privately held SpringSource for
$420 million, its biggest-ever acquisition, to beef up a portfolio of
programs that help companies run data centers. more... and VMware
buys SpringSource for US$420M and VMware:
$420 Million SpringSource Deal Pressures Red Hat.
Ohio
LinuxFest 2009 Sept 25-26. It’s only a
little more than a month from now, the seventh Ohio LinuxFest. This
year we will be celebrating 40 years of Unix! If you haven’t
heard, we are very excited and proud to have Doug McIlroy give a key
note address this year. Doug was the head of research department at
Bell Laboratories where Unix was invented and is credited for the
inventing Unix pipes as well as writing many of the Unix tools we
still use in some form today. more...
You
Deleted Your Cookies? Think
Again. Wired looks at the
use of Flash cookies implemented by Adobe's browser plugin. "Several
services even use the surreptitious data storage to reinstate
traditional cookies that a user deleted, which is called
‘re-spawning’ in homage to video games where zombies come back to
life even after being 'killed,' more...
Red
Hat celebrates its 10-year IPO
anniversary. Ten years ago
today, on August 11, 1999, Red Hat saw its shares triple in an
initial public offering that ushered in a new era of commercial
open-source prosperity. Iain Gray, then a Sun employee and now Red
Hat's vice president of Global Support, writes nostalgically: "I
remember sitting in the Sun office in UK watching the stock
skyrocket, thinking the world had gone mad." more...
One
billion Firefoxes. Let me give you an
Internet history lesson. Five-years ago, unless you were one of
die-hard Netscape Navigator users or a handful of Opera users, your
Web browser choices were Internet Explorer or... ah... Internet
Explorer. more... and Firefox
3.6 Alpha 1 Blows Version 3.5 Out Of The Water.
Microsoft
acknowledges competition
from Canonical and Red Hat. Microsoft's latest
10K filing with the SEC sees the company officially acknowledging
that it faces competition from Linux vendors on the client side of
its business, namely desktop Windows. Citing Canonical and Red Hat as
"competing commercial software products", alongside Apple's
products, Microsoft acknowledges that partners such as
Hewlett-Packard and Intel have been "actively working with
alternative Linux-based operating systems" more... and Ballmer:
We're cheaper than Apple! (but not Linux).
XML
Patent for Microsoft. The core of US
Patent 7,571,169 which Microsoft was granted on August 4th refers to
– "A word-processing document stored in a single XML file that
may be manipulated by applications that understand XML". more... and Patent
fun:
Microsoft Word sales banned in the US.
Apache
updates to 2.2.13 for
security. A new Apache HTTP
server release is out, fixing at least 4 security issues in the
popular open source web server. None of the fixed security issues
look like show stoppers to me. more...
Misc. F-Spot
0.6.0 is out! Apple:
iPhone jailbreaking could knock out transmission towers. Perl6
Slated for Release by Spring 2010. Review Update:
Moblin
2.0 keeps getting better. EFF
on the RealDVD decision. FreePBX
3.0 Debuts.
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KDE
4.3.0 Released. The KDE Community
has announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.3 "Caizen".
"KDE 4.3 continues to refine the unique features brought in
previous releases while bringing new innovations. With the 4.2
release aimed at the majority of end users, KDE 4.3 offers a more
stable and complete product for the home and small office."
more... and A
first look at KDE 4.3.
CentOS
back from brink of death. CentOS is alive.
Two days after a core group of developers posted an open letter to
primary admin Lance Davis, threatening to fork the open source OS if
he didn't discuss his apparent disappearance from the project, Davis
has answered their call - and he seems to have quelled their
complaints. more... and Progress
at CentOS and Weirdness
at CentOS.
Sony
open sources digital effects
software. Film effects
specialist Sony Pictures Imageworks has released five digital
image-manipulation software tools under open source licenses. While
Imageworks has released other open source software in the past, the
release of five tools at once brings its involvement in open source
to a new level, the company said on Monday, in an announcement
marking the beginning of the Siggraph computer graphics trade show in
New Orleans. more...
BIND
9 denial of service being
actively exploited. Internet Systems
Consortium, the developers of the BIND DNS server, is reporting a
denial of service vulnerability that is being actively exploited.
"Receipt of a specially-crafted dynamic update message to a zone
for which the server is the master may cause BIND 9 servers to exit.
Testing indicates that the attack packet has to be formulated against
a zone for which that machine is a master. more...
A
first look at Eclipse 4. As is already
indicated by version 0.9, which has just been released, Eclipse 4
will incorporate several familiar web technologies and put them to
new uses. The Eclipse development environment has become a very
popular open source project. more...
