Opensource

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• Turning Predictions into Opportunities

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 699
  The view from the eye of a recession isnt great. When companies are going bust, unemployment growing, and everyones scouring their budgets for costs to cut, it can be hard to see opportunities. However, when Tim pointed to Stephen OGradys fine set of 2010 predictions I found myself popping with "oh, so naturally ...
  4 hours ago

• Windows 7 tool violates GPL; Microsoft will open source it

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 755
  Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the online Microsoft Store indeed violates the GNU General Public License (GPL). The problem isnt just that Microsoft used open source code in the tool, but that the software giant also released the tool under a closed source license. As such, ...
  5 hours ago

• Swarm robot project sounds ominous, uses open source

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
  Why would you want to build a 100-strong swarm of mini robots? Well, aside from having them as your minions, you might be able to learn about “artificial self-organization,” and “control in large robotic groups,” which should come in useful during the inevitable robot insurrection . The swarm robot project, ...
  6 hours ago

• SimpleText.ws is a dead-simple online text editor

  
  Download Squad — Authority: 758
  Filed under: Text , Freeware , Open Source , Web Keeping notes, todo lists, or just anything you are writing synchronized between computers can be a hassle. Some solutions, like using DropBox, require you to install software on computers that you regularly use. If your needs arent that heavy, but youd like a ...
  8 hours ago

• SimpleText.ws is a dead-simple online text editor

  
  Tech Portal - The best technology Portal! — Authority: 170
  Filed under: Text , Freeware , Open Source , Web Keeping notes, todo lists, or just anything you are writing synchronized between computers can be a hassle. Some solutions, like using DropBox, require you to install software on computers that you regularly use. If your needs arent that heavy, but youd like a ...
  8 hours ago

• Microsofts psuedo sudo patent doesnt really cover sudo

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 755
  Righteous indignation erupted on the Internet last week following reports that Microsoft had patented sudo, a traditional command-line tool that is widely-used on Linux and some UNIX platforms for selective privilege escalation. Some enthusiastic patent reform advocates predictably held up the patent as an example of ...
  8 hours ago

• Celestia [del.icio.us]

  
  Imran Ali — Authority: 134
  
  9 hours ago

• conference summary part 2: the internet as playground and factory

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 127
  by nathan jurgenson Following PJ Rey’s excellent summary of the Internet as Playground and Factory yesterday, I offer a few additional observations from the conference this past weekend, focusing on Web 2.0 capitalism, and Google as the primary target. The roughly 100 presenters were not joined by Google, as ...
  14 hours ago

• Google’s new Dashboard sure would tie in nicely to Android, Chrome OS

  
  money news blog — Authority: 142
  Filed under: OS Updates , News , Web services , Google , Open Source When a few blog sites yesterday happened upon Google’s YouTube video of the new Dashboard, they moved swiftly to pull it down. Though the original video is still MIA, Google made an official announcement of the new feature on their own blog ...
  22 hours ago

• Google preparing to launch Chrome Extensions gallery?

  
  Download Squad — Authority: 758
  Filed under: Google , Open Source , Browsers A few months back, the new tab page in Chrome tipped us off to the impending launch of Googles theme gallery . Tonight, theres a new change that could very well mean that Google is getting ready to open the doors to a similar gallery - for Chrome extensions. Up ...
  22 hours ago

• Google preparing to launch Chrome Extensions gallery?

  
  Tech Portal - The best technology Portal! — Authority: 170
  Filed under: Google , Open Source , Browsers A few months back, the new tab page in Chrome tipped us off to the impending launch of Googles theme gallery . Tonight, theres a new change that could very well mean that Google is getting ready to open the doors to a similar gallery - for Chrome extensions.Up ...
  22 hours ago

• Chromium bookmark sync now cross-platform, lands on Linux

  
  Download Squad — Authority: 758
  Filed under: Linux , Google , Open Source , Browsers Jay posted yesterday about the arrival of bookmark sync on Chromium for Mac, and it appears as though Linux users have been invited to the dance as well. After finishing the updates on my Ubuntu 9.10 dual-boot, I gave the --enable-sync command line ...
  1 day ago

• GnoMenu 2.0 Released – Now works on Debian and Suse Linux

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 426
  GnoMenu applications menu hits version 2.0. This new version now works on Debian and Suse Linux desktops. It comes with lots of bug fixes, speed improvements, and new features. GnoMenu 2.0 has two kick-ass features. It can now be launched from AWN and, you can access your Firefox, Opera, Chromium bookmarks, and ...
  1 day ago

• SPDY: Google Redesigns HTTP, moving towards a Faster Internet

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 568
  Google is a company which keeps redefining speed. Speed of information flow, speed of browsing, speed in its innovation, Google is truly all about speed. With this obsession, Google has finally thoughts of a faster Internet. SPDY, as defined by the Chromium blog: SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol ...
  1 day ago

• Bookmark Sync for Chromium Linux now Available [No Plug-ins]

  
  Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux — Authority: 426
  Google Chrome’s bookmark syncing feature (without installing any plug-ins) has been available for the Windows beta version of Chrome 4. This same feature has now been dropped on Chromium builds for Linux. Chromium is the open source project behind Google Chrome. If you often update your Chromium builds for Linux, ...
  1 day ago

• Updating to openSUSE 11.2

  
  Sathya Says — Authority: 114
  As mentioned openSUSE 11.2 is now available. If you’re on previous versions of openSUSE you can do an inplace upgrade to 11.2 by using zypper. openSUSE 11.0/openSUSE 11.1 Just change the repos to mention 11.2 instead of 11.0/11.1, as shown in the pic: Once that’s done, open the terminal, and switch to ...
  1 day ago

• IGF 09 Day 2 – Internet Security, Social Networking IPv6 and a …

  
  New Web 2.0 Magazine — Authority: 453
  There was a talk by Robert Bodle who talked about Social networking and how they are developing, he had a few points I liked. The first was the different attitude of some cooperates and organization have to twitter
  1 day ago

• Links of the week

  
  Sathya Says — Authority: 114
  Saw this question on SuperUser : How can I add menu items to the Gnome “Applications” menu from the command line? Yet another SuperUser Q RSS Feed Notifier for Linux Seems Canonical will set limits to those who can order free CD’s via Shipit . The discs will still be made available to Local ...
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• It’s Time for This: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC

  
  Rob Conery — Authority: 400
  I had dreams of this when I joined Microsoft a few years back – that SubSonic would be the database juice in the ASP.NET MVC story. Or if not the juice then the ActiveCherryOnTop. The pieces didn’t quite fall into place, though I tried many a time. The issues that I faced were pretty simple – everything I ...
  1 day ago

• Vega - An Android-powererd 15.6” touch device (via...

  
  gedankentank.tumblr.com — Authority: 131
  Vega - An Android-powererd 15.6” touch device (via createordie )
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