Skype
shutdown: where are free
software and free protocols? The Skype
copyright issue: The problem is that when eBay bought Skype, they
were in too much of a hurry to read the fine print. Skype’s
original owners retained the copyright for some crucial portion of
Skype, specifically the peer-to-peer side of it — the same code
which is probably responsible of making sure that user A routes
packets for user B without his or her knowledge of authorisation.
more...
Company
Receives Patent for
Podcasting. VoloMedia, a
podcast analytics, advertising, and distribution company, just
received a patent for "providing episodic media," including
podcasts. According to the company, which filed for the patent in
November 2003, U.S. Patent 7,568,213 covers all episodic media
downloads, not just the RSS-dependent downloads that power today's
podcasts. more...
Sweet
Home 3D: Open Source, Cross
Platform Design Application. Though Sweet Home
3D tops Google's SketchUp in a number of areas, it's still not much
help for someone with no design sense. more...
Misc. Mono
coming to the iPhone. Open
Invention Network starts buying patents 5
Excellent Downloadable eBooks To Teach Yourself Linux. The
grumpy editor's e-book reader. Lucidor
0.6 E-Book Reader Can Handle Web Feeds. myTouch
3G: Improved Droid Still Has Some Squeaky Joints. The
Book vs. The Kindle.
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Microsoft
and Yahoo seal web deal. Yahoo and
Microsoft have announced a long-rumoured internet search deal that
will help the two companies take on chief rival Google. Microsoft's
Bing search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will in
turn become the advertising sales team for Microsoft's online
offering. more... and Do
You Bing? Yahooers May Soon Search With Microsoft.
Open-source
firmware vuln exposes
wireless routers. The remote root
vulnerability affects the most recent version of DD-WRT, a piece of
firmware many router users install to give their device capabilities
not available by default. The bug allows unauthenticated users to
remotely gain root access simply by luring someone on the local
network to a malicious website. more...
Life
is Better With a Dropbox. Have you ever gone
somewhere and needed some files, only to find that you forgot your
flash drive? Well, that can all change with a simple solution:
Dropbox. As long as you have a connection to the Internet, your files
can be with you wherever you go. Using Windows? No problem. Using a
Mac? No problem. Using Linux? Of course, no problem. And soon there
will be an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Prices are
quite reasonable, and they even offer you a free 2GB account that
never expires. more...
Google
tosses Android a Donut. Three months after
Google released an "early look" at version 1.5 of its
Android mobile operating system, a newer version has made its way
into the eager hands of developers. Dubbed Donut, will include
system-wide search that can also be accessed by handwriting gestures,
text-to-speech, and an API that supports integration with Google
Voice Search. MobileCrunch also uncovered screenshots that appear to
indicate CDMA and VPN support. more... and Google
Android "Donut" will not include multi-touch.
Microsoft
Linux Move Puts Pressure
on Vmware. Microsoft's
historic embrace of Linux technology could have wide-reaching impacts
on the virtualization market and Microsoft's rival VMware. By
allowing greater ability to run Linux on the Hyper-V virtualization
platform, Microsoft is making a compelling case that it could be the
virtualization vendor of choice for consolidation of Windows and
Linux applications more... and Microsoft
responds to GPL violations and Microsoft
and Vyatta rebut reports of GPL violation.
Novell
announces SUSE Appliance
Program. Novell has
announced the launch of the SUSE Appliance Program for Independent
Software Vendors (ISVs). With the Appliance Program, ISVs can can
create software appliances, such as an email server for a small
office, using SUSE Linux Enterprise or openSUSE and SUSE Studio, test
their appliances and get them to the market. more...
Get
started with HomeBank. With HomeBank you
can automate recurring transactions, set reminders for future
transactions, assess your future account balance so you can plan your
spending sprees and manage your expenses expertly. You see, we work
hard for our pay cheques - well, some of us work harder than others -
and we spend money on groceries, utilities and, ahem, fun Fridays.
more...
Build
A Real Time Audio Studio. Linux is a
fantastic platform for audio production. Find out how to build the
perfect production environment. Although it might not seem like it,
properly dealing with audio requires an intricately tuned PC. The
main issue is audio latency, which refers to both the time it takes
for a sound to enter your machine and the time it takes for your
machine to produce a sound. more...
Misc. Supreme
Court has decided to grant certiorari in the In Re Bilski
case. 6
of the Best Free Linux Screencasting Software. Organize your
writing
with Writer’s Cafe. Create Oscar-Worthy Movie
Scripts With Celtx. Bordeaux
1.8.0 for Linux review. Microsoft
Releases Moodle Plugin under GPL.
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